UEFA Euro 1976

The 1976 UEFA European Football Championship tournament was held in Yugoslavia. This was the fifth UEFA European Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA and the only tournament that was held in a socialist state. The final tournament took place between 16 and 20 June 1976.

Only four countries played in the final tournament, with the tournament consisting of the semi-finals, a third place play-off, and the final. This was the last tournament to have this format, as the tournament was expanded to include eight teams four years later. It was the only time that all four matches in the final tournament were decided after extra time, either on penalties or by goals scored. This was also the last tournament in which the hosts had to qualify for the final stage.

Czechoslovakia won the tournament after defeating holders West Germany in the final on penalties following a 2–2 draw after extra time. Antonín Panenka gained fame for his delicately chipped penalty, which has since been named after him, to win the penalty shootout and Czechoslovakia's only European Championship title.

Qualification

The qualifying round was played in 1974, 1975 (group phase), and 1976 (quarter-finals). There were eight qualifying groups of four teams each, with matches played on a home-and-away basis. The group winners qualified for the quarter-finals, played in two legs, home and away. The winners of the quarter-finals would go through to the final tournament.

This was the first time the Soviet Union failed to qualify for the finals.

Quarterfinals

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

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournamentTemplate:Efn-ua
Czechoslovakia		Template:Dts	1 (1960)
Netherlands		Template:Dts	0 (debut)
West Germany		Template:Dts	1 (1972)
Yugoslavia (host)		Template:Dts	2 (1960, 1968)

File:UEFA Euro 1976 official logo.svg

Alternate logo for the tournament

Venues

	Belgrade	Zagreb
	Red Star Stadium	Stadion Maksimir
	Capacity: 90,000	Capacity: 55,000
	File:Fk Red Star stadium.jpg	File:Dinamo Zagreb v Maribor.jpg

Match officials

Country	Referee
Template:Flagicon Belgium	Alfred Delcourt
Template:Flagicon Italy	Sergio Gonella
Template:Flagicon Switzerland	Walter Hungerbühler
Template:Flagicon Wales	Clive Thomas

Final tournament

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1976 UEFA European Football Championship finalists

At the final tournament, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.

All times are local, CET (UTC+1).

Bracket

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Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

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Final

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Statistics

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Template:Fbicon Ivo Viktor	Template:Fbicon Anton Ondruš Template:Fbicon Ján Pivarník Template:Fbicon Ruud Krol Template:Fbicon Franz Beckenbauer	Template:Fbicon Antonín Panenka Template:Fbicon Jaroslav Pollák Template:Fbicon Rainer Bonhof Template:Fbicon Dragan Džajić	Template:Fbicon Zdeněk Nehoda Template:Fbicon Dieter Müller

External links

• UEFA Euro 1976 at UEFA.com