Eligible	Biel iz	Manila iz
From European zonal A (2)	Liberzon	Ribli
From European zonal B1 (2)	Sosonko	Díez del Corral Rivas (did not arrive)
From European zonal B2 (2)	Smejkal	Uhlmann
From European zonal C (2)	Matanović	Gheorghiu
From European zonal D (2)	Csom, Andersson
From Soviet zonal (3)	Gulko	Tseshkovsky, Balashov
From US zonal (2)	Rogoff	Browne
From Canadian zonal (1)		Biyiasas
From Central American zonal 1 (1)	Díaz
From Central American zonal 2 (1)	Castro Rojas
From South American zonal (3)	Sanguineti	Quinteros, Panno
From West Asian zonal (1)		Harandi
From Asian Pacific zonal (2)		Torre, Tan Lian Ann
From Mediterranean-African zonal (1)		Mariotti
Seeded from 1974 candidates' matches (6)	Petrosian, Portisch, Byrne	Spassky, Polugaevsky, Mecking
Nominated by FIDE (7)	Tal, Geller, Larsen, Hübner	Ljubojević, Hort, Kuzmin (did not arrive)
Home player (1)	Lombard
Added by FIDE (1) (Possibly to make number of players even)	Smyslov
Replacements (2)		Pachman (replaced Díez del Corral Rivas), Kavalek (replaced Kuzmin)