UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 8
Group 8 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 8 consisted of four teams: West Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, and Malta, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were West Germany, who finished two points above Greece.
Final table
{{UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying group tables|Group 8|show_matches=yes}}
Matches
{{Football box
|date = 13 October 1974
|time=16:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|BUL|1971}}
|score = 3–3
|team2 = {{fb|GRE|1970}}
|goals1 = Bonev {{goal|2}}
Denev {{goal|27||29}}
|goals2 = Antoniadis {{goal|28}}
Papaioannou {{goal|86}}
Glezos {{goal|88}}
|stadium = Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia
|attendance = 14,291*
|referee = Alberto Michelotti** (Italy)
}}
(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 30,000.
(**)NOTE: Referee also reported as Alberto Lattanzi.
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{{Football box
|date = 20 November 1974
|time=16:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|GRE|1970}}
|score = 2–2
|team2 = {{fb|FRG}}
|goals1 = Delikaris {{goal|13}}
Eleftherakis {{goal|70}}
|goals2 = Cullmann {{goal|51}}
Wimmer {{goal|83}}
|stadium = Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
|attendance = 11,425*
|referee = Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
}} (*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 22,000
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{{Football box
|date = 18 December 1974
|time=16:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|GRE|1970}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|BUL|1971}}
|goals1 = Sarafis {{goal|4}}
Antoniadis {{goal|40}}
|goals2 = Kolev {{goal|89}}
|stadium = Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
|attendance = 22,328
|referee = Paul Schiller (Austria)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 22 December 1974
|time=14:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|MLT}}
|score = 0–1
|team2 = {{fb|FRG}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Cullmann {{goal|44}}
|stadium = Empire Stadium, Gżira
|attendance = 12,528
|referee = Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 23 February 1975
|time=15:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|MLT}}
|score = 2–0
|team2 = {{fb|GRE|1970}}
|goals1 = Aquilina {{goal|33}}
Magro {{goal|79}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Empire Stadium, Gżira
|attendance = 8,621
|referee = Bob Matthewson (England)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 27 April 1975
|time=17:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|BUL|1971}}
|score = 1–1
|team2 = {{fb|FRG}}
|goals1 = Kolev {{goal|71|pen.}}
|goals2 = Ritschel {{goal|75|pen.}}
|stadium = Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia
|attendance = 47,200*| referee = Jean Dubach (Switzerland)
}}
(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 60,000.
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{{Football box
|date = 4 June 1975
|time=21:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|GRE|1970}}
|score = 4–0
|team2 = {{fb|MLT}}
|goals1 = Mavros {{goal|32}}
Antoniadis {{goal|34|pen.}}
Iosifidis {{goal|47}}
Papaioannou {{goal|50}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadio Toumbas, Salonika
|attendance = 16,545
|referee = Marjan Rauš (Yugoslavia)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 11 June 1975
|time=00:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|BUL|1971}}
|score = 5–0
|team2 = {{fb|MLT}}
|goals1 = Dimitrov {{goal|2}}
Denev {{goal|22}}
Panov {{goal|25}}
Bonev {{goal|68|pen.}}
Milanov {{goal|71}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia
|attendance = 27,560
|referee = Michal Jursa (Czechoslovakia)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 11 October 1975
|time=20:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}
|score = 1–1
|team2 = {{fb|GRE|old}}
|goals1 = Heynckes {{goal|68}}
|goals2 = Delikaris {{goal|78}}
|stadium = Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
|attendance = 61,252
|referee = Clive Thomas (Wales)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 19 November 1975
|time=15:00
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{fb|BUL|1971}}
|goals1 = Heynckes {{goal|64}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
|attendance = 68,819
|referee = Alistair McKenzie (Scotland)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 21 December 1975
|time=14:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|MLT}}
|score = 0–2
|team2 = {{fb|BUL|1971}}
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Panov {{goal|69}}
Iordanov {{goal|83}}
|stadium = Empire Stadium, Gżira
|attendance = 7,174
|referee = Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)
}}
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{{Football box
|date = 28 February 1976
|time=15:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FRG}}
|score = 8–0
|team2 = {{fb|MLT}}
|goals1 = Worm {{goal|5||27}}
Heynckes {{goal|34||58}}
Beer {{goal|41|pen.|77}}
Vogts {{goal|82}}
Hölzenbein {{goal|87}}
|goals2 =
|stadium = Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
|attendance = 52,248
|referee = Marian Kustoń (Poland)
}}
Goalscorers
{{#invoke:Goalscorers|main|UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying|round=group|group=8}}
References
- {{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=1976/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820062448/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=1976/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 20, 2014|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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{{UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying}}
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