UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 6

Group 6 of the UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1968 finals tournament. Group 6 consisted of four teams: Italy, Romania, Switzerland, and Cyprus, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were Italy, who finished 5 points above Romania.

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	6	5	1	0	17	3	+14	11	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–1	4–0	5–0
2	Romania	6	3	0	3	18	14	+4	6			0–1	—	4–2	7–0
3	Switzerland	6	2	1	3	17	13	+4	5			2–2	7–1	—	5–0
4	Cyprus	6	1	0	5	3	25	−22	2			0–2	1–5	2–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

2 November 1966

14:45

Romania	4–2	Switzerland
Dridea 8' Frățilă 11', 25', 38'	Report	Künzli 54' Odermatt 70'

Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest

Attendance: 14,209

Referee: James Finney (England)

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26 November 1966

14:30

Italy	3–1	Romania
Mazzola 30', 67' De Paoli 43'	Report	Dobrin 7'

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 68,145

Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

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3 December 1966

14:30

Cyprus	1–5	Romania
Pierides 31'	Report	Dridea 49', 82' Lucescu 51' Frățilă 65', 74'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 4,823

Referee: Arthur Lentini (Malta)

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22 March 1967

15:45

Cyprus	0–2	Italy
	Report	Domenghini 76' Facchetti 88'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 5,380

Referee: Atanas Stavrev Kiryakov (Bulgaria)

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23 April 1967

16:30

Romania	7–0	Cyprus
Lucescu 4' Martinovici 15' Dumitriu 24', 52', 77' I. Ionescu 47', 86'	Report

Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest

Attendance: 9,412

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

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24 May 1967

20:00

Switzerland	7–1	Romania
Künzli 12', 66' Quentin 15', 32' Blättler 47', 59' Odermatt 63'	Report	Dobrin 70'

Hardturm Stadion, Zürich

Attendance: 21,337

Referee: Robert Lacoste (France)

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25 June 1967

17:30

Romania	0–1	Italy
	Report	Bertini 81'

Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest

Attendance: 54,371

Referee: Manuel Gómez Arribas (Spain)

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1 November 1967

14:30

Italy	5–0	Cyprus
Mazzola 12', 22' Riva 46', 55', 59'	Report

Stadio San Vito, Cosenza

Attendance: 22,059

Referee: Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg)

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8 November 1967

20:30

Switzerland	5–0	Cyprus
Blättler 30', 55' Künzli 41' Dürr 56' (pen.) Odermatt 72'	Report

Stadio Comunale di Cornaredo, Lugano

Attendance: 3,737

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

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18 November 1967

14:45

Switzerland	2–2	Italy
Quentin 34' Künzli 68'	Report	Riva 66', 85' (pen.)

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 53,137

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

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23 December 1967

14:30

Italy	4–0	Switzerland
Mazzola 3' Riva 13' Domenghini 45', 67'	Report

Stadio Amsicora, Cagliari

Attendance: 24,743

Referee: Tiny Wharton (Scotland)

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17 February 1968

15:15

Cyprus	2–1	Switzerland
Asprou 22' Papadopoulos 46'	Report	Panagiotou 9' (o.g.)

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)

Goalscorers

There were 55 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 4.58 goals per match.

6 goals

• Luigi Riva

5 goals

• Sandro Mazzola
• Constantin Frățilă
• Fritz Künzli

4 goals

• Rolf Blättler

3 goals

• Angelo Domenghini
• Mircea Dridea
• Emil Dumitriu
• Karl Odermatt
• René-Pierre Quentin

2 goals

• Nicolae Dobrin
• Ion Ionescu
• Mircea Lucescu

1 goal

• Melis Asprou
• Pamboullis Papadopoulos
• Kostakis Pierides
• Mario Bertini
• Virginio De Paoli
• Giacinto Facchetti
• Florea Martinovici
• Richard Dürr

1 own goal

• Kostas Panayiotou (against Switzerland)

References

• "1968 UEFA European Championship". uefa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
• "European Championship 1968". rsssf.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
• Robinson, J. (1996). The European Football Championships 1958-1996. Soccer Book Publishing. ISBN 0-947808-69-8.