UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying

Qualifying for the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament, took place throughout 1994 and 1995. Forty-seven teams were divided into eight groups. All teams played against each other, within their groups, in a home-and-away basis. The winner of each group along with the six best runners-up automatically qualified, while the two worst runners-up were involved in a play-off on a neutral ground. England qualified automatically as hosts of the event.

This was the first qualifying phase for the European Football Championship which awarded three points instead of two for a victory.

Group 1

Table

Results

Group 4

Table

Results

Group 7

Table

Results

Runners-up

The runners-up of each of the eight groups were placed in a table to decide which seven of them would qualify. The best six runners-up would qualify automatically, while the two worst would play-off on a neutral ground to determine the final qualifier. To determine the two worst runner-ups, a comparison was made between all of them. Only matches played against teams that finished first, third and fourth were regarded.

Play-off

The bottom two runners-up took part in a play-off on a neutral ground to determine the final team to qualify.
footballbox
date = December 13, 1995
team1 = fb-rt|NED
score = 2 – 0
report =
team2 = fb|IRL
goals1 = Kluivert goal|29 goal|88
goals2 =
stadium = Anfield, Liverpool
Attendance: 40,050
Referee: Vadim Zhuk flagicon|BLR

Netherlands qualify for final tournament

Related links

*1996 European Football Championship
*1996 European Football Championship (squads)

External links

* [http://www.thefa.com/Euro2004/History/Postings/2003/01/37017.htm Euro 96 Qualifying matches] at thefa.com