2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group F

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group F 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 F consisted of six teams: Austria, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Israel, Moldova and Scotland.^[2] The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

The group winners, Denmark, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Scotland, and the fourth placed team, Austria, advanced to the second round (play-offs).

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	10	9	0	1	30	3	+27	27	Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup		—	2–0	5–0	1–0	3–1	8–0
2	Scotland	10	7	2	1	17	7	+10	23	Advance to play-offs		2–0	—	3–2	2–2	4–0	1–0
3	Israel	10	5	1	4	23	21	+2	16			0–2	1–1	—	5–2	3–2	2–1
4	Austria	10	5	1	4	19	17	+2	16	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–4	0–1	4–2	—	3–1	4–1
5	Faroe Islands	10	1	1	8	7	23	−16	4			0–1	0–1	0–4	0–2	—	2–1
6	Moldova	10	0	1	9	5	30	−25	1			0–4	0–2	1–4	0–2	1–1	—

Source: FIFA, UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw.^[4][5][6] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+2)

Israel	0–2	Denmark
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Braithwaite 13' Wind 67'

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 5,000^{[7][note 2]}

Referee: Craig Pawson (England)

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Moldova	1–1	Faroe Islands
Nicolaescu 9'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	M. Olsen 83'

Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău

Attendance: 0^{[8][note 3]}

Referee: Iwan Arwel Griffith (Wales)

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)

20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)

Scotland	2–2	Austria
Hanley 71' J. McGinn 85'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Kalajdžić 55', 80'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 0^{[9][note 3]}

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)

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28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)

18:00

Denmark	8–0	Moldova
Dolberg 19' (pen.), 48' Damsgaard 22', 29' Stryger Larsen 35' Jensen 39' Skov 81' Ingvartsen 89'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

MCH Arena, Herning

Attendance: 0^{[10][note 3]}

Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)

20:45

Austria	3–1	Faroe Islands
Dragović 30' Baumgartner 37' Kalajdžić 44'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Nattestad 19'

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 0^{[11][note 3]}

Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Israel	1–1	Scotland
Peretz 44'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Fraser 56'

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 5,000^{[12][note 2]}

Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

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31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)

20:45

Austria	0–4	Denmark
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Skov Olsen 58', 74' Mæhle 63' Højbjerg 67'

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 0^{[13][note 3]}

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Moldova	1–4	Israel
Carp 29'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Zahavi 45+2' Solomon 57' Dabbur 64' Natkho 66'

Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău

Attendance: 0^{[14][note 3]}

Referee: Bojan Pandžić (Sweden)

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Scotland	4–0	Faroe Islands
J. McGinn 7', 53' Adams 60' Fraser 70'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 0^{[15][note 3]}

Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

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1 September 2021 (2021-09-01)

20:45

Denmark	2–0	Scotland
Wass 14' Mæhle 15'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 34,562^[16]

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

1 September 2021 (2021-09-01)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Faroe Islands	0–4	Israel
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Zahavi 12', 44', 90+2' Dabbur 52'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 2,666^[17]

Referee: Dennis Higler (Netherlands)

1 September 2021 (2021-09-01)

21:15 (22:15 UTC+3)^{[note 4]}

Moldova	0–2	Austria
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Baumgartner 45+1' Arnautović 90+4'

Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău

Attendance: 3,945^[19]

Referee: Paul Tierney (England)

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4 September 2021 (2021-09-04)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	0–1	Denmark
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Wind 85'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 4,620^[20]

Referee: Fran Jović (Croatia)

4 September 2021 (2021-09-04)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Israel	5–2	Austria
Solomon 5' Dabbur 20' Zahavi 33', 90' Weissman 59'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Baumgartner 42' Arnautović 55'

Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa

Attendance: 13,550^[21]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

4 September 2021 (2021-09-04)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Scotland	1–0	Moldova
Dykes 14'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 40,869^[22]

Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)

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7 September 2021 (2021-09-07)

20:45

Austria	0–1	Scotland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Dykes 30' (pen.)

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 18,800^[23]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

7 September 2021 (2021-09-07)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Denmark	5–0	Israel
Poulsen 28' Kjær 31' Skov Olsen 41' Delaney 58' Cornelius 90+1'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 35,158^[24]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

7 September 2021 (2021-09-07)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	2–1	Moldova
K. Olsen 68' Vatnsdal 72'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Milinceanu 84'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 2,714^[25]

Referee: Ricardo de Burgos (Spain)

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9 October 2021 (2021-10-09)

18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)

Scotland	3–2	Israel
J. McGinn 30' Dykes 57' McTominay 90+4'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Zahavi 5' Dabbur 32'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 50,585^[26]

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

9 October 2021 (2021-10-09)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	0–2	Austria
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Laimer 26' Sabitzer 48'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 3,021^[27]

Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

9 October 2021 (2021-10-09)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Moldova	0–4	Denmark
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Skov Olsen 23' Kjær 34' (pen.) Nørgaard 39' Mæhle 44'

Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău

Attendance: 2,642^[28]

Referee: João Pinheiro (Portugal)

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12 October 2021 (2021-10-12)

20:45

Denmark	1–0	Austria
Mæhle 53'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 35,843^[29]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

12 October 2021 (2021-10-12)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	0–1	Scotland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Dykes 86'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 4,233^[30]

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

12 October 2021 (2021-10-12)

21:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Israel	2–1	Moldova
Zahavi 28' Dabbur 49'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Nicolaescu 90+4'

Turner Stadium, Be'er Sheva

Attendance: 9,000^[31]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

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12 November 2021 (2021-11-12)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+2)

Moldova	0–2	Scotland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Patterson 38' Adams 65'

Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău

Attendance: 3,642^[32]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

12 November 2021 (2021-11-12)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Austria	4–2	Israel
Arnautović 51' (pen.) Schaub 62', 72' Sabitzer 84'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Bitton 33' Peretz 59'

Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt

Attendance: 4,300^[33]

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

12 November 2021 (2021-11-12)

20:45

Denmark	3–1	Faroe Islands
Skov Olsen 18' Bruun Larsen 63' Mæhle 90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	K. Olsen 89'

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 35,531^[34]

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

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15 November 2021 (2021-11-15)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Austria	4–1	Moldova
Arnautović 4', 55' (pen.) Trimmel 22' Ljubičić 83'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Nicolaescu 60'

Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt

Attendance: 1,800^[35]

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (North Macedonia)

15 November 2021 (2021-11-15)

19:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Israel	3–2	Faroe Islands
Dabbur 30' (pen.) Weissman 58' Peretz 74'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Vatnhamar 62' K. Olsen 72'

Netanya Stadium, Netanya

Attendance: 6,800^[36]

Referee: Jérôme Brisard (France)

15 November 2021 (2021-11-15)

20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)

Scotland	2–0	Denmark
Souttar 35' Adams 86'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 49,527^[37]

Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

Goalscorers

There were 101 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.37 goals per match.

8 goals

• Eran Zahavi

6 goals

• Mu'nas Dabbur

5 goals

• Marko Arnautović
• Joakim Mæhle
• Andreas Skov Olsen

4 goals

• Lyndon Dykes
• John McGinn

3 goals

• Christoph Baumgartner
• Saša Kalajdžić
• Klæmint Olsen
• Dor Peretz
• Ion Nicolaescu
• Ché Adams

2 goals

• Marcel Sabitzer
• Louis Schaub
• Mikkel Damsgaard
• Kasper Dolberg
• Simon Kjær
• Jonas Wind
• Manor Solomon
• Shon Weissman
• Ryan Fraser

1 goal

• Aleksandar Dragović
• Konrad Laimer
• Dejan Ljubicic
• Christopher Trimmel
• Martin Braithwaite
• Jacob Bruun Larsen
• Andreas Cornelius
• Thomas Delaney
• Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
• Marcus Ingvartsen
• Mathias Jensen
• Christian Nørgaard
• Yussuf Poulsen
• Robert Skov
• Jens Stryger Larsen
• Daniel Wass
• Sonni Nattestad
• Meinhard Olsen
• Sølvi Vatnhamar
• Heini Vatnsdal
• Nir Bitton
• Bibras Natkho
• Cătălin Carp
• Nicolae Milinceanu
• Grant Hanley
• Scott McTominay
• Nathan Patterson
• John Souttar

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[38]

• 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)
Austria	Florian Grillitsch	vs Scotland (25 March 2021) vs Faroe Islands (28 March 2021)	vs Denmark (31 March 2021)
	Martin Hinteregger	vs Scotland (7 September 2021) vs Israel (12 November 2021)	vs Moldova (15 November 2021)
Denmark	Christian Nørgaard	vs Israel (7 September 2021) vs Faroe Islands (12 November 2021)	vs Scotland (15 November 2021)
Faroe Islands	Brandur Hendriksson	vs Austria (28 March 2021) vs Scotland (12 October 2021)	vs Denmark (12 November 2021)
	René Joensen	vs Denmark (4 September 2021)	vs Moldova (7 September 2021)
		vs Israel (1 September 2021) vs Austria (9 October 2021)	vs Scotland (12 October 2021)
	Gunnar Vatnhamar	vs Moldova (25 March 2021) vs Denmark (12 November 2021)	vs Israel (15 November 2021)
Israel	Hatem Abd Elhamed	vs Austria (4 September 2021) vs Denmark (7 September 2021)	vs Scotland (9 October 2021)
Moldova	Igor Armaș	vs Faroe Islands (25 March 2021) vs Israel (31 March 2021)	vs Austria (1 September 2021)
	Cătălin Carp	vs Denmark (28 March 2021) vs Israel (31 March 2021)
	Artur Ioniță	vs Faroe Islands (25 March 2021) vs Scotland (4 September 2021)	vs Faroe Islands (7 September 2021)
	Denis Marandici	vs Denmark (9 October 2021) vs Scotland (12 November 2021)	vs Austria (15 November 2021)
	Ion Nicolaescu	vs Israel (31 March 2021)	vs Austria (1 September 2021) vs Scotland (4 September 2021)[39]
	Vadim Raţă	vs Faroe Islands (25 March 2021) vs Israel (31 March 2021)	vs Austria (1 September 2021)
		vs Israel (12 October 2021) vs Scotland (12 November 2021)	vs Austria (15 November 2021)
	Oleg Reabciuk	vs Austria (1 September 2021) vs Faroe Islands (7 September 2021)	vs Denmark (9 October 2021)
		vs Israel (12 October 2021)	vs Scotland (12 November 2021)
Scotland	Ryan Christie	vs Austria (25 March 2021) vs Faroe Islands (12 October 2021)	vs Moldova (12 November 2021)
	Lyndon Dykes
	Grant Hanley	vs Austria (25 March 2021) vs Austria (7 September 2021)	vs Israel (9 October 2021)
	Nathan Patterson	vs Israel (9 October 2021) vs Moldova (12 November 2021)	vs Denmark (15 November 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. The Israeli authorities have allowed the attendance of audiences at football matches (up to 5,000 seats), thanks to over 50% of Israel's population who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by then.
3. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.
4. The Moldova v Austria match, originally to be played at 21:45 UTC+3, was delayed by 30 minutes because a drone invaded the pitch.^[18]