UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group B

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Group B of UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2020 finals tournament. [1] Group B consisted of five teams: Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal (the title holders), Serbia and Ukraine, [2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. [3]

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The top two teams, Ukraine and Portugal, qualified directly for the finals. Unlike previous editions, the participants of the play-offs were not decided based on results from the qualifying group stage, but instead based on their performance in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League.

Standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification Flag of Ukraine.svg Flag of Portugal.svg Flag of Serbia.svg Flag of Luxembourg.svg Flag of Lithuania.svg
1Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 8620174+1320Qualify for final tournament 2–1 5–0 1–0 2–0
2Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 8521226+1617 0–0 1–1 3–0 6–0
3Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 84221717014Advance to play-offs via Nations League 2–2 2–4 3–2 4–1
4Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 811671694 1–2 0–2 1–3 2–1
5Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 8017525201 0–3 1–5 1–2 1–1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 2 December 2018 in Dublin. [4] [5] Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Luxembourg  Flag of Luxembourg.svg2–1Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
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Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg0–0Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
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Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
Attendance: 58,355 [6]
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Luxembourg  Flag of Luxembourg.svg1–2Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
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Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg1–1Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
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Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
Attendance: 50,342 [6]
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg1–1Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
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LFF Stadium, Vilnius
Attendance: 3,263 [6]
Referee: Ádám Farkas (Hungary)
Ukraine  Flag of Ukraine.svg5–0Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
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Arena Lviv, Lviv
Attendance: 34,700 [6]
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg4–1Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
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Ukraine  Flag of Ukraine.svg1–0Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
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Arena Lviv, Lviv
Attendance: 34,700 [6]
Referee: Peter Kralović (Slovakia)

Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg0–3Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
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Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg2–4Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Red Star Stadium, Belgrade
Attendance: 39,839 [6]
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg1–5Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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LFF Stadium, Vilnius
Attendance: 5,067 [6]
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)
Luxembourg  Flag of Luxembourg.svg1–3Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
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Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg3–0Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
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Ukraine  Flag of Ukraine.svg2–0Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
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Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv
Attendance: 32,500 [6]
Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg1–2Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
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LFF Stadium, Vilnius
Attendance: 2,787 [6]
Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)
Ukraine  Flag of Ukraine.svg2–1Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv
Attendance: 65,883 [6]
Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg6–0Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
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Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé
Attendance: 18,534 [6]
Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)
Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg3–2Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
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Luxembourg  Flag of Luxembourg.svg0–2Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg2–2Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
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Red Star Stadium, Belgrade
Attendance: 4,457 [6]
Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

Goalscorers

There were 68 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.4 goals per match.

11 goals

10 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Discipline

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

The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:

TeamPlayerOffence(s)Suspended for match(es)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Saulius Mikoliūnas Yellow card.svg Yellow-red card.svg vs Luxembourg (7 June 2019)vs Serbia (10 June 2019)
Arvydas Novikovas Yellow card.svg vs Luxembourg (7 June 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Serbia (10 June 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Ukraine (11 October 2019)
vs Serbia (14 October 2019)
Modestas Vorobjovas Yellow card.svg Yellow-red card.svg vs Luxembourg (7 June 2019)vs Serbia (10 June 2019)
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Leandro Barreiro Yellow card.svg vs Ukraine (25 March 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Serbia (10 September 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Portugal (11 October 2019)
vs Serbia (14 November 2019)
Dirk Carlson Yellow card.svg vs Lithuania (22 March 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Ukraine (25 March 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Lithuania (7 June 2019)
vs Ukraine (10 June 2019)
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Uroš Spajić Yellow card.svg vs Portugal (25 March 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Ukraine (7 June 2019)
Yellow card.svg vs Luxembourg (10 September 2019)
vs Lithuania (14 October 2019)
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Taras Stepanenko Yellow card.svg Yellow-red card.svg vs Portugal (14 October 2019)vs Serbia (17 November 2019)

Notes

  1. CET (UTC+1) for matches in March and November 2019, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.
  2. Serbia were sanctioned by UEFA to play one home match (against Lithuania on 10 June 2019) without spectators for racist behaviour in their home match against Montenegro.
  3. Serbia were sanctioned by UEFA to play one home match (against Luxembourg on 14 November 2019) without spectators for racist behaviour in their home match against Portugal. [7]

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