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2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Second Round

TheUEFA Second Roundwas coned by the best eight runners-up from the nine first round groups from the UEFA segment of the qualification tournament for the 2014 FIFA World Cup infootball. The winners — Croatia, France, Greece, and Portugal — of each of four home and away ties joined the group winners in the World Cup in Brazil. The matches, which are often referred to as ‘play-offs’, were held on 15 and 19 November 2013.

The draw for the ties was held in Zürich on 21 October,[1]with the October 2013 FIFA World Rankings used to decide which of the teams would be seeded.[1]

Qualified teams

The eight best runners-up from the UEFA First Round qualified for the play-offs; with one group having one team fewer than the others, matches against the sixth-placed team in each First Round group are not included in this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of ranking the runners-up (below table).

Ranking of second-placed teams

The eight best runners-up were determined by the following parameters in this order:

  1. Highest number of points

  2. Goal difference

  3. Highest number of goals scored

Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
G Greece 8 6 1 1 9 4 +5 19
I France 8 5 2 1 15 6 +9 17
F Portugal 8 4 3 1 15 8 +7 15
H Ukraine 8 4 3 1 11 4 +7 15
C Sweden 8 4 2 2 15 13 +2 14
E Iceland 8 4 2 2 15 14 +1 14
D Romania 8 4 1 3 11 12 −1 13
A Croatia 8 3 2 3 9 8 +1 11
B Denmark 8 2 4 2 9 11 −2 10

Seeding and draw

The second round draw took place at the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich on 21 October at 14:00 UTC+2.[2]October 2013 FIFA World Rankings were used to decide which of the teams would be seeded (shown below in brackets).[1]

The following teams participated in the second round:[3][4]

Pot 1 Pot 2
  • Portugal(14)
  • Greece(15)
  • Croatia(18)
  • Ukraine(20)
  • France(21)
  • Sweden(25)
  • Romania(29)
  • Iceland(46)

Matches

The draw was conducted by Gordon Savic, Head of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, with the assistance of former Switzerland international Alexander Frei. The matches were played on 15 and 19 November 2013.[5][6][7]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
**Portugal** 4–2 Sweden 1–0 3–2
Ukraine 2–3 **France** 2–0 0–3
**Greece** 4–2 Romania 3–1 1–1
Iceland 0–2 **Croatia** 0–0 0–2

Portugalwon 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Francewon 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Greecewon 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Croatiawon 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Discipline

Pos Player Country Yellow card Red card Suspended for match(es) Reason
DF Birkir Már Sævarsson Iceland 2 0 vs Croatia (15 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF Ognjen Vukojević Croatia 2 0 vs Iceland (15 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
FW Panagiotis Kone Greece 2 0 vs Romania (15 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF Ólafur Ingi Skúlason Iceland 0 1 vs Croatia (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
FW Mario Mandžukić Croatia 0 1 vs Brazil (12 June 2014) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
MF Costin Lazăr Romania 2 1 vs Greece (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
DF Laurent Koscielny France 0 1 vs Ukraine (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
DF Artem Fedetskyi Ukraine 2 0 vs France (19 November 2013) Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying match
DF Oleksandr Kucher Ukraine 2 1 vs France (19 November 2013) Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match

Goalscorers

4 goals

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x|Portugal|h15|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]]Cristiano Ronaldo

3 goals

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/35px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/45px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x|Greece|h15|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Kostas Mitroglou

2 goals

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x|France|h15|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Mamadou Sakho

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x|Sweden|h14|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Zlatan Ibrahimović

1 goal
Own goals

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/35px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/45px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x|Greece|h15|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Vasilis Torosidis (playing against Romania)

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