UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 3

Group 3 of the UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1968 finals tournament. Group 3 consisted of four teams: Soviet Union, Greece, Austria, and Finland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were the Soviet Union, who finished 5 points above Greece.

Final table

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

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. The Austria v Greece match was abandoned in the 86th minute at 1–1 due to a crowd disturbance and declared void.[1]

Matches

2 October 1966

14:00

Finland	0–0	Austria
	Report

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 10,070

Referee: Peter Coates (Rep. of Ireland)

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16 October 1966

15:30

Greece	2–1	Finland
Alexiadis  39', 86'	Report	Mäkipää  57'

Kaftatzoglio Stadio, Salonika

Attendance: 28,478

Referee: Zdeněk Valeš (Czechoslovakia)

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10 May 1967

18:00

Finland	1–1	Greece
Peltonen  18'	Report	Chaitas  39'

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 14,056

Referee: Pieter Roomer (Netherlands)

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11 June 1967

19:00

Soviet Union	4–3	Austria
Malofeyev  25' Byshovets  36' Chislenko  43' Streltsov  80'	Report	Hof  38' Wolny  54' Siber  71'

Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 72,142

Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)

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16 July 1967

19:00

Soviet Union	4–0	Greece
Banishevskiy  50', 77' Sabo  72' (pen.) Chislenko  83'	Report

Central Stadium Dynamo, Tbilisi

Attendance: 28,040

Referee: Birger Nilsen (Norway)

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30 August 1967

19:00

Soviet Union	2–0	Finland
Khurtsilava  14' Chislenko  80'	Report

Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 20,597

Referee: Muzaffer Sarvan (Turkey)

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6 September 1967

17:30

Finland	2–5	Soviet Union
Peltonen  18' (pen.) Syrjävaara  25'	Report	Sabo  2', 56' (pen.) Maslov  14' Banishevskiy  35' Malofeyev  63'

Kupittaan Stadion, Turku

Attendance: 7,793

Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)

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24 September 1967

15:00

Austria	2–1	Finland
Flögel  17' Grausam  81'	Report	Peltonen  57'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 25,231

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

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4 October 1967[note 1]

20:30

Greece	4–1	Austria
Sideris  27', 34' (pen.), 63' Papaioannou  75'	Report	Grausam  62'

Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus (Athens)

Attendance: 34,552

Referee: Vasile Dumitrescu (Romania)

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15 October 1967

14:30

Austria	1–0	Soviet Union
Grausam  50'	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 37,400

Referee: Todor Bechirov (Bulgaria)

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31 October 1967

15:30

Greece	0–1	Soviet Union
	Report	Malofeyev  50'

Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus (Athens)

Attendance: 33,588

Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

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5 November 1967

14:30

Austria	Annulled[note 2]	Greece
Siber  31'	Report	Sideris  71'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 31,996

Referee: Gyula Gere (Hungary)

Goalscorers

There were 37 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.08 goals per match.[note 3]

4 goals

• Giorgos Sideris[note 3]

3 goals

• Leopold Grausam
• Juhani Peltonen
• Anatoliy Banishevskiy
• Igor Chislenko
• Eduard Malofeyev
• Yozhef Sabo

2 goals

• Helmut Siber[note 3]
• Alekos Alexiadis

1 goal

• Rudi Flögel
• Erich Hof
• Franz Wolny
• Pertti Mäkipää
• Simo Syrjävaara
• Stathis Chaitas
• Mimis Papaioannou
• Anatoliy Byshovets
• Murtaz Khurtsilava
• Valery Maslov
• Eduard Streltsov

Notes

1. The Greece v Austria match, originally scheduled on 23 April 1967, was postponed to 4 October 1967 due to the Greek coup d'état on 21 April 1967.[2]
2. The Austria v Greece match was abandoned in the 86th minute at 1–1 due to a crowd disturbance and declared void.[1]
3. The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.

References

• "1968 UEFA European Championship". uefa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
• "European Championship 1968". rsssf.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
• Robinson, J. (1996). The European Football Championships 1958-1996. Soccer Book Publishing. ISBN 0-947808-69-8.

1. Stokkermans, Karel; Tabeira, Martín (7 February 2007). "European Championship 1968". rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
2. Benesch, Heribert (23 April 1967). "Spiel abgesagt, Team nominiert" [Match canceled, team nominated]. Arbeiter-Zeitung (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 24 October 2017.