UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group A

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Group A of UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2024 final tournament in Germany. Group A consisted of five teams: Cyprus, Georgia, Norway, Scotland and Spain. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. [1]

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Originally Gibraltar had been drawn in this group, but they were moved to group B due to Spain not being willing to play them because of the disputed status of Gibraltar. [2]

The top two teams, Spain and Scotland, qualified directly for the final tournament. The participants of the qualifying play-offs were decided based on their performance in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League.

Standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Scotland.svg Flag of Norway.svg Flag of Georgia.svg Flag of Cyprus.svg
1Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 8701255+2021Qualify for final tournament 2–0 3–0 3–1 6–0
2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 8521178+917 2–0 3–3 2–0 3–0
3Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 83231412+211 0–1 1–2 2–1 3–1
4Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 8224121868Advance to play-offs via Nations League 1–7 2–2 1–1 4–0
5Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 8008328250 1–3 0–3 0–4 1–2
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day after the draw. [3] [4] [5] Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg3–0Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
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Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 48,195 [6]
Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)
Spain  Flag of Spain.svg3–0Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
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La Rosaleda, Málaga
Attendance: 29,214 [7]
Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

Georgia  Flag of Georgia.svg1–1Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
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Batumi Stadium, Batumi
Attendance: 20,300 [8]
Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)
Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg2–0Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
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Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 47,976 [9]
Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland) [note 2]

Norway  Flag of Norway.svg1–2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
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Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 25,791 [11]
Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
Cyprus  Flag of Cyprus.svg1–2Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
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Norway  Flag of Norway.svg3–1Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
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Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg2–0Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
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Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 50,062 [14]
Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Georgia  Flag of Georgia.svg1–7Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
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Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi
Attendance: 51,694 [15]
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)
Cyprus  Flag of Cyprus.svg0–3Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
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Norway  Flag of Norway.svg2–1Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
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Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 23,665 [17]
Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)
Spain  Flag of Spain.svg6–0Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
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Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada [18]
Attendance: 17,311 [19]
Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

Cyprus  Flag of Cyprus.svg0–4Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
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Spain  Flag of Spain.svg2–0Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
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La Cartuja, Seville
Attendance: 45,623 [21]
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

Georgia  Flag of Georgia.svg4–0Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
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Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 15,871 [22]
Referee: Robert Jones (England)
Norway  Flag of Norway.svg0–1Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
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Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 25,885 [23]
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

Georgia  Flag of Georgia.svg2–2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
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Cyprus  Flag of Cyprus.svg1–3Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
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Alphamega Stadium, Limassol
Attendance: 9,667 [25]
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg3–3Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
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Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 48,138 [26]
Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)
Spain  Flag of Spain.svg3–1Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
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José Zorrilla, Valladolid
Attendance: 24,146 [27]
Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Goalscorers

There were 71 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.55 goals per match.

7 goals

6 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: [1]

The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:

TeamPlayerOffence(s)Suspended for match(es)
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Nicholas Ioannou Yellow card.svg Yellow-red card.svg vs Scotland (25 March 2023)vs Georgia (17 June 2023)

Notes

  1. CET (UTC+1) for matches until 25 March and from 29 October (matchday 1 and 9–10), and CEST (UTC+2) for matches from 26 March to 28 October 2023 (matchday 2–8).
  2. Sandro Schärer suffered an injury. He was replaced by the fourth official Lukas Fähndrich (Switzerland) at half-time. [10]

References

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