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UEFA Euro 1968

Field	Value
tourney_name	UEFA European Football Championship
year	1968
other_titles	Campionato europeo di calcio
Italia 1968
image	UEFA Euro 1968 logo.svg
size	200px
country	Italy
dates	5–10 June
num_teams	4
venues	3
cities	3
champion	ITA
count	1
second	YUG
third	ENG
fourth	URS
matches	5
goals	7
attendance	260916
top_scorer	Dragan Džajić (2 goals)
prevseason	[1964](1964-european-nations-cup)
nextseason	1972

Italia 1968

The 1968 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was hosted and won by Italy. This was the third UEFA European Championship, an event held every four years and organised by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 5 and 10 June 1968.

It was in this year that the tournament changed its name from the "European Nations' Cup" to the "European Championship". There were also some changes in the tournament's qualifying structure, with the two-legged home-and-away knock-out stage being replaced by a group phase.

Four countries played in the final tournament, which consisted of the semi-finals, a third place play-off, and the final. The host nation for the finals was selected from the four qualified nations.

Qualification

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying

The qualification competition was played in two stages: a group stage (taking place from 1966 until 1968) and the quarter-finals (played in 1968). There were seven groups of four teams and one of three, with matches played in a home-and-away basis. The eight group winners qualified for the quarter-finals, which were played in two legs, home and away. The winners of the quarter-finals went through to the final tournament.

This remains to this day the only World Cup or European Championship where a West or reunified German team was eliminated in the qualifying stages (they did not enter the 1930 FIFA World Cup, were banned from 1950 and didn’t enter the qualifying stages of UEFA Euro 1960 or 1964 for unknown reasons)

Qualified teams

Venues

{{Location map+	Italy	float=center	width=250	caption=	places=	Rome	Naples	Florence
Stadio Olimpico	Stadio San Paolo	Stadio Comunale
Capacity: 80,000	Capacity: 82,000	Capacity: 52,000
[[File:Rome Olympics 1960 - Opening Day.jpg	frameless	237x237px]]	[[File:Stadio di Fuorigrotta - Napoli 1963.jpg	frameless	181x181px]]	[[File:Firenze, stadio artemio franchi, campo da gioco, 10,0.jpg	frameless	300x300px]]

Squads

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 squads

Match officials

Country	Referee
SUI Switzerland	Gottfried Dienst
ESP Spain	José María Ortiz de Mendíbil
FRG West Germany	Kurt Tschenscher
HUN Hungary	István Zsolt

Final tournament

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 final tournament

1968 UEFA European Football Championship finalists

In all matches but the final, extra time and a coin toss were used to decide the winner if necessary. If the final remained level after extra time, a replay would be used to determine the winner. Coin toss was as a matter of fact used in the semi final between Italy and Soviet Union.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Bracket

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1968 final

Statistics

Goalscorers

Dragan Džajić
Bobby Charlton
Geoff Hurst
Pietro Anastasi
Angelo Domenghini
Gigi Riva

Awards

;UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Dino Zoff	Bobby Moore
Giacinto Facchetti
Albert Shesternyov
Mirsad Fazlagić	Angelo Domenghini
Sandro Mazzola
Ivica Osim	Geoff Hurst
Gigi Riva
Dragan Džajić

References

(29 April 2012). "Euro 2012: European Nations Cup 1968". ESPN.
Sheringham, Sam. (12 May 2012). "Euro 1968: Alan Mullery's moment of madness". BBC Sport.
(1 April 2011). "1968 team of the tournament". Union of European Football Associations.

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