UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying

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The qualifying round for the 1976 European Football Championship consisted of 32 teams divided into eight groups of four teams. Each group winner progressed to the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals were played in two legs on a home-and-away basis. The winners of the quarter-finals would go through, to the final tournament.

Contents 1 First round 1.1 Group 1 1.2 Group 2 1.3 Group 3 1.4 Group 4 1.5 Group 5 1.6 Group 6 1.7 Group 7 1.8 Group 8 2 Quarter Finals 3 External links

First round

Group 1

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Czechoslovakia	9	6	4	1	1	15	5
England	8	6	3	2	1	11	3
Portugal	7	6	2	3	1	5	7
Cyprus	0	6	0	0	6	0	16

Group matches:

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October 30, 1974 19:45	England	3–0	Czechoslovakia	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 83,858 Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)
	Channon 72' Bell 80', 83'

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November 20, 1974 19:45	England	0–0	Portugal	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 84,461 Referee: Anton Bucheli (Switzerland)

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April 16, 1975 19:45	England	5–0	Cyprus	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 68,245 Referee: Martti Hirviniemi (Finland)
	MacDonald 2', 35', 48', 53', 86'

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April 20, 1975 17:00	Czechoslovakia	4–0	Cyprus	Letenský Stadion, Prague Attendance: 4,994 Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)
	Panenka 10', 35', 50' (p) Masný 78'

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April 30, 1975 17:00	Czechoslovakia	5–0	Portugal	Letenský Stadion, Prague Attendance: 12,034 * Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (West Germany)
	Bičovský 11', 22' Nehoda 25', 46' Petráš 52'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 22,000

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May 11, 1975 16:45	Cyprus	0–1	England	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol Attendance: 15,708 Referee: Tsvetan Stanev (Bulgaria)
			Keegan 6'

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June 8, 1975 16:45	Cyprus	0–2	Portugal	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol Attendance: 8,615 Referee: Gheorghe Limona (Romania)
			Nené 25' Moínhos 87'

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October 30, 1975 14:00	Czechoslovakia	2–1	England	Tehelné Pole (Slovan), Bratislava Attendance: 50,651 Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)
	Nehoda 45' Galis 47'		Channon 26'

NOTE: The match was originally abandoned after 17' on 29.10.1975 due to fog.The score at that moment was 0-0.

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November 12, 1975 21:30	Portugal	1–1	Czechoslovakia	Estádio das Antas, Oporto Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Nené 8'		Ondruš 7'

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November 19, 1975 21:00	Portugal	1–1	England	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Rui Rodrigues 16'		Channon 42'

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November 23, 1975 14:45	Cyprus	0–3	Czechoslovakia	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Sándor Petri (Hungary)
			Nehoda 9' Bičovský 27' Masný 33'

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December 3, 1975 21:00	Portugal	1–0	Cyprus	Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Richard Casha (Malta)
	Alves 20'

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Group 2

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Wales	10	6	5	0	1	14	4
Hungary	7	6	3	1	2	15	8
Austria	7	6	3	1	2	11	7
Luxembourg	0	6	0	0	6	7	28

Group matches:

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September 4, 1974 19:30	Austria	2–1	Wales	Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 30,795 Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)
	Kreuz 63' Krankl 74'		Griffiths 35'

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October 13, 1974 15:45	Luxembourg	2–4	Hungary	Stade Municipal, Luxembourg Attendance: 3,326 Referee: Magnus Pétursson (Iceland)
	Dussier 15', 43' (p)		Horváth 18' Nagy 29', 55' Bálint 71'

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October 30, 1974 19:30	Wales	2–0	Hungary	Ninian Park, Cardiff Attendance: 8,445 Referee: António da Silva Garrido (Portugal)
	Griffiths 57' Toshack 88'

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November 20, 1974 19:30	Wales	5–0	Luxembourg	Vetch Field, Swansea Attendance: 10,539 Referee: Preben Christophersen (Denmark)
	Toshack 34' England 53' P.Roberts 70' Griffiths 73' Yorath 75'

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March 16, 1975 15:30	Luxembourg	1–2	Austria	Stade Municipal, Luxembourg Attendance: 5,340 Referee: Leonardus van der Kroft (Netherlands)
	Braun 12'		Köglberger 58' Krankl 75'

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April 2, 1975 19:30	Austria	0–0	Hungary	Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 65,674 Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

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April 16, 1975 17:30	Hungary	1–2	Wales	Népstadion, Budapest Attendance: 21,080 Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)
	Branikovits 77'		Toshack 44' Mahoney 69'

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May 1, 1975 16:00	Luxembourg	1–3	Wales	Stade Municipal, Luxembourg Attendance: 3,289 Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)
	Philipp 39' (p)		Reece 24' James 32', 83' (p)

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September 24, 1975 17:15	Hungary	2–1	Austria	Népstadion, Budapest Attendance: 31,270 Referee: René Vigliani (France)
	Nyilasi 3' Pusztai 35'		Krankl 16' (p)

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October 15, 1975 19:00	Austria	6–2	Luxembourg	Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 14,499 Referee: Miroslav Kopal (Czechoslovakia)
	Welzl 1', 46' Krankl 38', 76' (p) Jara 41' Prohaska 80'		Braun 4' Philipp 32'

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October 19, 1975 13:30	Hungary	8–1	Luxembourg	Stadion Rohonci Út, Szombathely Attendance: 7,503 Referee: Nikola Dudin (Bulgaria)
	Pintér 13' Nyilasi 21', 32', 44', 57', 67' Wollek 78' Várady 84'		Dussier 83'

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November 19, 1975 19:30	Wales	1–0	Austria	The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham Attendance: 27,578 Referee: Sergio Gonella (Italy)
	Griffiths 69'

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Group 3

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Yugoslavia	10	6	5	0	1	12	4
Northern Ireland	6	6	3	0	3	8	5
Sweden	6	6	3	0	3	8	9
Norway	2	6	1	0	5	5	15

Group matches:

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September 4, 1974 19:00	Norway	2–1	Northern Ireland	Ullevaal, Oslo Attendance: 7,192 Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)
	Lund 50', 72'		Finney 3'

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October 30, 1974 19:00	Yugoslavia	3–1	Norway	Stadion JNA, Belgrade Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg)
	Vukotić 43' Katalinski 58', 72'		Lund 36'

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October 30, 1974 19:00	Sweden	0–2	Northern Ireland	Råsunda Stadion, Solna(Stockholm) Attendance: 18,131 Referee: Theodorus Boosten (Netherlands)
			Nicholl 7' O'Neill 23'

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April 16, 1975 17:00	Northern Ireland	1–0	Yugoslavia	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 25,847 Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
	Hamilton 23'

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June 4, 1975 19:00	Sweden	1–2	Yugoslavia	Råsunda Stadion, Solna(Stockholm) Attendance: 27,250 Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)
	Edström 16'		Katalinski 41' Ivezić 77'

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June 9, 1975 19:00	Norway	1–3	Yugoslavia	Ullevaal, Oslo Attendance: 21,843 Referee: Edgar Pedersen (Denmark)
	Thunberg 65'		Buljan 12' Bogićević 13' Šurjak 25'

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June 30, 1975 19:00	Sweden	3–1	Norway	Råsunda Stadion, Solna(Stockholm) Attendance: 9,580 Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)
	Nordahl 33', 56' Grahn 65' (p)		Olsen 54' (p)

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August 13, 1975 19:00	Norway	0–2	Sweden	Ullevaal, Oslo Attendance: 18,011 Referee: Anders Mattsson (Finland)
			Sandberg 29' Sjöberg 53'

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September 3, 1975 17:30	Northern Ireland	1–2	Sweden	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 14,622 Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)
	Hunter 32'		Sjöberg 44' Torstensson 55'

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October 15, 1975 18:00	Yugoslavia	3–0	Sweden	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Attendance: 29,836 * Referee: Walter Hungerbühler (Switzerland)
	Oblak 18' Vladić 50' Vabec 83'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 45,000

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October 29, 1975 14:30	Northern Ireland	3–0	Norway	Windsor Park, Belfast Attendance: 8,923 Referee: Guðjón Finnbogason (Iceland)
	Morgan 2' McIlroy 5' Hamilton 53'

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November 19, 1975 18:00	Yugoslavia	1–0	Northern Ireland	Stadion JNA, Belgrade Attendance: 21,545 * Referee: Antonio Camacho Jiménez (Spain)
	Oblak 21'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 40,000

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Group 4

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Spain	9	6	3	3	0	10	6
Romania	7	6	1	5	0	11	6
Scotland	7	6	2	3	1	8	6
Denmark	1	6	0	1	5	3	14

Group matches:

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September 25, 1974 19:00	Denmark	1–2	Spain	Idrætsparken, Copenhagen Attendance: 27,300 Referee: John Carpenter (Rep. of Ireland)
	Nygaard 48' (p)		Claramunt 28' (p) Roberto Martínez 41'

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October 13, 1974 13:30	Denmark	0–0	Romania	Idrætsparken, Copenhagen Attendance: 15,700 Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (West Germany)

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November 20, 1974 20:00	Scotland	1–2	Spain	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 94,331 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Bremner 11'		Quini 36', 61'

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February 5, 1975 20:30	Spain	1–1	Scotland	Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia Attendance: 40,952 Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)
	Megido 67'		Jordan 1'

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April 17, 1975 20:30	Spain	1–1	Romania	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Attendance: 54,660 * Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Velázquez 6'		Crişan 70'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 100,000

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May 11, 1975 17:00	Romania	6–1	Denmark	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)
	Georgescu 28', 76' Crişan 40', 59' Lucescu 83' Dinu 85'		Dahl 86'

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June 1, 1975 17:30	Romania	1–1	Scotland	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest Attendance: 52,203 * Referee: Ertuğrul Dilek (Turkey)
	Georgescu 21'		McQueen 89'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 80,000

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September 3, 1975 19:00	Denmark	0–1	Scotland	Idrætsparken, Copenhagen Attendance: 40,300 Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)
			Harper 51'

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October 12, 1975 20:30	Spain	2–0	Denmark	Estadio Sarriá, Barcelona Attendance: 6,869 * Referee: Paul Bonett (Malta)
	Pirri 40' Capón 85'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 20,000

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October 29, 1975 20:00	Scotland	3–1	Denmark	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 48,021 Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)
	Dalglish 48' Rioch 54' MacDougall 61'		Bastrup 20'

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November 16, 1975 14:00	Romania	2–2	Spain	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest Attendance: 45,381 Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)
	Georgescu 72' (p) Iordănescu 80'		Villar 29' Santillana 57'

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December 17, 1975 20:00	Scotland	1–1	Romania	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 11,375 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
	Rioch 39'		Crişan 74'

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Group 5

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Netherlands	8	6	4	0	2	14	8
Poland	8	6	3	2	1	9	5
Italy	7	6	2	3	1	3	3
Finland	1	6	0	1	5	3	13

Group matches:

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September 1, 1974 15:00	Finland	1–2	Poland	Olympiastadion, Helsinki Attendance: 18,759 Referee: John Wright Paterson (Scotland)
	Rahja 3'		Szarmach 23' Lato 50'

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September 25, 1974 18:30	Finland	1–3	Netherlands	Olympiastadion, Helsinki Attendance: 20,449 Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)
	Rahja 16'		Cruijff 28', 40' Neeskens 51' (p)

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October 9, 1974 14:30	Poland	3–0	Finland	Stadion Warty, Poznań Attendance: 38,724 Referee: Dušan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)
	Kasperczak 12' Gadocha 14' Lato 53'

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November 20, 1974 20:30	Netherlands	3–1	Italy	Stadion Feyenoord (De Kuip), Rotterdam Attendance: 58,463 Referee: Pavel Kazakov (USSR)
	Rensenbrink 24' Cruijff 64', 80'		Boninsegna 5'

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April 19, 1975 15:30	Italy	0–0	Poland	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 66,048 Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

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June 5, 1975 19:00	Finland	0–1	Italy	Olympiastadion, Helsinki Attendance: 17,732 Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
			Chinaglia 26' (p)

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September 3, 1975 20:00	Netherlands	4–1	Finland	Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen Attendance: 19,189 * Referee: Eric Smyton (Northern Ireland)
	van der Kuijlen 29', 35', 55' Lubse 48'		Paatelainen 9'

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

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September 10, 1975 17:30	Poland	4–1	Netherlands	Stadion Śląski, Chorzów Attendance: 70,409 Referee: Patrick Partridge (England)
	Lato 14' Gadocha 44' Szarmach 63', 77'		van de Kerkhof 80'

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September 27, 1975 16:30	Italy	0–0	Finland	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 29,203 Referee: Costas Xanthoulis (Cyprus)

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October 15, 1975 20:15	Netherlands	3–0	Poland	Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam Attendance: 56,030 Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
	Neeskens 16' Geels 47' Thijssen 59'

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October 26, 1975 14:00	Poland	0–0	Italy	Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warsaw Attendance: 59,773 Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

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November 22, 1975 14:30	Italy	1–0	Netherlands	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 33,307 Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)
	Capello 20'

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Group 6

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Soviet Union	8	6	4	0	2	10	6
Republic of Ireland	7	6	3	1	2	11	5
Turkey	6	6	2	2	2	5	10
Switzerland	3	6	1	1	4	5	10

Group matches:

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October 30, 1974 15:00	Republic of Ireland	3–0	Soviet Union	Dalymount Park, Dublin Attendance: 31,758 Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)
	Givens 22', 30', 70'

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November 20, 1974 20:00	Turkey	1–1	Republic of Ireland	Atatürk Stadı, İzmir Attendance: 67,500 Referee: Marian Srodecki (Poland)
	Dunne(*) 54' (og)		Givens 61'

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

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December 1, 1974 00:00	Turkey	2–1	Switzerland	Atatürk Stadı, İzmir Attendance: 51,410 Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
	İsmail 21' O.Mehmet 85'		Schild 18'

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April 2, 1975 19:00	Soviet Union	3–0	Turkey	Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev Attendance: 74,223 Referee: Robert Holley Davidson (Scotland)
	Kolotov 25' (p), 56' (p) Blokhin 75'

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April 30, 1975 20:15	Switzerland	1–1	Turkey	Hardturm Stadion(*), Zürich(*) Attendance: 21,965 Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)
	Müller 43'		Alpaslan 54'

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

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May 10, 1975 15:30	Republic of Ireland	2–1	Switzerland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 48,074 Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
	Martin 2' Treacy 28'		Müller 74'

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May 18, 1975 19:30	Soviet Union	2–1	Republic of Ireland	Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev Attendance: 84,480 Referee: René Vigliani (France)
	Blokhin 13' Kolotov 29'		Hand 79'

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May 21, 1975 20:00	Switzerland	1–0	Republic of Ireland	Wankdorf Stadion, Bern Attendance: 12,793 Referee: César da Luz Diaz Correia (Portugal)
	Elsener 75'

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October 12, 1975 15:00	Switzerland	0–1	Soviet Union	Hardturm Stadion, Zürich Attendance: 17,887 Referee: Leonardus van der Kroft (Netherlands)
			Muntyan 78'

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October 29, 1975 15:00	Republic of Ireland	4–0	Turkey	Dalymount Park, Dublin Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)
	Givens 26', 33', 38', 89'

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November 12, 1975 19:00	Soviet Union	4–1	Switzerland	Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev Attendance: 24,581 Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (West Germany)
	Konkov 13' Onishchenko 14', 68' Veremeyev 81'		Risi 45'

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November 23, 1975 15:00	Turkey	1–0	Soviet Union	Atatürk Stadı, İzmir Attendance: 21,325 * Referee: Petar Nikolov (Bulgaria)
	Reshko(**) 22' (og)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 45,000
(**)NOTE: The own goalscorer is also reported as Mikhail Fomenko.

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Group 7

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Belgium	8	6	3	2	1	6	3
East Germany	7	6	2	3	1	8	7
France	5	6	1	3	2	7	6
Iceland	4	6	1	2	3	3	8

Group matches:

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September 8, 1974 14:00	Iceland	0–2	Belgium	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík Attendance: 7,540 Referee: Thomas Henry Charles Reynolds (Wales)
			Van Moer 38' Teugels 87' (p)

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October 12, 1974 17:00	East Germany	1–1	Iceland	Ernst-Grube-Stadion, Magdeburg Attendance: 15,800 Referee: Svein Inge Thime (Norway)
	Hoffmann 7'		Hallgrímsson 25'

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October 12, 1974 20:00	Belgium	2–1	France	Stade du Heysel, Brussels Attendance: 32,108 Referee: Kenneth Howard Burns (England)
	Martens 12' Vander Elst 75'		Coste 16'

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November 16, 1974 20:30	France	2–2	East Germany	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,381 Referee: Pablo Augusto Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)
	Guillou 79' Gallice 89'		Sparwasser 25' Kreische 57'

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December 7, 1974 17:30	East Germany	0–0	Belgium	Zentralstadion, Leipzig Attendance: 20,557 Referee: Sergio Gonella (Italy)

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May 25, 1975 14:00	Iceland	0–0	France	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík Attendance: 7,613 Referee: Malcolm Wright (Northern Ireland)

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June 5, 1975 20:00	Iceland	2–1	East Germany	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík Attendance: 10,373 Referee: Ian Foote (Scotland)
	Eðvaldsson 12' Sigurvinsson 32'		Pommerenke 48'

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September 3, 1975 20:30	France	3–0	Iceland	Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes Attendance: 25,418 Referee: Albert Victor (Luxembourg)
	Guillou 20', 74' Berdoll 87'

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September 6, 1975 20:00	Belgium	1–0	Iceland	Stade Sclessin, Liège Attendance: 9,371 Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)
	Lambert 43'

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September 27, 1975 20:00	Belgium	1–2	East Germany	Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht Attendance: 17,281 * Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Puis 60'		Ducke 50' Häfner 71'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 30,000

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October 12, 1975 14:30	East Germany	2–1	France	Zentralstadion, Leipzig Attendance: 28,544 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
	Streich 55' Vogel 77' (p)		Bathenay 50'

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November 15, 1975 20:30	France	0–0	Belgium	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 35,547 Referee: Robert Holley Davidson (Scotland)

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Group 8

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
West Germany	9	6	3	3	0	14	4
Greece	7	6	2	3	1	12	9
Bulgaria	6	6	2	2	2	12	7
Malta	2	6	1	0	5	2	20

Group matches:

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October 13, 1974 16:00	Bulgaria	3–3	Greece	Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 14,291 * Referee: Alberto Michelotti** (Italy)
	Bonev 2' Denev 27', 29'		Antoniadis 28' Papaioannou 86' Glezos 88'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 30,000.
(**)NOTE: Referee also reported as Alberto Lattanzi.

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November 20, 1974 16:00	Greece	2–2	West Germany	Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus(Athens) Attendance: 11,425 * Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Delikaris 13' Eleftherakis 70'		Cullmann 51' Wimmer 83'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 22,000

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December 18, 1974 16:00	Greece	2–1	Bulgaria	Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus(Athens) Attendance: 22,328 Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
	Sarafis 4' Antoniadis 40'		Kolev 89'

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December 22, 1974 14:30	Malta	0–1	West Germany	Empire Stadium, Gżira Attendance: 12,528 Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)
			Cullmann 44'

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February 23, 1975 15:30	Malta	2–0	Greece	Empire Stadium, Gżira Attendance: 8,621 Referee: Robert Matthewson (England)
	Aquilina 33' Magro 79'

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April 27, 1975 17:00	Bulgaria	1–1	West Germany	Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 47,200 * Referee: Jean Dubach (Switzerland)
	Kolev 71' (p)		Ritschel 75' (p)

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 60,000.

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June 4, 1975 21:00	Greece	4–0	Malta	Stadio Toumbas, Salonika Attendance: 16,545 Referee: Marjan Rauš (Yugoslavia)
	Mavros 32' Antoniadis 34' (p) Iosifidis 47' Papaioannou 50'

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June 11, 1975 00:00	Bulgaria	5–0	Malta	Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 27,560 Referee: Michal Jursa (Czechoslovakia)
	Dimitrov 2' Denev 22' Panov 25' Bonev 68' (p) Milanov 71'

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October 11, 1975 20:30	West Germany	1–1	Greece	Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf Attendance: 61,252 Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)
	Heynckes 68'		Delikaris 78'

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November 19, 1975 15:00	West Germany	1–0	Bulgaria	Neckarstadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 68,819 Referee: Alistair McKenzie (Scotland)
	Heynckes 64'

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December 21, 1975 14:30	Malta	0–2	Bulgaria	Empire Stadium, Gżira Attendance: 7,174 Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)
			Panov 69' Iordanov 83'

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February 28, 1976 15:30	West Germany	8–0	Malta	Westfalenstadion, Dortmund Attendance: 52,248 Referee: Marian Kustoń (Poland)
	Worm 5', 27' Heynckes 34', 58' Beer 41' (p), 77' Vogts 82' Hölzenbein 87'

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Quarter Finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Czechoslovakia	4–2	Soviet Union	2–0	2–2
Yugoslavia	3–1	Wales	2–0	1–1
Spain	1–3	West Germany	1–1	0–2
Netherlands	7–1	Belgium	5–0	2–1

Czechoslovakia vs Soviet Union

April 24, 1976 18:00 First Leg	Czechoslovakia	2 – 0	Soviet Union	Tehelné Pole (Slovan), Bratislava Attendance: 47,621 Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)
	Móder 34' Panenka 47'

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May 22, 1976 19:00 Second Leg	Soviet Union	2 – 2	Czechoslovakia	Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev Attendance: 76,495 * Referee: Alistair McKenzie (Scotland)
	Buryak 53' Blokhin 87'		Móder 45', 82'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 100,000
Czechoslovakia won 4 – 2 on aggregate

Yugoslavia vs Wales

April 24, 1976 17:30 First Leg	Yugoslavia	2 – 0	Wales	Stadion Dinamo, Zagreb Attendance: 36,917 * Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
	Vukotić 1' Popivoda 54'

(*)NOTE: Attendance also reported as 50,000

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May 22, 1976 15:00 Second Leg	Wales	1 – 1	Yugoslavia	Ninian Park, Cardiff Attendance: 30,346 Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)
	Evans 38'		Katalinski 19' (p)

Yugoslavia won 3 – 1 on aggregate

Spain vs West Germany

April 24, 1976 21:00 First Leg	Spain	1 – 1	West Germany	Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid Attendance: 51,771 Referee: Jack Taylor (England)
	Santillana 21'		Beer 60'

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May 22, 1976 16:00 Second Leg	West Germany	2 – 0	Spain	Olympiastadion, Munich Attendance: 77,673 Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
	Hoeneß 17' Toppmöller 43'

West Germany won 3 – 1 on aggregate

Netherlands vs Belgium

April 25, 1976 14:30 First Leg	Netherlands	5 – 0	Belgium	Stadion Feyenoord (De Kuip), Rotterdam Attendance: 48,706 Referee: Jean Dubach (Switzerland)
	Rijsbergen 17' Rensenbrink 27', 58', 85' Neeskens 79' (p)

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May 22, 1976 20:00 Second Leg	Belgium	1 – 2	Netherlands	Stade du Heysel, Brussels Attendance: 19,050 Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)
	Van Gool 27'		Rep 61' Cruijff 77'

Netherlands won 7 – 1 on aggregate

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Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, West Germany and Netherlands qualified for the final tournament.

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External links

• tables and results at RSSSF.com

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