UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group I

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Group I of UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2020 finals tournament. Group I consisted of six teams: Belgium, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Russia, San Marino and Scotland, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

The top two teams, Belgium and Russia, 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.

Belgium won all ten of their matches, becoming the seventh national side to qualify for a European Championship with a 100% record, and the eighth instance, after France (1992 and 2004), Czech Republic (2000), Germany, Spain (both 2012), England (2016), and Italy (2020).

Standings

Pos Team
  • v
  • t
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 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Belgium 10 10 0 0 40 3 +37 30 Qualify for final tournament — 3–1 3–0 6–1 3–0 9–0
2  Russia 10 8 0 2 33 8 +25 24 1–4 — 4–0 1–0 1–0 9–0
3  Scotland 10 5 0 5 16 19 −3 15 Advance to play-offs via Nations League 0–4 1–2 — 2–1 3–1 6–0
4  Cyprus 10 3 1 6 15 20 −5 10 0–2 0–5 1–2 — 1–1 5–0
5  Kazakhstan 10 3 1 6 13 17 −4 10 0–2 0–4 3–0 1–2 — 4–0
6  San Marino 10 0 0 10 1 51 −50 0 0–4 0–5 0–2 0–4 1–3 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head points: Cyprus 4, Kazakhstan 1.

Matches

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

Kazakhstan 3–0 Scotland
  • Pertsukh 6'
  • Vorogovskiy 10'
  • Zaynutdinov 51'
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Astana Arena, Astana
Attendance: 27,641
Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)
Cyprus 5–0 San Marino
  • Sotiriou 19' (pen.), 23' (pen.)
  • Kousoulos 26'
  • Efrem 31'
  • Laifis 56'
 Report
GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 3,175
Referee: Juri Frischer (Estonia)
Belgium 3–1 Russia
  • Tielemans 14'
  • E. Hazard 45' (pen.), 88'
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  • Cheryshev 16'
King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 34,245
Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)
Kazakhstan 0–4 Russia
Report
  • Cheryshev 19', 45+2'
  • Dzyuba 52'
  • Beisebekov 62' (o.g.)
Astana Arena, Nur-Sultan
Attendance: 29,582
Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
San Marino 0–2 Scotland
Report
  • McLean 4'
  • Russell 74'
San Marino Stadium, Serravalle
Attendance: 4,077
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)
Cyprus 0–2 Belgium
Report
  • E. Hazard 10'
  • Batshuayi 18'
GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 8,728
Referee: François Letexier (France)
Russia 9–0 San Marino
  • Cevoli 25' (o.g.)
  • Dzyuba 31' (pen.), 73', 76', 88'
  • Kudryashov 36'
  • An. Miranchuk 41'
  • Smolov 77', 83'
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Mordovia Arena, Saransk
Attendance: 42,241
Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)
Belgium 3–0 Kazakhstan
  • Mertens 11'
  • Castagne 14'
  • Lukaku 50'
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King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 37,155
Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Scotland 2–1 Cyprus
  • Robertson 61'
  • Burke 89'
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  • Kousoulos 87'
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 31,277
Referee: Ola Hobber Nilsen (Norway)
Kazakhstan 4–0 San Marino
  • Kuat 45+1'
  • Fedin 62'
  • Suyumbayev 65'
  • Islamkhan 79'
 Report
Astana Arena, Nur-Sultan
Attendance: 18,652
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)
Belgium 3–0 Scotland
  • Lukaku 45+1', 57'
  • De Bruyne 90+2'
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King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 32,482
Referee: Petr Ardeleánu (Czech Republic)
Russia 1–0 Cyprus
  • Ionov 38'
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Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod
Attendance: 42,228
Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)
Cyprus 1–1 Kazakhstan
  • Sotiriou 39'
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  • Shchotkin 2'
GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 5,639
Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)
San Marino 0–4 Belgium
Report
  • Batshuayi 43' (pen.), 90+2'
  • Mertens 57'
  • Chadli 63'
San Marino Stadium, Serravalle
Attendance: 2,523
Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)
Scotland 1–2 Russia
  • McGinn 11'
 Report
  • Dzyuba 40'
  • O'Donnell 59' (o.g.)
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 32,432
Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)
Russia 1–0 Kazakhstan
  • Fernandes 89'
 Report
Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad
Attendance: 31,818
Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)
San Marino 0–4 Cyprus
Report
  • Kousoulos 2', 73'
  • Papoulis 39'
  • Artymatas 75'
San Marino Stadium, Serravalle
Attendance: 662
Referee: Iwan Arwel Griffith (Wales)
Scotland 0–4 Belgium
Report
  • Lukaku 9'
  • Vermaelen 24'
  • Alderweireld 32'
  • De Bruyne 82'
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 25,524
Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)
Kazakhstan 1–2 Cyprus
  • Yerlanov 34'
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  • Sotiriou 73'
  • N. Ioannou 84'
Astana Arena, Nur-Sultan
Attendance: 11,769
Referee: Craig Pawson (England)
Belgium 9–0 San Marino
  • Lukaku 28', 41'
  • Chadli 31'
  • Brolli 35' (o.g.)
  • Alderweireld 43'
  • Tielemans 45+1'
  • Benteke 79'
  • Verschaeren 84' (pen.)
  • Castagne 90'
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King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 34,504
Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)
Russia 4–0 Scotland
  • Dzyuba 57', 70'
  • Ozdoyev 60'
  • Golovin 84'
 Report
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 65,703
Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)
Kazakhstan 0–2 Belgium
Report
  • Batshuayi 21'
  • Meunier 53'
Astana Arena, Nur-Sultan
Attendance: 26,801
Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
Cyprus 0–5 Russia
Report
  • Cheryshev 9', 90+2'
  • Ozdoyev 23'
  • Dzyuba 79'
  • Golovin 89'
GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 9,439
Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)
Scotland 6–0 San Marino
  • McGinn 12', 27', 45+1'
  • Shankland 65'
  • Findlay 67'
  • Armstrong 87'
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Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 20,699
Referee: Jérôme Brisard (France)
Cyprus 1–2 Scotland
  • Efrem 47'
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  • Christie 12'
  • McGinn 53'
GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 7,595
Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)
Russia 1–4 Belgium
  • Dzhikiya 79'
 Report
  • T. Hazard 19'
  • E. Hazard 33', 40'
  • Lukaku 72'
Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg
Attendance: 53,317
Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)
San Marino 1–3 Kazakhstan
  • Berardi 77'
 Report
  • Zaynutdinov 6'
  • Suyumbayev 22'
  • Shchotkin 26'
San Marino Stadium, Serravalle
Attendance: 643
Referee: Ali Palabıyık (Turkey)
Belgium 6–1 Cyprus
  • Benteke 16', 68'
  • De Bruyne 36', 41'
  • Carrasco 44'
  • Christoforou 51' (o.g.)
 Report
  • N. Ioannou 14'
King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 40,568
Referee: Jørgen Burchardt (Denmark)
San Marino 0–5 Russia
Report
  • Kuzyayev 3'
  • Petrov 19'
  • Al. Miranchuk 49'
  • Ionov 56'
  • Komlichenko 78'
San Marino Stadium, Serravalle
Attendance: 1,604
Referee: Thorvaldur Árnason (Iceland)
Scotland 3–1 Kazakhstan
  • McGinn 48', 90+1'
  • Naismith 64'
 Report
  • Zaynutdinov 34'
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 19,515
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

Goalscorers

There were 118 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.93 goals per match.

9 goals

  • Artem Dzyuba

7 goals

  • Romelu Lukaku
  • John McGinn

5 goals

  • Eden Hazard
  • Denis Cheryshev

4 goals

  • Michy Batshuayi
  • Kevin De Bruyne
  • Ioannis Kousoulos
  • Pieros Sotiriou

3 goals

  • Christian Benteke
  • Baktiyar Zaynutdinov

2 goals

  • Toby Alderweireld
  • Timothy Castagne
  • Nacer Chadli
  • Dries Mertens
  • Youri Tielemans
  • Georgios Efrem
  • Nicholas Ioannou
  • Aleksey Shchotkin
  • Gafurzhan Suyumbayev
  • Aleksandr Golovin
  • Aleksei Ionov
  • Magomed Ozdoyev
  • Fyodor Smolov

1 goal

  • Yannick Carrasco
  • Thorgan Hazard
  • Thomas Meunier
  • Thomas Vermaelen
  • Yari Verschaeren
  • Kostakis Artymatas
  • Konstantinos Laifis
  • Fotios Papoulis
  • Maxim Fedin
  • Bauyrzhan Islamkhan
  • Islambek Kuat
  • Yuriy Pertsukh
  • Yan Vorogovskiy
  • Temirlan Yerlanov
  • Georgi Dzhikiya
  • Mário Fernandes
  • Nikolay Komlichenko
  • Fyodor Kudryashov
  • Daler Kuzyayev
  • Aleksei Miranchuk
  • Anton Miranchuk
  • Sergei Petrov
  • Filippo Berardi
  • Stuart Armstrong
  • Oliver Burke
  • Ryan Christie
  • Stuart Findlay
  • Kenny McLean
  • Steven Naismith
  • Andrew Robertson
  • Johnny Russell
  • Lawrence Shankland

1 own goal

  • Kypros Christoforou (against Belgium)
  • Abzal Beisebekov (against Russia)
  • Cristian Brolli (against Belgium)
  • Michele Cevoli (against Russia)
  • Stephen O'Donnell (against Russia)

Discipline

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

  • 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 were not carried forward to the play-offs, 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)
 Cyprus Konstantinos Laifis vs Russia (13 October 2019) vs Scotland (16 November 2019)
 Kazakhstan Islambek Kuat vs Russia (24 March 2019)
vs Belgium (8 June 2019)
vs Cyprus (10 October 2019) 		vs Belgium (13 October 2019)
Gafurzhan Suyumbayev vs Scotland (21 March 2019)
vs Russia (24 March 2019)
vs Cyprus (6 September 2019) 		vs Russia (9 September 2019)
 Russia Aleksandr Golovin   vs Belgium (21 March 2019) vs Kazakhstan (24 March 2019)
 San Marino Davide Simoncini vs Cyprus (21 March 2019)
vs Belgium (6 September 2019)
vs Belgium (10 October 2019) 		vs Scotland (13 October 2019)
 Scotland Scott McTominay vs San Marino (24 March 2019)
vs Belgium (11 June 2019)
vs Belgium (9 September 2019) 		vs Russia (10 October 2019)

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