UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group B

This page shows the standings and results for Group B of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying tournament.^[1]

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	10	7	2	1	17	4	+13	23	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	6–0
2	Republic of Ireland	10	6	3	1	15	7	+8	21	Advance to play-offs		2–3	—	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–1
3	Armenia	10	5	2	3	22	10	+12	17			0–0	0–1	—	3–1	4–1	4–0
4	Slovakia	10	4	3	3	7	10	−3	15			0–1	1–1	0–4	—	1–0	1–0
5	Macedonia	10	2	2	6	8	14	−6	8			0–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	—	1–0
6	Andorra	10	0	0	10	1	25	−24	0			0–2	0–2	0–3	0–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

Group B fixtures were to be negotiated between the participants at a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 15 and 16 March 2010.^[2][3] After that meeting proved inconclusive, the fixture list was determined by a random draw at the XXXIV Ordinary UEFA Congress in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 25 March.^[4]

Armenia	0–1	Republic of Ireland
	Report	Fahey 76'

3 September 2010

20:00 UTC+5

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 8,600^[5]

Referee: Zsolt Szabó (Hungary)

Andorra	0–2	Russia
	Report	Pogrebnyak 14', 64' (pen.)

3 September 2010

18:30 UTC+2

Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 1,100^[6]

Referee: Marco Borg (Malta)

Slovakia	1–0	Macedonia
Hološko 90+1'	Report

3 September 2010

20:30 UTC+2

Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava

Attendance: 5,980^[7]

Referee: Claudio Circhetta (Switzerland)

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Russia	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Stoch 27'

7 September 2010

19:00 UTC+4

Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 27,052^[8]

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Macedonia	2–2	Armenia
Gjurovski 42' Naumoski 90+6' (pen.)	Report	Movsisyan 41' Manucharyan 90+1'

7 September 2010

20:00 UTC+2

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Espen Berntsen (Norway)

Republic of Ireland	3–1	Andorra
Kilbane 15' Doyle 41' Keane 54'	Report	Martínez 45'

7 September 2010

19:45 UTC+1

Landsdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 40,283^[9]

Referee: Leontios Trattou (Cyprus)

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Armenia	3–1	Slovakia
Movsisyan 23' Ghazaryan 50' Mkhitaryan 89'	Report	Weiss 37'

8 October 2010

20:00 UTC+5

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 8,500^[10]

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Andorra	0–2	Macedonia
	Report	Naumoski 42' Šikov 60'

8 October 2010

19:00 UTC+2

Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 550^[11]

Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

Republic of Ireland	2–3	Russia
Keane 72' (pen.) Long 78'	Report	Kerzhakov 11' Dzagoev 29' Shirokov 50'

8 October 2010

19:45 UTC+1

Landsdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 50,411^[12]

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

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Armenia	4–0	Andorra
Ghazaryan 4' Mkhitaryan 16' Movsisyan 32' Pizzelli 52'	Report

12 October 2010

20:00 UTC+5

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 12,000^[13]

Referee: Tomasz Mikulski (Poland)

Macedonia	0–1	Russia
	Report	Kerzhakov 8'

12 October 2010

20:30 UTC+2

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 10,500^[14]

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

Slovakia	1–1	Republic of Ireland
Ďurica 36'	Report	St Ledger 16'

12 October 2010

20:30 UTC+2

Stadium Pod Dubňom, Žilina

Attendance: 10,892^[15]

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

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Armenia	0–0	Russia
	Report

26 March 2011

19:00 UTC+4

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 14,400^[16]

Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

Andorra	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Šebo 21'

26 March 2011

20:00 UTC+1

Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 850

Referee: Menashe Masiah (Israel)

Republic of Ireland	2–1	Macedonia
McGeady 2' Keane 21'	Report	Tričkovski 45'

26 March 2011

19:45 UTC±0

Landsdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 33,200^[17]

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

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Russia	3–1	Armenia
Pavlyuchenko 26', 59', 73' (pen.)	Report	Pizzelli 25'

4 June 2011

19:00 UTC+4

Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg

Attendance: 18,000^[18]

Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

Slovakia	1–0	Andorra
Karhan 63'	Report

4 June 2011

20:15 UTC+2

Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava

Attendance: 4,300^[19]

Referee: Lorenc Jemini (Albania)

Macedonia	0–2	Republic of Ireland
	Report	Keane 7', 37'

4 June 2011

21:30 UTC+2

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 29,500^[20]

Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)

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Andorra	0–3	Armenia
	Report	Pizzelli 34' Ghazaryan 75' Mkhitaryan 90+2' (pen.)

2 September 2011

18:00 UTC+2

Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 750^[21]

Referee: Alexander Kostadinov (Bulgaria)

Russia	1–0	Macedonia
Semshov 41'	Report

2 September 2011

20:00 UTC+4

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 31,028^[22]

Referee: Bülent Yıldırım (Turkey)

Republic of Ireland	0–0	Slovakia
	Report

2 September 2011

19:45 UTC+1

Landsdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 35,480^[23]

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

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Russia	0–0	Republic of Ireland
	Report

6 September 2011

19:00 UTC+4

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 49,515^[24]

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Macedonia	1–0	Andorra
Ivanovski 59'	Report

6 September 2011

20:00 UTC+2

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 5,000^[25]

Referee: Mark Steven Whitby (Wales)

Slovakia	0–4	Armenia
	Report	Movsisyan 57' Mkhitaryan 70' Ghazaryan 80' Sarkisov 90+1'

6 September 2011

20:15 UTC+2

Stadium Pod Dubňom, Žilina

Attendance: 7,238^[26]

Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

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Armenia	4–1	Macedonia
Pizzelli 28' Mkhitaryan 34' Ghazaryan 69' Sarkisov 90+1'	Report	Šikov 86'

7 October 2011

20:00 UTC+5

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 14,403^[27]

Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Slovakia	0–1	Russia
	Report	Dzagoev 71'

7 October 2011

20:15 UTC+2

Stadium Pod Dubňom, Žilina

Attendance: 10,087^[28]

Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

Andorra	0–2	Republic of Ireland
	Report	Doyle 7' McGeady 20'

7 October 2011

21:30 UTC+2

Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 860^[29]

Referee: Libor Kovařik (Czech Republic)

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Russia	6–0	Andorra
Dzagoev 5', 44' Ignashevich 26' Pavlyuchenko 30' Glushakov 59' Bilyaletdinov 78'	Report

11 October 2011

21:45 UTC+4

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 38,790^[30]

Referee: Eli Hacmon (Israel)

Republic of Ireland	2–1	Armenia
V. Aleksanyan 43' (o.g.) Dunne 59'	Report	Mkhitaryan 62'

11 October 2011

18:45 UTC+1

Landsdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 45,200^[31]

Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

Macedonia	1–1	Slovakia
Noveski 80'	Report	Piroska 54'

11 October 2011

19:45 UTC+2

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 4,100^[32]

Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

Goalscorers

There were 70 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.

6 goals

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan

5 goals

• Gevorg Ghazaryan
• Robbie Keane

4 goals

• Yura Movsisyan
• Marcos Pizzelli
• Alan Dzagoev
• Roman Pavlyuchenko

2 goals

• Artur Sarkisov
• Ilčo Naumoski
• Vanche Shikov
• Kevin Doyle
• Aiden McGeady
• Aleksandr Kerzhakov
• Pavel Pogrebnyak

1 goal

• Cristian Martínez
• Edgar Manucharyan
• Mario Gjurovski
• Mirko Ivanovski
• Nikolče Noveski
• Ivan Trichkovski
• Richard Dunne
• Keith Fahey
• Kevin Kilbane
• Shane Long
• Sean St Ledger
• Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
• Denis Glushakov
• Sergei Ignashevich
• Igor Semshov
• Roman Shirokov
• Ján Ďurica
• Filip Hološko
• Miroslav Karhan
• Juraj Piroska
• Filip Šebo
• Miroslav Stoch
• Vladimír Weiss

1 own goal

• Valeri Aleksanyan (against Republic of Ireland)

Discipline

Pos	Player	Country			Suspended for match(es)	Reason
DF	Ildefons Lima	Andorra	4	1	vs Macedonia (8 October 2010) vs Macedonia (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match
MF	Goran Pandev	Macedonia	3	1	vs Andorra (6 September 2011)	Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match
MF	Velice Sumulikoski	Macedonia	3	1	vs Slovakia (11 October 2011)	Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match
FW	Kevin Doyle	Republic of Ireland	3	1	vs Estonia (11 and 15 November 2011)	Sent off in a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match
DF	Richard Dunne	Republic of Ireland	4	0	vs Macedonia (3 June 2011) vs Andorra (7 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Aleksandr Anyukov	Russia	4	0	vs Armenia (26 March 2011) vs Andorra (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Miroslav Stoch	Slovakia	4	0	vs Andorra (3 June 2011) vs Macedonia (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Marc Pujol	Andorra	3	0	vs Macedonia (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Fernando Silva	Andorra	3	0	vs Slovakia (26 March 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Sean St Ledger	Republic of Ireland	3	0	vs Russia (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
MF	Igor Denisov	Russia	3	0	vs Republic of Ireland (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
GK	Ján Mucha	Slovakia	3	0	vs Andorra (3 June 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Martin Škrtel	Slovakia	3	0	vs Republic of Ireland (12 October 2010)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Xavi Andorrà	Andorra	2	0	vs Armenia (2 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
MF	Josep Ayala	Andorra	2	0	vs Russia (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Cristian Martínez	Andorra	2	0	vs Russia (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Sergi Moreno	Andorra	2	0	vs Slovakia (3 June 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
MF	Marc Vales	Andorra	2	0	vs Republic of Ireland (7 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Karlen Mkrtchyan	Armenia	2	0	vs Andorra (12 October 2010)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Yura Movsisyan	Armenia	2	0	vs Andorra (2 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
MF	Muhamed Demiri	Macedonia	2	0	vs Andorra (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Mirko Ivanovski	Macedonia	2	0	vs Slovakia (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
MF	Nikolče Noveski	Macedonia	2	0	vs Andorra (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Goran Popov	Macedonia	2	0	vs Slovakia (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Stephen Ward	Republic of Ireland	2	0	vs Armenia (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
DF	Sergei Ignashevich	Russia	2	0	vs Macedonia (2 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
MF	Konstantin Zyryanov	Russia	2	0	vs Andorra (11 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Juraj Kucka	Slovakia	2	0	vs Armenia (6 September 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches
FW	Stanislav Šesták	Slovakia	2	0	vs Russia (7 October 2011)	Booked in 2 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying matches