UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying Group 1

Group 1 of the UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying tournament was one of the eight groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1972 finals tournament. Group 1 consisted of four teams: Romania, Czechoslovakia, Wales, and Finland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were Romania, who finished above Czechoslovakia on goal difference.

Final table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification        
1   Romania 6 4 1 1 11 2 +9 9 Advance to quarter-finals 2–1 2–0 3–0
2   Czechoslovakia 6 4 1 1 11 4 +7 9 1–0 1–0 1–1
3   Wales 6 2 1 3 5 6 −1 5 0–0 1–3 3–0
4   Finland 6 0 1 5 1 16 −15 1 0–4 0–4 0–1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

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Czechoslovakia  1–1  Finland
Albrecht   30' Report Paatelainen   41'
Attendance: 5,549
Referee: William O'Neill (Northern Ireland)

Romania  3–0  Finland
Dumitrache   28', 42'
Nunweiller   77'
Report
Attendance: 36,584
Referee: Leonidas Vamvakopoulos (Greece)

Wales  0–0  Romania
Report
Attendance: 19,882
Referee: Arie van Gemert (Netherlands)

Wales  1–3  Czechoslovakia
R. Davies   49' (pen.) Report Čapkovič   80', 83'
Táborský   81'
Attendance: 12,767
Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)

Czechoslovakia  1–0  Romania
Veselý   88' Report
Attendance: 38,207
Referee: Fernando dos Santos Leite (Portugal)

Finland  0–1  Wales
Report Toshack   54'
Attendance: 5,410
Referee: Günter Männig (East Germany)

Finland  0–4  Czechoslovakia
Report Čapkovič   10'
Pollák   16'
Karkó   83', 89'
Attendance: 4,658
Referee: Marian Środecki (Poland)

Finland  0–4  Romania
Report Iordănescu   25'
Lupescu   37'
Dembrovschi   55'
Lucescu   64' (pen.)
Attendance: 2,084
Referee: Pius Kamber (Switzerland)

Wales  3–0  Finland
Durban   10'
Toshack   53'
Reece   89'
Report
Attendance: 10,301
Referee: Kaj Rasmussen (Denmark)

Czechoslovakia  1–0  Wales
Kuna   60' Report
Attendance: 20,051
Referee: Mariano Medina Iglesias (Spain)

Romania  2–1  Czechoslovakia
Dembrovschi   26'
Dobrin   52'
Report Čapkovič   50'
Attendance: 63,583
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Romania  2–0  Wales
Lupescu   9'
Lucescu   74'
Report
Attendance: 35,251
Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)

Goalscorers

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There were 28 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References

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  • "1972 UEFA European Championship". uefa.com. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • "European Championship 1972". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  • Robinson, J. (1996). The European Football Championships 1958-1996. Soccer Book Publishing. ISBN 0-947808-69-8.