After a dubious question in a sports quiz on Saturday night, I decided to set out to prove that the only football match settled by a toss of a coin was not the European Championship semi-final in 1968 between Italy and the Soviet Union, as claimed. In fact, the Wikipedia entry I can find relating to this states that this was simply one particular match settled by a toss of a coin...
I'm pretty sure a match involving one of the US or England in a World Cup in the 1950s was settled by the toss of a coin from memory, but from Google I find that Spain was eliminated by Turkey in the 1954 World Cup by a toss of a coin.
The Guardian Unlimited website also tells me that Liverpool beat Cologne in 1964-5 in the European Cup quarter finals by the toss of a coin, though it does agree with the poser of the sports quiz question that the Italy-Soviet Union match was the most important to be decided by a coin toss!
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