UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group F

Group F 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 F consisted of five teams: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Estonia, and Sweden. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. ^[1]

The top two teams, Belgium and Austria, 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.

Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku broke the record for most goals scored in a UEFA Euro qualifying campaign, with fourteen. ^[2]

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	1–1 [a]	5–0	5–0
2	Austria	8	6	1	1	17	7	+10	19			2–3	—	2–0	4–1	2–1
3	Sweden	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10			0–3	1–3	—	5–0	2–0
4	Azerbaijan	8	2	1	5	7	17	−10	7			0–1	0–1	3–0	—	1–1
5	Estonia	8	0	1	7	2	22	−20	1	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–3	0–2	0–5	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. The Belgium v Sweden match was abandoned at 1–1 at half-time for security reasons, as two Swedish supporters had been killed in a terrorist shooting in Brussels prior to the match; the score was later confirmed as final. ^{[3] [4]}

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day after the draw. ^{[5] [6] [7]} Times are CET/CEST, ^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

24 March 2023 (2023-3-24)

20:45

Austria	4–1	Azerbaijan
Sabitzer 27', 50' Gregoritsch 29' Baumgartner 69'	Report	Mahmudov 64'

Raiffeisen Arena, Linz

Attendance: 16,500 ^[8]

Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

24 March 2023 (2023-3-24)

20:45

Sweden	0–3	Belgium
	Report	Lukaku 35', 49', 83'

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 49,296 ^[9]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

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27 March 2023 (2023-3-27)

20:45

Austria	2–1	Estonia
Kainz 68' Gregoritsch 88'	Report	Sappinen 25'

Raiffeisen Arena, Linz

Attendance: 16,500 ^[10]

Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

27 March 2023 (2023-3-27)

20:45

Sweden	5–0	Azerbaijan
Forsberg 38' Mustafazade 65' (o.g.) Gyökeres 79' Karlsson 88' Elanga 89'	Report

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 23,674 ^[11]

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

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17 June 2023 (2023-6-17)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	1–1	Estonia
Kryvotsyuk 62'	Report	Sappinen 27'

Dalga Arena, Baku

Attendance: 3,900 ^[12]

Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)

17 June 2023 (2023-6-17)

20:45

Belgium	1–1	Austria
Lukaku 62'	Report	Mangala 21' (o.g.)

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 39,237 ^[13]

Referee: Jérôme Brisard (France)

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20 June 2023 (2023-6-20)

20:45

Austria	2–0	Sweden
Baumgartner 81', 89'	Report

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 46,300 ^[14]

Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

20 June 2023 (2023-6-20)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–3	Belgium
	Report	Lukaku 37', 40' Bakayoko 90'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 11,772 ^[15]

Referee: John Beaton (Scotland)

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9 September 2023 (2023-9-9)

15:00 (17:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	0–1	Belgium
	Report	Carrasco 38'

Dalga Arena, Baku

Attendance: 4,500 ^[16]

Referee: Nenad Minaković (Serbia)

9 September 2023 (2023-9-9)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–5	Sweden
	Report	Gyökeres 18' Kulusevski 24' Isak 39' Quaison 75' Claesson 90+2'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 11,411 ^[17]

Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

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12 September 2023 (2023-9-12)

20:45

Belgium	5–0	Estonia
Vertonghen 4' Trossard 18' Lukaku 56', 58' De Ketelaere 88'	Report

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 24,127 ^[18]

Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

12 September 2023 (2023-9-12)

20:45

Sweden	1–3	Austria
Holm 90'	Report	Gregoritsch 53' Arnautović 56', 69' (pen.)

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 43,228 ^[19]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

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13 October 2023 (2023-10-13)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–2	Azerbaijan
	Report	Bayramov 9' Sheydayev 45+4' (pen.)

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 5,652 ^[20]

Referee: Robert Schröder (Germany)

13 October 2023 (2023-10-13)

20:45

Austria	2–3	Belgium
Laimer 72' Sabitzer 84' (pen.)	Report	Lukebakio 12', 55' Lukaku 58'

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 47,000 ^[21]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

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16 October 2023 (2023-10-16)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	0–1	Austria
	Report	Sabitzer 48' (pen.)

Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku

Attendance: 4,446 ^[22]

Referee: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Greece)

16 October 2023 (2023-10-16)

20:45

Belgium	1–1 [note 2]	Sweden
Lukaku 31' (pen.)	Report	Gyökeres 15'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 35,000 ^[23]

Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)

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16 November 2023 (2023-11-16)

18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	3–0	Sweden
Mahmudov 3', 89' Dadashov 6'	Report

Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku

Attendance: 5,570 ^[24]

Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

16 November 2023 (2023-11-16)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+2)

Estonia	0–2	Austria
	Report	Laimer 25' Lienhart 39'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 4,488 ^[25]

Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

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19 November 2023 (2023-11-19)

18:00

Belgium	5–0	Azerbaijan
Lukaku 17', 26', 30', 37' Trossard 90'	Report

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 30,276 ^[26]

Referee: Gergő Bogár (Hungary)

19 November 2023 (2023-11-19)

18:00

Sweden	2–0	Estonia
Claesson 22' Forsberg 55'	Report

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 11,201 ^[27]

Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)

Goalscorers

There were 62 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

14 goals

• Romelu Lukaku

4 goals

• Marcel Sabitzer

3 goals

• Christoph Baumgartner
• Michael Gregoritsch
• Emin Mahmudov
• Viktor Gyökeres

2 goals

• Marko Arnautović
• Konrad Laimer
• Dodi Lukebakio
• Leandro Trossard
• Rauno Sappinen
• Viktor Claesson
• Emil Forsberg

1 goal

• Florian Kainz
• Philipp Lienhart
• Toral Bayramov
• Renat Dadashov
• Anton Kryvotsyuk
• Ramil Sheydayev
• Johan Bakayoko
• Yannick Carrasco
• Charles De Ketelaere
• Jan Vertonghen
• Anthony Elanga
• Emil Holm
• Alexander Isak
• Jesper Karlsson
• Dejan Kulusevski
• Robin Quaison

1 own goal

• Behlul Mustafazade (against Sweden)
• Orel Mangala (against Austria)

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 the 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)
Austria	Guido Burgstaller	vs Azerbaijan (16 October 2023)	vs Estonia (16 November 2023)
Belgium	Amadou Onana	vs Austria (13 October 2023)	vs Sweden (16 October 2023)
Estonia	Karol Mets	vs Azerbaijan (17 June 2023) vs Sweden (9 September 2023) vs Belgium (12 September 2023)	vs Azerbaijan (13 October 2023)
	Mattias Käit	vs Austria (27 March 2023) vs Azerbaijan (17 June 2023) vs Azerbaijan (13 October 2023)	vs Austria (16 November 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. The Belgium v Sweden match was abandoned at 1–1 at half-time for security reasons, as two Swedish supporters were killed in a terrorist shooting in Brussels before the match; the score was later confirmed as final. ^{[3] [4]}

References

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External links

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