Eligible	Havana iz	Zheleznovodsk iz
Semifinalists of 1983 candidates' matches (2)	Alexandria, Ioseliani
Quarterfinalists of 1983 candidates' matches (4)	Lematschko (did not arrive)	Liu Shilan, Mureșan, Gaprindashvili
From European zonal 1A (1)	Walker
From European zonal 1B (1)		Lebel-Arias
From European zonal 1C (1)		Ferrer Lucas
From European zonal 2A (2)	Vokralova	Glaz
From European zonal 2B (2)	Cramling	Høiberg
From European zonal 3 (5)	Verőci-Petronić, Nuțu, Wiese (did not arrive as she did not get her place tickets on time)	Brustman, Ivánka
From Soviet zonal (5)	Akhmylovskaya, Sakhatova	Litinskaya, Gurieli, Matveeva
From US zonal (2)	Savereide, Crotto (did not arrive)
From Canadian zonal (1)		Shterenberg (did not arrive)
From Central American zonal (2)	De Armas Pérez, Frómeta Castillo
From South American zonal (2)	Chaves (did not arrive)	Arbunic Castro
From West Asian zonal (1)		R.Khadilkar
From East Asian zonal (2)	An Yangfeng	Wu Mingqian
From Balcan zonal (3)	Štadler, Nikolić (did not arrive)	Marković (did not arrive)
Nominated by FIDE (0)
Home player (0)
Replacements (1)	Shterenberg (replaced Lematschko), Jezierska (replaced Crotto, did not arrive)