UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying

The qualifying round for the 1968 UEFA European Championship consisted of 31 teams divided into eight groups; seven of four teams and one of three teams. Each group winner progressed to the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals were played in two legs on a home-and-away basis. The winners of the quarter-finals would go through, to the final tournament.

UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	7 September 1966 – 11 May 1968
Teams	31
Tournament statistics
Matches played	98[note 1]
Goals scored	306 (3.12 per match)[note 1]
Top scorer(s)	János Farkas Gigi Riva (6 goals each)
← 1964 1972 →

Qualified teams

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Did not enter

  Not a UEFA member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Italy (host)	Quarter-final winner	20 April 1968	0 (debut)
Yugoslavia	Quarter-final winner	24 April 1968	1 (1960)
England	Quarter-final winner	8 May 1968	0 (debut)
Soviet Union	Quarter-final winner	11 May 1968	2 (1960, 1964)

1. Bold indicates champion for that year.

Summary

  Group winners advanced to the quarter-finals (second round)

  Other teams were eliminated after the qualifying group stage

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8
Spain	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Hungary	Italy	France	England
Czechoslovakia Republic of Ireland Turkey	Portugal Sweden Norway	Greece Austria Finland	West Germany Albania	East Germany Netherlands Denmark	Romania Switzerland Cyprus	Belgium Poland Luxembourg	Scotland Wales Northern Ireland

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches
2. Goal difference in all group matches
3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
4. Drawing of lots

Groups

Group 1

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	6	3	2	1	6	2	+4	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–0	2–0
2	Czechoslovakia	6	3	1	2	8	4	+4	7			1–0	—	1–2	3–0
3	Republic of Ireland	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	5			0–0	0–2	—	2–1
4	Turkey	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	4			0–0	0–0	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 2

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	6	4	2	0	10	2	+8	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–0	3–0	4–2
2	Portugal	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	6			0–0	—	1–2	2–1
3	Sweden	6	2	1	3	9	12	−3	5			0–2	1–1	—	5–2
4	Norway	6	1	1	4	9	14	−5	3			0–0	1–2	3–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 3

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	6	5	0	1	16	6	+10	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	4–0	4–3	2–0
2	Greece	5	2	1	2	7	8	−1	5			0–1	—	4–1	2–1
3	Austria	5	2	1	2	7	9	−2	5			1–0	Void[a]	—	2–1
4	Finland	6	0	2	4	5	12	−7	2			2–5	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. The Austria v Greece match was abandoned in the 86th minute at 1–1 due to a crowd disturbance and declared void.^[1]

Group 4

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	4	3	0	1	8	3	+5	6	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–0	4–0
2	West Germany	4	2	1	1	9	2	+7	5			3–1	—	6–0
3	Albania	4	0	1	3	0	12	−12	1			0–2	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 5

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–1	2–1	6–0
2	East Germany	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	7			1–0	—	4–3	3–2
3	Netherlands	6	2	1	3	11	11	0	5			2–2	1–0	—	2–0
4	Denmark	6	1	1	4	6	16	−10	3			0–2	1–1	3–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 6

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	6	5	1	0	17	3	+14	11	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–1	4–0	5–0
2	Romania	6	3	0	3	18	14	+4	6			0–1	—	4–2	7–0
3	Switzerland	6	2	1	3	17	13	+4	5			2–2	7–1	—	5–0
4	Cyprus	6	1	0	5	3	25	−22	2			0–2	1–5	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 7

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	6	4	1	1	14	6	+8	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–1	2–1	3–1
2	Belgium	6	3	1	2	14	9	+5	7			2–1	—	2–4	3–0
3	Poland	6	3	1	2	13	9	+4	7			1–4	3–1	—	4–0
4	Luxembourg	6	0	1	5	1	18	−17	1			0–3	0–5	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 8

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 8

Group 8's results were formed by combining the results of the 1966–67 and 1967–68 editions of the British Home Championship.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–3	5–1	2–0
2	Scotland	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	8			1–1	—	3–2	2–1
3	Wales	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	4			0–3	1–1	—	2–0
4	Northern Ireland	6	1	1	4	2	8	−6	3			0–2	1–0	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Quarter-finals

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bulgaria	3–4	Italy	3–2	0–2
Hungary	2–3	Soviet Union	2–0	0–3
England	3–1	Spain	1–0	2–1
France	2–6	Yugoslavia	1–1	1–5

Goalscorers

There were 306 goals scored in 98 matches, for an average of 3.12 goals per match.^{[note 1]}

6 goals

• János Farkas
• Luigi Riva

5 goals

• Henning Frenzel
• Fleury Di Nallo
• Sandro Mazzola
• Constantin Frățilă
• Fritz Künzli
• Gerd Müller

4 goals

• Paul Van Himst
• Petar Zhekov
• Bobby Charlton
• Geoff Hurst
• Martin Peters
• Giorgos Sideris^{[note 1]}
• Angelo Domenghini
• Rolf Blättler

3 goals

• Leopold Grausam
• Jacques Stockman
• Dinko Dermendzhiev
• Kresten Bjerre
• Juhani Peltonen
• Georges Lech
• Charly Loubet
• Flórián Albert
• Kálmán Mészöly
• Janusz Żmijewski
• Mircea Dridea
• Emil Dumitriu
• Anatoliy Banishevskiy
• Igor Chislenko
• Eduard Malofeyev
• Yozhef Sabo
• Inge Danielsson
• Karl Odermatt
• René-Pierre Quentin
• Hannes Löhr
• Vahidin Musemić
• Slaven Zambata

2 goals

• Helmut Siber^{[note 1]}
• Roger Claessen
• Johan Devrindt
• Johnny Thio
• Nikola Kotkov
• Nikola Tsanev
• Jozef Adamec
• Tom Søndergaard
• Herbert Pankau
• Jack Charlton
• Robert Herbin
• Alekos Alexiadis
• Ferenc Bene
• Pierino Prati
• Johan Cruyff
• Piet Keizer
• Wim Suurbier
• Kjetil Hasund
• Odd Iversen
• Olav Nilsen
• Lucjan Brychczy
• Ryszard Grzegorczyk
• Włodzimierz Lubański
• Eusébio
• Jaime Graça
• Nicolae Dobrin
• Ion Ionescu
• Mircea Lucescu
• Alan Gilzean
• Denis Law
• Bobby Lennox
• Anatoliy Byshovets
• Murtaz Khurtsilava
• Pirri
• Leif Eriksson
• Tom Turesson
• Ogün Altıparmak
• Ron Davies
• Wyn Davies
• Ivica Osim
• Ilija Petković

1 goal

• Rudi Flögel
• Erich Hof
• Franz Wolny
• Wilfried Puis
• Georgi Asparuhov
• Vasil Mitkov
• Melis Asprou
• Pamboullis Papadopoulos
• Kostakis Pierides
• Alexander Horváth
• Josef Jurkanin
• Ladislav Kuna
• Vojtech Masný
• Juraj Szikora
• Erik Dyreborg
• Gerhard Körner
• Wolfram Löwe
• Eberhard Vogel
• Alan Ball
• Roger Hunt
• Norman Hunter
• Pertti Mäkipää
• Simo Syrjävaara
• André Guy
• Yves Herbet
• Hervé Revelli
• Stathis Chaitas
• Mimis Papaioannou
• János Göröcs
• Dezső Molnár
• Zoltán Varga
• Mario Bertini
• Virginio De Paoli
• Giacinto Facchetti
• Jean Klein
• Rinus Israël
• Jan Mulder
• Miel Pijs
• Sjaak Swart
• Willy van der Kuijlen
• Dave Clements
• Jimmy Nicholson
• Harald Berg
• Sven Otto Birkeland
• Harald Sunde
• Andrzej Jarosik
• Jan Liberda
• Jerzy Sadek
• Zygfryd Szołtysik
• Custódio Pinto
• José Augusto Torres
• Noel Cantwell
• Andy McEvoy
• Turlough O'Connor
• Frank O'Neill
• Ray Treacy
• Florea Martinovici
• John Hughes
• Jim McCalliog
• Ronnie McKinnon
• Bobby Murdoch
• Valery Maslov
• Eduard Streltsov
• Amancio Amaro
• José Eulogio Gárate
• José María García Lavilla
• Francisco Gento
• Ramón Grosso
• Thomas Nordahl
• Ingvar Svensson
• Richard Dürr
• Ayhan Elmastaşoğlu
• Alan Durban
• Ronnie Rees
• Uwe Seeler
• Dragan Džajić
• Vojin Lazarević
• Josip Skoblar
• Edin Sprečo

1 own goal

• Dimitar Penev (against Italy)
• Kostas Panayiotou (against Switzerland)
• Ernő Solymosi (against Soviet Union)
• John Dempsey (against Czechoslovakia)
• Terry Hennessey (against England)

Notes

1. The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.