2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

June 2022 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 7 September 2012 – 19 November 2013 53 1 268 749 6145801 NED Robin van Persie(11 goals) 2010 2018 FIFA The European zone of qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup saw 53 teams competing for 13 places in the finals in Brazil. The draw for the qualification groups was held during the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 July 2011. The qualification format was the same as 2010. The teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five, with the nine group winners qualifying directly for the final tournament. The eight best runners-up (determined by records against the first-, third-, fourth- and fifth-placed teams in their groups to ensure equity between different groups) were drawn in two-legged play-offs that determined the remaining four qualifying nations.2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil – Preliminary Competition Format and Draw Procedures – 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 21 September 2011 FIFA 29 July 2011 23 January 2012 The qualification process started on 7 September 2012, over two months after the end of UEFA Euro 2012, and ended on 19 November 2013. Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland qualified in the first round by winning their groups. Croatia, France, Greece, and Portugal qualified via the second round play-offs. Format All 53 UEFA national teams entered qualification, aiming to secure one of the 13 European Zone slots for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The draw for the qualification groups was held at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 July 2011. The qualification format was the same as 2010. The teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five, with the nine group winners qualifying directly for the final tournament. The eight best runners-up (determined by records against the first-, third-, fourth- and fifth-placed teams in their groups to ensure equity between different groups) were drawn in two-legged play-offs that determined the remaining four qualifying nations. Seeding The July 2011 FIFA World Rankings were used to seed the teams. In consideration of the delicate political situations of the relationships between Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as relations between Russia and Georgia, UEFA requested that FIFA maintain the current UEFA policy not to draw these teams into the same qualification groups – although as Armenia and Azerbaijan were in the same pot they could not be drawn together anyway. The mechanism for keeping Russia and Georgia apart was confirmed by the FIFA Organising Committee on 29 July 2011. + Pot A Team Rank Position in the July 2011 FIFA World Ranking ESP 1 NED 2 GER 3 ENG 6 POR 7 ITA 8 CRO 9 NOR 12 GRE 13+ Pot B Team Rank Position in the July 2011 FIFA World Ranking FRA 1974 16 MNE 17 RUS 18 SWE 19 DEN 21 SVN 22 TUR 24 SER 27 SVK 29+ Pot C Team Rank Position in the July 2011 FIFA World Ranking SUI 30 ISR 32 IRL 33 BEL 37 CZE 38 BIH 41 BLR 42 UKR 45 HUN 47+ Pot D Team Rank Position in the July 2011 FIFA World Ranking BUL 48 ROU 53 GEO 57 LTU 58 ALB 59 SCO 61 NIR 62 AUT 66 POL 69+ Pot E Team Rank Position in the July 2011 FIFA World Ranking ARM 70 FIN 75 EST 79 CYP 80 LVA 84 MLD 85 MKD Macedonia 96 AZE 111 FRO 112+ Pot F Team Rank Position in the July 2011 FIFA World Ranking WAL 112 LIE 118 ISL 121 KAZ 126 LUX 128 MLT 173 AND 203 SMR 203 First round The matches were played between 7 September 2012 and 15 October 2013. An initial schedule that includes matches before this date was not ratified by FIFA. A win was awarded 3 points, a draw was awarded 1 point, and a loss 0. The team with the most points in each group secured direct qualification for the final tournament of the World Cup. Summary #ccffcc Winner of each group qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup #BBF3FF The eight best runners-up among all nine groups advanced to the second round (play-offs) #ffcccc Other teams were eliminated after the first round Group AGroup BGroup CGroup DGroup EGroup FGroup GGroup HGroup IBELITAGERNEDSWIRUSBIHENGESPCRODENSWEROUISLPORGREUKRFRA 1974SRBSCOWALMKD MacedoniaCZEBULARMMLTAUTIRLKAZFROHUNTURESTANDSVNNORALBCYPISRAZENIRLUXSVKLTULVALIEMNEPOLMDASMRFINGEOBLR Groups Tie-breaking criteria If two teams had the same number of points the criteria below were used. Tie-breaking criteria for group playThe ranking in each group is determined as follows:https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/Regulations/01/87/54/21/1875421_DOWNLOAD.pdf Regulations 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil FIFA 27 8 June 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20121030014215/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/Regulations/01/87/54/21/1875421_DOWNLOAD.pdf 30 October 2012 live a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches; b) goal difference in all group matches; c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches. If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings shall be determined as follows: d) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned; e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned; f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned; g) greater number of goals scored away from home between the teams concerned (if the tie is only between two teams) Group A 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A Group B 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B Group C 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C Group D 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group D Group E 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group E Group F 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group F Group G 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group G Group H 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group H Group I 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group I Second round 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round Group runners-up The eight best group runners-up contested the second round, where they were paired into four two-legged (home-and-away) fixtures. The four winners qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Because one group had one team fewer than the others, matches against the last-placed team in each of the six-team groups were not included in this ranking. Teams were ranked by the following parameters in order: Highest number of points Goal difference Highest number of goals scored main WDL Q Group runners-up y GRE GRE G FRA FRA 1974 I POR POR F UKR UKR H SWE SWE C ISL ISL E ROU ROU D CRO CRO A DEN DEN B 6 1 1 9 4 5 2 1 15 6 4 3 1 15 8 4 3 1 11 4 4 2 2 15 13 4 2 2 15 14 4 1 3 11 12 3 2 3 9 8 2 4 2 9 11 PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO blue1 Advance to second round (play-offs) complete FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 2014, football - table and standings https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2014/ soccer365.me 4 April 2024 Matches The second round draw took place at the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich on 21 October 2013.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 18 June 2013 Dates set for African and European qualifying draws FIFA 2013-06-15 The October 2013 FIFA World Rankings were used to decide which of the teams would be seeded (shown below in brackets). + Pot 1 (seeded) Team Pos Position in the October 2013 FIFA World Rankings POR 14 GRE 15 CRO 18 UKR 20 + Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Pos Position in the October 2013 FIFA World Rankings FRA 1974 21 SWE 25 ROU 29 ISL 46 One team from pot 1 was paired with one from pot 2 as shown below. The matches were played on 15 and 19 November 2013.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 21 October 2013 European hopefuls learn play-off fate FIFA 21 October 2013 Winners: Portugal, France, Greece and Croatia as shown in bold. 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 |} Qualified teams The following 13 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament. Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA World Cup1 BEL A Group A winners 11 October 2013 11 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002) ITA B Group B winners 10 September 2013 17 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010) GER C Group C winners 11 October 2013 1 17 (1934, 1938, 19543, 19583, 19623, 19663, 19703, 19743, 19783, 19823, 19863, 19903, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010) NED D Group D winners 10 September 2013 9 (1934, 1938, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2010) SUI E Group E winners 11 October 2013 9 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1994, 2006, 2010) RUS F Group F winners 15 October 2013 9 (19582, 19622, 19662, 19702, 19822, 19862, 19902, 1994, 2002) BIH G Group G winners 15 October 2013 2 0 (debut) ENG H Group H winners 15 October 2013 2 13 (1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010) ESP I Group I winners 15 October 2013 13 (1934, 1950, 1962, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010) GRE PO1 Second round (play-off) winners 19 November 2013 1 2 (1994, 2010) CRO PO2 Second round (play-off) winners 19 November 2013 2 3 (1998, 2002, 2006) POR PO3 Second round (play-off) winners 19 November 2013 1 5 (1966, 1986, 2002, 2006, 2010) FRA 1974 PO4 Second round (play-off) winners 19 November 2013 2 13 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. 2 Competed as Soviet Union. 3 Competed as West Germany. A separate team for East Germany also participated in qualifications during this time, having only competed in 1974. Discipline In the qualification tournament, a player would be suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for either getting red card or accumulating two yellow cards in two different matches. UEFA's Control and Disciplinary body has the ability to increase the automatic one match ban for a red card (e.g., for violent conduct). Single yellow card cautions would be erased prior to the play-off portion, and would not carry over. Single yellow cards and suspensions for yellow card accumulations do not carry over to the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament matches.https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/euro/91/87/57/918757_download.pdf Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2010–12 UEFA 27 18 June 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20100215034039/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/euro/91/87/57/918757_download.pdf 15 February 2010 dead The following players were suspended during the final tournament – for one or more games – as a result of red cards or yellow card accumulations: PlayerOffencesSuspensionsIRL Keith Andrews2 UEFA Euro 2012 v ItalyGroup C v KazakhstanARM Roman Berezovsky0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying v Republic of IrelandGroup B v MaltaWAL James Collins0 v BelgiumGroup A v SerbiaAND Marc Vales2 v HungaryGroup D v RomaniaCHE Tranquillo Barnetta2 v SloveniaGroup E v AlbaniaSVK Viktor Pečovský0 v LithuaniaGroup G v LiechtensteinLTU Tadas Labukas2 v SlovakiaGroup G v GreeceMNE Savo Pavićević0 v PolandGroup H v San MarinoPOL Ludovic Obraniak0 v MontenegroGroup H v MoldovaBUL Svetoslav Dyakov2 v ArmeniaGroup B v DenmarkARM Gevorg Ghazaryan0 v BulgariaGroup B v ItalyARM Marcos Pizzelli0 v BulgariaGroup B v ItalyEST Enar Jääger0 v TurkeyGroup D v HungaryISL Sölvi Ottesen0 v CyprusGroup E v AlbaniaENG Steven Gerrard2 v UkraineGroup H v San MarinoFIN Alexei Eremenko2 v GeorgiaGroup I v SpainBUL Ivan Bandalovski0 v DenmarkGroup B v Czech RepublicSVN Boštjan Cesar2 v CyprusGroup E v AlbaniaLIE Daniel Kaufmann2 v LatviaGroup G v LatviaSRB Nenad Tomović0 v MacedoniaGroup A v CroatiaITA Pablo Osvaldo0 v DenmarkGroup B v MaltaALB Andi Lila2 v NorwayGroup E v NorwayESP Gerard Piqué0 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup v BrazilGroup I v FinlandMNE Savo Pavicevic2 v UkraineGroup H v PolandMNE Vladimir Volkov2 v UkraineGroup H v PolandUKR Roman Zozulya0 v MontenegroGroup H v San MarinoITA Mario Balotelli2 v Czech RepublicGroup B v BulgariaSWE Andreas Granqvist0 v Faroe IslandsGroup C v Republic of Ireland CRO Josip Šimunić 0 v SerbiaGroup A v BelgiumGroup A v Scotland Top goalscorers 749 268 NED Robin van Persie BIH Edin Džeko BIH Vedad Ibišević GER Mesut Özil POR Cristiano Ronaldo SWE Zlatan Ibrahimović ENG Wayne Rooney AUT David Alaba IRL Robbie Keane ISR Eden Ben Basat ISR Tomer Hemed POR Hélder Postiga BIH Zvjezdan Misimović FRA 1974 Franck Ribéry GER Marco Reus GRE Kostas Mitroglou ITA Mario Balotelli NED Jeremain Lens NED Rafael van der Vaart ROU Ciprian Marica RUS Aleksandr Kerzhakov SVN Milivoje Novaković TUR Umut Bulut TUR Burak Yılmaz UKR Andriy Yarmolenko Below are full goalscorer lists for all groups and the play-off rounds: 22em Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Group G Group H Group I Play-offs References External links Results and schedule (FIFA.com version) Results and schedule (UEFA.com version) UEFA 2014 Category:2012 in European men's international football Category:2013 in European men's international football