Eligible	Roosendaal iz	Tbilisi iz
Semifinalists of 1974 candidates' matches (2)		Kozlovskaya, Litynskaya (née Shul)
From European zonal 1 (4)		Jovanović-Blagojević, Katarina (did not arrive), Hofmann, Feustel, Baumstark
From European zonal 2 (5)	Lemachko, Verőci, Van der Mije, Lazarević, Hartston
From Soviet zonal (4)	Belavenets, Fomina, Scherbina (reassigned his sex and refused to play women), Akhmylovskaya	Fatalibekova
From US zonal (2)	Orton	Savereide
From Canadian zonal (1)		Vujosevic
From Central American zonal (1)	De Caro
From South American zonal (1)	Oliveira
From West Asian zonal (1)		Yadollahi (did not arrive)
From Asian Pacific zonal (1)		Kellner
From Mediterranean-African zonal (1)	Gramignani
Nominated by FIDE (2)	Kushnir (she missed previous cycle and was allowed on a basis of her earlier achievements)	Ivánka (in previous cycle she did not enter 1973 Cala Galdana interzonal even though she qualified thru respective zonal; possibly she was given a place in this tournament as an act of compensation)
Home player (1)	Vreeken
Replacements (2)		Zatulovskaya and Chiburdanidze (replaced Jovanović-Blagojević and Yadollahi)