2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group B was one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar.^[1] Group B consisted of five teams: Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Spain and Sweden.^[2] The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

The group winners, Spain, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Sweden, advanced to the second round (play-offs).

Greece, Georgia and Spain did not recognize Kosovo as an independent country, and therefore, during the match between Spain and Kosovo, the latter team was named "Kosovo Football Federation".^[4]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	6	1	1	15	5	+10	19	Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup		—	1–0	1–1	4–0	3–1
2	Sweden	8	5	0	3	12	6	+6	15	Advance to play-offs		2–1	—	2–0	1–0	3–0
3	Greece	8	2	4	2	8	8	0	10			0–1	2–1	—	1–1	1–1
4	Georgia	8	2	1	5	6	12	−6	7			1–2	2–0	0–2	—	0–1
5	Kosovo	8	1	2	5	5	15	−10	5			0–2	0–3	1–1	1–2	—

Source: FIFA, UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw.^[5][6][7] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)

20:45

Spain	1–1	Greece
Morata 33'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Bakasetas 57' (pen.)

Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada

Attendance: 0^{[8][note 2]}

Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)

20:45

Sweden	1–0	Georgia
Claesson 35'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 0^{[9][note 2]}

Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

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28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	1–2	Spain
Kvaratskhelia 44'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Torres 56' Olmo 90+2'

Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi

Attendance: 16,500^[10]

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)

20:45

Kosovo	0–3	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Augustinsson 12' Isak 35' Larsson 70' (pen.)

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 0^{[11][note 2]}

Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)

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31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	1–1	Georgia
Kakabadze 76' (o.g.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Kvaratskhelia 78'

Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 0^{[12][note 2]}

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)

20:45

Spain	3–1	Kosovo
Olmo 34' Torres 36' Moreno 75'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Halimi 70'

La Cartuja, Seville

Attendance: 0^{[13][note 2]}

Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)

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2 September 2021 (2021-09-02)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	0–1	Kosovo
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Muriqi 18'

Batumi Stadium, Batumi^[14]

Attendance: 122^[15]

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

2 September 2021 (2021-09-02)

20:45

Sweden	2–1	Spain
Isak 6' Claesson 57'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Soler 5'

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 16,901^[16]

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

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5 September 2021 (2021-09-05)

20:45

Kosovo	1–1	Greece
Muriqi 90+2'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Douvikas 45+1'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 1,200^[17]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

5 September 2021 (2021-09-05)

20:45

Spain	4–0	Georgia
Gayà 14' Soler 25' Torres 41' Sarabia 63'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Nuevo Vivero, Badajoz

Attendance: 8,444^[18]

Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

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8 September 2021 (2021-09-08)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	2–1	Sweden
Bakasetas 62' Pavlidis 78'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Quaison 80'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 3,475^[19]

Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

8 September 2021 (2021-09-08)

20:45

Kosovo	0–2	Spain
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Fornals 32' Torres 90'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 1,200^[20]

Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

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9 October 2021 (2021-10-09)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	0–2	Greece
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Bakasetas 90' (pen.) Pelkas 90+5'

Batumi Stadium, Batumi^[14]

Attendance: 0^{[21][note 3]}

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

9 October 2021 (2021-10-09)

18:00

Sweden	3–0	Kosovo
Forsberg 29' (pen.) Isak 62' Quaison 79'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 44,213^[22]

Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)

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12 October 2021 (2021-10-12)

20:45

Kosovo	1–2	Georgia
Muriqi 45' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Okriashvili 11' Davitashvili 82'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 3,550^[23]

Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)

12 October 2021 (2021-10-12)

20:45

Sweden	2–0	Greece
Forsberg 59' (pen.) Isak 69'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 47,314^[24]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

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11 November 2021 (2021-11-11)

18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	2–0	Sweden
Kvaratskhelia 61', 77'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Batumi Stadium, Batumi^[14]

Attendance: 6,800^[25]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

11 November 2021 (2021-11-11)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Greece	0–1	Spain
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sarabia 26' (pen.)

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 7,825^[26]

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

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14 November 2021 (2021-11-14)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Greece	1–1	Kosovo
Masouras 44'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Rrahmani 76'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 1,388^[27]

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

14 November 2021 (2021-11-14)

20:45

Spain	1–0	Sweden
Morata 86'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

La Cartuja, Seville

Attendance: 51,844^[28]

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Goalscorers

There were 46 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.3 goals per match.

4 goals

• Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
• Ferran Torres
• Alexander Isak

3 goals

• Anastasios Bakasetas
• Vedat Muriqi

2 goals

• Álvaro Morata
• Dani Olmo
• Pablo Sarabia
• Carlos Soler
• Viktor Claesson
• Emil Forsberg
• Robin Quaison

1 goal

• Zuriko Davitashvili
• Tornike Okriashvili
• Anastasios Douvikas
• Georgios Masouras
• Vangelis Pavlidis
• Dimitris Pelkas
• Besar Halimi
• Amir Rrahmani
• Pablo Fornals
• José Gayà
• Gerard Moreno
• Ludwig Augustinsson
• Sebastian Larsson

1 own goal

• Otar Kakabadze (against Greece)

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[29]

• Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
• Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches (yellow card suspensions were 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)
Georgia	Giorgi Aburjania	vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Greece (9 October 2021)	vs Kosovo (12 October 2021)
	Grigol Chabradze	vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) vs Spain (5 September 2021)	vs Greece (9 October 2021)
	Lasha Dvali	vs Sweden (25 March 2021) vs Kosovo (12 October 2021)	vs Sweden (11 November 2021)
	Guram Giorbelidze	vs Greece (9 October 2021) vs Kosovo (12 October 2021)
	Jaba Kankava	vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Greece (9 October 2021)	vs Kosovo (12 October 2021)
	Guram Kashia	vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) vs Spain (5 September 2021)	vs Greece (9 October 2021)
	Levan Shengelia	vs Spain (28 March 2021)	vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Kosovo (2 September 2021)[30]
Greece	Anastasios Bakasetas	vs Georgia (9 October 2021) vs Sweden (12 October 2021)	vs Spain (11 November 2021)
	Pantelis Chatzidiakos	vs Slovenia in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020)	vs Spain (25 March 2021)[31]
		vs Sweden (12 October 2021)	vs Spain (11 November 2021)
	Giorgos Giakoumakis	vs Spain (25 March 2021) vs Georgia (31 March 2021)	vs Kosovo (5 September 2021)
	Manolis Siopis	vs Georgia (9 October 2021) vs Spain (11 November 2021)	vs Kosovo (14 November 2021)
	Georgios Tzavellas	vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) vs Georgia (9 October 2021)	vs Sweden (12 October 2021)
	Zeca	vs Spain (25 March 2021) vs Georgia (31 March 2021)	vs Kosovo (5 September 2021)
Kosovo	Bernard Berisha	vs Sweden (28 March 2021)	vs Spain (31 March 2021)
	Ibrahim Drešević	vs Moldova in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020)	vs Sweden (28 March 2021)[31]
		vs Sweden (9 October 2021) vs Georgia (12 October 2021)	vs Greece (14 November 2021)
	Florent Hadergjonaj	vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Sweden (9 October 2021)	vs Georgia (12 October 2021)
	Besar Halimi	vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Greece (5 September 2021)	vs Spain (8 September 2021)
	Lirim M. Kastrati	vs Georgia (2 September 2021) vs Greece (5 September 2021)
	Hekuran Kryeziu	vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Spain (31 March 2021)	vs Georgia (2 September 2021)
Sweden	Marcus Danielson	vs Ukraine in UEFA Euro 2020 (29 June 2021)	vs Spain (2 September 2021)[30]
	Albin Ekdal	vs Kosovo (9 October 2021) vs Greece (12 October 2021)	vs Georgia (11 November 2021)
	Dejan Kulusevski	vs Spain (2 September 2021) vs Kosovo (9 October 2021)	vs Greece (12 October 2021)

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for matches until 27 March and from 31 October (matchday 1 and 9–10), and CEST (UTC+2) for matches from 28 March to 30 October 2021 (matchday 2–8).
2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.
3. The match was played behind closed doors.