2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group J

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group J was one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar. ^[1] Group J consisted of six teams: Armenia, Germany, Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, and Romania. ^[2] The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. ^[3]

The group winners, Germany, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, North Macedonia, advanced to the second round (play-offs).

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	10	9	0	1	36	4	+32	27	Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup		—	1–2	2–1	6–0	3–0	9–0
2	North Macedonia	10	5	3	2	23	11	+12	18	Advance to play-offs		0–4	—	0–0	0–0	3–1	5–0
3	Romania	10	5	2	3	13	8	+5	17			0–1	3–2	—	1–0	0–0	2–0
4	Armenia	10	3	3	4	9	20	−11	12			1–4	0–5	3–2	—	2–0	1–1
5	Iceland	10	2	3	5	12	18	−6	9			0–4	2–2	0–2	1–1	—	4–0
6	Liechtenstein	10	0	1	9	2	34	−32	1			0–2	0–4	0–2	0–1	1–4	—

Source: FIFA, UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw. ^{[4] [5] [6]} Times are CET/CEST, ^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

25 March 2021 (2021-3-25)

20:45

Germany	3–0	Iceland
Goretzka 3' Havertz 7' Gündoğan 56'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

MSV-Arena, Duisburg

Attendance: 0 ^{[7] [note 2]}

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

25 March 2021 (2021-3-25)

20:45

Liechtenstein	0–1	Armenia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Frommelt 83' (o.g.)

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 0 ^{[8] [note 2]}

Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

25 March 2021 (2021-3-25)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Romania	3–2	North Macedonia
Tănase 28' Mihăilă 50' Hagi 86'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Ademi 82' Trajkovski 83'

Arena Națională, Bucharest

Attendance: 0 ^{[9] [note 2]}

Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

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28 March 2021 (2021-3-28)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	2–0	Iceland
Barseghyan 53' Bayramyan 74'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 4,300 ^[10]

Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

28 March 2021 (2021-3-28)

20:45

North Macedonia	5–0	Liechtenstein
Bardhi 7' Trajkovski 51', 54' Elmas 62' Nestorovski 82' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 0 ^{[11] [note 2]}

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

28 March 2021 (2021-3-28)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	0–1	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Gnabry 17'

Arena Națională, Bucharest

Attendance: 0 ^{[12] [note 2]}

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

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31 March 2021 (2021-3-31)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	3–2	Romania
Spertsyan 56' Haroyan 87' Barseghyan 89' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Cicâldău 62', 72'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 4,300 ^[13]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

31 March 2021 (2021-3-31)

20:45

Germany	1–2	North Macedonia
Gündoğan 63' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Pandev 45+2' Elmas 85'

MSV-Arena, Duisburg

Attendance: 0 ^{[14] [note 2]}

Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

31 March 2021 (2021-3-31)

20:45

Liechtenstein	1–4	Iceland
Y. Frick 79'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sævarsson 12' Bi. Bjarnason 45+1' Pálsson 77' Sigurjónsson 90+4' (pen.)

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 0 ^{[15] [note 2]}

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

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2 September 2021 (2021-9-2)

20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	0–2	Romania
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Man 47' Stanciu 83'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 1,961 ^[16]

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

2 September 2021 (2021-9-2)

20:45

Liechtenstein	0–2	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Werner 41' Sané 77'

Kybunpark, St. Gallen (Switzerland) ^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 7,958 ^[18]

Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

2 September 2021 (2021-9-2)

20:45

North Macedonia	0–0	Armenia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 3,147 ^[19]

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

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5 September 2021 (2021-9-5)

18:00 (16:00 UTC±0)

Iceland	2–2	North Macedonia
Br. Bjarnason 78' Guðjohnsen 84'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Velkovski 12' Alioski 54'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 1,862 ^[20]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

5 September 2021 (2021-9-5)

20:45

Germany	6–0	Armenia
Gnabry 6', 15' Reus 35' Werner 45' Hofmann 52' Adeyemi 90+1'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart

Attendance: 18,086 ^[21]

Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

5 September 2021 (2021-9-5)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	2–0	Liechtenstein
Toșca 11' Manea 18'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Arena Națională, Bucharest

Attendance: 9,404 ^[22]

Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

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8 September 2021 (2021-9-8)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	1–1	Liechtenstein
Mkhitaryan 45+5' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	N. Frick 80'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 14,400 ^[23]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

8 September 2021 (2021-9-8)

20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	0–4	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Gnabry 4' Rüdiger 24' Sané 56' Werner 89'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 3,505 ^[24]

Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

8 September 2021 (2021-9-8)

20:45

North Macedonia	0–0	Romania
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 5,260 ^[25]

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

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8 October 2021 (2021-10-8)

20:45

Germany	2–1	Romania
Gnabry 52' Müller 81'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hagi 9'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 25,000 ^[26]

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

8 October 2021 (2021-10-8)

20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	1–1	Armenia
Jóhannesson 77'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hovhannisyan 35'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 1,697 ^[27]

Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

8 October 2021 (2021-10-8)

20:45

Liechtenstein	0–4	North Macedonia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Velkovski 39' Alioski 66' (pen.) Nikolov 74' Churlinov 83'

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 1,628 ^[28]

Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

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11 October 2021 (2021-10-11)

20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	4–0	Liechtenstein
Þórðarson 19' Guðmundsson 35' (pen.), 79' (pen.) Guðjohnsen 89'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 4,461 ^[29]

Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (Greece)

11 October 2021 (2021-10-11)

20:45

North Macedonia	0–4	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Havertz 50' Werner 70', 73' Musiala 83'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 16,182 ^[30]

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

11 October 2021 (2021-10-11)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	1–0	Armenia
Mitriță 26'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 13,576 ^[31]

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

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11 November 2021 (2021-11-11)

18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	0–5	North Macedonia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Trajkovski 22' Bardhi 36', 67' (pen.), 90' (pen.) Ristovski 79'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 7,200 ^[32]

Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)

11 November 2021 (2021-11-11)

20:45

Germany	9–0	Liechtenstein
Gündoğan 11' (pen.) Kaufmann 20' (o.g.) Sané 22', 49' Reus 23' Müller 76', 86' Baku 80' Göppel 89' (o.g.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg

Attendance: 25,984 ^[33]

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

11 November 2021 (2021-11-11)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Romania	0–0	Iceland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 0 ^{[34] [note 2]}

Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

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14 November 2021 (2021-11-14)

18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	1–4	Germany
Mkhitaryan 59' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Havertz 15' Gündoğan 45+4' (pen.), 50' Hofmann 64'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 12,800 ^[35]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

14 November 2021 (2021-11-14)

18:00

Liechtenstein	0–2	Romania
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Man 8' Bancu 87'

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 2,237 ^[36]

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

14 November 2021 (2021-11-14)

18:00

North Macedonia	3–1	Iceland
Alioski 7' Elmas 65', 86'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Þorsteinsson 54'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 15,986 ^[37]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

Goalscorers

There were 95 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.17 goals per match.

5 goals

• Serge Gnabry
• İlkay Gündoğan
• Timo Werner

4 goals

• Leroy Sané
• Enis Bardhi
• Elif Elmas
• Aleksandar Trajkovski

3 goals

• Kai Havertz
• Thomas Müller
• Ezgjan Alioski

2 goals

• Tigran Barseghyan
• Henrikh Mkhitaryan
• Jonas Hofmann
• Marco Reus
• Andri Guðjohnsen
• Albert Guðmundsson
• Darko Velkovski
• Alexandru Cicâldău
• Ianis Hagi
• Dennis Man

1 goal

• Khoren Bayramyan
• Varazdat Haroyan
• Kamo Hovhannisyan
• Eduard Spertsyan
• Karim Adeyemi
• Ridle Baku
• Leon Goretzka
• Jamal Musiala
• Antonio Rüdiger
• Birkir Bjarnason
• Brynjar Ingi Bjarnason
• Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson
• Victor Pálsson
• Birkir Már Sævarsson
• Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson
• Stefán Teitur Þórðarson
• Jón Dagur Þorsteinsson
• Noah Frick
• Yanik Frick
• Arijan Ademi
• Darko Churlinov
• Ilija Nestorovski
• Boban Nikolov
• Goran Pandev
• Milan Ristovski
• Nicușor Bancu
• Cristian Manea
• Valentin Mihăilă
• Alexandru Mitriță
• Nicolae Stanciu
• Florin Tănase
• Alin Toșca

1 own goal

• Noah Frommelt (against Armenia)
• Maximilian Göppel (against Germany)
• Daniel Kaufmann (against Germany)

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences: ^[38]

• Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
• Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches (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)
Armenia	Sargis Adamyan	vs Liechtenstein (25 March 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)	vs North Macedonia (11 November 2021)
	Tigran Barseghyan	vs Iceland (28 March 2021) vs Romania (31 March 2021)	vs North Macedonia (2 September 2021)
	Khoren Bayramyan	vs Liechtenstein (25 March 2021) vs Romania (31 March 2021)
	Varazdat Haroyan	vs Iceland (28 March 2021) vs Romania (31 March 2021)
		vs Germany (5 September 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)	vs North Macedonia (11 November 2021)
	Eduard Spertsyan	vs Iceland (8 October 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)
	Taron Voskanyan	vs North Macedonia (2 September 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)
Germany	Kai Havertz	vs Iceland (25 March 2021) vs North Macedonia (11 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 November 2021)
	Antonio Rüdiger	vs North Macedonia (31 March 2021) vs Liechtenstein (11 November 2021)	vs Armenia (14 November 2021)
Iceland	Albert Guðmundsson	vs Germany (25 March 2021) vs Armenia (28 March 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (31 March 2021)
	Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson	vs Romania (2 September 2021) vs Armenia (8 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 October 2021)
	Birkir Már Sævarsson	vs England in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020)	vs Germany (25 March 2021) [39]
		vs North Macedonia (5 September 2021) vs Armenia (8 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 October 2021)
	Ari Freyr Skúlason	vs Armenia (28 March 2021) vs Armenia (8 October 2021)
Liechtenstein	Noah Frommelt	vs North Macedonia (28 March 2021) vs Armenia (8 September 2021)	vs North Macedonia (8 October 2021)
	Jens Hofer	vs Germany (11 November 2021)	vs Romania (14 November 2021)
	Daniel Kaufmann	vs Armenia (8 September 2021) vs North Macedonia (8 October 2021)	vs Iceland (11 October 2021)
	Martin Marxer	vs Iceland (11 October 2021)	vs Germany (11 November 2021)
	Fabio Wolfinger	vs North Macedonia (28 March 2021) vs North Macedonia (8 October 2021)	vs Iceland (11 October 2021)
North Macedonia	Tihomir Kostadinov	vs Armenia (2 September 2021) vs Romania (8 September 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (8 October 2021)
	Visar Musliu
	Goran Pandev	vs Romania (25 March 2021) vs Germany (31 March 2021)	vs Armenia (2 September 2021)
	Milan Ristovski	vs Romania (8 September 2021) vs Liechtenstein (8 October 2021)	vs Germany (11 October 2021)
	Stefan Ristovski	vs Iceland (5 September 2021) vs Germany (11 October 2021)	vs Armenia (11 November 2021)
Romania	Nicușor Bancu	vs North Macedonia (25 March 2021) vs Armenia (31 March 2021)	vs Iceland (2 September 2021)
	Alexandru Maxim
	Valentin Mihăilă	vs North Macedonia (25 March 2021) vs Armenia (11 October 2021)	vs Iceland (11 November 2021)
	Dragoș Nedelcu	vs Iceland (2 September 2021) vs North Macedonia (8 September 2021)	vs Germany (8 October 2021)
	George Pușcaș	vs Armenia (31 March 2021)	vs Iceland (2 September 2021) vs Liechtenstein (5 September 2021) [40]
		vs Armenia (31 March 2021) vs Germany (8 October 2021)	vs Armenia (11 October 2021)
	Andrei Rațiu	vs Germany (8 October 2021) vs Iceland (11 November 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (14 November 2021)

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for matches until 27 March and from 31 October (matchday 1 and 9–10), and CEST (UTC+2) for matches from 28 March to 30 October 2021 (matchday 2–8).
2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.
3. Liechtenstein played their home match against Germany at Kybunpark in St. Gallen, Switzerland, instead of their regular home stadium, the Rheinpark Stadion in Vaduz, which was being renovated. ^[17]

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External links

• Official FIFA World Cup website
• Qualifiers – Europe, FIFA.com
• European Qualifiers, UEFA.com