UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group C

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The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group C was one of the nine groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament. Group C consisted of six teams: Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, Macedonia, and Luxembourg, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

Originally Gibraltar had been drawn in this group, but were moved to group D due to Spain not being willing to play them because of the disputed status of Gibraltar.

The top two teams, Spain and Slovakia, qualified directly for the finals. As third-placed Ukraine weren’t the highest-ranked among all third-placed teams, they advanced to the play-offs, where they won against Slovenia and thus qualified as well.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	10	9	0	1	23	3	+20	27	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	1–0	3–0	4–0	5–1
2	Slovakia	10	7	1	2	17	8	+9	22			2–1	—	0–0	0–1	3–0	2–1
3	Ukraine	10	6	1	3	14	4	+10	19	Advance to play-offs		0–1	0–1	—	3–1	3–0	1–0
4	Belarus	10	3	2	5	8	14	−6	11			0–1	1–3	0–2	—	2–0	0–0
5	Luxembourg	10	1	1	8	6	27	−21	4			0–4	2–4	0–3	1–1	—	1–0
6	North Macedonia	10	1	1	8	6	18	−12	4			0–1	0–2	0–2	1–2	3–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. ^ a b Tied on head-to-head points (3) and head-to-head goal difference (0). Head-to-head away goals: Luxembourg 2, North Macedonia 0.

Matches

The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 23 February 2014 in Nice. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).

8 September 2014 (2014-09-08)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Luxembourg	1–1	Belarus
Gerson 42′	Report	Drahun 78′

Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg CityAttendance: 3,265Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

8 September 2014 (2014-09-08)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Spain	5–1	Macedonia
Ramos 16′ (pen.) Alcácer 17′ Busquets 45+3′ Silva 50′ Pedro 90+1′	Report	Ibraimi 28′ (pen.)

Ciutat de València, ValenciaAttendance: 18,553Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

8 September 2014 (2014-09-08)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Ukraine	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Mak 17′

Olympic Stadium, KyivAttendance: 38,454Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	0–2	Ukraine
	Report	Martynovich 82′ (o.g.) Sydorchuk 90+3′

Borisov Arena, BarysawAttendance: 10,512Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)

9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Macedonia	3–2	Luxembourg
Trajkovski 20′ Jahović 66′ (pen.) Abdurahimi 90+2′	Report	Bensi 39′ Turpel 44′

Philip II Arena, SkopjeAttendance: 11,500Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)

9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Slovakia	2–1	Spain
Kucka 17′ Stoch 87′	Report	Alcácer 82′

Štadión pod Dubňom, ŽilinaAttendance: 9,478Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

12 October 2014 (2014-10-12)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Ukraine	1–0	Macedonia
Sydorchuk 45+2′	Report

Arena Lviv, LvivAttendance: 33,978Referee: Sébastien Delferière (Belgium)

12 October 2014 (2014-10-12)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	1–3	Slovakia
Kalachev 79′	Report	Hamšík 65′, 84′ Šesták 90+1′

Borisov Arena, BarysawAttendance: 3,684Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)

12 October 2014 (2014-10-12)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Luxembourg	0–4	Spain
	Report	Silva 27′ Alcácer 42′ Costa 69′ Bernat 88′

Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg CityAttendance: 8,125Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)

15 November 2014 (2014-11-15)18:00
(18:00 UTC+1)

Luxembourg	0–3	Ukraine
	Report	Yarmolenko 33′, 53′, 56′

Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg CityAttendance: 4,379Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

15 November 2014 (2014-11-15)20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Macedonia	0–2	Slovakia
	Report	Kucka 25′ Nemec 38′

Philip II Arena, SkopjeAttendance: 11,322Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

15 November 2014 (2014-11-15)20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Spain	3–0	Belarus
Isco 18′ Busquets 19′ Pedro 55′	Report

Nuevo Colombino, HuelvaAttendance: 19,249Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)

27 March 2015 (2015-03-27)20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Macedonia	1–2	Belarus
Trajkovski 9′	Report	Kalachev 44′ Kornilenko 82′

Philip II Arena, SkopjeAttendance: 3,447Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

27 March 2015 (2015-03-27)20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Slovakia	3–0	Luxembourg
Nemec 10′ Weiss 21′ Pekarík 40′	Report

Štadión pod Dubňom, ŽilinaAttendance: 9,524Referee: Stephan Studer (Switzerland)

27 March 2015 (2015-03-27)20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Spain	1–0	Ukraine
Morata 28′	Report

Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, SevilleAttendance: 33,775Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

14 June 2015 (2015-06-14)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Ukraine	3–0	Luxembourg
Kravets 49′ Harmash 57′ Konoplyanka 86′	Report

Arena Lviv, LvivAttendance: 21,635Referee: Arnold Hunter (Northern Ireland)

14 June 2015 (2015-06-14)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	0–1	Spain
	Report	Silva 45′

Borisov Arena, BarysawAttendance: 13,121Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

14 June 2015 (2015-06-14)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Slovakia	2–1	Macedonia
Saláta 8′ Hamšík 38′	Report	Ademi 69′

Štadión pod Dubňom, ŽilinaAttendance: 10,765Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)

5 September 2015 (2015-09-05)18:00
(18:00 UTC+2)

Luxembourg	1–0	Macedonia
Thill 90+2′	Report

Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg CityAttendance: 1,657Referee: Simon Lee Evans (Wales)

5 September 2015 (2015-09-05)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Ukraine	3–1	Belarus
Kravets 7′ Yarmolenko 30′ Konoplyanka 40′ (pen.)	Report	Kornilenko 62′ (pen.)

Arena Lviv, LvivAttendance: 32,648Referee: Liran Liany (Israel)

5 September 2015 (2015-09-05)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Spain	2–0	Slovakia
Alba 5′ Iniesta 30′ (pen.)	Report

Carlos Tartiere, OviedoAttendance: 19,874Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

8 September 2015 (2015-09-08)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	2–0	Luxembourg
Gordeichuk 34′, 62′	Report

Borisov Arena, BarysawAttendance: 3,482Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

8 September 2015 (2015-09-08)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Macedonia	0–1	Spain
	Report	Pačovski 8′ (o.g.)

Philip II Arena, SkopjeAttendance: 28,843Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

8 September 2015 (2015-09-08)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Slovakia	0–0	Ukraine
	Report

Štadión pod Dubňom, ŽilinaAttendance: 10,648Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

9 October 2015 (2015-10-09)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Macedonia	0–2	Ukraine
	Report	Seleznyov 59′ (pen.) Kravets 87′

Philip II Arena, SkopjeAttendance: 4,821Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

9 October 2015 (2015-10-09)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Slovakia	0–1	Belarus
	Report	Drahun 34′

Štadión pod Dubňom, ŽilinaAttendance: 9,859Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)

9 October 2015 (2015-10-09)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Spain	4–0	Luxembourg
Cazorla 42′, 85′ Alcácer 67′, 80′	Report

Las Gaunas, LogroñoAttendance: 14,472Referee: Sébastien Delferière (Belgium)

12 October 2015 (2015-10-12)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	0–0	Macedonia
	Report

Borisov Arena, BarysawAttendance: 1,545Referee: Christian Dingert (Germany)

12 October 2015 (2015-10-12)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Luxembourg	2–4	Slovakia
Mutsch 61′ Gerson 65′ (pen.)	Report	Hamšík 24′, 90+1′ Nemec 29′ Mak 30′

Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg CityAttendance: 2,512Referee: Oliver Drachta (Austria)

12 October 2015 (2015-10-12)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Ukraine	0–1	Spain
	Report	Mario 22′

Olympic Stadium, KyivAttendance: 61,248Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

Goalscorers

There were 74 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.47 goals per match.

5 goals

• Marek Hamšík
• Paco Alcácer

4 goals

• Andriy Yarmolenko

3 goals

• Adam Nemec
• David Silva
• Artem Kravets

2 goals

• Stanislaw Drahun
• Mikhail Gordeichuk
• Timofei Kalachev
• Sergei Kornilenko
• Lars Krogh Gerson
• Aleksandar Trajkovski
• Juraj Kucka
• Róbert Mak
• Sergio Busquets
• Santi Cazorla
• Pedro
• Yevhen Konoplyanka
• Serhiy Sydorchuk

1 goal

• Stefano Bensi
• Mario Mutsch
• Sébastien Thill
• David Turpel
• Besart Abdurahimi
• Arijan Ademi
• Agim Ibraimi
• Adis Jahović
• Peter Pekarík
• Kornel Saláta
• Stanislav Šesták
• Miroslav Stoch
• Vladimír Weiss
• Jordi Alba
• Juan Bernat
• Diego Costa
• Andrés Iniesta
• Isco
• Mario Gaspar
• Álvaro Morata
• Sergio Ramos
• Denys Harmash
• Yevhen Seleznyov

1 own goal

• Alyaksandr Martynovich (against Ukraine)
• Tome Pachovski (against Spain)

Discipline

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

• 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 were 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)
Belarus	Maksim Bardachow	vs Spain (15 November 2014) vs Macedonia (27 March 2015) vs Spain (14 June 2015)	vs Ukraine (5 September 2015)
	Alyaksandr Martynovich	vs Luxembourg (8 September 2014) vs Macedonia (27 March 2015) vs Ukraine (5 September 2015)	vs Luxembourg (8 September 2015)
		vs Slovakia (9 October 2015)	vs Macedonia (12 October 2015)
Luxembourg	Aurélien Joachim	vs Portugal (15 October 2013)	vs Belarus (8 September 2014)
	Mario Mutsch	vs Macedonia (9 October 2014) vs Slovakia (27 March 2015) vs Ukraine (14 June 2015)	vs Macedonia (5 September 2015)
	Christopher Martins	vs Belarus (8 September 2014) vs Ukraine (15 November 2014) vs Macedonia (5 September 2015)	vs Belarus (8 September 2015)
	Chris Philipps	vs Belarus (8 September 2014) vs Macedonia (9 October 2014) vs Belarus (8 September 2015)	vs Spain (9 October 2015)
	Daniel da Mota	vs Belarus (8 September 2014) vs Ukraine (14 June 2015) vs Spain (9 October 2015)	vs Slovakia (12 October 2015)
Macedonia	Ferhan Hasani	vs Slovakia (14 June 2014)	vs Luxembourg (5 September 2015)
	Besart Abdurahimi	vs Spain (8 September 2014) vs Ukraine (12 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (5 September 2015)	vs Spain (8 September 2015)
	Stefan Ristovski	vs Spain (8 September 2014) vs Luxembourg (9 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (5 September 2015)	vs Spain (8 September 2015)
Slovakia	Martin Škrtel	vs Greece (11 October 2013)	vs Ukraine (8 September 2014)
		vs Macedonia (15 November 2014) vs Luxembourg (27 March 2015) vs Macedonia (14 June 2015)	vs Spain (5 September 2015)
	Juraj Kucka	vs Ukraine (8 September 2014) vs Spain (9 October 2015) vs Macedonia (14 June 2015)	vs Spain (5 September 2015)
	Norbert Gyömbér	vs Spain (9 October 2014) vs Belarus (12 October 2014) vs Ukraine (8 September 2015)	vs Belarus (9 October 2015)
Spain	Diego Costa	vs Slovakia (9 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (12 October 2014) vs Macedonia (8 September 2015)	vs Luxembourg (9 October 2015)
Ukraine	Yevhen Khacheridi	vs France (19 November 2013)	vs Slovakia (8 September 2014)
		vs Luxembourg (15 November 2014) vs Belarus (5 September 2015) vs Macedonia (9 October 2015)	vs Spain (12 October 2015)
	Artem Fedetskyi	vs Slovakia (8 September 2014) vs Macedonia (12 October 2014) vs Spain (27 March 2015)	vs Luxembourg (14 June 2015)
	Denys Harmash	vs Belarus (5 September 2015)	vs Slovakia (8 September 2015)
	Serhiy Sydorchuk	vs Macedonia (12 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (15 November 2014) vs Macedonia (9 October 2015)	vs Spain (12 October 2015)

Notes

1. ^ CET (UTC+1) for matches on 15 November 2014 and 27 March 2015, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.
2. ^ a b c The suspension was carried over from the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

References

1. ^ «UEFA EURO 2016 Qualifying Draw Procedure» (PDF). UEFA. p. 1. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
2. ^ «Spain face Ukraine return in EURO 2016 qualifying». UEFA.com. 23 February 2014.
3. ^ a b «Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2014-16» (PDF). UEFA.com.
4. ^ Fifield, Nicola (23 February 2014). «Gibraltar moves group in Euro 2016 qualifiers draw over political tensions». The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
5. ^ «Qualifying fixtures» (PDF). UEFA.com.
6. ^ «Belarus vs. Slovakia 1 — 3». Soccerway.com. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
7. ^ «Luxembourg vs. Spain 0 — 4». Soccerway.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
8. ^ «Macedonia vs. Slovakia 0 — 2». Soccerway.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
9. ^ «Belarus vs. Luxembourg 2 — 0». Soccerway.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
10. ^ «Macedonia vs. Spain 0 — 1». Soccerway.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
11. ^ «Slovakia vs. Ukraine 0 — 0». Soccerway.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
12. ^ «FYR Macedonia vs. Ukraine — 9 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
13. ^ «Slovakia vs. Belarus — 9 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
14. ^ «Spain vs. Luxembourg — 9 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
15. ^ «Belarus vs. FYR Macedonia — 12 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
16. ^ «Luxembourg vs. Slovakia — 12 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
17. ^ «Ukraine vs. Spain — 12 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

External links

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