UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying Group 5

Group 5 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 5 consisted of four teams: Hungary, East Germany, Netherlands, and Denmark, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners were Hungary, who finished 2 points above East Germany.

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Advance to quarter-finals		—	3–1	2–1	6–0
2	East Germany	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	7			1–0	—	4–3	3–2
3	Netherlands	6	2	1	3	11	11	0	5			2–2	1–0	—	2–0
4	Denmark	6	1	1	4	6	16	−10	3			0–2	1–1	3–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

7 September 1966

20:30

Netherlands	2–2	Hungary
Pijs 35' Cruyff 54'	Report	Molnár 70' Mészöly 86'

Feyenoord Stadion (De Kuip), Rotterdam

Attendance: 62,100

Referee: Birger Nilsen (Norway)

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21 September 1966

18:30

Hungary	6–0	Denmark
Albert 1', 30' Mészöly 9' (pen.) Bene 14' Farkas 36' Varga 83'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 18,487

Referee: Petros Tzouvaras (Greece)

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30 November 1966

20:30

Netherlands	2–0	Denmark
Swart 88' Van der Kuijlen 90'	Report

Feyenoord Stadion (De Kuip), Rotterdam

Attendance: 25,134

Referee: Aníbal da Silva Oliveira (Portugal)

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5 April 1967

17:00

East Germany	4–3	Netherlands
Vogel 50' Frenzel 62', 78', 85'	Report	Mulder 10' Keizer 12', 65'

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 30,207

Referee: Hannes Þorsteinn Sigurðsson (Iceland)

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10 May 1967

19:15

Hungary	2–1	Netherlands
Mészöly 8' (pen.) Farkas 30'	Report	Suurbier 63'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 24,352

Referee: Franz Mayer (Austria)

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24 May 1967

19:00

Denmark	0–2	Hungary
	Report	Albert 30' Bene 70'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 34,284

Referee: William John Gow (Wales)

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4 June 1967

13:30

Denmark	1–1	East Germany
Bjerre 65' (pen.)	Report	Löwe 5'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 23,234

Referee: Joseph Hannet (Belgium)

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13 September 1967

20:15

Netherlands	1–0	East Germany
Cruyff 2'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 44,505

Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)

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27 September 1967

18:00

Hungary	3–1	East Germany
Farkas 9', 48', 50'	Report	Frenzel 58'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 69,871

Referee: Tofik Bakhramov (USSR)

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4 October 1967

19:00

Denmark	3–2	Netherlands
Bjerre 43' (pen.), 74' Søndergaard 54'	Report	Suurbier 74' Israël 76'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 34,375

Referee: Malcolm Hall Wright (Northern Ireland)

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11 October 1967

17:00

East Germany	3–2	Denmark
Körner 35' (pen.) Pankau 59', 73'	Report	Dyreborg 25' Søndergaard 38'

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 18,519

Referee: Ryszard Banasiuk (Poland)

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29 October 1967

14:00

East Germany	1–0	Hungary
Frenzel 51'	Report

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 48,872

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

Goalscorers

There were 42 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.5 goals per match.

5 goals

• Henning Frenzel
• János Farkas

3 goals

• Kresten Bjerre
• Flórián Albert
• Kálmán Mészöly

2 goals

• Tom Søndergaard
• Herbert Pankau
• Ferenc Bene
• Johan Cruyff
• Piet Keizer
• Wim Suurbier

1 goal

• Erik Dyreborg
• Gerhard Körner
• Wolfram Löwe
• Eberhard Vogel
• Dezső Molnár
• Zoltán Varga
• Rinus Israël
• Jan Mulder
• Miel Pijs
• Sjaak Swart
• Willy van der Kuijlen

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.