Last Four Teams to Qualify for Euro 2012 Part II

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.

PORTUGAL

GROUP QUALIFIERS

3^rd September, 2010, Guimaraes: PORTUGAL 4 [Hugo Almeida 8’, Raul Meireles 29’, Danny 50’, Manuel Fernandes 60’] vs. CYPRUS 4 [Efstathios Aloneftis 3’, Michalis Konstatinou 11’, Yiannis Okkas 57’, Andreas Avraam 89’]

7^th September, 2010, Oslo: PORTUGAL 0 vs. NORWAY 1 [Erik Huseklepp 21’]

Nani Scores his First Goal against Iceland

8^th October, 2010, Porto: PORTUGAL 3 [Nani (29’, 30’), Cristiano Ronaldo 85’] vs. DENMARK 1 [Ricardo Carvalho 79 (o.g.)]

12^th October, 2010, Reykjavik: PORTUGAL 3 [Cristiano Ronaldo 3’, Raul Meireles 27’, Helder Postiga 72’] vs. ICELAND 1 [heidar Helguson 17’]

4^th June, 2011, Lisbon: PORTUGAL 1 [Helder Postiga 53’] vs. NORWAY 0

2^nd September, 2011, Nicosia: PORTUGAL 4 [Cristiano Ronaldo (35’ P, 82’), Hugo Almeida 84’, Danny 90+2’] vs. CYPRUS 0

Helder Postiga in the Match Against Denmark

7^th October, 2011, Porto: PORTUGAL 5 [Nani (13’, 21’), Helder Postiga 44’, Joao Moutinho 81’, Eliseu 87’] vs. ICELAND 3 [hallgrimur Jonasson (48’, 68’), Gylfi Sigurdsson 90+4’ (P)]

11^th October, 2011, Copenhagen: PORTUGAL 1 [Cristiano Ronaldo 90+2’] vs. DENMARK 2 [Micheal Krohn-Deli 13’, Nicklas Bendtner 63’]

PLAY-OFFS

Cristiano Ronaldo fights for Possession with Adnan Zahirovic (Bosnia)  

11^th November, 2011, Zenica: PORTUGAL 0 vs. BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA 0

15^th November, 2011, Lisbon: PORTUGAL 6 [Cristiano Ronaldo (8’, 53’), Nani 24’, Helder Postiga (72’, 82’), Miguel Veloso 80’] vs. BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA 2 [Zvjezdan Misimovic 41’ (P), Emir Spahic 65’]

(Through on 6-2 aggregate)

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

GROUP QUALIFIERS

3^rd September, 2010, Yerevan: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 [Keith Fahey 76’] vs. ARMENIA 0

7^th September, 2010, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 3 [Kevin Kilbane 15’, Kevin Doyle 41’, Robbie Keane 54’] vs. ANDORRA 1 [Cristian Martinez 45’]

Josep Manel Ayala of Andorra tries to tackle Kevin Doyle of Republic of Ireland

8^th October, 2010, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Robbie Keane 72’ (P), Shane Long 78’] vs. RUSSIA 3 [Aleksandr Kerzhakov 11’, Alan Dzagoev 29’, Roman Shirokov 50’]

12^th October, 2010, Zilina: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 [Sean St Ledger 16’] vs. SLOVAKIA 1 [Jan Durica 36’]

26^th March, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Aiden McGeady 2’, Robbie Keane 21’] vs. FYROM 1 [Ivan Trickoski 46’]

4^th June, 2011, Skopje: REPUBLIC OR IRELAND 2 [Robbie Keane (8’, 37’)] vs. FYROM 0

2^nd September, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OR IRELAND 0 vs. SLOVAKIA 0

6^th September, 2011, Moscow: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 0 vs. RUSSIA 0

John O'Shea Tackling Andorra Player

7^th October, 2011, Andorra la Vella: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Kevin Doyle 8’, Aiden McGeedy 20’] vs. ANDORRA 0

11^th October, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Valeri Aleksanyan 43’ (o.g), Richard Dunne 59’] vs. ARMENIA 1 [Henrik Mkhitaryan 62’]

PLAY-OFFS

Robbie Keane celebrates after scoring against Estonia

11^th November, 2011, Tallinn: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 4 [Keith Andrews 13’, Jon Walters 67’, Robbie Keane (71’, 88’ P)] vs. ESTONIA 0

15^th November, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 [Stephen Ward 32’] vs. ESTONIA 1 [Konstantin Vassiljev 57’]

(Through on 5-1 aggregate) 

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)