UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 5

Group 5 of the UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1976 finals tournament. Group 5 consisted of four teams: Netherlands, Poland, Italy, and Finland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Netherlands, who finished tied on points with Poland, but the Netherlands advanced with a better goal difference. Italy finished in third place despite conceding only 3 goals (all in the game lost in the Netherlands) as a consequence of the abysmal 3 goals scored in the 6 games.

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	—

1 September 1974

15:00

Finland	1–2	Poland
Rahja 3'		Szarmach 23' Lato 50'

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 18,759

Referee: John Wright Paterson (Scotland)

25 September 1974

18:30

Finland	1–3	Netherlands
Rahja 16'		Cruyff 28', 40' Neeskens 51' (pen.)

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 20,449

Referee: Wolfgang Riedel
(East Germany)

9 October 1974

14:30

Poland	3–0	Finland
Kasperczak 12' Gadocha 14' Lato 53'

Stadion Warty, Poznań

Attendance: 38,724

Referee: Dušan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

20 November 1974

20:30

Netherlands	3–1	Italy
Rensenbrink 24' Cruyff 64', 80'		Boninsegna 5'

Stadion Feyenoord (De Kuip), Rotterdam

Attendance: 58,463

Referee: Pavel Kazakov (USSR)

19 April 1975

15:30

Italy	0–0	Poland

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 66,048

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

5 June 1975

19:00

Finland	0–1	Italy
		Chinaglia 26' (pen.)

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 17,732

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

3 September 1975

20:00

Netherlands	4–1	Finland
Van der Kuijlen 29', 35', 55' Lubse 48'		Paatelainen 9'

Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen

Attendance: 19,189 *

Referee: Eric Smyton (Northern Ireland)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 28,000

10 September 1975

17:30

Poland	4–1	Netherlands
Lato 14' Gadocha 44' Szarmach 63', 77'		Van de Kerkhof 80'

Stadion Śląski, Chorzów

Attendance: 70,409

Referee: Patrick Partridge (England)

27 September 1975

16:30

Italy	0–0	Finland

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 29,203

Referee: Costas Xanthoulis (Cyprus)

15 October 1975

20:15

Netherlands	3–0	Poland
Neeskens 16' Geels 47' Thijssen 59'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 56,030

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

26 October 1975

14:00

Poland	0–0	Italy

Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warsaw

Attendance: 59,773

Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

22 November 1975

14:30

Italy	1–0	Netherlands
Capello 20'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 33,307

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

There were 29 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.42 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

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• "European Championship 1976". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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