UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group A

Group A of UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2024 final tournament in Germany. Group A consisted of five teams: Cyprus, Georgia, Norway, Scotland and Spain. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[1]

Originally Gibraltar had been drawn in this group, but they were moved to group B due to Spain not being willing to play them because of the disputed status of Gibraltar.^[2]

The top two teams, Spain and Scotland, qualified directly for the final tournament. The participants of the qualifying play-offs were decided based on their performance in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	7	0	1	25	5	+20	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	3–0	3–1	6–0
2	Scotland	8	5	2	1	17	8	+9	17			2–0	—	3–3	2–0	3–0
3	Norway	8	3	2	3	14	12	+2	11			0–1	1–2	—	2–1	3–1
4	Georgia	8	2	2	4	12	18	−6	8	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–7	2–2	1–1	—	4–0
5	Cyprus	8	0	0	8	3	28	−25	0			1–3	0–3	0–4	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day after the draw.^[3][4][5] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

25 March 2023 (2023-03-25)

15:00 (14:00 UTC±0)

Scotland	3–0	Cyprus
McGinn 21' McTominay 87', 90+3'	Report

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 48,195^[6]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

25 March 2023 (2023-03-25)

20:45

Spain	3–0	Norway
Olmo 13' Joselu 84', 85'	Report

La Rosaleda, Málaga

Attendance: 29,214^[7]

Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

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28 March 2023 (2023-03-28)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	1–1	Norway
Mikautadze 60'	Report	Sørloth 15'

Batumi Stadium, Batumi

Attendance: 20,300^[8]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

28 March 2023 (2023-03-28)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Scotland	2–0	Spain
McTominay 7', 51'	Report

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 47,976^[9]

Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)^{[note 2]}

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17 June 2023 (2023-06-17)

18:00

Norway	1–2	Scotland
Haaland 61' (pen.)	Report	Dykes 87' McLean 89'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 25,791^[11]

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

17 June 2023 (2023-06-17)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Cyprus	1–2	Georgia
Pittas 39' (pen.)	Report	Mikautadze 31' Davitashvili 84'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 3,763^[12]

Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

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20 June 2023 (2023-06-20)

20:45

Norway	3–1	Cyprus
Solbakken 12' Haaland 56' (pen.), 60'	Report	Kastanos 90+3'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 23,643^[13]

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (North Macedonia)

20 June 2023 (2023-06-20)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Scotland	2–0	Georgia
McGregor 6' McTominay 47'	Report

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 50,062^[14]

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

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8 September 2023 (2023-09-08)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	1–7	Spain
Chakvetadze 49'	Report	Morata 22', 40', 66' Kvirkvelia 27' (o.g.) Olmo 38' Williams 68' Yamal 74'

Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi

Attendance: 51,694^[15]

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

8 September 2023 (2023-09-08)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Cyprus	0–3	Scotland
	Report	McTominay 6' Porteous 16' McGinn 30'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 6,633^[16]

Referee: Balázs Berke (Hungary)

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12 September 2023 (2023-09-12)

20:45

Norway	2–1	Georgia
Haaland 25' Ødegaard 33'	Report	Zivzivadze 90+1'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 23,665^[17]

Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

12 September 2023 (2023-09-12)

20:45

Spain	6–0	Cyprus
Gavi 18' Merino 33' Joselu 70' F. Torres 73', 83' Baena 77'	Report

Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada^[18]

Attendance: 17,311^[19]

Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

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12 October 2023 (2023-10-12)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Cyprus	0–4	Norway
	Report	Sørloth 33' Haaland 65', 72' Aursnes 81'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 7,206^[20]

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

12 October 2023 (2023-10-12)

20:45

Spain	2–0	Scotland
Morata 73' Sancet 86'	Report

La Cartuja, Seville

Attendance: 45,623^[21]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

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15 October 2023 (2023-10-15)

15:00 (17:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	4–0	Cyprus
Kiteishvili 46' Kvaratskhelia 58' Shengelia 82' Mikautadze 90+5' (pen.)	Report

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 15,871^[22]

Referee: Robert Jones (England)

15 October 2023 (2023-10-15)

20:45

Norway	0–1	Spain
	Report	Gavi 49'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 25,885^[23]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

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16 November 2023 (2023-11-16)

18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	2–2	Scotland
Kvaratskhelia 15', 57'	Report	McTominay 49' Shankland 90+2'

Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi

Attendance: 44,595^[24]

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (North Macedonia)

16 November 2023 (2023-11-16)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+2)

Cyprus	1–3	Spain
Pileas 75'	Report	Yamal 5' Oyarzabal 22' Joselu 28'

Alphamega Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 9,667^[25]

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

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19 November 2023 (2023-11-19)

20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)

Scotland	3–3	Norway
McGinn 13' Østigård 33' (o.g.) Armstrong 59'	Report	Dønnum 3' Larsen 20' Elyounoussi 86'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 48,138^[26]

Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

19 November 2023 (2023-11-19)

20:45

Spain	3–1	Georgia
Le Normand 4' F. Torres 55' Lochoshvili 72' (o.g.)	Report	Kvaratskhelia 10'

José Zorrilla, Valladolid

Attendance: 24,146^[27]

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Goalscorers

There were 71 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.55 goals per match.

7 goals

• Scott McTominay

6 goals

• Erling Haaland

4 goals

• Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
• Joselu
• Álvaro Morata

3 goals

• Georges Mikautadze
• John McGinn
• Ferran Torres

2 goals

• Alexander Sørloth
• Gavi
• Dani Olmo
• Lamine Yamal

1 goal

• Grigoris Kastanos
• Kostas Pileas
• Ioannis Pittas
• Giorgi Chakvetadze
• Zuriko Davitashvili
• Otar Kiteishvili
• Levan Shengelia
• Budu Zivzivadze
• Fredrik Aursnes
• Aron Dønnum
• Mohamed Elyounoussi
• Martin Ødegaard
• Ola Solbakken
• Jørgen Strand Larsen
• Stuart Armstrong
• Lyndon Dykes
• Callum McGregor
• Kenny McLean
• Ryan Porteous
• Lawrence Shankland
• Álex Baena
• Robin Le Normand
• Mikel Merino
• Mikel Oyarzabal
• Oihan Sancet
• Nico Williams

1 own goal

• Solomon Kvirkvelia (against Spain)
• Luka Lochoshvili (against Spain)
• Leo Skiri Østigård (against Scotland)

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[1]

• 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 the fifth and any subsequent yellow card (yellow card suspensions could be 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)
Cyprus	Nicholas Ioannou	vs Scotland (25 March 2023)	vs Georgia (17 June 2023)

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for matches until 25 March and from 29 October (matchday 1 and 9–10), and CEST (UTC+2) for matches from 26 March to 28 October 2023 (matchday 2–8).
2. Sandro Schärer suffered an injury. He was replaced by the fourth official Lukas Fähndrich (Switzerland) at half-time.^[10]