UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying Group B

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Standings and results for Group B of the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying tournament.

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[edit] Standings

Key:

  • Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Italy 12 9 2 1 22 9 +13 29
 France 12 8 2 2 25 5 +20 26
 Scotland 12 8 0 4 21 12 +9 24
 Ukraine 12 5 2 5 18 16 +2 17
 Lithuania 12 5 1 6 11 13 −2 16
 Georgia 12 3 1 8 16 19 −3 10
 Faroe Islands 12 0 0 12 4 43 −39 0
  FRO FRA GEO ITA LTU SCO UKR
Faroe Islands 0–6 0–6 1–2 0–1 0–2 0–2
France 5–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–1 2–0
Georgia 3–1 0–3 1–3 0–2 2–0 1–1
Italy 3–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 2–0
Lithuania 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–2 2–0
Scotland 6–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 3–1 3–1
Ukraine 5–0 2–2 3–2 1–2 1–0 2–0

Notes on the qualified teams:

  • Italy and France secured qualification to the tournament proper on 2007-11-17 following Italy's 2-1 win against Scotland, becoming the fifth and sixth teams in the whole of the qualification stage to do so.

[edit] Results

Group B fixtures were decided with a random draw conducted on Thursday March 9, 2006, because fixtures could not be agreed between delegates. Ukraine were the only side unable to come to consensus with the rest of the group.[1]


2006-08-16
18:00 UTC+1
Faroe Islands  0 – 6  Georgia Svangaskard, Toftir
Attendance: 2,114
Referee: Michael Ross (Northern Ireland)
Report Mujiri Goal 16'
Iashvili Goal 18'
Arveladze Goal 37' Goal 62' Goal 82'
Kobiashvili Goal 51' (pen.)

2006-09-02
15:00 UTC+1
Scotland  6 – 0  Faroe Islands Celtic Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 50,059
Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)
Fletcher Goal 7'
McFadden Goal 10'
Boyd Goal 24' (pen.) Goal 38'
Miller Goal 30' (pen.)
O'Connor Goal 85'
Report

2006-09-02
20:00 UTC+4
Georgia  0 – 3  France Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Jan Wegereef (Netherlands)
Report Malouda Goal 7'
Saha Goal 15'
Asatiani Goal 47' (o.g.)

2006-09-02
20:50 UTC+2
Italy  1 – 1  Lithuania Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Inzaghi Goal 30' Report Danilevičius Goal 21'

2006-09-06
19:00 UTC+3
Ukraine  3 – 2  Georgia NSC Olimpiysky, Kiev
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jaroslav Jara (Czech Republic)
Shevchenko Goal 31'
Rotan Goal 61'
Rusol Goal 80'
Report Arveladze Goal 38'
Demetradze Goal 60'

2006-09-06
19:30 UTC+3
Lithuania  1 – 2  Scotland S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Vladimir Hrinak (Slovakia)
Miceika Goal 85' Report Dailly Goal 46'
Miller Goal 62'

2006-09-06
21:00 UTC+2
France  3 – 1  Italy Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Attendance: 78,800
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
Govou Goal 2' Goal 55'
Henry Goal 18'
Report Gilardino Goal 20'

2006-10-07
15:00 UTC+1
Faroe Islands  0 – 1  Lithuania Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 1,982
Referee: Anthony Buttimer (Ireland)
Report Skerla Goal 89'

2006-10-07
17:00 UTC+1
Scotland  1 – 0  France Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 52,500
Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)
Caldwell Goal 67' Report

2006-10-07
20:50 UTC+2
Italy  2 – 0  Ukraine Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Attendance: 49,149
Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)
Oddo Goal 71' (pen.)
Toni Goal 79'
Report

2006-10-11
19:00 UTC+3
Ukraine  2 – 0  Scotland NSC Olimpiysky, Kiev
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Kucher Goal 60'
Andriy Shevchenko Goal 90' (pen.)
Report

2006-10-11
20:00 UTC+4
Georgia  1 – 3  Italy Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Mike Riley (England)
Shashiashvili Goal 26' Report De Rossi Goal 18'
Camoranesi Goal 63'
Perrotta Goal 71'

2006-10-11
21:00 UTC+2
France  5 – 0  Faroe Islands Stade Auguste Bonal, Montbéliard
Attendance: 19,314
Referee: Sorin Corpodean (Romania)
Saha Goal 1'
Henry Goal 22'
Anelka Goal 77'
Trézéguet Goal 78' Goal 84'
Report

2007-03-24
15:00 UTC+0
Scotland  2 – 1  Georgia Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 50,850
Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz (Denmark)
Boyd Goal 11'
Beattie Goal 89'
Report Arveladze Goal 41'

2007-03-24
15:00 UTC+0
Faroe Islands  0 – 2  Ukraine Svangaskard, Toftir
Attendance: 717
Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
Report Yezerskiy Goal 20'
Husyev Goal 57'

2007-03-24
19:00 UTC+2
Lithuania  0 – 1  France S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Howard Webb (England)
Report Anelka Goal 73'

2007-03-28
18:00 UTC+3
Ukraine  1 – 0  Lithuania Chornomorets Stadium, Odessa
Attendance: 33,600
Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)
Husyev Goal 47' Report

2007-03-28
18:00 UTC+4
Georgia  3 – 1  Faroe Islands Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Pavel Saliy (Kazakhstan)
Siradze Goal 25'
Iashvili Goal 46' Goal 90+5' (pen.)
Report R. Jacobsen Goal 57'

2007-03-28
20:50 UTC+2
Italy  2 – 0  Scotland Stadio San Nicola, Bari
Attendance: 37,500
Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)
Toni Goal 12' Goal 70' Report

2007-06-02
21:00 UTC+3
Lithuania  1 – 0  Georgia S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Claudio Circhetta (Switzerland)
Mikoliūnas Goal 78' Report

2007-06-02
21:00 UTC+2
France  2 – 0  Ukraine Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Attendance: 80,051
Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
Ribéry Goal 57'
Anelka Goal 71'
Report

2007-06-02
19:45 UTC+1
Faroe Islands  1 – 2  Italy Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 5,987
Referee: Robert Malek (Poland)
R. Jacobsen Goal 77' Report Inzaghi Goal 12' Goal 48'

2007-06-06
17:15 UTC+1
Faroe Islands  0 – 2  Scotland Svangaskard, Toftir
Attendance: 4,600
Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)
Report Maloney Goal 31'
O'Connor Goal 35'

2007-06-06
21:00 UTC+2
France  1 – 0  Georgia Stade de l'Abbé Deschamps, Auxerre
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)
Nasri Goal 33' Report

2007-06-06
21:45 UTC+3
Lithuania  0 – 2  Italy S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)
Report Quagliarella Goal 31' Goal 45'

2007-09-08
15:00 UTC+1
Scotland  3 – 1  Lithuania Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 51,349
Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
Boyd Goal 31'
McManus Goal 77'
McFadden Goal 83'
Report Danilevičius Goal 61' (pen.)

2007-09-08
19:00 UTC+4
Georgia  1 – 1  Ukraine Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)
Siradze Goal 87' Report Shelayev Goal 7'

2007-09-08
20:50 UTC+2
Italy  0 – 0  France San Siro, Milan
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
Report

2007-09-12
20:00 UTC+3
Lithuania  2 – 1  Faroe Islands S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Tsvetan Georgiev (Bulgaria)
Jankauskas Goal 8'
Danilevičius Goal 52'
Report R. Jacobsen Goal 90+3'

2007-09-12
21:45 UTC+3
Ukraine  1 – 2  Italy NSC Olimpiysky, Kiev
Attendance: 41,500
Referee: Howard Webb (England)
Shevchenko Goal 71' Report Di Natale Goal 41' Goal 77'

2007-09-12
21:00 UTC+2
France  0 – 1  Scotland Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria)
Report McFadden Goal 64'

2007-10-13
15:00 UTC+1
Scotland  3 – 1  Ukraine Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 50,589
Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)
Miller Goal 4'
McCulloch Goal 10'
McFadden Goal 68'
Report Shevchenko Goal 24'

2007-10-13
16:00 UTC+1
Faroe Islands  0 – 6  France Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn
Attendance: 8,076
Referee: Gabriele Rossi (San Marino)
Report Anelka Goal 6'
Henry Goal 8'
Benzema Goal 50' Goal 81'
Rothen Goal 66'
Ben Arfa Goal 90+4'

2007-10-13
20:50 UTC+2
Italy  2 – 0  Georgia Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
Attendance: 23,057
Referee: Carlos Megía Dávila (Spain)
Pirlo Goal 44'
Grosso Goal 84'
Report

2007-10-17
19:00 UTC+3
Ukraine  5 – 0  Faroe Islands NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium, Kiev
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Haim Jakov (Israel)
Kalynychenko Goal 40' Goal 49'
Husyev Goal 43' Goal 45'
Vorobei Goal 64'
Report

2007-10-17
21:00 UTC+4
Georgia  2 – 0  Scotland Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 36,500
Referee: Knut Kircher (Germany)
Mchedlidze Goal 16'
Siradze Goal 64'
Report

2007-10-17
21:00 UTC+2
France  2 – 0  Lithuania Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes
Attendance: 36,350
Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
Henry Goal 80' Goal 81' Report

2007-11-17
17:00 UTC+0
Scotland  1 – 2  Italy Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 51,301
Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)
Ferguson Goal 65' Report Toni Goal 2'
Panucci Goal 90+1'

2007-11-17
20:00 UTC+2
Lithuania  2 – 0  Ukraine S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: David Malcolm (Northern Ireland)
Savėnas Goal 41'
Danilevičius Goal 67'
Report

2007-11-21
19:30 UTC+4
Georgia  0 – 2  Lithuania Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Ljubomir Krstevski (Macedonia)
Report Kšanavičius Goal 52' Goal 90+6'

2007-11-21
20:30 UTC+1
Italy  3 – 1  Faroe Islands Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)
Benjaminsen Goal 11' (o.g.)
Toni Goal 36'
Chiellini Goal 41'
Report R. Jacobsen Goal 83'

2007-11-21
21:30 UTC+2
Ukraine  2 – 2  France NSC Olympiyskiy, Kiev
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)
Voronin Goal 14'
Shevchenko Goal 46'
Report Henry Goal 20'
Govou Goal 34'

[edit] Goalscorers

Pos Player Country Goals
1 Thierry Henry  France 6
2 Shota Arveladze  Georgia 5
Andriy Shevchenko  Ukraine
Luca Toni  Italy
5 Nicolas Anelka  France 4
Kris Boyd  Scotland
Tomas Danilevičius  Lithuania
Oleh Husyev  Ukraine
Rógvi Jacobsen  Faroe Islands
James McFadden  Scotland
11 Sidney Govou  France 3
Alexander Iashvili  Georgia
Filippo Inzaghi  Italy
Kenny Miller  Scotland
David Siradze  Georgia
  • 2 goals:

 France: Karim Benzema,, Louis Saha, David Trézéguet
 Italy: Antonio Di Natale, Fabio Quagliarella
 Lithuania: Audrius Kšanavičius
 Scotland: Garry O'Connor
 Ukraine: Maksym Kalynychenko

  • 1 goal:

 France: Hatem Ben Arfa, Florent Malouda, Samir Nasri, Franck Ribéry, Jérôme Rothen
 Georgia: Georgi Demetradze, Levan Kobiashvili, Levan Mchedlidze, Davit Mujiri, Georgi Shashiashvili
 Italy: Mauro Camoranesi, Giorgio Chiellini, Daniele De Rossi, Alberto Gilardino, Fabio Grosso, Massimo Oddo, Christian Panucci, Simone Perrotta, Andrea Pirlo
 Lithuania: Edgaras Jankauskas, Darius Miceika, Saulius Mikoliūnas, Mantas Savėnas, Andrius Skerla
 Scotland: Craig Beattie, Gary Caldwell, Christian Dailly, Barry Ferguson, Darren Fletcher, Shaun Maloney, Lee McCulloch, Stephen McManus
 Ukraine: Oleksandr Kucher, Ruslan Rotan, Andriy Rusol, Oleh Shelayev, Andriy Vorobei, Andriy Voronin, Volodymyr Yezerskiy

  • Own goals:

 Faroe Islands: Fróði Benjaminsen (for  Italy)
 Georgia: Malkhaz Asatiani (for  France)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bathgate, Stuart. "Scotland dealt an even hand as Euro 2008 draw resolved", The Scotsman, March 10, 2006. Accessed March 27, 2007.