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UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 6

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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

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Italy Romania Switzerland Cyprus
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

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Romania 4–2  Switzerland
Report
Attendance: 14,209
Referee: James Finney (England)

Italy 3–1 Romania
Report
Attendance: 68,145
Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

Cyprus 1–5 Romania
Report
Attendance: 4,823
Referee: Arthur Lentini (Malta)

Cyprus 0–2 Italy
Report
Attendance: 5,380
Referee: Atanas Stavrev Kiryakov (Bulgaria)

Romania 7–0 Cyprus
Report
Attendance: 9,412
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Switzerland 7–1 Romania
Report
Attendance: 21,337
Referee: Robert Lacoste (France)

Romania 0–1 Italy
Report
Attendance: 54,371
Referee: Manuel Gómez Arribas (Spain)

Italy 5–0 Cyprus
Report
Attendance: 22,059
Referee: Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg)

Switzerland 5–0 Cyprus
Report
Attendance: 3,737
Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

Switzerland 2–2 Italy
Report
Attendance: 53,137
Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

Italy 4–0  Switzerland
Report
Attendance: 24,743
Referee: Tiny Wharton (Scotland)

Cyprus 2–1  Switzerland
Report
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)

Goalscorers

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

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References

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