2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round

Football qualification rankings The UEFA second round was contested by the best eight runners-up from the nine first-round groups from the UEFA segment of the qualification tournament for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in football. The winners – Croatia, France, Greece, and Portugal – of each of four home and away ties joined the group winners in the World Cup in Brazil. The matches, which are often referred to as 'play-offs', were held on 15 and 19 November 2013. The draw for the ties was held in Zürich on 21 October,https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=2109736/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130618200917/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=2109736/index.html dead June 18, 2013 Dates set for African and European qualifying draws FIFA 2013-06-15 with the October 2013 FIFA World Rankings used to decide which of the teams would be seeded. Qualified teams The eight best runners-up from the UEFA first round qualified for the play-offs; with one group having one team fewer than the others, matches against the sixth-placed team in each First Round group did not count for this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of ranking the runners-up (below table). Ranking of second-placed teams The eight best runners-up were determined by the following parameters in this order: Highest number of points Goal difference Highest number of goals scored Group runners-up no_hide_class_rules Seeding and draw The second round draw took place at the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich on 21 October at 14:00 UTC+2, and was conducted by Gordon Savic, Head of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, with the assistance of former Switzerland international Alexander Frei.Watch the European play-off draw on FIFA.com https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2199207/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131021035503/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2199207/index.html dead October 21, 2013 UEFA 21 October 2013 18 October 20132014 FIFA World Cup Brazil – Preliminary Competition Format and Draw Procedures – European Zone https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/44/46/23/2014fwc_drawprocedures_europe_en.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110921174920/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/44/46/23/2014fwc%5fdrawprocedures%5feurope%5fen.pdf dead September 21, 2011 FIFA.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association 29 July 2011 23 January 2012 October 2013 FIFA World Rankings were used to decide which of the teams would be seeded (shown below in brackets).https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2201358/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131021135046/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2201358/index.html dead October 21, 2013 European hopefuls learn play-off fate FIFA.com 21 October 2013https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/21/world-cup-2014-play-offs-draw-live World Cup 2014 play-offs draw – live! 21 October 2013 Guardian UK 22 October 2013 The following teams participated in the second round:World Cup play-off seeds confirmed http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=2011261.html https://archive.today/20131017115743/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=2011261.html dead October 17, 2013 UEFA 17 October 2013 17 October 2013https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2198420/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131017162000/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2198420/index.html dead October 17, 2013 European play-off draw procedures explained FIFA.com 17 October 2013 + Pot 1 (seeded) Team Rank Position in the October 2013 FIFA World Rankings POR 14 GRE 15 CRO 18 UKR 20 + Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Rank Position in the October 2013 FIFA World Rankings FRA 1974 21 SWE 25 ROU 29 ISL 46 Matches POR 4–2 SWE 1–0 3–2 UKR 2–3 FRA 1974 2–0 0–3 GRE 4–2 ROU 3–1 1–1 ISL 0–2 CRO 0–0 0–2 |} Portugal v Sweden 15 November 2013 19:45 UTC±0 POR 1–0 Report SWE Ronaldo 82 Estádio da Luz, Lisbon 61,467 Nicola Rizzoli (Italy) Sweden v Portugal 19 November 2013 20:45 UTC+1 SWE 2–3 Report POR Ibrahimović 68 72 Ronaldo 50 77 79 Friends Arena, Solna 49,766 Howard Webb (England) Portugal won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ukraine v France 15 November 2013 21:45 UTC+2 UKR 2–0 Report FRA 1974 Zozulya 62Yarmolenko 82 pen. Olympic Stadium, Kyiv 67,732 Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey) France v Ukraine 19 November 2013 21:00 UTC+1 FRA 1974 3–0 Report UKR Sakho 22 72Benzema 34 Stade de France, Saint-Denis 77,098 Damir Skomina (Slovenia) France won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Greece v Romania 15 November 2013 21:45 UTC+2 GRE 3–1 Report ROU Mitroglou 14 67Salpingidis 21 Stancu 19 Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens 26,200 Pedro Proença (Portugal) Romania v Greece 19 November 2013 21:00 UTC+2 ROU 1–1 Report GRE Torosidis 55 o.g. Mitroglou 23 Arena Națională, Bucharest 49,793 Milorad Mažić (Serbia) Greece won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Iceland v Croatia 15 November 2013 19:00 UTC±0 ISL 0–0 Report CRO Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík 9,767 Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain) Croatia v Iceland 19 November 2013 20:15 UTC+1 CRO 2–0 Report ISL Mandžukić 27Srna 47 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 22,612 Björn Kuipers (Netherlands) Croatia won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Discipline Pos Player Country Suspended for match(es) Reason DF Birkir Már Sævarsson ISL 2 0 vs Croatia (15 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches MF Ognjen Vukojević CRO 2 0 vs Iceland (15 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches FW Panagiotis Kone GRC 2 0 vs Romania (15 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches MF Ólafur Ingi Skúlason ISL 0 1 vs Croatia (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match FW Mario Mandžukić CRO 0 1 vs Brazil (12 June 2014) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match MF Costin Lazăr ROU 2 1 vs Greece (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match DF Laurent Koscielny FRA 1974 0 1 vs Ukraine (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match DF Artem Fedetskyi UKR 2 0 vs France (19 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying match DF Oleksandr Kucher UKR 2 1 vs France (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match Goalscorers 8 19 POR Cristiano Ronaldo GRE Kostas Mitroglou FRA 1974 Mamadou Sakho SWE Zlatan Ibrahimović CRO Mario Mandžukić CRO Darijo Srna FRA 1974 Karim Benzema GRE Dimitris Salpingidis ROU Bogdan Stancu UKR Andriy Yarmolenko UKR Roman Zozulya GRE Vasilis Torosidis (against Romania) References External links Results and schedule (FIFA.com version) Results and schedule (UEFA.com version) play-off Play Play Category:2013–14 in Ukrainian football playoff Category:2013–14 in Romanian football Playoff Category:2013 in Swedish football Category:2013 in Icelandic football Category:November 2013 sports events in Europe Category:November 2013 in sports 2014 2014 2014