UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group J

Group J 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 J consisted of six teams: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovakia. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.[1]

The top two teams, Portugal and Slovakia, 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, of which Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland and Luxembourg qualified for the playoffs. This meant that the only team which was eliminated after the group stage matches in this group was Liechtenstein.

Portugal won all ten of their matches, becoming the eighth national side to qualify for a European Championship with a 100% record, and the ninth instance, after France (1992 and 2004), Czech Republic (2000), Germany, Spain (both 2012), England (2016), Italy and Belgium (both 2020).

Standings

Pos Team
  • v
  • t
  • e
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Portugal Slovakia Luxembourg Iceland Bosnia and Herzegovina Liechtenstein
1  Portugal 10 10 0 0 36 2 +34 30 Qualify for final tournament — 3–2 9–0 2–0 3–0 4–0
2  Slovakia 10 7 1 2 17 8 +9 22 0–1 — 0–0 4–2 2–0 3–0
3  Luxembourg 10 5 2 3 13 19 −6 17 Advance to play-offs via Nations League 0–6 0–1 — 3–1 4–1 2–0
4  Iceland 10 3 1 6 17 16 +1 10 0–1 1–2 1–1 — 1–0 4–0
5  Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 3 0 7 9 20 −11 9 0–5 1–2 0–2 3–0 — 2–1
6  Liechtenstein 10 0 0 10 1 28 −27 0 0–2 0–1 0–1 0–7 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day after the draw.[2][3][4] Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Bosnia and Herzegovina 3–0 Iceland
 Report
Attendance: 9,234[5]
Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
Portugal 4–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Slovakia 0–0 Luxembourg
Report
Attendance: 3,523[7]
Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)
Liechtenstein 0–7 Iceland
Report
Attendance: 1,692[8]
Luxembourg 0–6 Portugal
Report
Attendance: 9,231[9]
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)
Slovakia 2–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Report
Attendance: 6,052[10]
Luxembourg 2–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 6,806[11]
Referee: Oleksii Derevinskyi (Ukraine)
Iceland 1–2 Slovakia
Finnbogason 41' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 7,555[12]
Referee: Donald Robertson (Scotland)
Portugal 3–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Report
Attendance: 55,058[13]
Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–2 Luxembourg
Report
Attendance: 8,600[14]
Referee: Gal Leibovitz (Israel)
Iceland 0–1 Portugal
Report
Attendance: 9,517[15]
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)
Liechtenstein 0–1 Slovakia
Report
Attendance: 2,316[16]
Referee: Yigal Frid (Israel)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2–1 Liechtenstein
Report
Attendance: 6,189[17]
Referee: Sayat Karabayev (Kazakhstan)
Luxembourg 3–1 Iceland
 Report
Attendance: 7,427[18]
Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)
Slovakia 0–1 Portugal
Report
Attendance: 21,473[19]
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
Iceland 1–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Report
Attendance: 5,229[20]
Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)
Portugal 9–0 Luxembourg
 Report
Attendance: 18,932[21]
Referee: John Brooks (England)
Slovakia 3–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 13,679[22]
Referee: Sander van der Eijk (Netherlands)
Iceland 1–1 Luxembourg
Report
  • G. Rodrigues 46'
Attendance: 4,568[23]
Referee: Sebastian Gishamer (Austria)
Liechtenstein 0–2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Report
Attendance: 5,874[24]
Referee: Damian Sylwestrzak (Poland)
Portugal 3–2 Slovakia
 Report
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–5 Portugal
Report
Iceland 4–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Luxembourg 0–1 Slovakia
Report
Liechtenstein 0–2 Portugal
Report
Luxembourg 4–1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Report
Slovakia 4–2 Iceland
 Report
Attendance: 21,548[31]
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–2 Slovakia
Report
Attendance: 3,800[32]
Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)
Liechtenstein 0–1 Luxembourg
Report
  • G. Rodrigues 69'
Portugal 2–0 Iceland
 Report
Attendance: 45,655[34]
Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)

Goalscorers

There were 93 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

10 goals

6 goals

5 goals

  • Luxembourg Gerson Rodrigues

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 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)
 Iceland Aron Gunnarsson Red card vs Albania in 2022–23 UEFA Nations League (27 September 2022) vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (23 March 2023)
Willum Þór Willumsson Yellow card Red card vs Portugal on (20 June 2023) vs Luxembourg (8 September 2023)
Hördur Magnússon Yellow card Red card vs Luxembourg (8 September 2023) vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (11 September 2023)
 Luxembourg Christopher Martins Yellow card vs Portugal (26 March 2023)
Yellow card vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (20 June 2023)
Yellow card vs Iceland (8 September 2023)		 vs Portugal (11 September 2023)
Enes Mahmutović Yellow card vs Iceland (8 September 2023)
Yellow card vs Portugal (11 September 2023)
Yellow card vs Iceland (13 October 2023)		 vs Slovakia (16 October 2023)
Vincent Thill Yellow card vs Portugal (26 March 2023)
Yellow card vs Portugal (11 September 2023)
Yellow card vs Slovakia (16 October 2023)		 vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (16 November 2023)
Laurent Jans Yellow card vs Slovakia (23 March 2023)
Yellow card vs Liechtenstein (17 June 2023)
Yellow card vs Slovakia (16 October 2023)
 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Yellow card vs Luxembourg (26 March 2023)
Yellow card vs Iceland (20 June 2023)
Yellow card vs Slovakia (8 September 2023)		 vs Luxembourg (11 September 2023)
 Slovakia Peter Pekarík Yellow card vs Iceland (16 June 2023)
Yellow card vs Portugal (13 October 2023)
Yellow card vs Luxembourg (16 October 2023)		 vs Iceland (16 November 2023)
Patrik Hrošovský Yellow card vs Liechtenstein (11 September 2023)
Yellow card vs Portugal (13 October 2023)
Yellow card vs Luxembourg (16 October 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).

References

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  28. ^ "Luxembourg vs. Slovakia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 16 October 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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  34. ^ "Portugal vs. Iceland" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.

External links

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