| Tourney Name: | Men's European Qualifier |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Num Teams: | 24 |
| Matches: | 36 |
| Goals: | 112 |
| Prevseason: | 1968 |
| Nextseason: | 1976 |
The Men's European Football Qualifiers for the 1972 Summer Olympics consisted of two stages, the first single elimination tournament and then group stage.[1]
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