2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Football tournament qualification stage 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) July 2023 The 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 2 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Greece, Israel, Switzerland, Moldova, Latvia and Luxembourg. The group was won by Switzerland, who qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Greece entered the UEFA play-off stage. Standings main WDL yes Q SUI SUI SUI GRE GRE GRE LVA LVA LVA ISR ISR ISR LUX LUX LUX MDA MDA 1990 MDA 1990 6 3 1 18 8 6 2 2 20 10 5 2 3 18 15 4 4 2 20 10 1 2 7 4 25 0 3 7 6 18 WC WCPO green1 Qualification to 2010 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to second round 2–1 5–2 2–1 3–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 7–0 3–1 2–2 0–2 1–1 2–0 3–2 2–2 0–3 1–3 0–4 0–0 0–3 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 0–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 complete FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 2010, football - table and standings https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2010/ soccer365.me 8 April 2024 15 December 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241215135343/https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2010/ dead Matches The match schedule was established at a meeting in Israel on 8 January 2008.https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927859.html Yossi Benayoun: 'We should qualify' 2007-11-26 2008-10-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20081008122033/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927859.html dead However, Greece and Latvia failed to come to an agreement on matches between themselves, and, since the match schedule was not finalised by 16 January 2008 deadline, FIFA conducted a random draw to determine the fixtures.FIFA 2010: Discussions on fixture list falterSeptember 2018 InternetArchiveBot yes https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-fifa-qualifiers-idUSSP15063620080117 FIFA draw to decide order of World Cup qualifiers Reuters Mark Ledsom Trevor Huggins 17 January 2008 30 July 2023 The draw took place in Zagreb, Croatia at 16:00 CET on 30 January 2008, the eve of the XXXII Ordinary UEFA Congress.Draw settles disputes FIFA Moldova v Latvia 6 September 2008 19:00 UTC+3 MDA 1990 1–2 Report LVA Alexeev 76 Karlsons 8Astafjevs 22 Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol 4,300 Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland) Israel v Switzerland 6 September 2008 20:55 UTC+3 ISR 2–2 Report SUI Benayoun 73Sahar 90+2 Yakin 45Nkufo 56 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 29,600 Martin Hansson (Sweden) Luxembourg v Greece 6 September 2008 20:15 UTC+2 LUX 0–3 Report GRE Torosidis 36Gekas 45+1Charisteas 76 pen. Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 4,596 Anders Hermansen (Denmark) Moldova v Israel 10 September 2008 20:30 UTC+3 MDA 1990 1–2 Report ISR Picușceac 1 Golan 39Saban 45 Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău 10,500 César Muñiz Fernández (Spain) Latvia v Greece 10 September 2008 21:15 UTC+3 LVA 0–2 Report GRE Gekas 10 49 Skonto Stadions, Riga 8,600 Tony Chapron (France) Switzerland v Luxembourg 10 September 2008 20:30 UTC+2 SUI 1–2 Report LUX Nkufo 43 Strasser 27A. Leweck 87 Letzigrund, Zürich 20,500 Dejan Filipović (Serbia) Switzerland v Latvia 11 October 2008 17:45 UTC+2 SUI 2–1 Report LVA Frei 63Nkufo 73 Ivanovs 71 AFG Arena, St. Gallen 18,026 Lucílio Batista (Portugal) Luxembourg v Israel 11 October 2008 20:15 UTC+2 LUX 1–3 Report ISR Peters 14 Benayoun 2 pen.Golan 54Tuama 81 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 3,562 Igor Egorov (Russia) Greece v Moldova 11 October 2008 21:30 UTC+3 GRE 3–0 Report MDA 1990 Charisteas 31 51Katsouranis 40 Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens 13,684 Espen Berntsen (Norway) Latvia v Israel 15 October 2008 19:00 UTC+3 LVA 1–1 Report ISR Koļesņičenko 89 Benayoun 50 Skonto Stadions, Riga 7,100 Vladimír Hriňák (Slovakia) Luxembourg v Moldova 15 October 2008 20:15 UTC+2 LUX 0–0 Report MDA 1990 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 2,157 Marcin Borski (Poland) Greece v Switzerland 15 October 2008 21:30 UTC+3 GRE 1–2 Report SUI Charisteas 68 Frei 42 pen.Nkufo 77 Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens 28,810 Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain) Luxembourg v Latvia 28 March 2009 17:00 UTC+1 LUX 0–4 Report LVA Karlsons 25Cauņa 48Višņakovs 71Perepļotkins 86 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 2,516 Mark Whitby (Wales) Moldova v Switzerland 28 March 2009 18:45 UTC+2 MDA 1990 0–2 Report SUI Frei 32Fernandes 90+3 Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău 10,500 Dougie McDonald (Scotland) Israel v Greece 28 March 2009 21:00 UTC+2 ISR 1–1 Report GRE Golan 55 Gekas 42 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 38,000 Roberto Rosetti (Italy) Latvia v Luxembourg 1 April 2009 18:30 UTC+3 LVA 2–0 Report LUX Žigajevs 44Verpakovskis 76 Skonto Stadions, Riga 6,700 Fırat Aydınus (Turkey) Greece v Israel 1 April 2009 21:30 UTC+3 GRE 2–1 Report ISR Salpingidis 32Samaras 67 pen. Barda 60 Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion 22,794 Olegário Benquerença (Portugal) Switzerland v Moldova 1 April 2009 20:30 UTC+2 SUI 2–0 Report MDA 1990 Nkufo 20Frei 52 Stade de Genève, Geneva 20,100 Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) Moldova v Luxembourg 5 September 2009 19:00 UTC+3 MDA 1990 0–0 Report LUX Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău 7,820 Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania) Israel v Latvia 5 September 2009 21:00 UTC+3 ISR 0–1 Report LVA Gorkšs 59 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 20,000 Knut Kircher (Germany) Switzerland v Greece 5 September 2009 20:30 UTC+2 SUI 2–0 Report GRE Grichting 84Padalino 87 St. Jakob-Park, Basel 38,500 Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium) Israel v Luxembourg 9 September 2009 21:00 UTC+3 ISR 7–0 Report LUX Barda 9 21 43Baruchyan 15Golan 58Sahar 62 84 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 7,038 Michael Svendsen (Denmark) Latvia v Switzerland 9 September 2009 21:30 UTC+3 LVA 2–2 Report SUI Cauņa 62 Astafjevs 75 Frei 43 Derdiyok 80 Skonto Stadions, Riga 8,600 Pavel Královec (Czech Republic) Moldova v Greece 9 September 2009 21:30 UTC+3 MDA 1990 1–1 Report GRE Andronic 90 Gekas 33 Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău 9,870 Daniel Stålhammar (Sweden) Luxembourg v Switzerland 10 October 2009 17:45 UTC+2 LUX 0–3 Report SUI Senderos 6 8Huggel 22 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City 8,031 Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain) Israel v Moldova 10 October 2009 21:00 UTC+2 ISR 3–1 Report MDA 1990 Barda 22 70Ben Dayan 65 Calincov 90+2 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 8,700 Kevin Blom (Netherlands) Greece v Latvia 10 October 2009 21:30 UTC+3 GRE 5–2 Report LVA Gekas 4 47 pen. 57 90+1Samaras 73 Verpakovskis 12 40 Olympic Stadium, Athens 18,981 Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway) Greece v Luxembourg 14 October 2009 21:00 UTC+3 GRE 2–1 Report LUX Torosidis 30Gekas 33 Papadopoulos 90 o.g. Olympic Stadium, Athens 13,932 Darko Čeferin (Slovenia) Latvia v Moldova 14 October 2009 21:00 UTC+3 LVA 3–2 Report MDA 1990 Rubins 32 44Grebis 76 Ovseannicov 25Sofroni 90 Skonto Stadions, Riga 3,800 Jouni Hyytiä (Finland) Switzerland v Israel 14 October 2009 20:00 UTC+2 SUI 0–0 Report ISR St. Jakob-Park, Basel 38,500 Alexandru Tudor (Romania) Goalscorers 86 30 GRE Theofanis Gekas ISR Elyaniv Barda SUI Alexander Frei SUI Blaise Nkufo GRE Angelos Charisteas ISR Omer Golan ISR Yossi Benayoun ISR Ben Sahar LVA Māris Verpakovskis GRE Georgios Samaras GRE Vasilis Torosidis LVA Vitālijs Astafjevs LVA Aleksandrs Cauņa LVA Ģirts Karlsons LVA Andrejs Rubins SUI Philippe Senderos GRE Kostas Katsouranis GRE Dimitris Salpingidis ISR Aviram Baruchyan ISR David Ben Dayan ISR Klemi Saban ISR Salim Tuama LVA Kaspars Gorkšs LVA Kristaps Grebis LVA Deniss Ivanovs LVA Vladimirs Koļesņičenko LVA Andrejs Perepļotkins LVA Aleksejs Višņakovs LVA Jurijs Žigajevs LUX Fons Leweck LUX René Peters LUX Jeff Strasser MDA 1990 Serghei Alexeev MDA 1990 Valeriu Andronic MDA 1990 Denis Calincov MDA 1990 Gheorghe Ovseannicov MDA 1990 Igor Picușceac MDA 1990 Veaceslav Sofroni SUI Eren Derdiyok SUI Gelson Fernandes SUI Stéphane Grichting SUI Benjamin Huggel SUI Marco Padalino SUI Hakan Yakin GRE Avraam Papadopoulos (against Luxembourg) Attendances Team Highest Lowest Average GRE 28,810 13,684 19,640 ISR 38,000 7,038 20,668 LVA 8,600 3,600 6,960 LUX 8,031 2,157 4,172 MDA 1990 10,500 4,300 8,598 SUI civil 38,500 18,026 27,125 References 2 Category:2008–09 in Israeli football Category:2009–10 in Israeli football Category:2008–09 in Greek football qual Category:2008–09 in Moldovan football Category:2009–10 in Moldovan football Category:2008–09 in Luxembourgian football Category:2009–10 in Luxembourgian football Category:2008–09 in Swiss football qual Category:2008 in Latvian football Category:2009 in Latvian football