UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	7 September 1966 – 11 May 1968
Teams	31
Tournament statistics
Matches played	98[note 1]
Goals scored	306 (3.12 per match)[note 1]
Top scorer(s)	János Farkas Gigi Riva (6 goals each)
← 1964 1972 →

The qualifying round for the 1968 UEFA European Championship consisted of 31 teams divided into eight groups; seven of four teams and one of three teams. Each group winner progressed to the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals were played in two legs on a home-and-away basis. The winners of the quarter-finals would go through, to the final tournament.

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Italy (host)	Quarter-final winner	20 April 1968	0 (debut)
Yugoslavia	Quarter-final winner	24 April 1968	1 (1960)
England	Quarter-final winner	8 May 1968	0 (debut)
Soviet Union	Quarter-final winner	11 May 1968	2 (1960, 1964)

Summary

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8
Spain	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Hungary	Italy	France	England
Czechoslovakia Republic of Ireland Turkey	Portugal Sweden Norway	Greece Austria Finland	West Germany Albania	East Germany Netherlands Denmark	Romania Switzerland Cyprus	Belgium Poland Luxembourg	Scotland Wales Northern Ireland

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches
2. Goal difference in all group matches
3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
4. Drawing of lots

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	6	3	2	1	6	2	+4	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–0	2–0
2	Czechoslovakia	6	3	1	2	8	4	+4	7			1–0	—	1–2	3–0
3	Republic of Ireland	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	5			0–0	0–2	—	2–1
4	Turkey	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	4			0–0	0–0	2–1	—

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	6	4	2	0	10	2	+8	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–0	3–0	4–2
2	Portugal	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	6			0–0	—	1–2	2–1
3	Sweden	6	2	1	3	9	12	−3	5			0–2	1–1	—	5–2
4	Norway	6	1	1	4	9	14	−5	3			0–0	1–2	3–1	—

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	6	5	0	1	16	6	+10	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	4–0	4–3	2–0
2	Greece	5	2	1	2	7	8	−1	5			0–1	—	4–1	2–1
3	Austria	5	2	1	2	7	9	−2	5			1–0	Void[a]	—	2–1
4	Finland	6	0	2	4	5	12	−7	2			2–5	1–1	0–0	—

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	4	3	0	1	8	3	+5	6	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–0	4–0
2	West Germany	4	2	1	1	9	2	+7	5			3–1	—	6–0
3	Albania	4	0	1	3	0	12	−12	1			0–2	0–0	—

Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–1	2–1	6–0
2	East Germany	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	7			1–0	—	4–3	3–2
3	Netherlands	6	2	1	3	11	11	0	5			2–2	1–0	—	2–0
4	Denmark	6	1	1	4	6	16	−10	3			0–2	1–1	3–2	—

Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	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	—

Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	6	4	1	1	14	6	+8	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–1	2–1	3–1
2	Belgium	6	3	1	2	14	9	+5	7			2–1	—	2–4	3–0
3	Poland	6	3	1	2	13	9	+4	7			1–4	3–1	—	4–0
4	Luxembourg	6	0	1	5	1	18	−17	1			0–3	0–5	0–0	—

Group 8

Group 8's results were formed by combining the results of the 1966–67 and 1967–68 editions of the British Home Championship.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–3	5–1	2–0
2	Scotland	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	8			1–1	—	3–2	2–1
3	Wales	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	4			0–3	1–1	—	2–0
4	Northern Ireland	6	1	1	4	2	8	−6	3			0–2	1–0	0–0	—

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bulgaria	3–4	Italy	3–2	0–2
Hungary	2–3	Soviet Union	2–0	0–3
England	3–1	Spain	1–0	2–1
France	2–6	Yugoslavia	1–1	1–5

Goalscorers

There were 306 goals scored in 98 matches, for an average of 3.12 goals per match.^{[note 1]}

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal