UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying

The qualifying round for the 1972 European Football Championship consisted of 32 teams divided into eight groups of four 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.^[1]

UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	7 October 1970 – 17 May 1972
Teams	32
Tournament statistics
Matches played	105
Goals scored	282 (2.69 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gerd Müller (7 goals)
← 1968 1976 →

Qualified teams

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Did not enter

  Not a UEFA member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Belgium (host)	Quarter-final winner	13 May 1972	0 (debut)
Soviet Union	Quarter-final winner	13 May 1972	3 (1960, 1964, 1968)
West Germany	Quarter-final winner	13 May 1972	0 (debut)
Hungary	Quarter-final winner	17 May 1972	1 (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
Romania	Hungary	England	Soviet Union	Belgium	Italy	Yugoslavia	West Germany
Czechoslovakia Wales Finland	Bulgaria France Norway	Switzerland Greece Malta	Spain Northern Ireland Cyprus	Portugal Scotland Denmark	Austria Sweden Republic of Ireland	Netherlands East Germany Luxembourg	Poland Turkey Albania

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 1972 qualifying Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	6	4	1	1	11	2	+9	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–0	3–0
2	Czechoslovakia	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	9			1–0	—	1–0	1–1
3	Wales	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	5			0–0	1–3	—	3–0
4	Finland	6	0	1	5	1	16	−15	1			0–4	0–4	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 2

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–0	1–1	4–0
2	Bulgaria	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	7			3–0	—	2–1	1–1
3	France	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	7			0–2	2–1	—	3–1
4	Norway	6	0	1	5	5	18	−13	1			1–3	1–4	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group 3

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	6	5	1	0	15	3	+12	11	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–1	3–0	5–0
2	Switzerland	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	9			2–3	—	1–0	5–0
3	Greece	6	1	1	4	3	8	−5	3			0–2	0–1	—	2–0
4	Malta	6	0	1	5	2	16	−14	1			0–1	1–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 4

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	6	4	2	0	13	4	+9	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	1–0	6–1
2	Spain	6	3	2	1	14	3	+11	8			0–0	—	3–0	7–0
3	Northern Ireland	6	2	2	2	10	6	+4	6			1–1	1–1	—	5–0
4	Cyprus	6	0	0	6	2	26	−24	0			1–3	0–2	0–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group 5

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–0	3–0	2–0
2	Portugal	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	7			1–1	—	2–0	5–0
3	Scotland	6	3	0	3	4	7	−3	6			1–0	2–1	—	1–0
4	Denmark	6	1	0	5	2	11	−9	2			1–2	0–1	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 6

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	6	4	2	0	12	4	+8	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–2	3–0	3–0
2	Austria	6	3	1	2	14	6	+8	7			1–2	—	1–0	6–0
3	Sweden	6	2	2	2	3	5	−2	6			0–0	1–0	—	1–0
4	Republic of Ireland	6	0	1	5	3	17	−14	1			1–2	1–4	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 7

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	6	3	3	0	7	2	+5	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–0	0–0	0–0
2	Netherlands	6	3	1	2	18	6	+12	7			1–1	—	3–2	6–0
3	East Germany	6	3	1	2	11	6	+5	7			1–2	1–0	—	2–1
4	Luxembourg	6	0	1	5	1	23	−22	1			0–2	0–8	0–5	—

Source: UEFA

Group 8

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	West Germany	6	4	2	0	10	2	+8	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	0–0	1–1	2–0
2	Poland	6	2	2	2	10	6	+4	6			1–3	—	5–1	3–0
3	Turkey	6	2	1	3	5	13	−8	5			0–3	1–0	—	2–1
4	Albania	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	3			0–1	1–1	3–0	—

Source: UEFA

Quarter-finals

Main article: UEFA Euro 1972 quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Replay
Italy	1–2	Belgium	0–0	1–2
Hungary	5–4	Romania	1–1	2–2	2–1
England	1–3	West Germany	1–3	0–0
Yugoslavia	0–3	Soviet Union	0–0	0–3

Goalscorers

There were 282 goals scored in 105 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.

7 goals

• Gerd Müller

5 goals

• Hans-Jürgen Kreische
• Martin Chivers
• Johan Cruyff
• Piet Keizer

4 goals

• Thomas Parits
• Johan Devrindt
• Ján Čapkovič
• Ferenc Bene
• George Best
• Włodzimierz Lubański
• Viktor Kolotov
• Pirri

3 goals

• Kurt Jara
• Raoul Lambert
• Paul Van Himst
• Hristo Bonev
• Eberhard Vogel
• Geoff Hurst
• Francis Lee
• Lajos Kocsis
• Roberto Boninsegna
• Giancarlo De Sisti
• Pierino Prati
• Luigi Riva
• Jimmy Nicholson
• Robert Gadocha
• John O'Hare
• Gennady Yevryuzhikhin
• Fritz Künzli
• Dragan Džajić

2 goals

• Ilir Përnaska
• Petar Zhekov
• František Karkó
• Bernard Blanchet
• Georges Lech
• Charly Loubet
• István Szőke
• Barry Hulshoff
• Rinus Israël
• Derek Dougan
• Odd Iversen
• Vítor Baptista
• Eusébio
• Rui Rodrigues
• Emerich Dembrovschi
• Nicolae Dobrin
• Florea Dumitrache
• Mircea Lucescu
• Nicolae Lupescu
• Alexandru Neagu
• Anatoliy Banishevskiy
• Vladimir Fedotov
• Vitaly Shevchenko
• Quino
• Carles Rexach
• José Francisco Rojo
• Kurt Müller
• Karl Odermatt
• René-Pierre Quentin
• Cemil Turan
• John Toshack
• Jürgen Grabowski
• Günter Netzer
• Josip Bukal

1 goal

• Panajot Pano
• Medin Zhega
• Astrit Ziu
• Karl Kodat
• Hans Pirkner
• Robert Sara
• Hans Schmidradner
• August Starek
• Josef Stering
• André De Nul
• Wilfried Van Moer
• Tsvetan Atanasov
• Bozhil Kolev
• Atanas Mihaylov
• Petko Petkov
• Mladen Vasilev
• Stefan Velichkov
• Nikos Charalambous
• Stefanis Michael
• Milan Albrecht
• Ladislav Kuna
• Jaroslav Pollák
• Vladimír Táborský
• František Veselý
• Kresten Bjerre
• Finn Laudrup
• Peter Ducke
• Henning Frenzel
• Wolfram Löwe
• Allan Clarke
• Chris Lawler
• Martin Peters
• Mike Summerbee
• Matti Paatelainen
• Louis Floch
• Michel Mézy
• Hervé Revelli
• Jacques Vergnes
• Kostas Aidiniou
• Kostas Davourlis
• Michalis Kritikopoulos
• László Branikovits
• Antal Dunai
• Péter Juhász
• László Nagy
• Lajos Szűcs
• Csaba Vidáts
• Sandro Mazzola
• Gilbert Dussier
• Eddie Theobald
• Willie Vassallo
• Oeki Hoekema
• Willi Lippens
• Theo Pahlplatz
• Wim Suurbier
• [[Sammy Morgan (footballer)|]]
• Ola Dybwad-Olsen
• Tor Fuglset
• Olav Nilsen
• Jan Banaś
• Bronisław Bula
• Zygfryd Szołtysik
• Jacinto João
• Fernando Peres
• Tommy Carroll
• Jimmy Conway
• Eamonn Rogers
• Anghel Iordănescu
• Radu Nunweiller
• Lajos Sătmăreanu
• Archie Gemmill
• Anatoliy Byshovets
• Eduard Kozynkevych
• Vladimir Muntyan
• Francisco Aguilar
• Luis Aragonés
• Enrique Lora
• José Luis Violeta
• Dan Brzokoupil
• Jan Olsson
• Tom Turesson
• Rolf Blättler
• Roland Citherlet
• Daniel Jeandupeux
• Metin Kurt
• Kamuran Yavuz
• Nihat Yayöz
• Ron Davies
• Alan Durban
• Gil Reece
• Uli Hoeneß
• Horst Köppel
• Zoran Filipović
• Jurica Jerković

1 own goal

• Erik Sandvad (against Portugal)
• Jacky Novi (against Hungary)
• Geir Karlsen (against Hungary)
• Tony Dunne (against Austria)
• Ronnie McKinnon (against Belgium)
• Pat Stanton (against Portugal)
• Anton Weibel (against England)