UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group G
Group of six football teams
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Group G 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 G consisted of six teams: Austria, Israel, Latvia, North Macedonia, Poland and Slovenia,[2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.[3]
The top two teams, Poland and Austria, 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
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Poland |
10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 25 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 | |
| 2 | Austria |
10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 9 | +10 | 19 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 6–0 | ||
| 3 | North Macedonia |
10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | −1 | 14[a] | Advance to play-offs via Nations League | 0–1 | 1–4 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | |
| 4 | Slovenia |
10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 14[a] | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–2 | 1–0 | ||
| 5 | Israel |
10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 18 | −2 | 11 | Advance to play-offs via Nations League | 1–2 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | |
| 6 | Latvia |
10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 28 | −25 | 3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 0–3 | — |
- Head-to-head points: North Macedonia 4, Slovenia 1.
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).
| Poland | 2–0 | Latvia |
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| Slovenia | 1–1 | North Macedonia |
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| Austria | 1–0 | Slovenia |
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| North Macedonia | 0–1 | Poland |
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| North Macedonia | 1–4 | Austria |
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| Israel | 1–1 | North Macedonia |
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| Austria | 6–0 | Latvia |
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| Latvia | 0–3 | Poland |
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| Poland | 2–0 | North Macedonia |
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| Austria | 2–1 | North Macedonia |
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| North Macedonia | 1–0 | Israel |
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Goalscorers
There were 84 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.8 goals per match.
11 goals
6 goals
4 goals
2 goals
1 goal
David Alaba- Guido Burgstaller
- Michael Gregoritsch
- Martin Hinteregger
- Konrad Laimer
- Stefan Lainer
- Stefan Posch
Bibras Natkho
Vladimirs Kamešs- Mārcis Ošs
Arijan Ademi- Ezgjan Alioski
- Boban Nikolov
- Goran Pandev
- Vlatko Stojanovski
Przemysław Frankowski- Kamil Glik
- Jacek Góralski
- Kamil Grosicki
- Damian Kądzior
- Grzegorz Krychowiak
- Arkadiusz Milik
- Sebastian Szymański
Roman Bezjak- Tim Matavž
- Aljaž Struna
1 own goal
- Martin Hinteregger (against North Macedonia)
- Pāvels Šteinbors (against Austria)
- Igors Tarasovs (against Slovenia)
- Egzon Bejtulai (against Austria)
- Darko Velkovski (against Latvia)
Discipline
A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:[3]
- 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) |
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| Israel |
Dor Peretz |  vs Slovenia (21 March 2019) vs Latvia (7 June 2019) vs Slovenia (9 September 2019) |
vs Austria (10 October 2019) |
| Latvia |
Andrejs Cigaņiks |  vs North Macedonia (21 March 2019) |
vs Poland (24 March 2019)[7] |
| Jānis Ikaunieks | vs Poland (24 March 2019) vs North Macedonia (9 September 2019) vs Israel (15 October 2019) |
vs Slovenia (16 November 2019) | |
| Vitālijs Maksimenko | vs Poland (24 March 2019) vs North Macedonia (9 September 2019) vs Poland (10 October 2019) |
vs Israel (13 October 2019) | |
| North Macedonia |
Egzon Bejtulai | vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Austria (10 June 2019) vs Latvia (9 September 2019) |
vs Slovenia (10 October 2019) |
| Visar Musliu | vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Poland (7 June 2019) vs Slovenia (10 October 2019) vs Poland (13 October 2019) |
vs Austria (10 June 2019) vs Austria (16 November 2019) | |
| Ilija Nestorovski | vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Poland (7 June 2019) vs Poland (13 October 2019) |
vs Austria (16 November 2019) | |
| Boban Nikolov | vs Slovenia (24 March 2019) vs Israel (5 September 2019) vs Poland (13 October 2019) | ||
| Slovenia |
Bojan Jokić | vs Israel (21 March 2019) vs North Macedonia (24 March 2019) vs Latvia (10 June 2019) |
vs Poland (6 September 2019) |
| Denis Popović |  vs Austria (13 October 2019) |
vs Latvia (16 November 2019) | |
| Aljaž Struna | vs Poland (6 September 2019) vs Austria (13 October 2019) vs Latvia (16 November 2019) |
vs Poland (19 November 2019) |