UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 1

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Group 1 of the UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1972 finals tournament. Group 1 consisted of four teams: Romania, Czechoslovakia, Wales, and Finland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were Romania, who finished above Czechoslovakia on goal difference.

Final table[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Romania Czechoslovakia Wales Finland
1  Romania 6 4 1 1 11 2 +9 9 Advance to quarter-finals 2–1 2–0 3–0
2  Czechoslovakia 6 4 1 1 11 4 +7 9 1–0 1–0 1–1
3  Wales 6 2 1 3 5 6 −1 5 0–0 1–3 3–0
4  Finland 6 0 1 5 1 16 −15 1 0–4 0–4 0–1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches[edit]

Czechoslovakia 1–1 Finland
Albrecht 30' Report Paatelainen 41'
Attendance: 5,549
Referee: William O'Neill (Northern Ireland)

Romania 3–0 Finland
Dumitrache 28', 42'
Nunweiller 77'
Report
Attendance: 36,584
Referee: Leonidas Vamvakopoulos (Greece)

Wales 0–0 Romania
Report
Attendance: 19,882
Referee: Arie van Gemert (Netherlands)

Wales 1–3 Czechoslovakia
R. Davies 49' (pen.) Report Čapkovič 80', 83'
Táborský 81'
Attendance: 12,767
Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)

Czechoslovakia 1–0 Romania
Veselý 88' Report
Attendance: 38,207
Referee: Fernando dos Santos Leite (Portugal)

Finland 0–1 Wales
Report Toshack 54'
Attendance: 5,410
Referee: Günter Männig (East Germany)

Finland 0–4 Czechoslovakia
Report Čapkovič 10'
Pollák 16'
Karkó 83', 89'
Attendance: 4,658
Referee: Marian Środecki (Poland)

Finland 0–4 Romania
Report Iordănescu 25'
Lupescu 37'
Dembrovschi 55'
Lucescu 64' (pen.)
Attendance: 2,084
Referee: Pius Kamber (Switzerland)

Wales 3–0 Finland
Durban 10'
Toshack 53'
Reece 89'
Report
Attendance: 10,301
Referee: Kaj Rasmussen (Denmark)

Czechoslovakia 1–0 Wales
Kuna 60' Report
Attendance: 20,051
Referee: Mariano Medina Iglesias (Spain)

Romania 2–1 Czechoslovakia
Dembrovschi 26'
Dobrin 52'
Report Čapkovič 50'
Attendance: 63,583
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Romania 2–0 Wales
Lupescu 9'
Lucescu 74'
Report
Attendance: 35,251
Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)

Goalscorers[edit]

There were 28 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References[edit]

  • "1972 UEFA European Championship". uefa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • "European Championship 1972". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • Robinson, J. (1996). The European Football Championships 1958-1996. Soccer Book Publishing. ISBN 0-947808-69-8.