UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 3

Group 3 of the UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1968 finals tournament. Group 3 consisted of four teams: Soviet Union, Greece, Austria, and Finland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Soviet Union, who finished 5 points above Greece.

Final table
Pos Team 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 Annulled[lower-alpha 1] — 2–1
4  Finland 6 0 2 4 5 12 −7 2 2–5 1–1 0–0 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
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]

Matches
Finland 0–0 Austria
Report
Attendance: 10,070
Referee: Peter Coates (Rep. of Ireland)
Greece 2–1 Finland
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  • Mäkipää  57'
Attendance: 28,478
Referee: Zdeněk Valeš (Czechoslovakia)
Finland 1–1 Greece
 Report
Attendance: 14,056
Referee: Pieter Roomer (Netherlands)
Soviet Union 4–3 Austria
 Report
Attendance: 72,142
Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)
Soviet Union 4–0 Greece
 Report
Attendance: 28,040
Referee: Birger Nilsen (Norway)
Soviet Union 2–0 Finland
 Report
Attendance: 20,597
Referee: Muzaffer Sarvan (Turkey)
Finland 2–5 Soviet Union
 Report
Attendance: 7,793
Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)
Austria 2–1 Finland
 Report
Attendance: 25,231
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
Greece 4–1 Austria
 Report
Attendance: 34,552
Referee: Vasile Dumitrescu (Romania)
Austria 1–0 Soviet Union
 Report
Attendance: 37,400
Referee: Todor Bechirov (Bulgaria)
Greece 0–1 Soviet Union
Report
Attendance: 33,588
Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)
Austria Annulled[note 2] Greece
 Report
Attendance: 31,996
Referee: Gyula Gere (Hungary)

Goalscorers

There were 37 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.08 goals per match.[note 3]

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Notes
  1. The Greece v Austria match, originally scheduled on 23 April 1967, was postponed to 4 October 1967 due to the Greek coup d'état on 21 April 1967.[2]
  2. The Austria v Greece match was abandoned in the 86th minute at 1–1 due to a crowd disturbance and declared void.[1]
  3. The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.

References
  • "1968 UEFA European Championship". uefa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • "European Championship 1968". rsssf.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • Robinson, J. (1996). The European Football Championships 1958-1996. Soccer Book Publishing. ISBN 0-947808-69-8.
  1. Stokkermans, Karel; Tabeira, Martín (7 February 2007). "European Championship 1968". rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. Benesch, Heribert (23 April 1967). "Spiel abgesagt, Team nominiert" [Match canceled, team nominated]. Arbeiter-Zeitung (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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