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
{{UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying group tables|Group 5|show_matches=yes}}
Matches
{{Football box
|date = 1 September 1974
|time=15:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FIN}}
|score = 1–2
|team2 = {{fb|POL|1928}}
|goals1 = Rahja {{goal|3}}
|goals2 = Szarmach {{goal|23}}
Lato {{goal|50}}
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Helsinki
|attendance = 18,759
|referee = John Wright Paterson (Scotland)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 25 September 1974
|time=18:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FIN}}
|score = 1–3
|team2 = {{fb|NED}}
|goals1 = Rahja {{goal|16}}
|goals2 = Cruyff {{goal|28||40}}
Neeskens {{goal|51|pen.}}
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Helsinki
|attendance = 20,449
|referee = Wolfgang Riedel
(East Germany)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 9 October 1974
|time=14:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|POL|1928}}
|score = 3–0
|team2 = {{fb|FIN}}
|goals1 = Kasperczak {{goal|12}}
Gadocha {{goal|14}}
Lato {{goal|53}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadion Warty, Poznań
|attendance = 38,724
|referee = Dušan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 20 November 1974
|time = 20:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|NED}}
|score = 3–1
|team2 = {{fb|ITA}}
|goals1 = Rensenbrink {{goal|24}}
Cruyff {{goal|64||80}}
|goals2 = Boninsegna {{goal|5}}
|stadium = Stadion Feyenoord (De Kuip), Rotterdam
|attendance = 58,463
|referee = Pavel Kazakov (USSR)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 19 April 1975
|time=15:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA}}
|score = 0–0
|team2 = {{fb|POL|1928}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadio Olimpico, Rome
|attendance = 66,048
|referee = Robert Héliès (France)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 5 June 1975
|time=19:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FIN}}
|score = 0–1
|team2 = {{fb|ITA}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Chinaglia {{goal|26|pen.}}
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Helsinki
|attendance = 17,732
|referee = Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 3 September 1975
|time=20:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|NED}}
|score = 4–1
|team2 = {{fb|FIN}}
|goals1 = Van der Kuijlen {{goal|29||35||55}}
Lubse {{goal|48}}
|goals2 = Paatelainen {{goal|9}}
|stadium = Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen
|attendance = 19,189 *| referee = Eric Smyton (Northern Ireland)
}}
(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 28,000
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{{Football box
|date = 10 September 1975
|time=17:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|POL|1928}}
|score = 4–1
|team2 = {{fb|NED}}
|goals1 = Lato {{goal|14}}
Gadocha {{goal|44}}
Szarmach {{goal|63||77}}
|goals2 = Van de Kerkhof {{goal|80}}
|stadium = Stadion Śląski, Chorzów
|attendance = 70,409
|referee = Patrick Partridge (England)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 27 September 1975
|time=16:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA}}
|score = 0–0
|team2 = {{fb|FIN}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadio Olimpico, Rome
|attendance = 29,203
|referee = Costas Xanthoulis (Cyprus)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 15 October 1975
|time=20:15
|team1 = {{fb-rt|NED}}
|score = 3–0
|team2 = {{fb|POL|1928}}
|goals1 = Neeskens {{goal|16}}
Geels {{goal|47}}
Thijssen {{goal|59}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam
|attendance = 56,030
|referee = Károly Palotai (Hungary)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 26 October 1975
|time=14:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|POL|1928}}
|score = 0–0
|team2 = {{fb|ITA}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warsaw
|attendance = 59,773
|referee = Paul Schiller (Austria)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 22 November 1975
|time=14:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA}}
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{fb|NED}}
|goals1 = Capello {{goal|20}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadio Olimpico, Rome
|attendance = 33,307
|referee = Robert Schaut (Belgium)
}}
Goalscorers
{{#invoke:Goalscorers|main|UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying|round=group|group=5}}
References
- {{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/history/seasons/1976/|title=1976 UEFA European Championship|publisher=UEFA|access-date=13 August 2014}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/76e-fulldet.html|title=European Championship 1976|website=RSSSF|access-date=13 August 2014}}
- {{cite book |first=J. |last=Robinson |title=The European Football Championships 1958-1996|publisher=Soccer Book Publishing |year=1996 |isbn=0-947808-69-8}}
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