2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group J

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group J 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 J consisted of six teams: Armenia, Germany, Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, and Romania.^[2] The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

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

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts

Source: FIFA, UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw.^[4]^[5]^[6] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Germany v Iceland

25 March 2021
20:45

Germany	3–0	Iceland
Goretzka 3' Havertz 7' Gündoğan 56'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

MSV-Arena, Duisburg
Attendance: 0^[7]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

Liechtenstein v Armenia

25 March 2021
20:45

Liechtenstein	0–1	Armenia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Frommelt 83' (o.g.)

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 0^[8]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

Romania v Macedonia

25 March 2021
20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Romania	3–2	Macedonia
Tănase 28' Mihăilă 50' Hagi 86'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Ademi 82' Trajkovski 83'

Arena Națională, Bucharest
Attendance: 0^[9]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

Armenia v Iceland

28 March 2021
18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	2–0	Iceland
Barseghyan 53' Bayramyan 74'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan
Attendance: 4,300^[10]
Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

Macedonia v Liechtenstein

28 March 2021
20:45

Macedonia	5–0	Liechtenstein
Bardhi 7' Trajkovski 51', 54' Elmas 62' Nestorovski 82' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje
Attendance: 0^[11]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

Romania v Germany

28 March 2021
20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	0–1	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Gnabry 17'

Arena Națională, Bucharest
Attendance: 0^[12]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Armenia v Romania

31 March 2021
18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	3–2	Romania
Spertsyan 56' Haroyan 87' Barseghyan 89' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Cicâldău 62', 72'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan
Attendance: 4,300^[13]
Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

Germany v Macedonia

31 March 2021
20:45

Germany	1–2	Macedonia
Gündoğan 63' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Pandev 45+2' Elmas 85'

MSV-Arena, Duisburg
Attendance: 0^[14]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

Liechtenstein v Iceland

31 March 2021
20:45

Liechtenstein	1–4	Iceland
Y. Frick 79'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sævarsson 12' Bi. Bjarnason 45+1' Pálsson 77' Sigurjónsson 90+4' (pen.)

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 0^[15]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

Iceland v Romania

2 September 2021
20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	0–2	Romania
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Man 47' Stanciu 83'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 1,961^[16]
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Liechtenstein v Germany

2 September 2021
20:45

Liechtenstein	0–2	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Werner 41' Sané 77'

Kybunpark, St. Gallen (Switzerland)^{[note 3]}
Attendance: 7,958^[18]
Referee: Fábio Veríssimo (Portugal)

Macedonia v Armenia

2 September 2021
20:45

Macedonia	0–0	Armenia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje
Attendance: 3,147^[19]
Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

Iceland v Macedonia

5 September 2021
18:00 (16:00 UTC±0)

Iceland	2–2	Macedonia
Br. Bjarnason 78' Guðjohnsen 84'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Velkovski 12' Alioski 54'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 1,862^[20]
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Germany v Armenia

5 September 2021
20:45

Germany	6–0	Armenia
Gnabry 6', 15' Reus 35' Werner 45' Hofmann 52' Adeyemi 90+1'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart
Attendance: 18,086^[21]
Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

Romania v Liechtenstein

5 September 2021
20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	2–0	Liechtenstein
Toșca 11' Manea 18'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Arena Națională, Bucharest
Attendance: 9,404^[22]
Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

Armenia v Liechtenstein

8 September 2021
18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	1–1	Liechtenstein
Mkhitaryan 45+5' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	N. Frick 80'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan
Attendance: 14,400^[23]
Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

Iceland v Germany

8 September 2021
20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	0–4	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Gnabry 4' Rüdiger 24' Sané 56' Werner 89'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 3,505^[24]
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

Macedonia v Romania

8 September 2021
20:45

Macedonia	0–0	Romania
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje
Attendance: 5,260^[25]
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Germany v Romania

8 October 2021
20:45

Germany	2–1	Romania
Gnabry 52' Müller 81'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hagi 9'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Attendance: 25,000^[26]
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Iceland v Armenia

8 October 2021
20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	1–1	Armenia
Jóhannesson 77'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hovhannisyan 35'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 1,697^[27]
Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

Liechtenstein v Macedonia

8 October 2021
20:45

Liechtenstein	0–4	Macedonia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Velkovski 39' Alioski 66' (pen.) Nikolov 74' Churlinov 83'

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 1,628^[28]
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

Iceland v Liechtenstein

11 October 2021
20:45 (18:45 UTC±0)

Iceland	4–0	Liechtenstein
Þórðarson 19' Guðmundsson 35' (pen.), 79' (pen.) Guðjohnsen 89'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 4,461^[29]
Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (Greece)

Macedonia v Germany

11 October 2021
20:45

Macedonia	0–4	Germany
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Havertz 50' Werner 70', 73' Musiala 83'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje
Attendance: 16,182^[30]
Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Romania v Armenia

11 October 2021
20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Romania	1–0	Armenia
Mitriță 26'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest
Attendance: 13,576^[31]
Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Armenia v Macedonia

11 November 2021
18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	0–5	Macedonia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Trajkovski 22' Bardhi 36', 67' (pen.), 90' (pen.) Ristovski 79'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan
Attendance: 7,200^[32]
Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)

Germany v Liechtenstein

11 November 2021
20:45

Germany	9–0	Liechtenstein
Gündoğan 11' (pen.) Kaufmann 20' (o.g.) Sané 22', 49' Reus 23' Müller 76', 86' Baku 80' Göppel 89' (o.g.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg
Attendance: 25,984^[33]
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

Romania v Iceland

11 November 2021
20:45 (21:45 UTC+2)

Romania	0–0	Iceland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest
Attendance: 0^[34]^{[note 2]}
Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

Armenia v Germany

14 November 2021
18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)

Armenia	1–4	Germany
Mkhitaryan 59' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Havertz 15' Gündoğan 45+4' (pen.), 50' Hofmann 64'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan
Attendance: 12,800^[35]
Referee: François Letexier (France)

Liechtenstein v Romania

14 November 2021
18:00

Liechtenstein	0–2	Romania
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Man 8' Bancu 87'

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 2,237^[36]
Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

Macedonia v Iceland

14 November 2021
18:00

Macedonia	3–1	Iceland
Alioski 7' Elmas 65', 86'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Þorsteinsson 54'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje
Attendance: 15,986^[37]
Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

Goalscorers

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Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[38]

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:

Team	Player	Offence(s)	Suspended for match(es)
Armenia	Sargis Adamyan	vs Liechtenstein (25 March 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)	vs North Macedonia (11 November 2021)
	Tigran Barseghyan	vs Iceland (28 March 2021) vs Romania (31 March 2021)	vs North Macedonia (2 September 2021)
	Khoren Bayramyan	vs Liechtenstein (25 March 2021) vs Romania (31 March 2021)
	Varazdat Haroyan	vs Iceland (28 March 2021) vs Romania (31 March 2021)
	Varazdat Haroyan	vs Germany (5 September 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)	vs North Macedonia (11 November 2021)
	Eduard Spertsyan	vs Iceland (8 October 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)
	Taron Voskanyan	vs North Macedonia (2 September 2021) vs Romania (11 October 2021)
Germany	Kai Havertz	vs Iceland (25 March 2021) vs North Macedonia (11 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 November 2021)
Germany	Antonio Rüdiger	vs North Macedonia (31 March 2021) vs Liechtenstein (11 November 2021)	vs Armenia (14 November 2021)
Iceland	Albert Guðmundsson	vs Germany (25 March 2021) vs Armenia (28 March 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (31 March 2021)
	Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson	vs Romania (2 September 2021) vs Armenia (8 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 October 2021)
	Birkir Már Sævarsson	vs England in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020)	vs Germany (25 March 2021)^[39]
	Birkir Már Sævarsson	vs North Macedonia (5 September 2021) vs Armenia (8 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 October 2021)
	Ari Freyr Skúlason	vs Armenia (28 March 2021) vs Armenia (8 October 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (11 October 2021)
Liechtenstein	Noah Frommelt	vs North Macedonia (28 March 2021) vs Armenia (8 September 2021)	vs North Macedonia (8 October 2021)
	Jens Hofer	vs Germany (11 November 2021)	vs Romania (14 November 2021)
	Daniel Kaufmann	vs Armenia (8 September 2021) vs North Macedonia (8 October 2021)	vs Iceland (11 October 2021)
	Martin Marxer	vs Iceland (11 October 2021)	vs Germany (11 November 2021)
	Fabio Wolfinger	vs North Macedonia (28 March 2021) vs North Macedonia (8 October 2021)	vs Iceland (11 October 2021)
Macedonia	Tihomir Kostadinov	vs Armenia (2 September 2021) vs Romania (8 September 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (8 October 2021)
	Visar Musliu	vs Armenia (2 September 2021) vs Romania (8 September 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (8 October 2021)
	Goran Pandev	vs Romania (25 March 2021) vs Germany (31 March 2021)	vs Armenia (2 September 2021)
	Milan Ristovski	vs Romania (8 September 2021) vs Liechtenstein (8 October 2021)	vs Germany (11 October 2021)
	Stefan Ristovski	vs Iceland (5 September 2021) vs Germany (11 October 2021)	vs Armenia (11 November 2021)
Romania	Nicușor Bancu	vs North Macedonia (25 March 2021) vs Armenia (31 March 2021)	vs Iceland (2 September 2021)
	Alexandru Maxim		vs Iceland (2 September 2021)
	Valentin Mihăilă	vs North Macedonia (25 March 2021) vs Armenia (11 October 2021)	vs Iceland (11 November 2021)
	Dragoș Nedelcu	vs Iceland (2 September 2021) vs North Macedonia (8 September 2021)	vs Germany (8 October 2021)
	George Pușcaș	vs Armenia (31 March 2021)	vs Iceland (2 September 2021) vs Liechtenstein (5 September 2021)^[40]
	George Pușcaș	vs Armenia (31 March 2021) vs Germany (8 October 2021)	vs Armenia (11 October 2021)
	Andrei Rațiu	vs Germany (8 October 2021) vs Iceland (11 November 2021)	vs Liechtenstein (14 November 2021)

Notes

↑ 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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.
↑ Liechtenstein played their home match against Germany at Kybunpark in St. Gallen, Switzerland, instead of their regular home stadium, the Rheinpark Stadion in Vaduz, which was being renovated.^[17]

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[7] 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).

[Behind_closed_doors-9] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.

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