Group of six football teams
Group G ofUEFA Euro 2020 qualifying was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for theUEFA Euro 2020 finals tournament.[ 1] Group G consisted of six teams:Austria ,Israel ,Latvia ,North Macedonia ,Poland andSlovenia ,[ 2] where they played against each other home-and-away in around-robin format .[ 3]
The top two teams, Poland and Austria, qualified directly for the finals. Unlike previous editions, the participants of theplay-offs were not decided based on results from the qualifying group stage, but instead based on their performance in the2018–19 UEFA Nations League .
^a b Head-to-head points: North Macedonia 4, Slovenia 1. The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 2 December 2018 inDublin .[ 4] [ 5] Times areCET /CEST ,[ note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
21 March 2019 (2019-03-21 )
20:45
21 March 2019 (2019-03-21 )
20:45
21 March 2019 (2019-03-21 )
24 March 2019 (2019-03-24 )
24 March 2019 (2019-03-24 )
20:45
24 March 2019 (2019-03-24 )
20:45
7 June 2019 (2019-06-07 )
20:45
7 June 2019 (2019-06-07 )
20:45
10 June 2019 (2019-06-10 )
20:45
10 June 2019 (2019-06-10 )
10 June 2019 (2019-06-10 )
20:45
5 September 2019 (2019-09-05 )
6 September 2019 (2019-09-06 )
20:45
6 September 2019 (2019-09-06 )
20:45
9 September 2019 (2019-09-09 )
20:45
9 September 2019 (2019-09-09 )
20:45
9 September 2019 (2019-09-09 )
10 October 2019 (2019-10-10 )
20:45
10 October 2019 (2019-10-10 )
20:45
10 October 2019 (2019-10-10 )
13 October 2019 (2019-10-13 )
20:45
13 October 2019 (2019-10-13 )
20:45
15 October 2019 (2019-10-15 )
16 November 2019 (2019-11-16 )
18:00
16 November 2019 (2019-11-16 )
20:45
16 November 2019 (2019-11-16 )
19 November 2019 (2019-11-19 )
19 November 2019 (2019-11-19 )
20:45
19 November 2019 (2019-11-19 )
20:45
There were 84 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.8 goals per match.
11 goals
6 goals
4 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:[ 3]
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 not carried forward to the play-offs, 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) Israel Dor Peretz vs Slovenia (21 March 2019) vs Latvia (7 June 2019) vs Slovenia (9 September 2019)vs Austria (10 October 2019) Latvia Andrejs Cigaņiks vs North Macedonia (21 March 2019)vs Poland (24 March 2019)[ 7] Jānis Ikaunieks vs Poland (24 March 2019) vs North Macedonia (9 September 2019) vs Israel (15 October 2019)vs Slovenia (16 November 2019) Vitālijs Maksimenko vs Poland (24 March 2019) vs North Macedonia (9 September 2019) vs Poland (10 October 2019)vs Israel (13 October 2019) North Macedonia Egzon Bejtulai vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Austria (10 June 2019) vs Latvia (9 September 2019)vs Slovenia (10 October 2019) Visar Musliu vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Poland (7 June 2019) vs Slovenia (10 October 2019) vs Poland (13 October 2019)vs Austria (10 June 2019) vs Austria (16 November 2019) Ilija Nestorovski vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Poland (7 June 2019) vs Poland (13 October 2019)vs Austria (16 November 2019) Boban Nikolov vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Israel (5 September 2019) vs Poland (13 October 2019) Slovenia Bojan Jokić vs Israel (21 March 2019) vs North Macedonia (24 March 2019) vs Latvia (10 June 2019)vs Poland (6 September 2019) Denis Popović vs Austria (13 October 2019)vs Latvia (16 November 2019) Aljaž Struna vs Poland (6 September 2019) vs Austria (13 October 2019) vs Latvia (16 November 2019)vs Poland (19 November 2019)
^ CET (UTC+1 ) for matches in March and November 2019, andCEST (UTC+2 ) for all other matches.