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

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Netherlands Poland Italy Finland
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

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

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

  • "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.