The European section of the
1968 Summer Olympics football qualification acted as qualifiers for the
1968 Summer Olympics football tournament held in Mexico, for football teams from Europe. Four slots in the final tournament were available for European teams.
Format
Four groups of five teams compete in a home-and-away knockout stage. The winners of each group qualifies for the Summer Olympics football finals.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Qualified teams
The following four teams from Europe qualified for the final tournament.
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
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2 Includes all participations by a competing nation at the Summer Olympics (clubs representing nations, olympic teams, full national teams, etc.).
References
{{Qualification for the 1968 Summer Olympics Football tournament
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
1968
Events January–February
* January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously.
* January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...
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