2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3

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The 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 3 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised the Czech Republic, Poland, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia and San Marino.

The group was won by Slovakia, who qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Slovenia entered the UEFA play-off stage.^[1]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovakia	10	7	1	2	22	10	+12	22	Qualification to 2010 FIFA World Cup		—	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–1	7–0
2	Slovenia	10	6	2	2	18	4	+14	20	Advance to second round		2–1	—	0–0	2–0	3–0	5–0
3	Czech Republic	10	4	4	2	17	6	+11	16			1–2	1–0	—	0–0	2–0	7–0
4	Northern Ireland	10	4	3	3	13	9	+4	15			0–2	1–0	0–0	—	3–2	4–0
5	Poland	10	3	2	5	19	14	+5	11			0–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	—	10–0
6	San Marino	10	0	0	10	1	47	−46	0			1–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–2	—

Source: ^[1]

Matches

The match schedule was determined at a meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia on 16 January 2008.^[2] The August 2009 date in the international match calendar was moved forward by one week, from 19 August to 12 August 2009, at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on 27 May 2008.^[3]

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6 September 2008

17:00 UTC+2

Poland	1–1	Slovenia
Żewłakow 17' (pen.)	Report	Dedić 35'

Stadion Oporowska, Wrocław

Attendance: 7,300

Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

6 September 2008

17:30 UTC+2

Slovakia	2–1	Northern Ireland
Škrtel 46' Hamšík 70'	Report	Ďurica 81' (o.g.)

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 5,445

Referee: Nikolai Ivanov (Russia)

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10 September 2008

20:30 UTC+2

San Marino	0–2	Poland
	Report	Smolarek 36' R. Lewandowski 66'

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle

Attendance: 2,374

Referee: Christoforos Zografos (Greece)

10 September 2008

19:45 UTC+1

Northern Ireland	0–0	Czech Republic
	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 12,882

Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

10 September 2008

20:45 UTC+2

Slovenia	2–1	Slovakia
Novaković 22', 82'	Report	Jakubko 83'

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 9,900

Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)

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11 October 2008

20:30 UTC+2

Poland	2–1	Czech Republic
Brożek 27' Błaszczykowski 53'	Report	Fenin 87'

Stadion Śląski, Chorzów

Attendance: 38,293

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

11 October 2008

20:30 UTC+2

San Marino	1–3	Slovakia
Selva 45'	Report	Šesták 33' Kozák 39' Karhan 50'

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle

Attendance: 1,037

Referee: Sascha Kever (Switzerland)

11 October 2008

20:45 UTC+2

Slovenia	2–0	Northern Ireland
Novaković 84' Ljubijankić 85'	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 12,385

Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

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15 October 2008

17:30 UTC+2

Czech Republic	1–0	Slovenia
Sionko 63'	Report

Na Stínadlech, Teplice

Attendance: 15,220

Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

15 October 2008

20:30 UTC+2

Slovakia	2–1	Poland
Šesták 85', 86'	Report	Smolarek 70'

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 17,650

Referee: Bertrand Layec (France)

15 October 2008

19:45 UTC+1

Northern Ireland	4–0	San Marino
Healy 30' McCann 43' Lafferty 56' Davis 75'	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 12,957

Referee: Petteri Kari (Finland)

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19 November 2008

20:30 UTC+1

San Marino	0–3	Czech Republic
	Report	Kováč 47' Pospěch 53' Necid 66'

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle

Attendance: 1,318

Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

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11 February 2009

20:30 UTC+1

San Marino	0–3	Northern Ireland
	Report	McAuley 7' McCann 33' Brunt 63'

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle

Attendance: 1,942

Referee: Dragomir Stanković (Serbia)

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28 March 2009

17:15 UTC+0

Northern Ireland	3–2	Poland
Feeney 10' Evans 47' Żewłakow 61' (o.g.)	Report	Jeleń 27' Saganowski 90+1'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 13,357

Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

28 March 2009

20:45 UTC+1

Slovenia	0–0	Czech Republic
	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 12,500

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

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1 April 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Czech Republic	1–2	Slovakia
Jankulovski 30'	Report	Šesták 22' Jendrišek 82'

AXA Arena, Prague

Attendance: 14,956

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

1 April 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Poland	10–0	San Marino
Boguski 1', 27' Smolarek 18', 60', 72', 81' R. Lewandowski 43' Jeleń 51' M. Lewandowski 63' Saganowski 88'	Report

Arena Kielc, Kielce

Attendance: 15,200

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

1 April 2009

19:45 UTC+1

Northern Ireland	1–0	Slovenia
Feeney 73'	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 13,243

Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

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6 June 2009

17:30 UTC+2

Slovakia	7–0	San Marino
Čech 3', 32' Pekarík 12' Stoch 35' Kozák 42' Jakubko 63' Hanzel 68'	Report

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 6,652

Referee: Jerome Efong Nzolo (Belgium)

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12 August 2009

20:45 UTC+3

Slovenia	5–0	San Marino
Koren 19', 74' Radosavljević 39' Kirm 54' Ljubijankić 90+3'	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 4,400

Referee: Dimitar Meckarovski (Macedonia)

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5 September 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Poland	1–1	Northern Ireland
M. Lewandowski 80'	Report	Lafferty 38'

Stadion Śląski, Chorzów

Attendance: 38,914

Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

5 September 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Slovakia	2–2	Czech Republic
Šesták 59' Hamšík 73' (pen.)	Report	Pudil 68' Baroš 83'

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 23,800

Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)

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9 September 2009

17:20 UTC+2

Czech Republic	7–0	San Marino
Baroš 28', 44', 45+3' (pen.), 66' Svěrkoš 47', 90+4' Necid 86'	Report

Městský fotbalový stadion, Uherské Hradiště

Attendance: 8,121

Referee: Arman Amirkhanyan (Armenia)

9 September 2009

19:45 UTC+1

Northern Ireland	0–2	Slovakia
	Report	Šesták 15' Hološko 67'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 13,019

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

9 September 2009

20:45 UTC+2

Slovenia	3–0	Poland
Dedić 13' Novaković 44' Birsa 62'	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 10,226

Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

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10 October 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Czech Republic	2–0	Poland
Necid 51' Plašil 72'	Report

Generali Arena, Prague

Attendance: 14,010

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

10 October 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Slovakia	0–2	Slovenia
	Report	Birsa 56' Pečnik 90+3'

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 23,800

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

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14 October 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Czech Republic	0–0	Northern Ireland
	Report

Synot Tip Arena, Prague

Attendance: 8,002

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

14 October 2009

20:30 UTC+2

Poland	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Gancarczyk 3' (o.g.)

Stadion Śląski, Chorzów

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

14 October 2009

20:30 UTC+2

San Marino	0–3	Slovenia
	Report	Novaković 24' Stevanović 68' Šuler 81'

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle

Attendance: 1,745

Referee: Zsolt Szabó (Hungary)

Goalscorers

There were 90 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

6 goals

• Ebi Smolarek
• Stanislav Šesták

5 goals

• Milan Baroš
• Milivoje Novakovič

3 goals

• Tomáš Necid

2 goals

• Václav Svěrkoš
• Warren Feeney
• Kyle Lafferty
• Grant McCann
• Rafał Boguski
• Ireneusz Jeleń
• Mariusz Lewandowski
• Robert Lewandowski
• Marek Saganowski
• Marek Čech
• Marek Hamšík
• Martin Jakubko
• Ján Kozák
• Valter Birsa
• Zlatko Dedič
• Robert Koren
• Zlatan Ljubijankič

1 goal

• Martin Fenin
• Marek Jankulovski
• Radoslav Kováč
• Jaroslav Plašil
• Zdeněk Pospěch
• Daniel Pudil
• Libor Sionko
• Chris Brunt
• Steven Davis
• Jonny Evans
• David Healy
• Gareth McAuley
• Paweł Brożek
• Jakub Błaszczykowski
• Michał Żewłakow
• Andy Selva
• Ľuboš Hanzel
• Filip Hološko
• Erik Jendrišek
• Miroslav Karhan
• Peter Pekarík
• Miroslav Stoch
• Martin Škrtel
• Andraž Kirm
• Dalibor Stevanovič
• Marko Šuler
• Nejc Pečnik
• Aleksandar Radosavljević

1 own goal

• Seweryn Gancarczyk (against Slovakia)
• Michał Żewłakow (against Northern Ireland)
• Ján Ďurica (against Northern Ireland)

Attendances

Team	Highest	Lowest	Average
Czech Republic	15,220	8,002	12,062
Northern Ireland	13,357	12,882	13,092
Poland	38,914	4,500	20,841
San Marino	2,374	1,037	1,683
Slovakia	23,800	6,652	15,469
Slovenia	12,500	4,400	9,882