UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying Group 6

Standings and results for Group 1 of the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying tournament.

Standings

Legend
Group winners and eight best runners-up among all groups directly qualify for the finals
Remaining group runners-up advance to the play-offs

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Portugal 10 7 2 1 29 7 +22 23 Republic of Ireland 10 5 2 3 17 11 +6 17 Northern Ireland 10 5 2 3 20 15 +5 17 Austria 10 5 1 4 29 14 +15 16 Latvia 10 4 0 6 11 20 −9 12 Liechtenstein 10 0 1 9 1 40 −39 1

Austria – 5–0 7–0 1–2 1–1 3–1 Latvia 3–2 – 1–0 0–1 1–3 0–3 Liechtenstein 0–4 0–1 – 0–4 0–7 0–0 Northern Ireland 5–3 1–2 4–1 – 1–2 0–4 Portugal 1–0 3–2 8–0 1–1 – 3–0 Republic of Ireland 1–3 2–1 4–0 1–1 1–0 –

Results and fixtures

20 April 1994	Northern Ireland	4 – 1	Liechtenstein	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 7,150 Referee: Roelof Luinge (Netherlands)
	Quinn  5', 23' Lomas  25' Dowie  48'		Hasler  84'

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7 September 1994	Latvia	0 – 3	Republic of Ireland	Daugava Stadium, Riga Attendance: 3,226 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
			Aldridge  16', 75' (pen.) Sheridan  29'

7 September 1994	Liechtenstein	0 – 4	Austria	Sportpark, Eschen Attendance: 5,800 Referee: Wieland Ziller (Germany)
			Polster  18', 45', 78' Aigner  22'

7 September 1994	Northern Ireland	1 – 2	Portugal	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)
	Quinn  58' (pen.)		Rui Costa  8' Domingos  81'

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9 October 1994	Latvia	1 – 3	Portugal	Daugava Stadium, Riga Attendance: 5,400 Referee: Eric Blareau (Belgium)
	Miļevskis  87'		João Manuel Pinto  31', 69' Figo  70'

12 October 1994	Austria	1 – 2	Northern Ireland	Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Antonio Jesús Lõpez Nieto (Spain)
	Polster  24' (pen.)		Gillespie  3' Gray  36'

12 October 1994	Republic of Ireland	4 – 0	Liechtenstein	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 32,980 Referee: Bragi Bergmann (Iceland)
	Coyne  2', 4' Quinn  30', 82'

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13 November 1994	Portugal	1 – 0	Austria	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 46,000 Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)
	Figo  37'

15 November 1994	Liechtenstein	0 – 1	Latvia	Sportpark, Eschen Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Piotr Werner (Poland)
			Babičevs  14'

16 November 1994	Northern Ireland	0 – 4	Republic of Ireland	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 10,336 Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)
			Aldridge  6' Keane  11' Sheridan  38' Townsend  54'

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18 December 1994	Portugal	8 – 0	Liechtenstein	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 22,800 Referee: Lubomír Puček (Czech Republic)
	Domingos  2', 11' Oceano  45' João Domingos Pinto  56' Couto  72' Folha  74' Alves  75', 79'

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29 March 1995	Republic of Ireland	1 – 1	Northern Ireland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 32,200 Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)
	Quinn  47'		Dowie  72'

29 March 1995	Austria	5 – 0	Latvia	Stadion Lehen, Salzburg Attendance: 5,200 Referee: Charles Agius (Malta)
	Herzog  17', 59' Pfeifenberger  40' Polster  71' (pen.), 90+1'

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26 April 1995	Latvia	0 – 1	Northern Ireland	Daugava Stadium, Riga Attendance: 1,560 Referee: Finn Lambeck (Denmark)
			Dowie  70' (pen.)

26 April 1995	Austria	7 – 0	Liechtenstein	Stadion Lehen, Salzburg Attendance: 5,700 Referee: Vasiliy Melnichuk (Ukraine)
	Kühbauer  7' Polster  10', 54' (pen.) Sabitzer  80' Pürk  84' Hütter  87', 89'

26 April 1995	Republic of Ireland	1 – 0	Portugal	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 33,500 Referee: Christer Fällström (Sweden)
	Vítor Baía  44' (o.g.)

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3 June 1995	Portugal	3 – 2	Latvia	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)
	Figo  5' Secretário  19' Domingos  20'		Rimkus  51', 85'

3 June 1995	Liechtenstein	0 – 0	Republic of Ireland	Sportpark, Eschen Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Charles Agius (Malta)

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7 June 1995	Northern Ireland	1 – 2	Latvia	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 6,935 Referee: Juan Ansuátegui Roca (Spain)
	Dowie  44'		Zeiberliņš  59' Astafjevs  62'

11 June 1995	Republic of Ireland	1 – 3	Austria	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
	Houghton  65'		Polster  69', 78' Ogris  72'

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15 August 1995	Liechtenstein	0 – 7	Portugal	Sportpark, Eschen Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Dragutin Poljak (Croatia)
			Domingos  25' Santos  33' Rui Costa  41', 70' (pen.) Alves  66', 73', 90'

16 August 1995	Latvia	3 – 2	Austria	Daugava Stadium, Riga Attendance: 2,600 Referee: Ilkka Koho (Finland)
	Rimkus  11', 59' Zeiberliņš  88'		Polster  68' Ramusch  78'

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3 September 1995	Portugal	1 – 1	Northern Ireland	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 26,780 Referee: Rémi Harrel (France)
	Domingos  47'		Hughes  66'

6 September 1995	Austria	3 – 1	Republic of Ireland	Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Ahmet Çakar (Turkey)
	Stöger  3', 64', 77'		McGrath  74'

6 September 1995	Latvia	1 – 0	Liechtenstein	Daugava Stadium, Riga Attendance: 3,800 Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)
	Zeiberliņš  83'

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11 October 1995	Austria	1 – 1	Portugal	Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 44,000 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)
	Stöger  21'		Santos  49'

11 October 1995	Republic of Ireland	2 – 1	Latvia	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 33,500 Referee: Juan Fernández Marín (Spain)
	Aldridge  61' (pen.), 64'		Rimkus  78'

11 October 1995	Liechtenstein	0 – 4	Northern Ireland	Sportpark, Eschen Attendance: 1,100 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
			O'Neill  36' McMahon  49' Quinn  55' Gray  72'

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15 November 1995	Portugal	3 – 0	Republic of Ireland	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 71,766 Referee: Piero Ceccarini (Italy)
	Rui Costa  60' Hélder  74' Cadete  89'

15 November 1995	Northern Ireland	5 – 3	Austria	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 8,451 Referee: Leif Sundell (Sweden)
	O'Neill  27', 78' Dowie  32' (pen.) Hunter  53' Gray  63'		Schopp  55' Stumpf  70' Wetl  81'