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UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying

The qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 2012 was a series of parallel association football competitions held in Poland and Ukraine between 2010 and 2011 to decide the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 2012. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 7 February 2010 in the Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, with matches set to take place between August 2010 and November 2011.

Two host countries qualified automatically. For the first qualifying round, there were nine groups. Six of these groups had six teams (one from pots 1 to 6 below); the remaining three groups consisted of five teams (one each from pots 1 to 5 below). The group competition was a double round robin: each team hosted a game with every other team in its group. Each group winner qualified, along with the second-place team with the most points against teams ranked in the top five in the group. The remaining eight second-place teams were paired for two-game play-offs, with the winner of each total goals tie (or away goals rule, or penalty shootout) qualifying for the finals to complete the field of sixteen teams.

Qualified teams

Euro 2012 qualifiers
  Qualified
  Did not qualify
  Did not enter
  Not a UEFA member


  1. ^ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
  2. ^ From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed as West Germany.
  3. ^ From 1960 to 1988, Russia competed as the Soviet Union, and in 1992 as CIS.
  4. ^ From 1960 to 1980, the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.

Seedings

The pot allocations for the qualifying group stage draw were based on the UEFA national team coefficient rankings as of the end of 2009. The sole exception was the automatic placement of Spain, as reigning European champions, as the top-ranked team (their coefficient ranking would have also placed them in this position anyway).[1][2][3] Each nation's coefficient was generated by calculating:[4]

The 51 entrants were divided into the following six pots for the drawing of nine qualifying groups on 7 February 2010 in Warsaw, Poland:[5]

Notes

Before the draw UEFA confirmed that, for political reasons, Armenia would not be drawn against Azerbaijan (due to the dispute concerning territory of Nagorno-Karabakh) and Georgia would not be drawn against Russia (due to the dispute regarding the territory of South Ossetia).[6]

Armenia and Azerbaijan were drawn together in Group A during the draw ceremony, forcing UEFA to reassign Armenia to Group B, as Azerbaijan had refused to play in Armenia when they had been drawn together during UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying.[7]

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.[8]

  1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
  3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  5. if, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two or more teams still had an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) was reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 6) to 10) applied;
  6. superior goal difference in all group matches;
  7. higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  8. higher number of goals scored away from home in all group matches;
  9. fair play ranking in all group matches;
  10. drawing of lots.

Summary

  Group winners and the best ranked runner-up qualified directly for UEFA Euro 2012
  The remaining runners-up advanced to the play-offs
  Other teams were eliminated after the qualifying group stage

Groups

The following 18 dates were reserved for group matches in qualifying:

For the first time, Tuesday evenings replaced Wednesday evenings for midweek qualifying fixtures where two matchdays occurred in the same week. This was in order to allow players an extra day to return to their clubs for domestic duty the following week. Consequently, teams were permitted to move the earlier weekend match forward to the Friday evening.[9][10][11]

Group A

Source: UEFA

Group B

Source: UEFA

Group C

Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. ^ The Italy v Serbia match was abandoned at 0–0 after six minutes due to rioting by Serbian fans.[12] The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body awarded the match as a 3–0 forfeit win to Italy.[13]

Group D

Source: UEFA

Group E

Source: UEFA

Group F

Source: UEFA

Group G

Source: UEFA

Group H

Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Tied on head-to-head results. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.

Group I

Source: UEFA

Ranking of second-placed teams

The highest ranked second placed team from the groups qualified automatically for the tournament, while the remainder entered the play-offs. As six groups contain six teams and three with five, matches against the sixth-placed team in each group were not included in this ranking. As a result, a total of eight matches played by each team count toward the purpose of the second-placed ranking table.

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fifth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) UEFA national team coefficient ranking; 6) Lower disciplinary points total; 7) Drawing of lots.

Play-offs

The eight remaining second-placed teams contested two-legged play-offs to determine the last four qualifiers for the finals. The teams were seeded for the play-off draw according to the UEFA national team coefficient rankings updated after the completion of the qualifying group stage. The draw for the play-offs was held on 13 October 2011 in Kraków, Poland.[14]

Seedings

The seedings were as follows:[15]

Matches

The first legs were played on 11 November, and the second legs were played on 15 November 2011. The four play-off winners qualified for the final tournament.

Goalscorers

There were 665 goals scored in 248 matches, for an average of 2.68 goals per match.[note 1]

12 goals

9 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes

  1. ^ a b The goal tally takes into account the original result of fixtures that were subsequently forfeited, not the awarded scoreline.

References

  1. ^ UEFA.com (5 February 2010). "Spain among top draw seeds | UEFA EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  2. ^ UEFA.com (2 December 2009). "UEFA EURO 2012™ Qualifying Draw | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  3. ^ UEFA.com (20 September 2009). "UEFA EURO 2012™ qualifying draw procedure approved | UEFA EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  4. ^ "National Team Coefficients Overview" (PDF). UEFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2009.
  5. ^ "EURO 2012 qualifying draw in full". UEFA.
  6. ^ "Azerbaijan, Armenia not to be drawn together in Euro qualifiers". news.az. 11 December 2009. Archived from the original on 15 December 2009.
  7. ^ "Hiddink sad UEFA kept ex-Soviet states apart". ESPN Soccernet. 7 February 2010. Archived from the original on 12 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2010–12" (PDF). UEFA. September 2009. pp. 6–7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  9. ^ Staff (25 March 2010). "England and Wales Euro 2012 qualifying fixtures announced". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  10. ^ Jackson, Jamie (25 March 2010). "England fans upset by decision to switch Euro 2012 games to a Friday". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  11. ^ UEFA.com (12 August 2010). "EURO qualifying to start in earnest | UEFA EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  12. ^ "Italy-Serbia match abandoned due to crowd trouble". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 12 October 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  13. ^ "UEFA decision on Italy-Serbia case". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  14. ^ "Draw for the UEFA EURO 2012 play-offs". UEFA. 13 October 2011.
  15. ^ "Seedings confirmed for EURO play-off draw". UEFA. 12 October 2011.

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