UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group F

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The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group F was one of the nine groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament. Group F consisted of six teams: Greece, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Northern Ireland, and Faroe Islands, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

The top two teams, Northern Ireland and Romania, qualified directly for the finals. As third-placed Hungary were not the highest-ranked among all third-placed teams, they advanced to the play-offs, where they won against Norway and thus qualified as well.

Group’s qualified team Romania conceded the least goals from all the teams that played in the qualifications: only two goals were scored in Romania’s net, both at home and on Arena Națională in Bucharest, against neighbours Hungary on October 11, 2014, and again against Finland one year later, on October 8, 2015. Greece, Euro 2004 winners, quarter-finalists at Euro 2012, and a team who played in the 2014 FIFA World Cup only three months before the group started, reaching the Round of 16, shockingly finished at the bottom of the group, scoring only 7 goals and conceding 14, losing twice against the Faroe Islands and having a single victory, a hard-obtained 4-3 victory over Hungary in Athens.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Northern Ireland	10	6	3	1	16	8	+8	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–1
2	Romania	10	5	5	0	11	2	+9	20			2–0	—	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0
3	Hungary	10	4	4	2	11	9	+2	16	Advance to play-offs		1–2	0–0	—	1–0	2–1	0–0
4	Finland	10	3	3	4	9	10	−1	12			1–1	0–2	0–1	—	1–0	1–1
5	Faroe Islands	10	2	0	8	6	17	−11	6			1–3	0–3	0–1	1–3	—	2–1
6	Greece	10	1	3	6	7	14	−7	6			0–2	0–1	4–3	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Faroe Islands 6, Greece 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).

7 September 2014 (2014-09-07)18:00
(18:00 UTC+2)

Hungary	1–2	Northern Ireland
Priskin 75′	Report	McGinn 81′ K. Lafferty 88′

Groupama Arena, BudapestAttendance: 20,672Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

7 September 2014 (2014-09-07)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	1–3	Finland
Holst 41′	Report	Riski 53′, 78′ R. Eremenko 82′

Tórsvøllur, TórshavnAttendance: 3,300Referee: Simon Lee Evans (Wales)

7 September 2014 (2014-09-07)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	0–1	Romania
	Report	Marica 10′ (pen.)

Karaiskakis Stadium, PiraeusAttendance: 0Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

11 October 2014 (2014-10-11)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Romania	1–1	Hungary
Rusescu 45′	Report	Dzsudzsák 82′

Arena Națională, BucharestAttendance: 52,000Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

11 October 2014 (2014-10-11)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Finland	1–1	Greece
Hurme 55′	Report	Karelis 24′

Olympiastadion, HelsinkiAttendance: 26,548Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)

11 October 2014 (2014-10-11)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	2–0	Faroe Islands
McAuley 6′ K. Lafferty 20′	Report

Windsor Park, BelfastAttendance: 10,049Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

14 October 2014 (2014-10-14)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	0–1	Hungary
	Report	Szalai 21′

Tórsvøllur, TórshavnAttendance: 2,000Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

14 October 2014 (2014-10-14)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Finland	0–2	Romania
	Report	Stancu 54′, 83′

Olympiastadion, HelsinkiAttendance: 19,408Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

14 October 2014 (2014-10-14)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	0–2	Northern Ireland
	Report	Ward 9′ K. Lafferty 51′

Karaiskakis Stadium, PiraeusAttendance: 18,726Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

14 November 2014 (2014-11-14)20:45
(21:45 UTC+2)

Greece	0–1	Faroe Islands
	Report	Edmundsson 61′

Karaiskakis Stadium, PiraeusAttendance: 16,821Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

14 November 2014 (2014-11-14)20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Hungary	1–0	Finland
Gera 84′	Report

Groupama Arena, BudapestAttendance: 19,600Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

14 November 2014 (2014-11-14)20:45
(21:45 UTC+2)

Romania	2–0	Northern Ireland
Papp 74′, 79′	Report

Arena Națională, BucharestAttendance: 28,892Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

29 March 2015 (2015-03-29)18:00
(17:00 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	2–1	Finland
K. Lafferty 33′, 38′	Report	Sadik 90+1′

Windsor Park, BelfastAttendance: 10,264Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

29 March 2015 (2015-03-29)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Romania	1–0	Faroe Islands
Keșerü 21′	Report

Ilie Oană Stadium, PloieștiAttendance: 13,898Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

29 March 2015 (2015-03-29)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Hungary	0–0	Greece
	Report

Groupama Arena, BudapestAttendance: 22,000Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

13 June 2015 (2015-06-13)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Finland	0–1	Hungary
	Report	Stieber 82′

Olympiastadion, HelsinkiAttendance: 20,434Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

13 June 2015 (2015-06-13)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	2–1	Greece
Hansson 32′ B. Olsen 70′	Report	Papastathopoulos 84′

Tórsvøllur, TórshavnAttendance: 4,731Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)

13 June 2015 (2015-06-13)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	0–0	Romania
	Report

Windsor Park, BelfastAttendance: 10,000Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

4 September 2015 (2015-09-04)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	1–3	Northern Ireland
Edmundsson 36′	Report	McAuley 12′, 71′ K. Lafferty 75′

Tórsvøllur, TórshavnAttendance: 4,513Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

4 September 2015 (2015-09-04)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	0–1	Finland
	Report	Pohjanpalo 75′

Karaiskakis Stadium, PiraeusAttendance: 17,358Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Ukraine)

4 September 2015 (2015-09-04)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Hungary	0–0	Romania
	Report

Groupama Arena, BudapestAttendance: 22,060Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

7 September 2015 (2015-09-07)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Finland	1–0	Faroe Islands
Pohjanpalo 23′	Report

Olympiastadion, HelsinkiAttendance: 9,477Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

7 September 2015 (2015-09-07)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	1–1	Hungary
K. Lafferty 90+3′	Report	Guzmics 74′

Windsor Park, BelfastAttendance: 10,200Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

7 September 2015 (2015-09-07)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	0–0	Greece
	Report

Arena Națională, BucharestAttendance: 38,153Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

8 October 2015 (2015-10-08)20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Hungary	2–1	Faroe Islands
Böde 63′, 71′	Report	Jakobsen 11′

Groupama Arena, BudapestAttendance: 16,500Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

8 October 2015 (2015-10-08)20:45
(19:45 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	3–1	Greece
Davis 35′, 58′ Magennis 49′	Report	Aravidis 87′

Windsor Park, BelfastAttendance: 11,700Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

8 October 2015 (2015-10-08)20:45
(21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	1–1	Finland
Hoban 90+1′	Report	Pohjanpalo 67′

Arena Națională, BucharestAttendance: 47,987Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

11 October 2015 (2015-10-11)18:00
(17:00 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	0–3	Romania
	Report	Budescu 4′, 45+1′ Maxim 83′

Tórsvøllur, TórshavnAttendance: 3,941Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

11 October 2015 (2015-10-11)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Finland	1–1	Northern Ireland
Arajuuri 87′	Report	Cathcart 31′

Olympiastadion, HelsinkiAttendance: 14,550Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

11 October 2015 (2015-10-11)18:00
(19:00 UTC+3)

Greece	4–3	Hungary
Stafylidis 5′ Tachtsidis 57′ Mitroglou 79′ Kone 86′	Report	Lovrencsics 26′ Németh 55′, 75′

Karaiskakis Stadium, PiraeusAttendance: 9,500Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Goalscorers

Northern Ireland’s Kyle Lafferty was the group’s leading goalscorer with seven goals

There were 60 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.

7 goals

• Kyle Lafferty

3 goals

• Joel Pohjanpalo
• Gareth McAuley

2 goals

• Jóan Símun Edmundsson
• Riku Riski
• Dániel Böde
• Krisztián Németh
• Steven Davis
• Constantin Budescu
• Paul Papp
• Bogdan Stancu

1 goal

• Hallur Hansson
• Christian Holst
• Róaldur Jakobsen
• Brandur Olsen
• Paulus Arajuuri
• Roman Eremenko
• Jarkko Hurme
• Berat Sadik
• Christos Aravidis
• Nikos Karelis
• Panagiotis Kone
• Kostas Mitroglou
• Sokratis Papastathopoulos
• Kostas Stafylidis
• Panagiotis Tachtsidis
• Balázs Dzsudzsák
• Zoltán Gera
• Richárd Guzmics
• Gergő Lovrencsics
• Tamás Priskin
• Zoltán Stieber
• Ádám Szalai
• Craig Cathcart
• Josh Magennis
• Niall McGinn
• Jamie Ward
• Ovidiu Hoban
• Claudiu Keșerü
• Ciprian Marica
• Alexandru Maxim
• Raul Rusescu

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)
Faroe Islands	Hallur Hansson	vs Finland (7 September 2014) vs Hungary (14 October 2014) vs Greece (14 November 2014)	vs Romania (29 March 2015)
		vs Northern Ireland (4 September 2015) vs Finland (7 September 2015)	vs Hungary (8 October 2015)
	Atli Gregersen	vs Hungary (14 October 2014) vs Greece (14 November 2014) vs Greece (13 June 2015)	vs Northern Ireland (4 September 2015)
		vs Hungary (8 October 2015)	vs Romania (11 October 2015)
	Jóan Símun Edmundsson	vs Northern Ireland (4 September 2015)	vs Finland (7 September 2015)
	Fróði Benjaminsen	vs Hungary (14 October 2014) vs Greece (13 June 2015) vs Finland (7 September 2015)	vs Hungary (8 October 2015)
	Brandur Olsen	vs Greece (14 November 2014) vs Greece (13 June 2015) vs Finland (7 September 2015)	vs Hungary (8 October 2015)
Finland	Alexander Ring	vs Romania (14 October 2014)	vs Hungary (14 November 2014)
	Tim Sparv	vs Greece (11 October 2014) vs Hungary (13 June 2015) vs Faroe Islands (7 September 2015)	vs Romania (8 October 2015)
	Markus Halsti	vs Hungary (13 June 2015) vs Faroe Islands (7 September 2015) vs Romania (8 October 2015)	vs Northern Ireland (11 October 2015)
	Përparim Hetemaj	vs Faroe Islands (7 September 2014) vs Greece (11 October 2014) vs Romania (8 October 2015)	vs Northern Ireland (11 October 2015)
Greece	Vasilis Torosidis	vs Romania (7 September 2014) vs Finland (11 October 2014) vs Faroe Islands (13 June 2015)	vs Finland (4 September 2015)
	Kostas Manolas	vs Romania (7 September 2014) vs Faroe Islands (14 November 2014) vs Romania (7 September 2015)	vs Northern Ireland (8 October 2015)
Hungary	Ákos Elek	vs Romania (11 October 2014) vs Finland (14 November 2014) vs Greece (29 March 2015)	vs Finland (13 June 2015)
	Zoltán Gera	vs Romania (11 October 2014) vs Faroe Islands (14 October 2014) vs Finland (13 June 2015)	vs Romania (4 September 2015)
	Dániel Tőzsér	vs Romania (11 October 2014) vs Finland (14 November 2014) vs Romania (4 September 2015)	vs Northern Ireland (7 September 2015)
	Leandro	vs Greece (29 March 2015) vs Romania (4 September 2015) vs Northern Ireland (7 September 2015)	vs Faroe Islands (8 October 2015)
Northern Ireland	Jonny Evans	vs Azerbaijan (11 October 2013)	vs Hungary (7 September 2014)
	Chris Baird	vs Hungary (7 September 2015)	vs Greece (8 October 2015)
	Kyle Lafferty	vs Greece (14 October 2014) vs Romania (14 November 2014) vs Hungary (7 September 2015)	vs Greece (8 October 2015)
	Conor McLaughlin	vs Romania (14 November 2014) vs Faroe Islands (4 September 2015) vs Hungary (7 September 2015)	vs Greece (8 October 2015)
Romania	Ciprian Marica	vs Greece (7 September 2014)	vs Hungary (11 October 2014)
	Mihai Pintilii	vs Greece (7 September 2014) vs Northern Ireland (14 November 2014) vs Northern Ireland (13 June 2015)	vs Hungary (4 September 2015)
	Alexandru Chipciu	vs Hungary (11 October 2014) vs Northern Ireland (14 November 2014) vs Hungary (4 September 2015)	vs Greece (7 September 2015)

Notes

1. ^ CET (UTC+1) for matches on 14 November 2014, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.
2. ^ Greece played their home match against Romania behind closed doors as they were punished for previous crowd disturbances.
3. ^ 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. ^ «Qualifying fixtures» (PDF). UEFA.com.
5. ^ «Ranieri suffers defeat behind closed doors for Greece». Reuters. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
6. ^ «Romania-Hungary». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
7. ^ «Northern Ireland-Faroe Islands». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
8. ^ «Greece-Northern Ireland». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
9. ^ «Hungary-Finland». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
10. ^ «Faroe Islands-Greece». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
11. ^ «Greece-Finland». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
12. ^ «Hungary-Romania». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
13. ^ «Finald-Faroe Islands». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
14. ^ «Northern Ireland-Hungary». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
15. ^ «Romania-Greece». Retrieved 17 September 2015.
16. ^ «Hungary vs. Faroe Islands — 8 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
17. ^ «Northern Ireland vs. Greece — 8 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
18. ^ «Romania vs. Finland — 8 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
19. ^ «Faroe Islands vs. Romania — 11 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
20. ^ «Finland vs. Northern Ireland — 11 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
21. ^ «Greece vs. Hungary — 11 October 2015 — Soccerway». soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

External links

• UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round Group F

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