2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group E

The 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group E was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Albania, Cyprus and Iceland.

The group winners, Switzerland, qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Iceland placed among the eight best runners-up and advanced to the play-offs, where they were drawn to play home-and-away matches against Croatia.^[1] However, they failed to qualify for the World Cup after drawing the first match and losing the second.

Standings

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	10	7	3	0	17	6	+11	24
Iceland	10	5	2	3	17	15	+2	17
Slovenia	10	5	0	5	14	11	+3	15
Norway	10	3	3	4	10	13	−3	12
Albania	10	3	2	5	9	11	−2	11
Cyprus	10	1	2	7	4	15	−11	5


Albania	—	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–2
Cyprus	0–0	—	1–0	1–3	0–2	0–0
Iceland	2–1	2–0	—	2–0	2–4	0–2
Norway	0–1	2–0	1–1	—	2–1	0–2
Slovenia	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–0	—	0–2
Switzerland	2–0	1–0	4–4	1–1	1–0	—

Winner qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Runner-up (ranked as one of the eight best runners-up among all nine groups) advanced to the play-offs

Matches

A meeting was held in Zurich, Switzerland, on 22 November 2011 to determine the schedule. The delegates failed to reach agreement on the fixtures, which were then determined by a random draw at the conclusion of the meeting.^[2]

Albania v Cyprus

7 September 2012
20:30 UTC+2

Albania	3–1	Cyprus
Sadiku 36' Çani 84' Bogdani 87'	Report	Laban 45+5'

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana
Attendance: 9,400
Referee: Artyom Kuchin (Kazakhstan)

Slovenia v Switzerland

7 September 2012
20:30 UTC+2

Slovenia	0–2	Switzerland
	Report	Xhaka 20' Inler 51'

Stožice, Ljubljana
Attendance: 13,213
Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

Iceland v Norway

7 September 2012
18:45 UTC±0

Iceland	2–0	Norway
Árnason 22' Finnbogason 81'	Report

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 8,352
Referee: Anthony Gautier (France)

Cyprus v Iceland

11 September 2012
20:00 UTC+3

Cyprus	1–0	Iceland
Makrides 58'	Report

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca
Attendance: 1,600
Referee: Sébastien Delferiere (Belgium)

Norway v Slovenia

11 September 2012
20:00 UTC+2

Norway	2–1	Slovenia
Henriksen 26' J. A. Riise 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Waehler 16' (o.g.)

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 11,168
Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)

Switzerland v Albania

11 September 2012
20:30 UTC+2

Switzerland	2–0	Albania
Shaqiri 23' Inler 68' (pen.)	Report

Swissporarena, Lucerne
Attendance: 16,500
Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania)

Albania v Iceland

12 October 2012
19:00 UTC+2

Albania	1–2	Iceland
Çani 28'	Report	Bjarnason 19' Sigurðsson 81'

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana
Attendance: 8,200
Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

Switzerland v Norway

12 October 2012
20:30 UTC+2

Switzerland	1–1	Norway
Gavranović 79'	Report	Hangeland 81'

Stade de Suisse, Bern
Attendance: 30,712
Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)

Slovenia v Cyprus

12 October 2012
20:45 UTC+2

Slovenia	2–1	Cyprus
Matavž 38', 61'	Report	Aloneftis 83'

Ljudski vrt, Maribor
Attendance: 7,988
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Cyprus v Norway

16 October 2012
21:00 UTC+3

Cyprus	1–3	Norway
Aloneftis 42'	Report	Hangeland 45' Elyounoussi 81' (pen.) King 83'

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca
Attendance: 2,493
Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)

Iceland v Switzerland

16 October 2012
18:30 UTC±0

Iceland	0–2	Switzerland
	Report	Barnetta 66' Gavranović 79'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 8,369
Referee: Alan Kelly (Republic of Ireland)

Albania v Slovenia

16 October 2012
20:45 UTC+2

Albania	1–0	Slovenia
Roshi 37'	Report

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

Slovenia v Iceland

22 March 2013
18:00 UTC+1

Slovenia	1–2	Iceland
Novaković 34'	Report	Sigurðsson 55', 78'

Stožice, Ljubljana
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Stavros Tritsonis (Greece)

Norway v Albania

22 March 2013
19:00 UTC+1

Norway	0–1	Albania
	Report	Salihi 66'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 11,207
Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Cyprus v Switzerland

23 March 2013
18:30 UTC+2

Cyprus	0–0	Switzerland
	Report

GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 2,045
Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Germany)

Albania v Norway

7 June 2013
20:30 UTC+2

Albania	1–1	Norway
Rama 40'	Report	Høgli 87'

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana
Attendance: 15,600
Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

Iceland v Slovenia

7 June 2013
19:00 UTC±0

Iceland	2–4	Slovenia
Bjarnason 22' Finnbogason 26' (pen.)	Report	Kirm 11' Birsa 31' (pen.) Cesar 61' Krhin 86'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 9,202
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

Switzerland v Cyprus

8 June 2013
17:30 UTC+2

Switzerland	1–0	Cyprus
Seferović 90'	Report

Stade de Genève, Geneva
Attendance: 16,900
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)

Norway v Cyprus

6 September 2013
19:00 UTC+2

Norway	2–0	Cyprus
Elyounoussi 43' King 66'	Report

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 11,295
Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)

Slovenia v Albania

6 September 2013
20:30 UTC+2

Slovenia	1–0	Albania
Kampl 19'	Report

Stožice, Ljubljana
Attendance: 13,843
Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Switzerland v Iceland

6 September 2013
20:30 UTC+2

Switzerland	4–4	Iceland
Lichtsteiner 15', 30' Schär 27' Džemaili 54' (pen.)	Report	Guðmundsson 3', 68', 90+1' Sigþórsson 56'

Stade de Suisse, Bern
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

Norway v Switzerland

10 September 2013
19:00 UTC+2

Norway	0–2	Switzerland
	Report	Schär 12', 51'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 16,631
Referee: Howard Webb (England)

Cyprus v Slovenia

10 September 2013
21:30 UTC+3

Cyprus	0–2	Slovenia
	Report	Novaković 12' Iličić 80'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 714
Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

Iceland v Albania

10 September 2013
19:00 UTC±0

Iceland	2–1	Albania
Bjarnason 13' Sigþórsson 47'	Report	Rama 9'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 9,768
Referee: Andre Marriner (England)

Albania v Switzerland

11 October 2013
20:30 UTC+2

Albania	1–2	Switzerland
Salihi 89' (pen.)	Report	Shaqiri 47' Lang 77'

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Iceland v Cyprus

11 October 2013
18:45 UTC±0

Iceland	2–0	Cyprus
Sigþórsson 60' Sigurðsson 76'	Report

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík
Attendance: 9,767
Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Slovenia v Norway

11 October 2013
20:45 UTC+2

Slovenia	3–0	Norway
Novaković 13', 14', 49'	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor
Attendance: 10,890
Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Cyprus v Albania

15 October 2013
19:00 UTC+3

Cyprus	0–0	Albania
	Report

GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 341
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Norway v Iceland

15 October 2013
20:00 UTC+2

Norway	1–1	Iceland
Braaten 30'	Report	Sigþórsson 12'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Attendance: 6,796
Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

Switzerland v Slovenia

15 October 2013
20:00 UTC+2

Switzerland	1–0	Slovenia
Xhaka 74'	Report

Stade de Suisse, Bern
Attendance: 22,014
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Goalscorers

There were 71 goals in 30 matches, for an average of 2.37 goals per match.

5 goals

Milivoje Novaković

4 goals

Gylfi Sigurðsson

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson

3 goals

Birkir Bjarnason

Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson

Fabian Schär

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

Kjetil Waehler (playing against Slovenia)

Discipline

Pos	Player	Country			Suspended for match(es)	Reason
DF	Boštjan Cesar	Slovenia	4	1	vs Albania (16 October 2012)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Tranquillo Barnetta	Switzerland	2	1	vs Albania (11 September 2012)	Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
DF	Andi Lila	Albania	2	1	vs Norway (7 June 2013)	Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
DF	Sölvi Ottesen	Iceland	1	1	vs Albania (12 October 2012)	Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
DF	Espen Ruud	Norway	4	0	vs Albania (22 March 2013) vs Slovenia (11 October 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
FW	Vincent Laban	Cyprus	3	0	vs Slovenia (12 October 2012)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Aron Gunnarsson	Iceland	3	0	vs Switzerland (16 October 2012)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
FW	Eren Derdiyok	Switzerland	2	0	vs Iceland (16 October 2012)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
DF	Valentinos Sielis	Cyprus	2	0	vs Norway (16 October 2012)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
DF	Kári Árnason	Iceland	3	0	vs Slovenia (22 March 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Rúrik Gíslason	Iceland	2	0	vs Slovenia (22 March 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
DF	Grétar Steinsson	Iceland	2	0	vs Slovenia (22 March 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Josip Iličić	Slovenia	2	0	vs Iceland (22 March 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Andraž Kirm	Slovenia	3	0	vs Iceland (22 March 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Daniel Braaten	Norway	2	0	vs Albania (22 March 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson	Iceland	2	0	vs Slovenia (7 June 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Gylfi Sigurðsson	Iceland	3	0	vs Slovenia (7 June 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Lorik Cana	Albania	4	0	vs Norway (7 June 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Odise Roshi	Albania	2	0	vs Norway (7 June 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
DF	Armend Dallku	Albania	3	0	vs Slovenia (6 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Gokhan Inler	Switzerland	2	0	vs Iceland (6 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
DF	Elias Charalambous	Cyprus	2	0	vs Norway (6 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Konstantinos Makridis	Cyprus	2	0	vs Norway (6 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Efstathios Aloneftis	Cyprus	3	0	vs Slovenia (10 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Jasmin Kurtic	Slovenia	2	0	vs Cyprus (10 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Ansi Agolli	Albania	2	0	vs Iceland (10 September 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
MF	Giorgos Merkis	Cyprus	2	0	vs Albania (15 October 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches
DF	Steve von Bergen	Switzerland	2	0	vs Slovenia (15 October 2013)	Booked in two 2014 World Cup qualifying matches

Attendances

Team	Highest	Lowest	Average
Albania	15,600	8,200	11,240
Cyprus	2,493	342	1,439
Iceland	9,768	8,352	9,091
Norway	16,631	6,796	11,420
Switzerland	30,712	16,500	22,425
Slovenia	13,843	6,500	10,487

References

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