UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group C

Group C 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 C consisted of five teams: England, Italy, Malta, North Macedonia, and Ukraine. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. ^[1] The group saw England and Italy meet again, having faced each other in the UEFA Euro 2020 final. ^[2]

The top two teams, England and Italy, 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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–1	2–0	7–0	2–0
2	Italy	8	4	2	2	16	9	+7	14 [a]			1–2	—	2–1	5–2	4–0
3	Ukraine	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14 [a]	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–1	0–0	—	2–0	1–0
4	North Macedonia	8	2	2	4	10	20	−10	8			1–1	1–1	2–3	—	2–1
5	Malta	8	0	0	8	2	20	−18	0			0–4	0–2	1–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Italy 4, Ukraine 1.

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).

23 March 2023 (2023-3-23)

20:45

Italy	1–2	England
Retegui 56'	Report	Rice 13' Kane 44' (pen.)

Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Naples

Attendance: 44,536 ^[6]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

23 March 2023 (2023-3-23)

20:45

North Macedonia	2–1	Malta
Elmas 66' Churlinov 72'	Report	Yankam 85'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 9,991 ^[7]

Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

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26 March 2023 (2023-3-26)

18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)

England	2–0	Ukraine
Kane 37' Saka 40'	Report

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 83,947 ^[8]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

26 March 2023 (2023-3-26)

20:45

Malta	0–2	Italy
	Report	Retegui 15' Pessina 27'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 16,015 ^[9]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

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16 June 2023 (2023-6-16)

20:45

Malta	0–4	England
	Report	Apap 8' (o.g.) Alexander-Arnold 28' Kane 31' (pen.) Wilson 83' (pen.)

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 16,277 ^[10]

Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)

16 June 2023 (2023-6-16)

20:45

North Macedonia	2–3	Ukraine
Bardhi 31' (pen.) Elmas 39'	Report	Zabarnyi 62' Konoplya 67' Tsyhankov 83'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 14,370 ^[11]

Referee: Lukas Fähndrich (Switzerland)

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19 June 2023 (2023-6-19)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Ukraine	1–0	Malta
Tsyhankov 72' (pen.)	Report

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava (Slovakia) ^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 7,543 ^[13]

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

19 June 2023 (2023-6-19)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	7–0	North Macedonia
Kane 29', 73' (pen.) Saka 38', 47', 51' Rashford 45' Phillips 64'	Report

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 70,708 ^[14]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

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9 September 2023 (2023-9-9)

18:00

Ukraine	1–1	England
Zinchenko 26'	Report	Walker 41'

Wrocław Stadium, Wrocław (Poland) ^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 39,000 ^[15]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

9 September 2023 (2023-9-9)

20:45

North Macedonia	1–1	Italy
Bardhi 81'	Report	Immobile 47'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 28,126 ^[16]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

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12 September 2023 (2023-9-12)

20:45

Italy	2–1	Ukraine
Frattesi 12', 29'	Report	Yarmolenko 41'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 58,386 ^[17]

Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

12 September 2023 (2023-9-12)

20:45

Malta	0–2	North Macedonia
	Report	Elmas 5' Manev 41'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,158 ^[18]

Referee: Henrik Nalbandyan (Armenia)

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14 October 2023 (2023-10-14)

15:00

Ukraine	2–0	North Macedonia
Sudakov 30' Karavayev 90+5'	Report

Stadion Letná, Prague (Czech Republic) ^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 12,939 ^[19]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

14 October 2023 (2023-10-14)

20:45

Italy	4–0	Malta
Bonaventura 23' Berardi 45+1', 64' Frattesi 90+3'	Report

Stadio San Nicola, Bari

Attendance: 56,186 ^[20]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

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17 October 2023 (2023-10-17)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	3–1	Italy
Kane 32' (pen.), 77' Rashford 57'	Report	Scamacca 15'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 83,194 ^[21]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

17 October 2023 (2023-10-17)

20:45

Malta	1–3	Ukraine
Mbong 12'	Report	Camenzuli 38' (o.g.) Dovbyk 43' (pen.) Mudryk 85'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,547 ^[22]

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

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17 November 2023 (2023-11-17)

20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)

England	2–0	Malta
Pepe 8' (o.g.) Kane 75'	Report

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 81,388 ^[23]

Referee: Luis Godinho (Portugal)

17 November 2023 (2023-11-17)

20:45

Italy	5–2	North Macedonia
Darmian 17' Chiesa 41', 45+2' Raspadori 81' El Shaarawy 90+3'	Report	Atanasov 52', 74'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 56,364 ^[24]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

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20 November 2023 (2023-11-20)

20:45

North Macedonia	1–1	England
Bardhi 41'	Report	Atanasov 59' (o.g.)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 27,982 ^[25]

Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)

20 November 2023 (2023-11-20)

20:45

Ukraine	0–0	Italy
	Report

BayArena, Leverkusen (Germany) ^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 26,403 ^[26]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

Goalscorers

There were 61 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.05 goals per match.

8 goals

• Harry Kane

4 goals

• Bukayo Saka

3 goals

• Davide Frattesi
• Enis Bardhi
• Elif Elmas

2 goals

• Marcus Rashford
• Domenico Berardi
• Federico Chiesa
• Mateo Retegui
• Jani Atanasov
• Viktor Tsyhankov

1 goal

• Trent Alexander-Arnold
• Kalvin Phillips
• Declan Rice
• Kyle Walker
• Callum Wilson
• Giacomo Bonaventura
• Matteo Darmian
• Stephan El Shaarawy
• Ciro Immobile
• Matteo Pessina
• Giacomo Raspadori
• Gianluca Scamacca
• Paul Mbong
• Yannick Yankam
• Darko Churlinov
• Jovan Manev
• Artem Dovbyk
• Oleksandr Karavayev
• Yukhym Konoplya
• Mykhailo Mudryk
• Heorhiy Sudakov
• Andriy Yarmolenko
• Illya Zabarnyi
• Oleksandr Zinchenko

1 own goal

• Ferdinando Apap (against England)
• Ryan Camenzuli (against Ukraine)
• Enrico Pepe (against England)
• Jani Atanasov (against England)

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences: ^[1]

• Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
• Receiving three yellow cards in three different matches, as well as after fifth and any subsequent yellow card (yellow card suspensions could be 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)
England	Luke Shaw	vs Italy (23 March 2023)	vs Ukraine (26 March 2023)
Italy	Giovanni Di Lorenzo	vs England (23 March 2023) vs Malta (26 March 2023) vs England (17 October 2023)	vs North Macedonia (17 November 2023)
Malta	Jean Borg	vs Estonia in 2022–23 UEFA Nations League (23 September 2022)	vs North Macedonia (23 March 2023)
	Steve Borg	vs North Macedonia (23 March 2023) vs Ukraine (19 June 2023) vs North Macedonia (12 September 2023)	vs Italy (14 October 2023)
North Macedonia	Todor Todoroski	vs Bulgaria in 2022–23 UEFA Nations League (26 September 2022)	vs Malta (23 March 2023)
	Visar Musliu	vs Ukraine (16 June 2023)	vs England (19 June 2023)
Ukraine	Ruslan Malinovskyi	vs England (26 March 2023) vs Malta (19 June 2023) vs North Macedonia (14 October 2023)	vs Malta (17 October 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. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine were required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice. ^[12]

References

1. "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship, 2022–24". Union of European Football Associations. 10 May 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
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External links

• UEFA Euro 2024, UEFA.com
• European Qualifiers, UEFA.com