UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group C

Group C 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 C consisted of five teams: Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Netherlands and Northern Ireland,^[2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

The top two teams, Germany and Netherlands, 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 v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	8	7	0	1	30	7	+23	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–4	6–1	4–0	8–0
2	Netherlands	8	6	1	1	24	7	+17	19			2–3	—	3–1	4–0	5–0
3	Northern Ireland	8	4	1	3	9	13	−4	13	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–2	0–0	—	2–1	2–0
4	Belarus	8	1	1	6	4	16	−12	4			0–2	1–2	0–1	—	0–0
5	Estonia	8	0	1	7	2	26	−24	1			0–3	0–4	1–2	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 2 December 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.^[4][5] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

21 March 2019 (2019-03-21)

20:45

Netherlands	4–0	Belarus
Depay 1', 55' (pen.) Wijnaldum 21' Van Dijk 86'	Report

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 38,604^[6]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

21 March 2019 (2019-03-21)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Northern Ireland	2–0	Estonia
McGinn 56' Davis 75' (pen.)	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 18,176^[6]

Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

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24 March 2019 (2019-03-24)

20:45

Netherlands	2–3	Germany
De Ligt 48' Depay 63'	Report	Sané 15' Gnabry 34' Schulz 90'

Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 51,694^[6]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

24 March 2019 (2019-03-24)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Northern Ireland	2–1	Belarus
J. Evans 30' Magennis 87'	Report	Stasevich 33'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 18,188^[6]

Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)

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8 June 2019 (2019-06-08)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	1–2	Northern Ireland
Vassiljev 25'	Report	Washington 77' Magennis 80'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 8,378^[6]

Referee: Fabio Verissimo (Portugal)

8 June 2019 (2019-06-08)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	0–2	Germany
	Report	Sané 13' Reus 62'

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 12,510^[6]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

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11 June 2019 (2019-06-11)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Belarus	0–1	Northern Ireland
	Report	McNair 86'

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 5,250^[6]

Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

11 June 2019 (2019-06-11)

20:45

Germany	8–0	Estonia
Reus 10', 37' Gnabry 17', 62' Goretzka 20' Gündoğan 26' (pen.) Werner 79' Sané 88'	Report

Opel Arena, Mainz

Attendance: 26,050^[6]

Referee: Ali Palabıyık (Turkey)

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6 September 2019 (2019-09-06)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	1–2	Belarus
Sorga 54'	Report	Naumov 48' Skavysh 90+2'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 7,314^[6]

Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

6 September 2019 (2019-09-06)

20:45

Germany	2–4	Netherlands
Gnabry 9' Kroos 73' (pen.)	Report	F. de Jong 59' Tah 66' (o.g.) Malen 79' Wijnaldum 90+1'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 51,299^[6]

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

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9 September 2019 (2019-09-09)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–4	Netherlands
	Report	Babel 17', 47' Depay 76' Wijnaldum 87'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 11,006^[6]

Referee: Serhiy Boiko (Ukraine)

9 September 2019 (2019-09-09)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	0–2	Germany
	Report	Halstenberg 48' Gnabry 90+3'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 18,326^[6]

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

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10 October 2019 (2019-10-10)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Belarus	0–0	Estonia
	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 11,300^[6]

Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)

10 October 2019 (2019-10-10)

20:45

Netherlands	3–1	Northern Ireland
Depay 80', 90+4' L. de Jong 90+1'	Report	Magennis 75'

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 41,348^[6]

Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

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13 October 2019 (2019-10-13)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Belarus	1–2	Netherlands
Drahun 54'	Report	Wijnaldum 32', 41'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 21,639^[6]

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

13 October 2019 (2019-10-13)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–3	Germany
	Report	Gündoğan 51', 57' Werner 71'

Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 12,062^[6]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

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16 November 2019 (2019-11-16)

20:45

Germany	4–0	Belarus
Ginter 41' Goretzka 49' Kroos 55', 83'	Report

Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 33,164^[6]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

16 November 2019 (2019-11-16)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Northern Ireland	0–0	Netherlands
	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 18,404^[6]

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

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19 November 2019 (2019-11-19)

20:45

Germany	6–1	Northern Ireland
Gnabry 19', 47', 60' Goretzka 43', 73' Brandt 90+1'	Report	Smith 7'

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 42,855^[6]

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)

19 November 2019 (2019-11-19)

20:45

Netherlands	5–0	Estonia
Wijnaldum 6', 66', 79' Aké 19' Boadu 87'	Report

Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 50,386^[6]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

Goalscorers

There were 69 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.45 goals per match.

8 goals

• Serge Gnabry
• Georginio Wijnaldum

6 goals

• Memphis Depay

4 goals

• Leon Goretzka

3 goals

• İlkay Gündoğan
• Toni Kroos
• Marco Reus
• Leroy Sané
• Josh Magennis

2 goals

• Timo Werner
• Ryan Babel

1 goal

• Stanislaw Drahun
• Nikita Naumov
• Maksim Skavysh
• Ihar Stasevich
• Erik Sorga
• Konstantin Vassiljev
• Julian Brandt
• Matthias Ginter
• Marcel Halstenberg
• Nico Schulz
• Nathan Aké
• Myron Boadu
• Virgil van Dijk
• Frenkie de Jong
• Luuk de Jong
• Matthijs de Ligt
• Donyell Malen
• Steven Davis
• Jonny Evans
• Niall McGinn
• Paddy McNair
• Michael Smith
• Conor Washington

1 own goal

• Jonathan Tah (against Netherlands)

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)
Estonia	Joonas Tamm	vs Northern Ireland (21 March 2019) vs Germany (11 June 2019) vs Netherlands (9 September 2019)	vs Belarus (10 October 2019)
Germany	Emre Can	vs Estonia (13 October 2019)	vs Belarus (16 November 2019)
Netherlands	Marten de Roon	vs Belarus (21 March 2019) vs Germany (6 September 2019) vs Northern Ireland (16 November 2019)	vs Estonia (19 November 2019)

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for matches in March and November 2019, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.