UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	1 September 1974 – 22 May 1976
Teams	32
Tournament statistics
Matches played	104
Goals scored	289 (2.78 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Don Givens (8 goals)
← 1972 1980 →

The qualifying round for the 1976 European Football Championship consisted of 32 teams divided into eight groups of four 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.^[1]

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Czechoslovakia	Quarter-final winner	22 May 1976	1 (1960)
Netherlands	Quarter-final winner	22 May 1976	0 (debut)
West Germany	Quarter-final winner	22 May 1976	1 (1972)
Yugoslavia (host)	Quarter-final winner	22 May 1976	2 (1960, 1968)

Summary

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

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	Czechoslovakia	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	5–0	4–0
2	England	6	3	2	1	11	3	+8	8			3–0	—	0–0	5–0
3	Portugal	6	2	3	1	5	7	−2	7			1–1	1–1	—	1–0
4	Cyprus	6	0	0	6	0	16	−16	0			0–3	0–1	0–2	—

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Wales	6	5	0	1	14	4	+10	10	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–0	1–0	5–0
2	Hungary	6	3	1	2	15	8	+7	7			1–2	—	2–1	8–1
3	Austria	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	7			2–1	0–0	—	6–2
4	Luxembourg	6	0	0	6	7	28	−21	0			1–3	2–4	1–2	—

Group 3

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

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–1	1–1	2–0
2	Romania	6	1	5	0	11	6	+5	7			2–2	—	1–1	6–1
3	Scotland	6	2	3	1	8	6	+2	7			1–2	1–1	—	3–1
4	Denmark	6	0	1	5	3	14	−11	1			1–2	0–0	0–1	—

Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	6	4	0	2	14	8	+6	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–0	3–1	4–1
2	Poland	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4	8			4–1	—	0–0	3–0
3	Italy	6	2	3	1	3	3	0	7			1–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Finland	6	0	1	5	3	13	−10	1			1–3	1–2	0–1	—

Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	6	4	0	2	10	6	+4	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	3–0	4–1
2	Republic of Ireland	6	3	1	2	11	5	+6	7			3–0	—	4–0	2–1
3	Turkey	6	2	2	2	5	10	−5	6			1–0	1–1	—	2–1
4	Switzerland	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	3			0–1	1–0	1–1	—

Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–2	2–1	1–0
2	East Germany	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	7			0–0	—	2–1	1–1
3	France	6	1	3	2	7	6	+1	5			0–0	2–2	—	3–0
4	Iceland	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	4			0–2	2–1	0–0	—

Group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	West Germany	6	3	3	0	14	4	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–1	1–0	8–0
2	Greece	6	2	3	1	12	9	+3	7			2–2	—	2–1	4–0
3	Bulgaria	6	2	2	2	12	7	+5	6			1–1	3–3	—	5–0
4	Malta	6	1	0	5	2	20	−18	2			0–1	2–0	0–2	—

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Yugoslavia	3–1	Wales	2–0	1–1
Czechoslovakia	4–2	Soviet Union	2–0	2–2
Spain	1–3	West Germany	1–1	0–2
Netherlands	7–1	Belgium	5–0	2–1

Goalscorers

There were 289 goals scored in 104 matches, for an average of 2.78 goals per match.

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal