UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group F

Group F of UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2024 final tournament in Germany. Group F consisted of five teams: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Estonia, and Sweden. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.[1]

The top two teams, Belgium and Austria, qualified directly for the final tournament. The participants of the qualifying play-offs were decided based on their performance in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League.

Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku broke the record for most goals scored in a UEFA Euro qualifying campaign, with fourteen.[2]

Standings

Pos Team
  • v
  • t
  • e
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Belgium Austria Sweden Azerbaijan Estonia
1  Belgium 8 6 2 0 22 4 +18 20 Qualify for final tournament — 1–1 1–1[a] 5–0 5–0
2  Austria 8 6 1 1 17 7 +10 19 2–3 — 2–0 4–1 2–1
3  Sweden 8 3 1 4 14 12 +2 10 0–3 1–3 — 5–0 2–0
4  Azerbaijan 8 2 1 5 7 17 −10 7 0–1 0–1 3–0 — 1–1
5  Estonia 8 0 1 7 2 22 −20 1 Advance to play-offs via Nations League 0–3 0–2 0–5 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ The Belgium v Sweden match was abandoned at 1–1 at half-time for security reasons, as two Swedish supporters had been killed in a terrorist shooting in Brussels prior to the match; the score was later confirmed as final.[3][4]

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day after the draw.[5][6][7] Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Austria 4–1 Azerbaijan
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Raiffeisen Arena, Linz
Attendance: 16,500[8]
Sweden 0–3 Belgium
Report
Attendance: 49,296[9]
Austria 2–1 Estonia
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Raiffeisen Arena, Linz
Attendance: 16,500[10]
Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)
Sweden 5–0 Azerbaijan
Report
Attendance: 23,674[11]
Azerbaijan 1–1 Estonia
Report
Attendance: 3,900[12]
Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)
Belgium 1–1 Austria
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Austria 2–0 Sweden
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Attendance: 46,300[14]
Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)
Estonia 0–3 Belgium
Report
Attendance: 11,772[15]
Azerbaijan 0–1 Belgium
Report
Attendance: 4,500[16]
Referee: Nenad Minaković (Serbia)
Estonia 0–5 Sweden
Report
Attendance: 11,411[17]
Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)
Belgium 5–0 Estonia
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Sweden 1–3 Austria
  • Holm 90'
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Estonia 0–2 Azerbaijan
Report
Attendance: 5,652[20]
Referee: Robert Schröder (Germany)
Austria 2–3 Belgium
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Azerbaijan 0–1 Austria
Report
Attendance: 4,446[22]
Referee: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Greece)
Belgium 1–1[note 2] Sweden
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Attendance: N/A[23][note 3]
Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)
Azerbaijan 3–0 Sweden
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Estonia 0–2 Austria
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Belgium 5–0 Azerbaijan
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Attendance: 30,276[26]
Referee: Gergő Bogár (Hungary)
Sweden 2–0 Estonia
Report
Attendance: 11,201[27]
Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)

Goalscorers

There were 62 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

14 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:[1]

  • Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
  • Receiving three yellow cards in three different matches, as well as after the fifth and any subsequent yellow card (yellow card suspensions could be carried forward to the play-offs, but not the finals or any other future international matches)

The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:

Team Player Offence(s) Suspended for match(es)
 Austria Guido Burgstaller Yellow card Yellow-red card vs Azerbaijan (16 October 2023) vs Estonia (16 November 2023)
 Belgium Amadou Onana Yellow card Yellow-red card vs Austria (13 October 2023) vs Sweden (16 October 2023)
 Estonia Karol Mets Yellow card vs Azerbaijan (17 June 2023)
Yellow card vs Sweden (9 September 2023)
Yellow card vs Belgium (12 September 2023)		 vs Azerbaijan (13 October 2023)
Mattias Käit Yellow card vs Austria (27 March 2023)
Yellow card vs Azerbaijan (17 June 2023)
Yellow card vs Azerbaijan (13 October 2023)		 vs Austria (16 November 2023)

Notes

  1. ^ CET (UTC+1) for matches until 25 March and from 29 October (matchday 1 and 9–10), and CEST (UTC+2) for matches from 26 March to 28 October 2023 (matchday 2–8).
  2. ^ The Belgium v Sweden match was abandoned at 1–1 at half-time for security reasons, as two Swedish supporters were killed in a terrorist shooting in Brussels before the match; the score was later confirmed as final.[3][4]
  3. ^ Attendance was not made available as the match was abandoned at half-time.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship, 2022–24". Union of European Football Associations. 10 May 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Lukaku sets new European Qualifiers scoring record". UEFA. 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Belgium v Sweden: Euro 2024 qualifier abandoned after Brussels shooting". BBC Sport. 16 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b "European Qualifier match between Belgium and Sweden declared abandoned with half-time result confirmed as final" (Press release). Union of European Football Associations. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  5. ^ "UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying group fixtures". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  6. ^ "European Qualifiers 2022–24, Group stage: Fixture List (by group)" (PDF). Union of European Football Associations. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
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  9. ^ "Sweden vs. Belgium" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 24 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Austria vs. Estonia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Sweden vs. Azerbaijan" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Azerbaijan vs. Estonia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  13. ^ "Belgium vs. Austria" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  14. ^ "Austria vs. Sweden" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  15. ^ "Estonia vs. Belgium" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  16. ^ "Azerbaijan vs. Belgium" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  17. ^ "Estonia vs. Sweden" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  18. ^ "Belgium vs. Estonia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 12 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  19. ^ "Sweden vs. Austria" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 12 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  20. ^ "Estonia vs. Azerbaijan" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  21. ^ "Austria vs. Belgium" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  22. ^ "Azerbaijan vs. Austria" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 16 October 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  23. ^ "Belgium vs. Sweden" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 16 October 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  24. ^ "Azerbaijan vs. Sweden" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 16 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  25. ^ "Estonia vs. Austria" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 16 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  26. ^ "Belgium vs. Azerbaijan" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  27. ^ "Sweden vs. Estonia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.

External links

  • UEFA Euro 2024, UEFA.com
  • European Qualifiers, UEFA.com