1972 UEFA European Under-23 Championship

The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying tournament with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:

• Group 2 and 8 had the same competing nations
• Group 1 did not include Wales
• Group 3 did not include England and Malta
• Group 4 did not include Northern Ireland and Cyprus
• Group 5 did not include Belgium and Scotland
• Group 6 did not include Republic of Ireland
• Group 7 did not include Luxembourg

{{Football box

|id = SPA v URS

|date = {{Start date|1971|5|30|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbo-rt|SPA}}

|score = 1–2

|team2 = {{fbu|21|URS}}

|goals1 =

• Sergio {{goal|12}}

|goals2 =

• Onyshchenko {{goal|7}}
• Gershkovich {{goal|60}}

|location = Malaga

|stadium = La Rosaleda

|attendance = 30,000

|referee = René Vigliani (France)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1971_molodjozhnaja/ispanija_molodjozhnaja_sssr_molodjozhnaja_1_2/470-1-0-2272

}}

{{Football box

|id = URS v SPA

|date = {{Start date|1971|10|27|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|URS}}

|score = 1–1

|team2 = {{fbo|SPA}}

|goals1 =

• Dolbonosov {{penmiss|goalkeeper}} {{small|8'}}
• Piskaryov {{goal|48}}

|goals2 =

• Aguilar {{goal|12}}

|location = Donetsk

|stadium = Shakhtar

|attendance = 40,000

|referee = Mario Clematide (Switzerland)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1971_molodjozhnaja/sssr_molodjozhnaja_ispanija_molodjozhnaja_1_1/470-1-0-2276

}}

{{8TeamBracket

| RD1= Quarter-finals

| RD2= Semi-finals

| RD3= Finals

| seeds = no

| legs = 2

| aggregate = yes

| boldwinner = high

| RD1-team1={{fbu|21|BUL}}

| RD1-score1-1=2

| RD1-score1-2=0

| RD1-score1-agg=2 (2)

| RD1-team2={{fbu|21|NED}}

| RD1-score2-1=2

| RD1-score2-2=0

| RD1-score2-agg=2 (0)

| RD1-team3={{fbu|21|DEN}}

| RD1-score3-1=2

| RD1-score3-2=0

| RD1-score3-agg=2

| RD1-team4={{fbu|21|GRE}}

| RD1-score4-1=0

| RD1-score4-2=5

| RD1-score4-agg=5

| RD1-team5={{fbu|21|URS}}

| RD1-score5-1=3

| RD1-score5-2=0

| RD1-score5-agg=3

| RD1-team6={{fbu|21|FRG}}

| RD1-score6-1=1

| RD1-score6-2=0

| RD1-score6-agg=1

| RD1-team7={{fbu|21|SWE}}

| RD1-score7-1=1

| RD1-score7-2=1

| RD1-score7-agg=2

| RD1-team8={{fbu|21|TCH}}

| RD1-score8-1=0

| RD1-score8-2=3

| RD1-score8-agg=3

| RD2-team1={{fbu|21|TCH}}

| RD2-score1-1=2

| RD2-score1-2=1

| RD2-score1-agg=3

| RD2-team2={{fbu|21|GRE}}

| RD2-score2-1=0

| RD2-score2-2=2

| RD2-score2-agg=2

| RD2-team3={{fbu|21|URS}}

| RD2-score3-1=4

| RD2-score3-2=3

| RD2-score3-agg=7

| RD2-team4={{fbu|21|BUL}}

| RD2-score4-1=0

| RD2-score4-2=3

| RD2-score4-agg=3

| RD3-team1={{fbu|21|URS}}

| RD3-score1-1=2

| RD3-score1-2=1

| RD3-score1-agg=3

| RD3-team2={{fbu|21|TCH}}

| RD3-score2-1=2

| RD3-score2-2=3

| RD3-score2-agg=5

}}

{{Football box

|id = URS v GER

|date = {{Start date|1972|4|29|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|URS}}

|score = 3–1

|team2 = {{fbu|21|GER}}

|goals1 =

• Gutsaev {{goal|52}}
• Yakubik {{goal|58}}
• Blokhin {{goal|72}}

|goals2 =

• Wunder {{goal|79}}

|location = Yerevan

|stadium = Hrazdan

|attendance = 25,000

|referee = Egil Bergstad (Norway)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1972_molodjozhnaja/sssr_molodjozhnaja_frg_molodjozhnaja_3_1/469-1-0-2216

}}

{{Football box

|id = GER v URS

|date = {{Start date|1972|5|11|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|GER}}

|score = 0–0

|team2 = {{fbu|21|URS}}

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Duisburg

|stadium = Bezirkssportanlage Westender Straße

|attendance = 24,000[http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/molod_team/history/1972_02.html ФРГ (молодежная) - СССР (молодежная) - 0:0]. www.rusteam.permian.ru

|referee = Paul Bonett (Malta)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1972_molodjozhnaja/sssr_molodjozhnaja_frg_molodjozhnaja_3_1/469-1-0-2216

}}

{{Football box

|id = URS v BUL

|date = {{Start date|1972|6|7|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|URS}}

|score = 4–0

|team2 = {{fbu|21|BUL}}

|goals1 =

• Aleksandrov {{goal|5}}
• Nodia {{goal|19}}
• Blokhin {{goal|21}}
• Yakubik {{goal|76|pen.}}
• Zhukov {{sent off|0|}}

|goals2 =

• Denev {{sent off|0|}}
• Panov {{sent off|0|}}

|location = Leningrad

|stadium = Stadion imeni Kirova

|attendance = 25,000

|referee = Stanisław Eksztajn (Poland)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1972_molodjozhnaja/sssr_molodjozhnaja_bolgarija_molodjozhnaja_4_0/469-1-0-2264

}}

{{Football box

|id = BUL v URS

|date = {{Start date|1972|6|14|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|BUL}}

|score = 3–3

|team2 = {{fbu|21|URS}}

|goals1 =

• Mihaylov {{goal|19||39||60|pen.}}

|goals2 =

• Gutsaev {{goal|31}}
• Zvyahintsev {{goal|44}}
• Mirikov {{goal|85}}

|location = Sofia

|stadium = Vasil Levski

|attendance = 25,000

|referee = Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1972_molodjozhnaja/bolgarija_molodjozhnaja_sssr_molodjozhnaja_3_3/469-1-0-2265

}}

{{Football box

|id = URS v TCH

|date = {{Start date|1972|6|26|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|URS}}

|score = 2–2

|team2 = {{fbu|21|TCH}}

|goals1 =

• Blokhin {{goal|51}}
• Gutsaev {{goal|69}}

|goals2 =

• Albrecht {{goal|66}}
• Melichar {{goal|87}}

|location = Moscow

|stadium = Tsentralnyi stadion imeni Lenina

|attendance = 25,000

|referee = Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1972_molodjozhnaja/sssr_molodjozhnaja_chekhoslovakija_molodjozhnaja_2_2/469-1-0-2266

}}

{{Football box

|id = TCH v URS

|date = {{Start date|1972|6|30|df=y}}

|time =

|team1 = {{fbu-rt|21|TCH}}

|score = 3–1

|team2 = {{fbu|21|URS}}

|goals1 =

• Gajdůšek {{goal|10}}
• Herda {{goal|11}}
• Albrecht {{goal|60}}

|goals2 =

• Blokhin {{goal|67}}

|location = Ostrava

|stadium = Bazaly

|attendance = 15,000

|referee = Sergio Gonella (Italy)

|report = http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/molodjozhnaja_sbornaja/1972_molodjozhnaja/chekhoslovakija_molodjozhnaja_sssr_molodjozhnaja_3_1/469-1-0-2267

}}

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• [https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eur-u23-72.html RSSSF Results Archive] at rsssf.com

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