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

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Soviet Union 6 5 0 1 16 6 +10 10  Greece 5 2 1 2 7 8 −1 5  Austria 5 2 1 2 7 9 −2 5  Finland 6 0 2 4 5 12 −7 2

Austria  — 2–1 annulled 1–0 Finland  0–0 — 1–1 2–5 Greece  4–1 2–1 — 0–1 Soviet Union  4–3 2–0 4–0 —

RSSSF reports that the Austria vs Greece match was abandoned at 1–1 and declared void, and does not include it in the final group standings.^[1] On the other hand, however, UEFA's website accounts the match as having finished as a 1–1 draw^[2] and includes it as such in the final group standings.^[3]

Matches

Finland  v  Austria

2 October 1966 14:00

Finland	0–0	Austria

Olympiastadion, Helsinki Attendance: 10,070 Referee: Peter Coates (Rep. of Ireland)

Greece  v  Finland

16 October 1966 15:30

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

Kaftatzoglio Stadio, Salonika Attendance: 28,478 Referee: Zdeněk Valeš (Czechoslovakia)

Finland  v  Greece

10 May 1967 18:00

Finland	1–1	Greece
Peltonen 18'		Chaitas 39'

Olympiastadion, Helsinki Attendance: 14,056 Referee: Pieter Roomer (Netherlands)

Soviet Union  v  Austria

11 June 1967 19:00

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

Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 72,142 Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)

(*)NOTE: It is also reported that the third Soviet goal was an own goal by Helmut Wartusch. This is corroborated by the YouTube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNqtODvcTEk

Soviet Union  v  Greece

16 July 1967 19:00

Soviet Union	4–0	Greece
Banishevski 50', 77' Sabo 72' (p) Chislenko 83'

Central Stadium Dynamo, Tbilisi Attendance: 28,040 Referee: Birger Nilsen (Norway)

Soviet Union  v  Finland

30 August 1967 19:00

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

Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 20,597 Referee: Muzaffer Sarvan (Turkey)

Finland  v  Soviet Union

6 September 1967 17:30

Finland	2–5	Soviet Union
Peltonen 18' (p) Syrjävaara 25'		Sabo 2', 56' (p) Maslov 14' Banishevski 35' Malofeyev 63'

Kupittaan Stadion, Turku Attendance: 7,793 Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)

Austria  v  Finland

24 September 1967 15:00

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

Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 25,231 Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Greece  v  Austria

4 October 1967 20:30

Greece	4–1	Austria
Sideris 28', 34' (p), 63' Papaioannou 75'		Grausam 62'

Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus (Athens) Attendance: 34,552 Referee: Vasile Dumitrescu (Romania)

Austria  v  Soviet Union

15 October 1967 14:30

Austria	1–0	Soviet Union
Grausam 49'

Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 37,400 Referee: Todor Bechirov (Bulgaria)

Greece  v  Soviet Union

31 October 1967 15:30

Greece	0–1	Soviet Union
		Malofeyev 50'

Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus (Athens) Attendance: 33,588 Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

Austria  v  Greece

5 November 1967 14:30

Austria	1–1	Greece
Siber 32'		Sideris 71'

Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 31,996 Referee: Gyula Gere (Hungary)

RSSSF reports that this match was abandoned at 1–1 and declared void, and does not include it in the final group standings.^[1] On the other hand, however, UEFA's website accounts the match as having finished as a 1–1 draw^[2] and includes it as such in the final group standings.^[3]

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.