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The 268 qualifying matches for the 2016 European Football Championship took place between September 7, 2014 and November 17, 2015. 53 of 54 UEFA member associations played the 23 free starting places for the final round of the 2016 European Championship among themselves. Gibraltar was the youngest UEFA member to take part in the qualification for the first time. France was set as the host country and completed the field of 24 finalists.

Qualification mode

The qualification groups were drawn on Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 12:00 CET in the Palais des Congrès in Nice . The 53 teams involved were divided into nine groups: eight groups of six teams each and one group of five teams. Each team in a group played a home and an away game against every other team in the respective group. The two best teams in each group and the third with the highest points qualified directly for the final tournament. When comparing the third group, the results of the games against the last group in the groups of six were not taken into account.

If two or more teams were tied after these games, the following criteria were used to decide:

1. direct comparison (number of points, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored) ^{# 1}
2. Repetition of the direct comparison among the remaining teams ^{# 1}
3. Results from all group matches (goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored) ^{# 2}
4. Fair play rating
5. UEFA coefficient for national teams

^#1 Not for the comparison of third party groups

^{# 2} When comparing the group third without the games against the respective group sixth

The eight remaining thirds in the group determined the remaining four finalists in playoffs with a return leg (November 12-14, 2015 and November 15-17, 2015).

In the event of a tie between two legs, the number of goals scored away first decided, in the event of a tie there was an extension. If both teams had the same number of goals and the same number of away goals after extra time, the final round participant was determined by penalty shoot-out.

Seeding list

After completing the qualifying matches for the 2014 World Cup, the following seeding list for the group division of the qualifying phase resulted from the UEFA coefficient for national teams (indicated after the team name):

Pot 1			Pot 2			Pot 3
Spain 1 2	42,158		Ukraine	31,156		Serbia	25,985
Germany 2	41,366		Croatia	30,652		Turkey	25,955
Netherlands 2	38,541		Sweden	30.111		Slovenia	25,834
Italy 2	35,343		Denmark	29,660		Israel	25,442
England 2	34,885		Switzerland	29,572		Norway	25,341
Portugal	34,314		Belgium	28,732		Slovakia	25,333
Greece	33,540		Czech Republic	28,234		Romania	25,038
Russia	32,946		Hungary	27.802		Austria	24,572
Bosnia and Herzegovina	31,416		Ireland	26,733		Poland	23,095
Pot 4			Pot 5			Pot 6
Montenegro	22,991		Iceland	19,243		Luxembourg	14,050
Armenia 1	22,861		Northern Ireland	19,201		Kazakhstan	13,961
Scotland	22,234		Albania	19,151		Liechtenstein	12,220
Finland	22.001		Lithuania	19,026		Faroe Islands	11,751
Latvia	20,771		Moldova	18.301		Malta	10,740
Wales	20,551		Macedonia	17,376		Andorra	8,560
Bulgaria	20,391		Azerbaijan 1	16,901		San Marino	7,420
Estonia	19,988		Georgia	16,766		Gibraltar 1	0
Belarus	19,646		Cyprus	14,235

¹ Due to political differences between the respective countries, the following teams were not drawn into the same group:

a) Spain and Gibraltar

b) Armenia and Azerbaijan

²For the national associations with the strongest television markets, it was ensured that they were each drawn into a group of six participants. These are Spain , Germany , the Netherlands , Italy and England .

Match days

The schedule for the qualifying matches was based on the concept of the English week : a game day lasted three consecutive days. On so-called double game days (game days 2 and 3, 7 and 8, 9 and 10 as well as the play-off games) the games took place from Thursday to Tuesday. Two games were played on the double match days, so each team played either on Thursday and Sunday or on Friday and Monday or on Saturday and Tuesday. The match days were set by UEFA as follows :

Gameday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
1				07.09.2014	09/08/2014	09/09/2014
2 and 3	09/10/2014	10/10/2014	10/11/2014	10/12/2014	October 13, 2014	14/10/2014
4th		11/14/2014	11/15/2014	11/16/2014
5		03/27/2015	03/28/2015	03/29/2015
6th		06/12/2015	06/13/2015	06/14/2015
7 and 8	09/03/2015	04.09.2015	05.09.2015	09/06/2015	07.09.2015	09/08/2015
9 and 10	08/10/2015	09/10/2015	10/10/2015	10/11/2015	October 12, 2015	13/10/2015
Play-off	11/12/2015	11/13/2015	11/14/2015	11/15/2015	11/16/2015	11/17/2015

Kick-off time was on Saturdays and Sundays at 6:00 p.m. ME (S) Z and 8:45 p.m. ME (S) Z and on the other days of the week mainly at 8:45 p.m. ME (S) Z, but individual games also at 6:00 p.m. ) Z.

TV broadcast

In Germany , the qualifying games of the German national team were broadcast for the first time on the private TV broadcaster RTL Television . According to media reports, the broadcaster offered 100 million euros more than the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF , which otherwise usually won the bid and which will continue to broadcast the games of the European Championship finals. The special interest broadcaster RTL Nitro broadcast individual games without German participation .

In Austria, all of Austria's games were broadcast on ORF Eins .

Qualification groups after the draw

Group A	Group B	Group C
Netherlands	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Spain
Czech Republic	Belgium	Ukraine
Turkey	Israel	Slovakia
Latvia	Wales	Belarus
Iceland	Cyprus	Macedonia
Kazakhstan	Andorra	Luxembourg
Group D	Group E	Group F.
Germany	England	Greece
Ireland	Switzerland	Hungary
Poland	Slovenia	Romania
Scotland	Estonia	Finland
Georgia	Lithuania	Northern Ireland
Gibraltar	San Marino	Faroe Islands
Group G	Group H.	Group I.
Russia	Italy	Portugal
Sweden	Croatia	Denmark
Austria	Norway	Serbia
Montenegro	Bulgaria	Armenia
Moldova	Azerbaijan	Albania
Liechtenstein	Malta

Group A

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Czech Republic	10	7th	1	2	019:140	+5	22nd
2.	Iceland	10	6th	2	2	017: 600	+11	20th
3.	Turkey 1	10	5	3	2	014: 900	+5	18th
4th	Netherlands	10	4th	1	5	017:140	+3	13
5.	Kazakhstan	10	1	2	7th	007:180	−11	05
6th	Latvia	10	0	5	5	006:190	−13	05

¹ Directly qualified as the best third party in the group.

game schedule

09/09/2014 Astana Kazakhstan - Latvia 0-0 09/09/2014 Prague Czech Republic - Netherlands 2: 1 (1: 0) 09/09/2014 Reykjavík Iceland - Turkey 3: 0 (1: 0) 10/10/2014 Riga Latvia - Iceland 0: 3 (0: 0) 10/10/2014 Amsterdam Netherlands - Kazakhstan 3: 1 (0: 1) 10/10/2014 Istanbul Turkey - Czech Republic 1: 2 (1: 1) October 13, 2014 Astana Kazakhstan - Czech Republic 2: 4 (0: 2) October 13, 2014 Reykjavík Iceland - Netherlands 2: 0 (2: 0) October 13, 2014 Riga Latvia - Turkey 1: 1 (0: 0) 11/16/2014 Amsterdam Netherlands - Latvia 6: 0 (3: 0) 11/16/2014 Pilsen Czech Republic - Iceland 2: 1 (1: 1) 11/16/2014 Istanbul Turkey - Kazakhstan 3: 1 (2: 0) 03/28/2015 Astana Kazakhstan - Iceland 0: 3 (0: 2) 03/28/2015 Prague Czech Republic - Latvia 1: 1 (0: 1) 03/28/2015 Amsterdam Netherlands - Turkey 1: 1 (0: 1)

06/12/2015 Almaty Kazakhstan - Turkey 0: 1 (0: 0) 06/12/2015 Reykjavík Iceland - Czech Republic 2: 1 (0: 0) 06/12/2015 Riga Latvia - Netherlands 0: 2 (0: 0) 09/03/2015 Pilsen Czech Republic - Kazakhstan 2: 1 (0: 1) 09/03/2015 Amsterdam Netherlands - Iceland 0: 1 (0: 0) 09/03/2015 Konya Turkey - Latvia 1: 1 (0: 0) 09/06/2015 Riga Latvia - Czech Republic 1: 2 (0: 2) 09/06/2015 Konya Turkey - Netherlands 3: 0 (2: 0) 09/06/2015 Reykjavík Iceland - Kazakhstan 0-0 10/10/2015 Reykjavík Iceland - Latvia 2: 2 (2: 0) 10/10/2015 Astana Kazakhstan - Netherlands 1: 2 (0: 1) 10/10/2015 Prague Czech Republic - Turkey 0: 2 (0: 0) 13/10/2015 Riga Latvia - Kazakhstan 0: 1 (0: 0) 13/10/2015 Amsterdam Netherlands - Czech Republic 2: 3 (0: 2) 13/10/2015 Konya Turkey - Iceland 1: 0 (0: 0)

Group B

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	10	7th	2	1	024: 500	+19	23
2.	Wales	10	6th	3	1	011: 400	+7	21st
3.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	5	2	3	017:120	+5	17th
4th	Israel	10	4th	1	5	016:140	+2	13
5.	Cyprus	10	4th	0	6th	016:170	−1	12
6th	Andorra	10	0	0	10	004:360	−32	00

game schedule

09/09/2014 Andorra la Vella Andorra - Wales 1: 2 (1: 1) 09/09/2014 Zenica Bosnia heart. - Cyprus 1: 2 (1: 1) 10/10/2014 Brussels Belgium - Andorra 6: 0 (3: 0) 10/10/2014 Nicosia Cyprus - Israel 1: 2 (0: 2) 10/10/2014 Cardiff Wales - Bosnia heart. 0-0 October 13, 2014 Andorra la Vella Andorra - Israel 1: 4 (1: 2) October 13, 2014 Zenica Bosnia heart. - Belgium 1: 1 (1: 0) October 13, 2014 Cardiff Wales - Cyprus 2: 1 (2: 1) 11/16/2014 Brussels Belgium - Wales 0-0 11/16/2014 Nicosia Cyprus - Andorra 5: 0 (3: 0) 11/16/2014 Haifa Israel - Bosnia heart. 3: 0 (2: 0) 03/28/2015 Andorra la Vella Andorra - Bosnia heart. 0: 3 (0: 1) 03/28/2015 Brussels Belgium - Cyprus 5: 0 (2: 0) 03/28/2015 Haifa Israel - Wales 0: 3 (0: 1) 03/31/2015 1 Jerusalem Israel - Belgium 0: 1 (0: 1)

06/12/2015 Andorra la Vella Andorra - Cyprus 1: 3 (1: 2) 06/12/2015 Zenica Bosnia heart. - Israel 3: 1 (2: 1) 06/12/2015 Cardiff Wales - Belgium 1: 0 (1: 0) 09/03/2015 Brussels Belgium - Bosnia heart. 3: 1 (2: 1) 09/03/2015 Nicosia Cyprus - Wales 0: 1 (0: 0) 09/03/2015 Haifa Israel - Andorra 4: 0 (4: 0) 09/06/2015 Cardiff Wales - Israel 0-0 09/06/2015 Zenica Bosnia heart. - Andorra 3: 0 (3: 0) 09/06/2015 Nicosia Cyprus - Belgium 0: 1 (0: 0) 10/10/2015 Andorra la Vella Andorra - Belgium 1: 4 (0: 2) 10/10/2015 Zenica Bosnia heart. - Wales 2: 0 (0: 0) 10/10/2015 Jerusalem Israel - Cyprus 1: 2 (0: 0) 13/10/2015 Brussels Belgium - Israel 3: 1 (0: 0) 13/10/2015 Nicosia Cyprus - Bosnia heart. 2: 3 (2: 2) 13/10/2015 Cardiff Wales - Andorra 2: 0 (0: 0)

¹The original date was September 9, 2014. Due to the Gaza conflict , the game was postponed.

Group C

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	10	9	0	1	023: 300	+20	27
2.	Slovakia	10	7th	1	2	017: 800	+9	22nd
3.	Ukraine	10	6th	1	3	014: 400	+10	19th
4th	Belarus	10	3	2	5	008:140	−6	11
5.	Luxembourg	10	1	1	8th	006:270	−21	04th
6th	Macedonia	10	1	1	8th	006:180	−12	04th

game schedule

09/08/2014 Luxembourg Luxembourg - Belarus 1: 1 (1: 0) 09/08/2014 Valencia Spain - Macedonia 5: 1 (3: 1) 09/08/2014 Kiev Ukraine - Slovakia 0: 1 (0: 1) 09/10/2014 Baryssau Belarus - Ukraine 0: 2 (0: 0) 09/10/2014 Skopje Macedonia - Luxembourg 3: 2 (1: 2) 09/10/2014 Žilina Slovakia - Spain 2: 1 (1: 0) 10/12/2014 Lviv Ukraine - Macedonia 1: 0 (1: 0) 10/12/2014 Baryssau Belarus - Slovakia 1: 3 (0: 0) 10/12/2014 Luxembourg Luxembourg - Spain 0: 4 (0: 2) 11/15/2014 Luxembourg Luxembourg - Ukraine 0: 3 (0: 1) 11/15/2014 Skopje Macedonia - Slovakia 0: 2 (0: 2) 11/15/2014 Huelva Spain - Belarus 3: 0 (2: 0) 03/27/2015 Skopje Macedonia - Belarus 1: 2 (1: 1) 03/27/2015 Žilina Slovakia - Luxembourg 3: 0 (3: 0) 03/27/2015 Seville Spain - Ukraine 1: 0 (1: 0)

06/14/2015 Lviv Ukraine - Luxembourg 3: 0 (0: 0) 06/14/2015 Baryssau Belarus - Spain 0: 1 (0: 1) 06/14/2015 Žilina Slovakia - Macedonia 2: 1 (2: 0) 05.09.2015 Luxembourg Luxembourg - Macedonia 1: 0 (0: 0) 05.09.2015 Lviv Ukraine - Belarus 3: 1 (3: 0) 05.09.2015 Oviedo Spain - Slovakia 2: 0 (2: 0) 09/08/2015 Baryssau Belarus - Luxembourg 2: 0 (1: 0) 09/08/2015 Skopje Macedonia - Spain 0: 1 (0: 1) 09/08/2015 Žilina Slovakia - Ukraine 0-0 09/10/2015 Skopje Macedonia - Ukraine 0: 2 (0: 0) 09/10/2015 Žilina Slovakia - Belarus 0: 1 (0: 1) 09/10/2015 Logroño Spain - Luxembourg 4: 0 (1: 0) October 12, 2015 Baryssau Belarus - Macedonia 0-0 October 12, 2015 Luxembourg Luxembourg - Slovakia 2: 4 (0: 3) October 12, 2015 Kiev Ukraine - Spain 0: 1 (0: 1)

Group D

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	10	7th	1	2	024: 900	+15	22nd
2.	Poland	10	6th	3	1	033:100	+23	21st
3.	Ireland	10	5	3	2	019: 700	+12	18th
4th	Scotland	10	4th	3	3	022:120	+10	15th
5.	Georgia	10	3	0	7th	010:160	−6	09
6th	Gibraltar	10	0	0	10	002:560	−54	00

game schedule

07.09.2014 Tbilisi Georgia - Ireland 1: 2 (1: 1) 07.09.2014 Dortmund Germany - Scotland 2: 1 (1: 0) 07.09.2014 Faro , Portugal 1 Gibraltar - Poland 0: 7 (0: 1) 10/11/2014 Dublin Ireland - Gibraltar 7: 0 (3: 0) 10/11/2014 Glasgow Scotland - Georgia 1: 0 (1: 0) 10/11/2014 Warsaw Poland - Germany 2: 0 (0: 0) 14/10/2014 Gelsenkirchen Germany - Ireland 1: 1 (0: 0) 14/10/2014 Faro, Portugal Gibraltar - Georgia 0: 3 (0: 2) 14/10/2014 Warsaw Poland - Scotland 2: 2 (1: 1) 11/14/2014 Tbilisi Georgia - Poland 0: 4 (0: 0) 11/14/2014 Nuremberg 2 Germany - Gibraltar 4: 0 (3: 0) 11/14/2014 Glasgow Scotland - Ireland 1: 0 (0: 0) 03/29/2015 Tbilisi Georgia - Germany 0: 2 (0: 2) 03/29/2015 Glasgow Scotland - Gibraltar 6: 1 (4: 1) 03/29/2015 Dublin Ireland - Poland 1: 1 (0: 1)

06/13/2015 Warsaw Poland - Georgia 4: 0 (0: 0) 06/13/2015 Dublin Ireland - Scotland 1: 1 (1: 0) 06/13/2015 Faro, Portugal Gibraltar - Germany 0: 7 (0: 1) 04.09.2015 Tbilisi Georgia - Scotland 1: 0 (1: 0) 04.09.2015 Frankfurt am Main Germany - Poland 3: 1 (2: 1) 04.09.2015 Faro, Portugal Gibraltar - Ireland 0: 4 (0: 1) 07.09.2015 Warsaw Poland - Gibraltar 8: 1 (4: 0) 07.09.2015 Dublin Ireland - Georgia 1: 0 (0: 0) 07.09.2015 Glasgow Scotland - Germany 2: 3 (2: 2) 08/10/2015 Tbilisi Georgia - Gibraltar 4: 0 (3: 0) 08/10/2015 Dublin Ireland - Germany 1: 0 (0: 0) 08/10/2015 Glasgow Scotland - Poland 2: 2 (1: 1) 10/11/2015 Leipzig Germany - Georgia 2: 1 (0: 0) 10/11/2015 Faro, Portugal Gibraltar - Scotland 0: 6 (0: 2) 10/11/2015 Warsaw Poland - Ireland 2: 1 (2: 1)

¹Gibraltar played its home games in Faro because the Victoria Stadium is too small for European Championship qualifiers.

²Initially, Bremen was intended to host the qualifying game.

Group E

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	10	10	0	0	031: 300	+28	30th
2.	Switzerland	10	7th	0	3	024: 800	+16	21st
3.	Slovenia	10	5	1	4th	018:110	+7	16
4th	Estonia	10	3	1	6th	004: 900	−5	10
5.	Lithuania	10	3	1	6th	007:180	−11	10
6th	San Marino	10	0	1	9	001:360	−35	01

game schedule

09/08/2014 Tallinn Estonia - Slovenia 1: 0 (0: 0) 09/08/2014 Serravalle San Marino - Lithuania 0: 2 (0: 2) 09/08/2014 Basel Switzerland - England 0: 2 (0: 0) 09/10/2014 London England - San Marino 5: 0 (2: 0) 09/10/2014 Vilnius Lithuania - Estonia 1: 0 (0: 0) 09/10/2014 Maribor Slovenia - Switzerland 1: 0 (0: 0) 10/12/2014 Tallinn Estonia - England 0: 1 (0: 0) 10/12/2014 Vilnius Lithuania - Slovenia 0: 2 (0: 2) 14/10/2014 Serravalle San Marino - Switzerland 0: 4 (0: 3) 11/15/2014 London England - Slovenia 3: 1 (0: 0) 11/15/2014 Serravalle San Marino - Estonia 0-0 11/15/2014 St. Gallen Switzerland - Lithuania 4: 0 (0: 0) 03/27/2015 London England - Lithuania 4: 0 (2: 0) 03/27/2015 Ljubljana Slovenia - San Marino 6: 0 (1: 0) 03/27/2015 Lucerne Switzerland - Estonia 3: 0 (2: 0)

06/14/2015 Tallinn Estonia - San Marino 2: 0 (1: 0) 06/14/2015 Ljubljana Slovenia - England 2: 3 (1: 0) 06/14/2015 Vilnius Lithuania - Switzerland 1: 2 (0: 0) 05.09.2015 Tallinn Estonia - Lithuania 1: 0 (0: 0) 05.09.2015 Serravalle San Marino - England 0: 6 (0: 2) 05.09.2015 Basel Switzerland - Slovenia 3: 2 (0: 1) 09/08/2015 London England - Switzerland 2: 0 (0: 0) 09/08/2015 Vilnius Lithuania - San Marino 2: 1 (1: 0) 09/08/2015 Maribor Slovenia - Estonia 1: 0 (0: 0) 09/10/2015 London England - Estonia 2: 0 (1: 0) 09/10/2015 Ljubljana Slovenia - Lithuania 1: 1 (1: 0) 09/10/2015 St. Gallen Switzerland - San Marino 7: 0 (1: 0) October 12, 2015 Tallinn Estonia - Switzerland 0: 1 (0: 0) October 12, 2015 Vilnius Lithuania - England 0: 3 (0: 2) October 12, 2015 Serravalle San Marino - Slovenia 0: 2 (0: 0)

Group F.

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Northern Ireland	10	6th	3	1	016: 800	+8	21st
2.	Romania	10	5	5	0	011: 200	+9	20th
3.	Hungary	10	4th	4th	2	011: 900	+2	16
4th	Finland	10	3	3	4th	009:100	−1	12
5.	Faroe Islands	10	2	0	8th	006:170	−11	06th
6th	Greece	10	1	3	6th	007:140	−7	06th

game schedule

07.09.2014 Budapest Hungary - Northern Ireland 1: 2 (0: 0) 07.09.2014 Tórshavn Faroe Islands - Finland 1: 3 (1: 0) 07.09.2014 Piraeus Greece - Romania 0: 1 (0: 1) 10/11/2014 Bucharest Romania - Hungary 1: 1 (1: 0) 10/11/2014 Helsinki Finland - Greece 1: 1 (0: 1) 10/11/2014 Belfast Northern Ireland - Faroe Islands 2: 0 (2: 0) 14/10/2014 Tórshavn Faroe Islands - Hungary 0: 1 (0: 1) 14/10/2014 Helsinki Finland - Romania 0: 2 (0: 0) 14/10/2014 Piraeus Greece - Northern Ireland 0: 2 (0: 1) 11/14/2014 Piraeus Greece - Faroe Islands 0: 1 (0: 0) 11/14/2014 Budapest Hungary - Finland 1: 0 (0: 0) 11/14/2014 Bucharest Romania - Northern Ireland 2: 0 (0: 0) 03/29/2015 Belfast Northern Ireland - Finland 2: 1 (2: 0) 03/29/2015 Ploieşti Romania - Faroe Islands 1: 0 (1: 0) 03/29/2015 Budapest Hungary - Greece 0-0

06/13/2015 Helsinki Finland - Hungary 0: 1 (0: 0) 06/13/2015 Tórshavn Faroe Islands - Greece 2: 1 (1: 0) 06/13/2015 Belfast Northern Ireland - Romania 0-0 04.09.2015 Tórshavn Faroe Islands - Northern Ireland 1: 3 (1: 1) 04.09.2015 Piraeus Greece - Finland 0: 1 (0: 0) 04.09.2015 Budapest Hungary - Romania 0-0 07.09.2015 Helsinki Finland - Faroe Islands 1: 0 (1: 0) 07.09.2015 Belfast Northern Ireland - Hungary 1: 1 (0: 0) 07.09.2015 Bucharest Romania - Greece 0-0 08/10/2015 Budapest Hungary - Faroe Islands 2: 1 (0: 1) 08/10/2015 Belfast Northern Ireland - Greece 3: 1 (1: 0) 08/10/2015 Bucharest Romania - Finland 1: 1 (0: 0) 10/11/2015 Tórshavn Faroe Islands - Romania 0: 3 (0: 2) 10/11/2015 Helsinki Finland - Northern Ireland 1: 1 (0: 1) 10/11/2015 Piraeus Greece - Hungary 4: 3 (1: 1)

Group G

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Austria	10	9	1	0	022: 500	+17	28
2.	Russia	10	6th	2	2	021: 500	+16	20th
3.	Sweden	10	5	3	2	015: 900	+6	18th
4th	Montenegro	10	3	2	5	010:130	−3	11
5.	Liechtenstein	10	1	2	7th	002:260	−24	05
6th	Moldova	10	0	2	8th	004:160	−12	02

game schedule

09/08/2014 Khimki Russia - Liechtenstein 4: 0 (1: 0) 09/08/2014 Vienna Austria - Sweden 1: 1 (1: 1) 09/08/2014 Podgorica Montenegro - Moldova 2: 0 (1: 0) 09/10/2014 Vaduz Liechtenstein - Montenegro 0-0 09/10/2014 Chișinău Moldova - Austria 1: 2 (1: 1) 09/10/2014 Solna Sweden - Russia 1: 1 (0: 1) 10/12/2014 Vienna Austria - Montenegro 1: 0 (1: 0) 10/12/2014 Moscow Russia - Moldova 1: 1 (0: 0) 10/12/2014 Solna Sweden - Liechtenstein 2: 0 (1: 0) 11/15/2014 Vienna Austria - Russia 1: 0 (0: 0) 11/15/2014 Chișinău Moldova - Liechtenstein 0: 1 (0: 0) 11/15/2014 Podgorica Montenegro - Sweden 1: 1 (0: 1) 03/27/2015 Vaduz Liechtenstein - Austria 0: 5 (0: 2) 03/27/2015 Chișinău Moldova - Sweden 0: 2 (0: 0) 03/27/2015 Podgorica Montenegro - Russia 0: 3 (valuation) 1

06/14/2015 Vaduz Liechtenstein - Moldova 1: 1 (1: 1) 06/14/2015 Moscow Russia - Austria 0: 1 (0: 1) 06/14/2015 Solna Sweden - Montenegro 3: 1 (3: 0) 05.09.2015 Moscow Russia - Sweden 1: 0 (1: 0) 05.09.2015 Vienna Austria - Moldova 1: 0 (0: 0) 05.09.2015 Podgorica Montenegro - Liechtenstein 2: 0 (1: 0) 09/08/2015 Vaduz Liechtenstein - Russia 0: 7 (0: 3) 09/08/2015 Chișinău Moldova - Montenegro 0: 2 (0: 1) 09/08/2015 Solna Sweden - Austria 1: 4 (0: 2) 09/10/2015 Vaduz Liechtenstein - Sweden 0: 2 (0: 1) 09/10/2015 Chișinău Moldova - Russia 1: 2 (0: 0) 09/10/2015 Podgorica Montenegro - Austria 2: 3 (1: 0) October 12, 2015 Vienna Austria - Liechtenstein 3: 0 (1: 0) October 12, 2015 Moscow Russia - Montenegro 2: 0 (2: 0) October 12, 2015 Solna Sweden - Moldova 2: 0 (1: 0)

¹Shortly after kick-off, Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfejew was hit in the head by a firecracker, causing the game to be interrupted. The game was initially released again, but after 67 minutes when the score was 0-0, it was finally canceled because objects continued to be thrown onto the field. The game was rated 3-0 for Russia by UEFA.

Group H.

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	10	7th	3	0	016: 700	+9	24
2.	Croatia 1	10	6th	3	1	020: 500	+15	20th
3.	Norway	10	6th	1	3	013:100	+3	19th
4th	Bulgaria	10	3	2	5	009:120	−3	11
5.	Azerbaijan	10	1	3	6th	007:180	−11	06th
6th	Malta	10	0	2	8th	003:160	−13	02

¹As a swastika was engraved in the grass during the match between Croatia and Italy , UEFA deducted one point from Croatia. An appeal by Croatia against this was rejected.

game schedule

09/09/2014 Baku Azerbaijan - Bulgaria 1: 2 (0: 1) 09/09/2014 Zagreb Croatia - Malta 2: 0 (0: 0) 09/09/2014 Oslo Norway - Italy 0: 2 (0: 1) 10/10/2014 Sofia Bulgaria - Croatia 0: 1 (0: 1) 10/10/2014 Palermo Italy - Azerbaijan 2: 1 (1: 0) 10/10/2014 Attard Malta - Norway 0: 3 (0: 2) October 13, 2014 Osijek Croatia - Azerbaijan 6: 0 (4: 0) October 13, 2014 Attard Malta - Italy 0: 1 (0: 1) October 13, 2014 Oslo Norway - Bulgaria 2: 1 (1: 1) 11/16/2014 Baku Azerbaijan - Norway 0: 1 (0: 1) 11/16/2014 Sofia Bulgaria - Malta 1: 1 (1: 0) 11/16/2014 Milan Italy - Croatia 1: 1 (1: 1) 03/28/2015 Baku Azerbaijan - Malta 2: 0 (1: 0) 03/28/2015 Zagreb Croatia - Norway 5: 1 (1: 0) 03/28/2015 Sofia Bulgaria - Italy 2: 2 (2: 1)

06/12/2015 Split Croatia - Italy 1: 1 (1: 1) 06/12/2015 Attard Malta - Bulgaria 0: 1 (0: 0) 06/12/2015 Oslo Norway - Azerbaijan 0-0 09/03/2015 Baku Azerbaijan - Croatia 0-0 09/03/2015 Sofia Bulgaria - Norway 0: 1 (0: 0) 09/03/2015 Florence Italy - Malta 1: 0 (0: 0) 09/06/2015 Attard Malta - Azerbaijan 2: 2 (0: 1) 09/06/2015 Oslo Norway - Croatia 2: 0 (0: 0) 09/06/2015 Palermo Italy - Bulgaria 1: 0 (1: 0) 10/10/2015 Baku Azerbaijan - Italy 1: 3 (1: 2) 10/10/2015 Oslo Norway - Malta 2: 0 (1: 0) 10/10/2015 Zagreb Croatia - Bulgaria 3: 0 (2: 0) 13/10/2015 Sofia Bulgaria - Azerbaijan 2: 0 (1: 0) 13/10/2015 Rome Italy - Norway 2: 1 (0: 1) 13/10/2015 Attard Malta - Croatia 0: 1 (0: 1)

Group I.

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	8th	7th	0	1	011: 500	+6	21st
2.	Albania 1	8th	4th	2	2	010: 500	+5	14th
3.	Denmark	8th	3	3	2	008: 500	+3	12
4th	Serbia 1	8th	2	1	5	008:130	−5	04th
5.	Armenia	8th	0	2	6th	005:140	−9	02

¹The game on October 14, 2014 between Serbia and Albania (canceled when the score was 0-0) was rated 3-0 goals for Albania. Serbia was also deducted three points because of the incidents surrounding the game. The judgment was passed by the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS), which partially revised a decision by UEFA.

game schedule

07.09.2014 Copenhagen Denmark - Armenia 2: 1 (0: 0) 07.09.2014 Aveiro Portugal - Albania 0: 1 (0: 0) 10/11/2014 Yerevan Armenia - Serbia 1: 1 (0: 0) 10/11/2014 Elbasan Albania - Denmark 1: 1 (1: 0) 14/10/2014 Copenhagen Denmark - Portugal 0: 1 (0: 0) 14/10/2014 Belgrade Serbia - Albania 0: 3 (valuation) 1 11/14/2014 Faro Portugal - Armenia 1: 0 (0: 0) 11/14/2014 Belgrade Serbia - Denmark 1: 3 (1: 0) 03/29/2015 Elbasan Albania - Armenia 2: 1 (0: 1) 03/29/2015 Lisbon Portugal - Serbia 2: 1 (1: 0)

06/13/2015 Yerevan Armenia - Portugal 2: 3 (1: 1) 06/13/2015 Copenhagen Denmark - Serbia 2: 0 (1: 0) 04.09.2015 Copenhagen Denmark - Albania 0-0 04.09.2015 Novi Sad Serbia - Armenia 2: 0 (1: 0) 07.09.2015 Yerevan Armenia - Denmark 0-0 07.09.2015 Elbasan Albania - Portugal 0: 1 (0: 0) 08/10/2015 Elbasan Albania - Serbia 0: 2 (0: 0) 08/10/2015 Braga Portugal - Denmark 1: 0 (0: 0) 10/11/2015 Yerevan Armenia - Albania 0: 3 (0: 2) 10/11/2015 Belgrade Serbia - Portugal 1: 2 (0: 1)

Note: The free team played a friendly match against European championship hosts France on the match day .

Relegation

Ranking of third party groups

In order to make all third parties comparable, in the groups of six (groups A - H) the games of the third party against the bottom of the group were not taken into account. The best third party qualified directly for the European Championship finals. The other eight thirds in the group determined four more finalists in play-offs.

Direct participation in the European Football Championship 2016

Participation in the play-offs

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points	group	Group sixth
1.	Turkey	8th	5	1	2	012: 700	+5	16	A.	Latvia
2.	Hungary	8th	4th	3	1	008: 500	+3	15th	F.	Greece
3.	Ukraine	8th	4th	1	3	011: 400	+7	13	C.	Macedonia
4th	Norway	8th	4th	1	3	008:100	−2	13	H	Malta
5.	Denmark	8th	3	3	2	008: 500	+3	12	I.	-
6th	Sweden	8th	3	3	2	011: 900	+2	12	G	Moldova
7th	Ireland	8th	3	3	2	008: 700	+1	12	D.	Gibraltar
8th.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8th	3	2	3	011:120	−1	11	B.	Andorra
9.	Slovenia	8th	3	1	4th	010:110	−1	10	E.	San Marino

Playoffs

The eight teams participating in the play-offs were divided into four seeded and four unseeded teams according to the UEFA coefficient . Ukraine, Sweden, Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina were seeded, while Slovenia, Denmark, Ireland and Norway were unset. The draw for the games took place in Nyon on October 18, 2015 . The play-off games took place from November 12th to 17th, 2015.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Ukraine	3: 1	Slovenia	2: 0 (1: 0)	1: 1 (0: 1)
Sweden	4: 3	Denmark	2: 1 (1: 0)	2: 2 (1: 0)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 3	Ireland	1: 1 (0: 0)	0: 2 (0: 1)
Norway	1: 3	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 1)	1: 2 (0: 1)

Overview

Teams qualified directly.

Teams qualified via the play-offs.

Teams were eliminated in the play-offs.

Teams were eliminated in the group stage.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E	Group F.	Group G	Group H.	Group I.
Czech Republic Iceland Turkey	Belgium Wales	Spain Slovakia	Germany Poland	England Switzerland	Northern Ireland Romania	Austria Russia	Italy Croatia	Portugal Albania
		Ukraine	Ireland		Hungary	Sweden
	Bosnia heart.			Slovenia			Norway	Denmark
Netherlands Kazakhstan Latvia	Israel Cyprus Andorra	Belarus Luxembourg Macedonia	Scotland Georgia Gibraltar	Estonia Lithuania San Marino	Finland Faroe Islands Greece	Montenegro Liechtenstein Moldova	Bulgaria Azerbaijan Malta	Serbia Armenia

Five of the 24 participating teams are taking part in a European Championship for the first time: Slovakia, Albania, Iceland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Austria and Ukraine qualified for a European Championship for the first time, but had already played host to the European Championships in 2008 and 2012 respectively . With the Netherlands ( 1988 ), Denmark ( 1992 ) and Greece ( 2004 ), three previous European champions did not qualify. Bulgaria, Latvia, Norway, Scotland, Slovenia and Serbia were also eliminated as participants in previous European championships .

Best goal scorers

Below are the top scorers in European Championship qualification. With the same number of goals, the number of game minutes decided.

rank	player	Gates	Game minutes
1	Robert Lewandowski	13	876
2	Zlatan Ibrahimović	11	814
3	Thomas Müller	9	806
4th	Artyom Djuba	8th	581
5	Edin Džeko	8th	788
6th	Wayne Rooney	7th	669
7th	Marc Janko	7th	675
8th	Kyle Lafferty	7th	752
9	Steven Fletcher	7th	789
10	Gareth Bale	7th	897
11	Danny Welbeck	6th	403
12	Arkadiusz Milik	6th	745
13	Milivoje Novakovič	6th	778
14th	Ivan Perišić	6th	779
15th	Gylfi Sigurðsson	6th	889
16	Andrij Yarmolenko	6th	1055

Web links

• Statistics on uefa.com
• Dossier on Spiegel Online

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ The way to the final. In: uefa.org. UEFA , January 15, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship. (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: uefa.com. UEFA, accessed July 22, 2014 . 
4. ↑ UEFA National Team Ranking. world-results.net, January 29, 2014, accessed on February 26, 2014 (English). 
5. ^ German press agency : RTL broadcasts qualifying games for EM and World Cup. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 11, 2013, accessed on July 16, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Jens Bierschwale, Gunnar Meinhardt , Lutz Wöckener: RTL pays five million euros for an international match. In: welt.de. Die Welt , July 11, 2013, accessed July 16, 2014 . 
7. ^ Israel - Belgium relocated. In: de.uefa.com. UEFA , August 27, 2014, accessed March 25, 2015 . 
8. ^ Against Gibraltar in Nuremberg instead of Bremen. In: kicker.de. Kicker-Sportmagazin , July 25, 2014, accessed on November 16, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Game Russia against Montenegro canceled after a riot. In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , March 28, 2015, accessed on March 28, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Scandalous game counted as a defeat for Montenegro. In: sportschau.de. Sportschau , April 8, 2015, accessed on April 8, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Swastika costs Croatia one point. In: kicker.de. Kicker-Sportmagazin, July 23, 2015, accessed on July 23, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Swastika scandal: points deduction against Croatia suspended. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , September 4, 2015, accessed September 7, 2015 . 
13. ↑ UEFA rejects Croatia's appeal against point deduction. In: orf.at. Österreichischer Rundfunk , September 18, 2015, accessed on September 18, 2015 . 
14. ↑ FOOTBALL: The CAS rejects the appeal filed by the Serbian FA, upholds in part the appeal filed by the Albanian FA: the match Serbia-Albania is deemed to have been forfeited by Serbia (0-3). (PDF) In: tas-cas.org. International Court of Sports , July 10, 2015, accessed September 4, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Schedule. In: uefa.com. UEFA, accessed November 16, 2015 .