UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group F

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.^[1] Group F consisted of six teams: Greece, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Northern Ireland, and Faroe Islands,^[2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

The top two teams would qualify directly for the finals. The third-placed team would qualify directly too if they had the best records among the third-placed teams of all qualifying groups, otherwise they would enter the play-offs for another chance to qualify.

Northern Ireland and Romania qualified for the finals as the group winners and runners-up respectively. As third-placed Hungary weren't the highest-ranked among all third-placed teams, they advanced to the play-offs, where they won against Norway and thus qualified too.

Standings

Pos	Team	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	Qualify for final tournament	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

Matches

The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 23 February 2014 in Nice.^[4] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).

Hungary v Northern Ireland

7 September 2014
18:00
(18:00 UTC+2)

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

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

Faroe Islands v Finland

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

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

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

Greece v Romania

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

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

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 0^{[note 2]}
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Romania v Hungary

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

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

Arena Națională, Bucharest
Attendance: 52,000^[6]
Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

Finland v Greece

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

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

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

Northern Ireland v Faroe Islands

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

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

Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 10,049^[7]
Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

Faroe Islands v Hungary

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

Faroe Islands	0–1	Hungary
	Report	Szalai 21'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Finland v Romania

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

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

Olympiastadion, Helsinki
Attendance: 19,408
Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

Greece v Northern Ireland

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

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

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 18,726^[8]
Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

Greece v Faroe Islands

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

Greece	0–1	Faroe Islands
	Report	Edmundsson 61'

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

Hungary v Finland

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

Hungary	1–0	Finland
Gera 84'	Report

Groupama Arena, Budapest
Attendance: 19,600^[9]
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Romania v Northern Ireland

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

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

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

Northern Ireland v Finland

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

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

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

Romania v Faroe Islands

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

Romania	1–0	Faroe Islands
Keșerü 21'	Report

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

Hungary v Greece

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

Hungary	0–0	Greece
	Report

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

Finland v Hungary

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

Finland	0–1	Hungary
	Report	Stieber 82'

Olympiastadion, Helsinki
Attendance: 20,434
Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

Faroe Islands v Greece

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

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

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 4,731^[10]
Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)

Northern Ireland v Romania

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

Northern Ireland	0–0	Romania
	Report

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

Faroe Islands v Northern Ireland

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

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

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 4,513
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

Greece v Finland

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

Greece	0–1	Finland
	Report	Pohjanpalo 75'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 17,358^[11]
Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Ukraine)

Hungary v Romania

4 September 2015
20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Hungary	0–0	Romania
	Report

Groupama Arena, Budapest
Attendance: 22,060^[12]
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Finland v Faroe Islands

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

Finland	1–0	Faroe Islands
Pohjanpalo 23'	Report

Olympiastadion, Helsinki
Attendance: 9,477^[13]
Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

Northern Ireland v Hungary

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

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

Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 10,200^[14]
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Romania v Greece

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

Romania	0–0	Greece
	Report

Arena Națională, Bucharest
Attendance: 38,153^[15]
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Hungary v Faroe Islands

8 October 2015
20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

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

Groupama Arena, Budapest
Attendance: 16,500^[16]
Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Northern Ireland v Greece

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

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

Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 11,700^[17]
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

Romania v Finland

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

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

Arena Națională, Bucharest
Attendance: 47,987^[18]
Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

Faroe Islands v Romania

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

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

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 3,941^[19]
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Finland v Northern Ireland

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

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

Olympiastadion, Helsinki
Attendance: 14,550^[20]
Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

Greece v Hungary

11 October 2015
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, Piraeus
Attendance: 9,500^[21]
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Goalscorers

Northern Ireland's Kyle Lafferty was the group's leading goalscorer with 7 goals

7 goals

Kyle Lafferty

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[3]

Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may 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 are 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)
	Hallur Hansson	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)
	Atli Gregersen	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)
Greece	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)^{[note 3]}	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

↑ CET (UTC+1) for matches on 14 November 2014, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.
↑ Greece played their home match against Romania behind closed doors as they were punished for previous crowd disturbances.^[5]
↑ The suspension was carried over from the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

References

↑ "UEFA EURO 2016 Qualifying Draw Procedure" (PDF). UEFA. p. 1. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
↑ "Spain face Ukraine return in EURO 2016 qualifying". UEFA.com. 23 February 2014.
1 2 "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2014-16" (PDF). UEFA.com.
↑ "Qualifying fixtures" (PDF). UEFA.com.
↑ "Ranieri suffers defeat behind closed doors for Greece". Reuters. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
↑ "Romania-Hungary". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Northern Ireland-Faroe Islands". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Greece-Northern Ireland". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Hungary-Finland". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Faroe Islands-Greece". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Greece-Finland". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Hungary-Romania". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Finald-Faroe Islands". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Northern Ireland-Hungary". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Romania-Greece". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
↑ "Hungary vs. Faroe Islands - 8 October 2015 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
↑ "Northern Ireland vs. Greece - 8 October 2015 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
↑ "Romania vs. Finland - 8 October 2015 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
↑ "Faroe Islands vs. Romania - 11 October 2015 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
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External links

UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round Group F

UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying

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