UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group C

Group C 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 C consisted of five teams: England, Italy, Malta, North Macedonia, and Ukraine. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[1] The group saw England and Italy meet again, having faced each other in the UEFA Euro 2020 final.^[2]

The top two teams, England and Italy, 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	England	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–1	2–0	7–0	2–0
2	Italy	8	4	2	2	16	9	+7	14[a]			1–2	—	2–1	5–2	4–0
3	Ukraine	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14[a]	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–1	0–0	—	2–0	1–0
4	North Macedonia	8	2	2	4	10	20	−10	8			1–1	1–1	2–3	—	2–1
5	Malta	8	0	0	8	2	20	−18	0			0–4	0–2	1–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Italy 4, Ukraine 1.

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).

Italy	1–2	England
Retegui 56'	Report	Rice 13' Kane 44' (pen.)

23 March 2023 (2023-03-23)

20:45

Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Naples

Attendance: 44,536^[6]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

North Macedonia	2–1	Malta
Elmas 66' Churlinov 72'	Report	Yankam 85'

23 March 2023 (2023-03-23)

20:45

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 9,991^[7]

Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

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England	2–0	Ukraine
Kane 37' Saka 40'	Report

26 March 2023 (2023-03-26)

18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 83,947^[8]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

Malta	0–2	Italy
	Report	Retegui 15' Pessina 27'

26 March 2023 (2023-03-26)

20:45

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 16,015^[9]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

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Malta	0–4	England
	Report	Apap 8' (o.g.) Alexander-Arnold 28' Kane 31' (pen.) Wilson 83' (pen.)

16 June 2023 (2023-06-16)

20:45

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 16,277^[10]

Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)

North Macedonia	2–3	Ukraine
Bardhi 31' (pen.) Elmas 39'	Report	Zabarnyi 62' Konoplya 67' Tsyhankov 83'

16 June 2023 (2023-06-16)

20:45

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 14,370^[11]

Referee: Lukas Fähndrich (Switzerland)

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Ukraine	1–0	Malta
Tsyhankov 72' (pen.)	Report

19 June 2023 (2023-06-19)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava (Slovakia)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 7,543^[13]

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

England	7–0	North Macedonia
Kane 29', 73' (pen.) Saka 38', 47', 51' Rashford 45' Phillips 64'	Report

19 June 2023 (2023-06-19)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 70,708^[14]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

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Ukraine	1–1	England
Zinchenko 26'	Report	Walker 41'

9 September 2023 (2023-09-09)

18:00

Wrocław Stadium, Wrocław (Poland)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 39,000^[15]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

North Macedonia	1–1	Italy
Bardhi 81'	Report	Immobile 47'

9 September 2023 (2023-09-09)

20:45

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 28,126^[16]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

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Italy	2–1	Ukraine
Frattesi 12', 29'	Report	Yarmolenko 41'

12 September 2023 (2023-09-12)

20:45

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 58,386^[17]

Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

Malta	0–2	North Macedonia
	Report	Elmas 5' Manev 41'

12 September 2023 (2023-09-12)

20:45

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,158^[18]

Referee: Henrik Nalbandyan (Armenia)

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Ukraine	2–0	North Macedonia
Sudakov 30' Karavayev 90+5'	Report

14 October 2023 (2023-10-14)

15:00

Stadion Letná, Prague (Czech Republic)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 12,939^[19]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Italy	4–0	Malta
Bonaventura 23' Berardi 45+1', 64' Frattesi 90+3'	Report

14 October 2023 (2023-10-14)

20:45

Stadio San Nicola, Bari

Attendance: 56,186^[20]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

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England	3–1	Italy
Kane 32' (pen.), 77' Rashford 57'	Report	Scamacca 15'

17 October 2023 (2023-10-17)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 83,194^[21]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Malta	1–3	Ukraine
Mbong 12'	Report	Camenzuli 38' (o.g.) Dovbyk 43' (pen.) Mudryk 85'

17 October 2023 (2023-10-17)

20:45

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,547^[22]

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

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England	2–0	Malta
Pepe 8' (o.g.) Kane 75'	Report

17 November 2023 (2023-11-17)

20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 81,388^[23]

Referee: Luis Godinho (Portugal)

Italy	5–2	North Macedonia
Darmian 17' Chiesa 41', 45+2' Raspadori 81' El Shaarawy 90+3'	Report	Atanasov 52', 74'

17 November 2023 (2023-11-17)

20:45

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 56,364^[24]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

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North Macedonia	1–1	England
Bardhi 41'	Report	Atanasov 59' (o.g.)

20 November 2023 (2023-11-20)

20:45

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 27,982^[25]

Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)

Ukraine	0–0	Italy
	Report

20 November 2023 (2023-11-20)

20:45

BayArena, Leverkusen (Germany)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 26,403^[26]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

Goalscorers

There were 61 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3.05 goals per match.

8 goals

• Harry Kane

4 goals

• Bukayo Saka

3 goals

• Davide Frattesi
• Enis Bardhi
• Elif Elmas

2 goals

• Marcus Rashford
• Domenico Berardi
• Federico Chiesa
• Mateo Retegui
• Jani Atanasov
• Viktor Tsyhankov

1 goal

• Trent Alexander-Arnold
• Kalvin Phillips
• Declan Rice
• Kyle Walker
• Callum Wilson
• Giacomo Bonaventura
• Matteo Darmian
• Stephan El Shaarawy
• Ciro Immobile
• Matteo Pessina
• Giacomo Raspadori
• Gianluca Scamacca
• Paul Mbong
• Yannick Yankam
• Darko Churlinov
• Jovan Manev
• Artem Dovbyk
• Oleksandr Karavayev
• Yukhym Konoplya
• Mykhailo Mudryk
• Heorhiy Sudakov
• Andriy Yarmolenko
• Illya Zabarnyi
• Oleksandr Zinchenko

1 own goal

• Ferdinando Apap (against England)
• Ryan Camenzuli (against Ukraine)
• Enrico Pepe (against England)
• Jani Atanasov (against England)

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 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)
England	Luke Shaw	vs Italy (23 March 2023)	vs Ukraine (26 March 2023)
Italy	Giovanni Di Lorenzo	vs England (23 March 2023) vs Malta (26 March 2023) vs England (17 October 2023)	vs North Macedonia (17 November 2023)
Malta	Jean Borg	vs Estonia in 2022–23 UEFA Nations League (23 September 2022)	vs North Macedonia (23 March 2023)
	Steve Borg	vs North Macedonia (23 March 2023) vs Ukraine (19 June 2023) vs North Macedonia (12 September 2023)	vs Italy (14 October 2023)
North Macedonia	Todor Todoroski	vs Bulgaria in 2022–23 UEFA Nations League (26 September 2022)	vs Malta (23 March 2023)
	Visar Musliu	vs Ukraine (16 June 2023)	vs England (19 June 2023)
Ukraine	Ruslan Malinovskyi	vs England (26 March 2023) vs Malta (19 June 2023) vs North Macedonia (14 October 2023)	vs Malta (17 October 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. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine were required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice.^[12]