UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 6
Group 6 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 6 consisted of four teams: Soviet Union, Republic of Ireland, Turkey, and Switzerland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Soviet Union, who finished one point above the Republic of Ireland.
Final table
{{UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying group tables|Group 6|show_matches=yes}}
Matches
{{Football box
|date = 30 October 1974
|time=15:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|IRL}}
|score = 3–0
|team2 = {{fb|URS}}
|goals1 = Givens {{goal|22||30||70}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Dalymount Park, Dublin
|attendance = 31,758
|referee = Erik Axelryd (Sweden)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 20 November 1974
|time=20:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|TUR}}
|score = 1–1
|team2 = {{fb|IRL}}
|goals1 = Dunne {{goal|54|o.g.}}*
|goals2 = Givens {{goal|61}}
|stadium = Atatürk Stadı, İzmir
|attendance = 69,999
|referee = Marian Srodecki (Poland)
}}
(*)NOTE: The first goal in other sources has also been reported as an own goal by Mick Martin or Terry Conroy.
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{{Football box
|date = 1 December 1974
|time=00:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|TUR}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|SUI}}
|goals1 = İsmail {{goal|21}}
O. Mehmet {{goal|85}}
|goals2 = Schild {{goal|18}}
|stadium = Atatürk Stadı, İzmir
|attendance = 51,410
|referee = Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 2 April 1975
|time=19:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|URS}}
|score = 3–0
|team2 = {{fb|TUR}}
|goals1 = Kolotov {{goal|25|pen.|56|pen.}}
Blokhin {{goal|75}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Kyiv Central Stadium, Kyiv
|attendance = 74,223
|referee = Robert Holley Davidson (Scotland)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 30 April 1975
|time=20:15
|team1 = {{fb-rt|SUI}}
|score = 1–1
|team2 = {{fb|TUR}}
|goals1 = İsmail {{goal|43|o.g.}}
|goals2 = Alpaslan {{goal|54}}
|stadium = Hardturm Stadion(*), Zürich(*)| attendance = 21,965
|referee = Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)
}}
(*)NOTE: Some sources state that the venue was St. Jakob-Park, Basel.
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{{Football box
|date = 10 May 1975
|time=15:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|IRL}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|SUI}}
|goals1 = Martin {{goal|2}}
Treacy {{goal|28}}
|goals2 = Müller {{goal|74}}
|stadium = Lansdowne Road, Dublin
|attendance = 48,074
|referee = Paul Schiller (Austria)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 18 May 1975
|time=19:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|URS}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|IRL}}
|goals1 = Blokhin {{goal|13}}
Kolotov {{goal|29}}
|goals2 = Hand {{goal|79}}
|stadium = Kyiv Central Stadium, Kyiv
|attendance = 84,480
|referee = René Vigliani (France)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 21 May 1975
|time=20:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|SUI}}
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{fb|IRL}}
|goals1 = Elsener {{goal|75}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Wankdorf Stadion, Bern
|attendance = 12,793
|referee = César da Luz Diaz Correia (Portugal)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 12 October 1975
|time=15:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|SUI}}
|score = 0–1
|team2 = {{fb|URS}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Muntyan {{goal|78}}
|stadium = Hardturm Stadion, Zürich
|attendance = 17,887
|referee = Leonardus van der Kroft (Netherlands)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 29 October 1975
|time=15:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|IRL}}
|score = 4–0
|team2 = {{fb|TUR}}
|goals1 = Givens {{goal|26||33||38||89}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Dalymount Park, Dublin
|attendance = 16,533
|referee = Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 12 November 1975
|time=19:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|URS}}
|score = 4–1
|team2 = {{fb|SUI}}
|goals1 = Konkov {{goal|13}}
Onishchenko {{goal|14||68}}
Veremeyev {{goal|81}}
|goals2 = Risi {{goal|45}}
|stadium = Kyiv Central Stadium, Kyiv
|attendance = 24,581
|referee = Klaus Ohmsen (West Germany)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 23 November 1975
|time=15:00{{refn|group=note|name=TURvURS delayed|The Turkey v Soviet Union match was delayed by 30 minutes due to adverse weather conditions.{{cite web |url=http://russia-matches.ucoz.ru/publ/matchi/1975/turcija_sssr_10/46-1-0-674 |title=Протокол матча Турция - СССР 1:0 |trans-title=Match report Turkey v Soviet Union 1–0 |access-date=28 January 2019 |language=ru}}}}
|team1 = {{fb-rt|TUR}}
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{fb|URS}}
|goals1 = Reshko {{goal|22|o.g.}}**
|goals2 =
|stadium = Atatürk Stadı, İzmir
|attendance = 21,325 *| referee = Petar Nikolov (Bulgaria)
}}
(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 45,000
(**)NOTE: The own goal scorer has also been reported as Mikhail Fomenko.
Goalscorers
{{#invoke:Goalscorers|main|UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying|round=group|group=6}}
Notes
{{Reflist|group=note}}
References
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;General 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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