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UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 6

Group 6 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 6 consisted of four teams: Soviet Union, Republic of Ireland, Turkey, and Switzerland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Soviet Union, who finished one point above the Republic of Ireland.

Final table edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification        
1   Soviet Union 6 4 0 2 10 6 +4 8 Advance to quarter-finals — 2–1 3–0 4–1
2   Republic of Ireland 6 3 1 2 11 5 +6 7 3–0 — 4–0 2–1
3   Turkey 6 2 2 2 5 10 −5 6 1–0 1–1 — 2–1
4    Switzerland 6 1 1 4 5 10 −5 3 0–1 1–0 1–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches edit

Republic of Ireland  3–0  Soviet Union
Givens   22', 30', 70'
Attendance: 31,758
Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)
Turkey  1–1  Republic of Ireland
Dunne   54' (o.g.)* Givens   61'
Attendance: 69,999
Referee: Marian Srodecki (Poland)

(*)NOTE: The first goal in other sources has also been reported as an own goal by Mick Martin or Terry Conroy.

Turkey  2–1   Switzerland
İsmail   21'
O. Mehmet   85'		 Schild   18'
Attendance: 51,410
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
Soviet Union  3–0  Turkey
Kolotov   25' (pen.), 56' (pen.)
Blokhin   75'
Attendance: 74,223
Referee: Robert Holley Davidson (Scotland)
Switzerland  1–1  Turkey
İsmail   43' (o.g.) Alpaslan   54'
Attendance: 21,965
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

(*)NOTE: Some sources state that the venue was St. Jakob-Park, Basel.

Republic of Ireland  2–1   Switzerland
Martin   2'
Treacy   28'		 Müller   74'
Attendance: 48,074
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
Soviet Union  2–1  Republic of Ireland
Blokhin   13'
Kolotov   29'		 Hand   79'
Attendance: 84,480
Referee: René Vigliani (France)
Switzerland  1–0  Republic of Ireland
Elsener   75'
Attendance: 12,793
Referee: César da Luz Diaz Correia (Portugal)
Switzerland  0–1  Soviet Union
Muntyan   78'
Attendance: 17,887
Referee: Leonardus van der Kroft (Netherlands)
Republic of Ireland  4–0  Turkey
Givens   26', 33', 38', 89'
Attendance: 16,533
Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
Soviet Union  4–1   Switzerland
Konkov   13'
Onishchenko   14', 68'
Veremeyev   81'		 Risi   45'
Attendance: 24,581
Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (West Germany)
Turkey  1–0  Soviet Union
Reshko   22' (o.g.)**
Attendance: 21,325 *
Referee: Petar Nikolov (Bulgaria)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 45,000
(**)NOTE: The own goal scorer has also been reported as Mikhail Fomenko.

Goalscorers edit

There were 31 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.58 goals per match.

8 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes edit

  1. ^ The Turkey v Soviet Union match was delayed by 30 minutes due to adverse weather conditions.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ "Протокол матча Турция - СССР 1:0" [Match report Turkey v Soviet Union 1–0] (in Russian). Retrieved 28 January 2019.
General references
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