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)	👁 Hungary János Farkas 👁 Italy 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		👁 Italy	👁 Romania	👁 Switzerland	👁 Cyprus
1	👁 Image  Italy	6	5	1	0	17	3	+14	11	Advance to quarter-finals	—	3–1	4–0	5–0
2	👁 Image  Romania	6	3	0	3	18	14	+4	6	0–1	—	4–2	7–0
3	👁 Image   Switzerland	6	2	1	3	17	13	+4	5	2–2	7–1	—	5–0
4	👁 Image  Cyprus	6	1	0	5	3	25	−22	2	0–2	1–5	2–1	—

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

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		👁 England	👁 Scotland	👁 Wales	👁 Northern Ireland
1	👁 Image  England	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals	—	2–3	5–1	2–0
2	👁 Image  Scotland	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	8	1–1	—	3–2	2–1
3	👁 Image  Wales	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	4	0–3	1–1	—	2–0
4	👁 Image  Northern Ireland	6	1	1	4	2	8	−6	3	0–2	1–0	0–0	—

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

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

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