Last Four Teams to Qualify for Euro 2012 Part I

We have already had a look through the 12 qualifiers in the previous editions. Nine teams have qualified for Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland by ending up as Group winners, one team has booked their berths as best runner up and the host nations have also qualified automatically for the main draw. Now we will have a look at the teams who qualified for Euro 2012 after ending up as runner-up of their respective groups and winning play-offs.

CROATIA

GROUP QUALIFIERS

3^rd September, 2010, Riga: CROATIA 3 [Mladen Petric 43’, Ivica Olic 51’, Darijo Srna 82’] vs. LATVIA 0

7^th September, 2010, Zagreb: CRAOTIA 0 vs. GREECE 0

Beram Kayal of Israel challenges Niko Kranjcar of Croatia

9^th October, 2010, Ramat Gan: CROATIA 2 [Niko Kranjcar (36’ P, 41’) vs. ISRAEL 1 [Etey Shechter 81’]

17^th December, 2010, Zagreb: CROATIA 3 [Niko Kranjcar (18’, 42’), Nikola Kalinic 81’] vs. MALTA 0

26^th March, 2011, Tbilisi: CROATIA 0 vs. GEORGIA 1 [Levan Kobiashvili 90’]

3^rd June, 2011, Split: CRAOTIA 2 [Mario Mandzukic 76’, Nikola Kalinic 78’] vs. GEORGIA 1 [Jaba Kankava 17’]

2^nd September, 2011, Ta’Qali: CROATIA 3 [Ognjen Vukojevic 11’, Milan Badelj 32’, Dejan Lovren 68’] vs. MALTA 1 [Micheal Mifsud 38’]

6^th September, 2011, Zagreb: CROATIA 3 [Luka Modric 47’, Eduardo (55’, 57’)] vs. ISRAEL 1 [Tomer Hemed 44’]

Latvia's Oskars Klava and Kaspars Gorkss Challenge Croatia's Eduardo

7^th October, 2011, Piraeus: CROATIA 0 vs. GREECE 2 [Giogos Samaras 71’, Fanis Gekas 79’]

11^th October, 2011, Rijeka: CROATIA 2 [Eduardo 66’, Mario Mandzukic 72’] vs. LATVIA 0

PLAY-OFFS

Ivica Olic of Croatia and Gokhan Zan of Turkey

11^th November, 2011, Istanbul: CROATIA 3 [Ivica Olic 2’, Mario Mandzukic 32’, Vedran Corluka 51’] vs. TURKEY 0

15^th November, 2011, Zagreb: CROATIA 0 vs. TURKEY 0

(Through on 3-0 aggregate)

CZECH REPUBLIC

GROUP QUALIFIERS

7^th September, 2010, Olomouc: CZECH REPUBLIC 0 vs. LITHUANIA 1 [Darvydas Sernas 27’]

8^th October, 2010, Prague: CZECH REPUBLIC 1 [Roman Hubnik 69’] vs. SCOTLAND 0

Tomas Necid Opened the Scoring Against Liechtenstein 

12^th October, 2010, Vaduz: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Tomas Necid 12’, Vaclav Kadlec 29’] vs. LIECHTENSTEIN 0

25^th March, 2011, Granada: CZECH REPUBLIC 1 [Jaroslav Plasil 29’] vs. SPAIN 2 [David Villa (68’, 72 P)]

29^th March, 2011, Ceske Budejovice: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Milan Baros 3’, Michael Kadlec 70’] vs. LIECHTENSTEIN 0

3^rd September, 2011, Glasgow: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Jaroslav Plasil 78’, Micheal Kadlec 90’ (P)] vs. SCOTLAND 2 [Kenny Miller 45’, Darren Fletcher 82’]

Jaroslav Plasil After Scoring Against Scotland 

7^th October, 2011, Prague: CZECH REPUBLIC 0 vs. SPAIN 2 [Juan Mata 7’, Xabi Alonso 23’]

11^th October, 2011, Kaunas: CZECH REPUBLIC 4 [Micheal Kadlec (2’ P, 85’ P), Jan Rezek (16’, 45’)] vs. LITHUANIA 1 [Darvydas Sernas 68’ (P)]

PLAY-OFFS

Petr Jiracek On the Way to Scoring Only Goal in the Second Play-off against Montenegro

11^th November, 2011, Prague: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Vaclav Pilar 63’, Tomas Sivok 90+2’] vs. MONTENEGRO 0

15^th November, 2011, Podgorica: CZECH REPUBLIC 1 [Petr Jiracek 81’] vs. MONTENEGRO 0

(Through on 3-0 aggregate)