UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 6

Group 6 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 6 consisted of four teams: Soviet Union, Republic of Ireland, Turkey, and Switzerland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Soviet Union, who finished one point above the Republic of Ireland.

Final table
Pos Team 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 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches
Republic of Ireland 3–0 Soviet Union
Givens  22', 30', 70'
Attendance: 31,758
Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)
Turkey 1–1 Republic of Ireland
Dunne  54' (o.g.)* Givens  61'
Attendance: 69,999
Referee: Marian Srodecki (Poland)

(*)NOTE: The first goal in other sources has also been reported as an own goal by Mick Martin or Terry Conroy.

Turkey 2–1  Switzerland
İsmail  21'
O. Mehmet  85'		 Schild  18'
Attendance: 51,410
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
Soviet Union 3–0 Turkey
Kolotov  25' (pen.), 56' (pen.)
Blokhin  75'
Attendance: 74,223
Referee: Robert Holley Davidson (Scotland)
Switzerland  1–1 Turkey
İsmail  43' (o.g.) Alpaslan  54'
Attendance: 21,965
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

(*)NOTE: Some sources state that the venue was St. Jakob-Park, Basel.

Republic of Ireland 2–1  Switzerland
Martin  2'
Treacy  28'		 Müller  74'
Attendance: 48,074
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
Soviet Union 2–1 Republic of Ireland
Blokhin  13'
Kolotov  29'		 Hand  79'
Attendance: 84,480
Referee: René Vigliani (France)
Switzerland  1–0 Republic of Ireland
Elsener  75'
Attendance: 12,793
Referee: César da Luz Diaz Correia (Portugal)
Switzerland  0–1 Soviet Union
Muntyan  78'
Attendance: 17,887
Referee: Leonardus van der Kroft (Netherlands)
Republic of Ireland 4–0 Turkey
Givens  26', 33', 38', 89'
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
Soviet Union 4–1  Switzerland
Konkov  13'
Onishchenko  14', 68'
Veremeyev  81'		 Risi  45'
Attendance: 24,581
Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (West Germany)
Turkey 1–0 Soviet Union
Reshko  22' (o.g.)**
Attendance: 21,325 *
Referee: Petar Nikolov (Bulgaria)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 45,000
(**)NOTE: The own goal scorer has also been reported as Mikhail Fomenko.

Goalscorers

There were 31 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.58 goals per match.

8 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes
  1. The Turkey v Soviet Union match was delayed by 30 minutes due to adverse weather conditions.[1]

References
  1. "Протокол матча Турция - СССР 1:0" [Match report Turkey v Soviet Union 1–0] (in Russian). Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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