UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 8

Group 8 of the UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1976 finals tournament. Group 8 consisted of four teams: West Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, and Malta, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were West Germany, who finished two points above Greece.

Final table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	West Germany	6	3	3	0	14	4	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–1	1–0	8–0
2	Greece	6	2	3	1	12	9	+3	7			2–2	—	2–1	4–0
3	Bulgaria	6	2	2	2	12	7	+5	6			1–1	3–3	—	5–0
4	Malta	6	1	0	5	2	20	−18	2			0–1	2–0	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

Bulgaria	3–3	Greece
Bonev 2' Denev 27', 29'		Antoniadis 28' Papaioannou 86' Glezos 88'

13 October 1974

16:00

Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 14,291*

Referee: Alberto Michelotti** (Italy)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 30,000.
(**)NOTE: Referee also reported as Alberto Lattanzi.

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Greece	2–2	West Germany
Delikaris 13' Eleftherakis 70'		Cullmann 51' Wimmer 83'

20 November 1974

16:00

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 11,425*

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 22,000

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Greece	2–1	Bulgaria
Sarafis 4' Antoniadis 40'		Kolev 89'

18 December 1974

16:00

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 22,328

Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

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Malta	0–1	West Germany
		Cullmann 44'

22 December 1974

14:30

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 12,528

Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

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Malta	2–0	Greece
Aquilina 33' Magro 79'

23 February 1975

15:30

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 8,621

Referee: Bob Matthewson (England)

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Bulgaria	1–1	West Germany
Kolev 71' (pen.)		Ritschel 75' (pen.)

27 April 1975

17:00

Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 47,200*

Referee: Jean Dubach (Switzerland)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 60,000.

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Greece	4–0	Malta
Mavros 32' Antoniadis 34' (pen.) Iosifidis 47' Papaioannou 50'

4 June 1975

21:00

Stadio Toumbas, Salonika

Attendance: 16,545

Referee: Marjan Rauš (Yugoslavia)

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Bulgaria	5–0	Malta
Dimitrov 2' Denev 22' Panov 25' Bonev 68' (pen.) Milanov 71'

11 June 1975

00:00

Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 27,560

Referee: Michal Jursa (Czechoslovakia)

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West Germany	1–1	Greece
Heynckes 68'		Delikaris 78'

11 October 1975

20:30

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 61,252

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

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West Germany	1–0	Bulgaria
Heynckes 64'

19 November 1975

15:00

Neckarstadion, Stuttgart

Attendance: 68,819

Referee: Alistair McKenzie (Scotland)

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Malta	0–2	Bulgaria
		Panov 69' Iordanov 83'

21 December 1975

14:30

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 7,174

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

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West Germany	8–0	Malta
Worm 5', 27' Heynckes 34', 58' Beer 41' (pen.), 77' Vogts 82' Hölzenbein 87'

28 February 1976

15:30

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 52,248

Referee: Marian Kustoń (Poland)

Goalscorers

There were 40 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.33 goals per match.

4 goals

• Jupp Heynckes

3 goals

• Georgi Denev
• Antonis Antoniadis

2 goals

• Hristo Bonev
• Bozhil Kolev
• Pavel Panov
• Georgios Delikaris
• Mimis Papaioannou
• Erich Beer
• Bernhard Cullmann
• Ronald Worm

1 goal

• Borislav Dimitrov
• Kiril Milanov
• Yordan Yordanov
• Kostas Eleftherakis
• Lakis Glezos
• Konstantinos Iosifidis
• Thomas Mavros
• Stavros Sarafis
• Richard Aquilina
• Vincent Magro
• Bernd Hölzenbein
• Manfred Ritschel
• Berti Vogts
• Herbert Wimmer