2022_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_-_UEFA_Group_C

2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C

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The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C 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 C consisted of five teams: Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Northern Ireland and Switzerland.^[2] The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

The group winners, Switzerland, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Italy, advanced to the second round (play-offs).

Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[29]

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:

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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).

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.

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The Switzerland vs Lithuania match, originally to be played at 20:45 UTC+2, was delayed by 15 minutes to replace a wrong-sized goal.^[10]

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	8	5	3	0	15	2	+13	18	Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup	—	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–0
2	Italy	8	4	4	0	13	2	+11	16	Advance to play-offs	1–1	—	2–0	1–1	5–0
3	Northern Ireland	8	2	3	3	6	7	−1	9		0–0	0–0	—	0–0	1–0
4	Bulgaria	8	2	2	4	6	14	−8	8		1–3	0–2	2–1	—	1–0
5	Lithuania	8	1	0	7	4	19	−15	3		0–4	0–2	1–4	3–1	—

Team	Player	Offence(s)	Suspended for match(es)
Bulgaria	Valentin Antov	vs Northern Ireland (31 March 2021) vs Lithuania (9 October 2021)	vs Northern Ireland (12 October 2021)
	Atanas Iliev	vs Northern Ireland (31 March 2021) vs Lithuania (5 September 2021)	vs Lithuania (9 October 2021)
	Nikolay Mihaylov	vs Lithuania (5 September 2021)	vs Lithuania (9 October 2021)
	Georgi Yomov	vs Italy (2 September 2021) vs Lithuania (9 October 2021)	vs Northern Ireland (12 October 2021)
Italy	Manuel Locatelli	vs Bulgaria (28 March 2021) vs Lithuania (31 March 2021)	vs Bulgaria (2 September 2021)
Lithuania	Fedor Černych	vs Switzerland (28 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (5 September 2021)	vs Italy (8 September 2021)
	Domantas Šimkus	vs Italy (31 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (5 September 2021)	vs Italy (8 September 2021)
	Egidijus Vaitkūnas	vs Italy (31 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (9 October 2021)	vs Switzerland (12 October 2021)
Northern Ireland	Jamal Lewis	vs Switzerland (9 October 2021)	vs Bulgaria (12 October 2021)
	Paddy McNair	vs Bulgaria (31 March 2021) vs Lithuania (2 September 2021)	vs Switzerland (8 September 2021)
	George Saville	vs Italy (25 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (31 March 2021)	vs Lithuania (2 September 2021)
Switzerland	Manuel Akanji	vs Bulgaria (25 March 2021) vs Italy (12 November 2021)	vs Bulgaria (15 November 2021)
	Fabian Frei	vs Italy (5 September 2021) vs Northern Ireland (8 September 2021)	vs Northern Ireland (9 October 2021)
	Remo Freuler	vs Spain in UEFA Euro 2020 (2 July 2021)	vs Italy (5 September 2021)^[30]
	Denis Zakaria	vs Northern Ireland (8 September 2021) vs Northern Ireland (9 October 2021)	vs Lithuania (12 October 2021)

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2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C

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