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UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 5

Group 5 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 5 consisted of four teams: Netherlands, Poland, Italy, and Finland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Netherlands, who finished tied on points with Poland, but the Netherlands advanced with a better goal difference. Italy finished in third place despite conceding only 3 goals (all in the game lost in the Netherlands) as a consequence of the abysmal 3 goals scored in the 6 games.

Final table edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification        
1   Netherlands 6 4 0 2 14 8 +6 8 Advance to quarter-finals — 3–0 3–1 4–1
2   Poland 6 3 2 1 9 5 +4 8 4–1 — 0–0 3–0
3   Italy 6 2 3 1 3 3 0 7 1–0 0–0 — 0–0
4   Finland 6 0 1 5 3 13 −10 1 1–3 1–2 0–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches edit

Finland  1–2  Poland
Rahja   3' Szarmach   23'
Lato   50'
Attendance: 18,759
Referee: John Wright Paterson (Scotland)
Finland  1–3  Netherlands
Rahja   16' Cruyff   28', 40'
Neeskens   51' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,449
Referee: Wolfgang Riedel
(East Germany)
Poland  3–0  Finland
Kasperczak   12'
Gadocha   14'
Lato   53'
Attendance: 38,724
Referee: Dušan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)
Netherlands  3–1  Italy
Rensenbrink   24'
Cruyff   64', 80'		 Boninsegna   5'
Attendance: 58,463
Referee: Pavel Kazakov (USSR)
Italy  0–0  Poland
Attendance: 66,048
Referee: Robert Héliès (France)
Finland  0–1  Italy
Chinaglia   26' (pen.)
Attendance: 17,732
Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
Netherlands  4–1  Finland
Van der Kuijlen   29', 35', 55'
Lubse   48'		 Paatelainen   9'
Attendance: 19,189 *
Referee: Eric Smyton (Northern Ireland)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 28,000

Poland  4–1  Netherlands
Lato   14'
Gadocha   44'
Szarmach   63', 77'		 Van de Kerkhof   80'
Attendance: 70,409
Referee: Patrick Partridge (England)
Italy  0–0  Finland
Attendance: 29,203
Referee: Costas Xanthoulis (Cyprus)
Netherlands  3–0  Poland
Neeskens   16'
Geels   47'
Thijssen   59'
Attendance: 56,030
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
Poland  0–0  Italy
Attendance: 59,773
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
Italy  1–0  Netherlands
Capello   20'
Attendance: 33,307
Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

Goalscorers edit

There were 29 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.42 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References edit

  • "1976 UEFA European Championship". uefa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • "European Championship 1976". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • Robinson, J. (1996). The European Football Championships 1958-1996. Soccer Book Publishing. ISBN 0-947808-69-8.
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