The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group C was one of the nine groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament. [1] Group C consisted of six teams: Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, Macedonia, and Luxembourg, [2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. [3]
Originally Gibraltar had been drawn in this group, but were moved to group D due to Spain not being willing to play them because of the disputed status of Gibraltar. [4]
The top two teams, Spain and Slovakia, qualified directly for the finals. As third-placed Ukraine weren't the highest-ranked among all third-placed teams, they advanced to the play-offs, where they won against Slovenia and thus qualified as well.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
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| 1 | Spain | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 3 | +20 | 27 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 5–1 | |
| 2 | Slovakia | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 22 | 2–1 | — | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | Ukraine | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 19 | Advance to play-offs | 0–1 | 0–1 | — | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | |
| 4 | Belarus | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | −6 | 11 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | — | 2–0 | 0–0 | ||
| 5 | Luxembourg | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 27 | −21 | 4 [a] | 0–4 | 2–4 | 0–3 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 6 | North Macedonia | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 18 | −12 | 4 [a] | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–2 | — |
The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 23 February 2014 in Nice. [5] Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).
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| Macedonia | 3–2 | Luxembourg |
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| Luxembourg | 0–4 | Spain |
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| Luxembourg | 0–3 | Ukraine |
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| Macedonia | 1–2 | Belarus |
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| Slovakia | 3–0 | Luxembourg |
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| Ukraine | 3–0 | Luxembourg |
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| Luxembourg | 1–0 | Macedonia |
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| Ukraine | 3–1 | Belarus |
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| Belarus | 2–0 | Luxembourg |
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| Spain | 4–0 | Luxembourg |
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| Luxembourg | 2–4 | Slovakia |
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There were 74 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.47 goals per match.
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Stefano Bensi Mario Mutsch Sébastien Thill David Turpel Besart Abdurahimi Arijan Ademi Agim Ibraimi Adis Jahović Peter Pekarík Kornel Saláta Stanislav Šesták Miroslav Stoch Vladimír Weiss Jordi Alba Juan Bernat Diego Costa Andrés Iniesta Isco Mario Gaspar Álvaro Morata Sergio Ramos Denys Harmash Yevhen Seleznyov 1 own goal
Alyaksandr Martynovich (against Ukraine) Tome Pachovski (against Spain)A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences: [3]
The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:
| Team | Player | Offence(s) | Suspended for match(es) |
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| Belarus | Maksim Bardachow |  vs Spain (15 November 2014) vs Macedonia (27 March 2015) vs Spain (14 June 2015) | vs Ukraine (5 September 2015) |
| Alyaksandr Martynovich | vs Luxembourg (8 September 2014) vs Macedonia (27 March 2015) vs Ukraine (5 September 2015) | vs Luxembourg (8 September 2015) | |
 vs Slovakia (9 October 2015) | vs Macedonia (12 October 2015) | ||
| Luxembourg | Aurélien Joachim |  vs Portugal (15 October 2013) [note 2] | vs Belarus (8 September 2014) |
| Mario Mutsch | vs Macedonia (9 October 2014) vs Slovakia (27 March 2015) vs Ukraine (14 June 2015) | vs Macedonia (5 September 2015) | |
| Christopher Martins | vs Belarus (8 September 2014) vs Ukraine (15 November 2014) vs Macedonia (5 September 2015) | vs Belarus (8 September 2015) | |
| Chris Philipps | vs Belarus (8 September 2014) vs Macedonia (9 October 2014) vs Belarus (8 September 2015) | vs Spain (9 October 2015) | |
| Daniel da Mota | vs Belarus (8 September 2014) vs Ukraine (14 June 2015) vs Spain (9 October 2015) | vs Slovakia (12 October 2015) | |
| Macedonia | Ferhan Hasani | vs Slovakia (14 June 2014) | vs Luxembourg (5 September 2015) |
| Besart Abdurahimi | vs Spain (8 September 2014) vs Ukraine (12 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (5 September 2015) | vs Spain (8 September 2015) | |
| Stefan Ristovski | vs Spain (8 September 2014) vs Luxembourg (9 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (5 September 2015) | vs Spain (8 September 2015) | |
| Slovakia | Martin Škrtel | vs Greece (11 October 2013) [note 2] | vs Ukraine (8 September 2014) |
| vs Macedonia (15 November 2014) vs Luxembourg (27 March 2015) vs Macedonia (14 June 2015) | vs Spain (5 September 2015) | ||
| Juraj Kucka | vs Ukraine (8 September 2014) vs Spain (9 October 2015) vs Macedonia (14 June 2015) | vs Spain (5 September 2015) | |
| Norbert Gyömbér | vs Spain (9 October 2014) vs Belarus (12 October 2014) vs Ukraine (8 September 2015) | vs Belarus (9 October 2015) | |
| Spain | Diego Costa | vs Slovakia (9 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (12 October 2014) vs Macedonia (8 September 2015) | vs Luxembourg (9 October 2015) |
| Ukraine | Yevhen Khacheridi | vs France (19 November 2013) [note 2] | vs Slovakia (8 September 2014) |
| vs Luxembourg (15 November 2014) vs Belarus (5 September 2015) vs Macedonia (9 October 2015) | vs Spain (12 October 2015) | ||
| Artem Fedetskyi | vs Slovakia (8 September 2014) vs Macedonia (12 October 2014) vs Spain (27 March 2015) | vs Luxembourg (14 June 2015) | |
| Denys Harmash | vs Belarus (5 September 2015) | vs Slovakia (8 September 2015) | |
| Serhiy Sydorchuk | vs Macedonia (12 October 2014) vs Luxembourg (15 November 2014) vs Macedonia (9 October 2015) | vs Spain (12 October 2015) |
