UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 6

Group 6 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 6 consisted of four teams: Italy, Romania, Switzerland, and Cyprus, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were Italy, who finished 5 points above Romania.

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	6	5	1	0	17	3	+14	11	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–1	4–0	5–0
2	Romania	6	3	0	3	18	14	+4	6			0–1	—	4–2	7–0
3	Switzerland	6	2	1	3	17	13	+4	5			2–2	7–1	—	5–0
4	Cyprus	6	1	0	5	3	25	−22	2			0–2	1–5	2–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

2 November 1966

14:45

Romania	4–2	Switzerland
Dridea 8' Frățilă 11', 25', 38'	Report	Künzli 54' Odermatt 70'

Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest

Attendance: 14,209

Referee: James Finney (England)

26 November 1966

14:30

Italy	3–1	Romania
Mazzola 30', 67' De Paoli 43'	Report	Dobrin 7'

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 68,000

Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

3 December 1966

14:30

Cyprus	1–5	Romania
Pierides 31'	Report	Dridea 49', 82' Lucescu 51' Frățilă 65', 74'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 4,823

Referee: Arthur Lentini (Malta)

22 March 1967

15:45

Cyprus	0–2	Italy
	Report	Domenghini 76' Facchetti 88'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 5,380

Referee: Atanas Stavrev Kiryakov (Bulgaria)

23 April 1967

16:30

Romania	7–0	Cyprus
Lucescu 4' Martinovici 15' Dumitriu 24', 52', 77' I. Ionescu 47', 86'	Report

Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest

Attendance: 9,412

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

24 May 1967

20:00

Switzerland	7–1	Romania
Künzli 12', 66' Quentin 15', 32' Blättler 47', 59' Odermatt 63'	Report	Dobrin 70'

Hardturm Stadion, Zürich

Attendance: 21,337

Referee: Robert Lacoste (France)

25 June 1967

17:30

Romania	0–1	Italy
	Report	Bertini 81'

Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest

Attendance: 54,371

Referee: Manuel Gómez Arribas (Spain)

1 November 1967

14:30

Italy	5–0	Cyprus
Mazzola 12', 22' Riva 46', 55', 59'	Report

Stadio San Vito, Cosenza

Attendance: 22,059

Referee: Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg)

8 November 1967

20:30

Switzerland	5–0	Cyprus
Blättler 30', 55' Künzli 41' Dürr 56' (pen.) Odermatt 72'	Report

Stadio Comunale di Cornaredo, Lugano

Attendance: 3,737

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

18 November 1967

14:45

Switzerland	2–2	Italy
Quentin 34' Künzli 68'	Report	Riva 66', 85' (pen.)

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 53,137

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

23 December 1967

14:30

Italy	4–0	Switzerland
Mazzola 3' Riva 13' Domenghini 45', 67'	Report

Stadio Amsicora, Cagliari

Attendance: 24,743

Referee: Tiny Wharton (Scotland)

17 February 1968

15:15

Cyprus	2–1	Switzerland
Asprou 22' Papadopoulos 46'	Report	Panagiotou 9' (o.g.)

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)

Goalscorers

There were 55 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 4.58 goals per match.

6 goals

Luigi Riva

5 goals

4 goals

Rolf Blättler

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Kostas Panayiotou (against Switzerland)

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.

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