UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying Group B

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Standings and results for Group B of the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying tournament.

1 Standings
2 Results
3 Goalscorers
4 References

[edit] Standings

Key:

Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Italy	29	12	9	2	1	22	9	+13
France	26	12	8	2	2	25	5	+20
Scotland	24	12	8	0	4	21	12	+9
Ukraine	17	12	5	2	5	18	16	+2
Lithuania	16	12	5	1	6	11	13	-2
Georgia	10	12	3	1	8	16	19	-3
Faroe Islands	0	12	0	0	12	4	43	-39

	FRO	FRA	GEO	ITA	LTU	SCO	UKR
Faroe Islands	—	0–6	0–6	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–2
France	5–0	—	1–0	3–1	2–0	0–1	2–0
Georgia	3–1	0–3	—	1–3	0–2	2–0	1–1
Italy	3–1	0–0	2–0	—	1–1	2–0	2–0
Lithuania	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	—	1–2	2–0
Scotland	6–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–1	—	3–1
Ukraine	5–0	2–2	3–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	—

Notes on the qualified teams:

Italy and France secured qualification to the tournament proper on 2007-11-17 following Italy's 2-1 win against Scotland, becoming the fifth and sixth teams in the whole of the qualification stage to do so.

[edit] Results

Group B fixtures were decided with a random draw conducted on Thursday March 9, 2006, because fixtures could not be agreed between delegates. Ukraine were the only side unable to come to consensus with the rest of the group.^[1]

August 16, 2006 18:00 WEST	Faroe Islands	0 – 6	Georgia	Svangaskard, Toftir Attendance: 2,114 Referee: Ross (Northern Ireland)
		Report	Mujiri 16' Iashvili 18' Arveladze 37' 62' 82' Kobiashvili 51' (pen.)

September 2, 2006 15:00 BST	Scotland	6 – 0	Faroe Islands	Celtic Park, Glasgow Attendance: 50,059 Referee: Egorov (Russia)
	Fletcher 7' McFadden 10' Boyd 24' (pen.) 38' Miller 30' (pen.) O'Connor 85'	Report

September 2, 2006 20:00 UTC+4	Georgia	0 – 3	France	Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Wegereef (Netherlands)
		Report	Malouda 7' Saha 15' Asatiani 47' (o.g.)

September 2, 2006 20:50 CEST	Italy	1 – 1	Lithuania	Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Hansson (Sweden)
	Inzaghi 30'	Report	Danilevičius 21'

September 6, 2006 19:00 EEST	Ukraine	3 – 2	Georgia	NSC Olimpiysky, Kiev Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Jara (Czech Republic)
	Shevchenko 31' Rotan 61' Rusol 80'	Report	Arveladze 38' Demetradze 60'

September 6, 2006 19:30 EEST	Lithuania	1 – 2	Scotland	S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Hrinak (Slovakia)
	Miceika 85'	Report	Dailly 46' Miller 62'

September 6, 2006 21:00 CEST	France	3 – 1	Italy	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 78,800 Referee: Fandel (Germany)
	Govou 2' 55' Henry 18'	Report	Gilardino 20'

October 7, 2006 15:00 WEST	Faroe Islands	0 – 1	Lithuania	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn Attendance: 1,982 Referee: Buttimer (Ireland)
		Report	Skerla 89'

October 7, 2006 17:00 BST	Scotland	1 – 0	France	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 52,500 Referee: Busacca (Switzerland)
	Caldwell 67'	Report

October 7, 2006 20:50 CEST	Italy	2 – 0	Ukraine	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 49,149 Referee: Vassaras (Greece)
	Oddo 71' (pen.) Toni 79'	Report

October 11, 2006 19:00 EEST	Ukraine	2 –0	Scotland	NSC Olimpiysky, Kiev Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Hansson (Sweden)
	Kucher 60' Andriy Shevchenko 90' (pen.)	Report

October 11, 2006 20:00 UTC+4	Georgia	1 – 3	Italy	Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Riley (England)
	Shashiashvili 26'	Report	De Rossi 18' Camoranesi 63' Perrotta 71'

October 11, 2006 21:00 CEST	France	5 – 0	Faroe Islands	Stade Auguste Bonal, Montbéliard Attendance: 19,314 Referee: Corpodean (Romania)
	Saha 1' Henry 22' Anelka 77' Trézéguet 78' 84'	Report

March 24, 2007 15:00 GMT	Scotland	2 – 1	Georgia	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 50,850 Referee: Vollquartz (Denmark)
	Boyd 11' Beattie 89'	Report	Arveladze 41'

March 24, 2007 15:00 WET	Faroe Islands	0 – 2	Ukraine	Svangaskard, Toftir Attendance: 717 Referee: Skomina (Slovenia)
		Report	Yezerskiy 20' Husyev 57'

March 24, 2007 19:00 EET	Lithuania	0 – 1	France	S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Webb (England)
		Report	Anelka 73'

March 28, 2007 18:00 EEST	Ukraine	1 – 0	Lithuania	Chornomorets Stadium, Odessa Attendance: 33,600 Referee: Meyer (Germany)
	Husyev 47'	Report

March 28, 2007 18:00 UTC+4	Georgia	3 – 1	Faroe Islands	Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Saliy (Kazakhstan)
	Siradze 25' Iashvili 46' 90+5' (pen.)	Report	R. Jacobsen 57'

March 28, 2007 20:50 CEST	Italy	2 – 0	Scotland	Stadio San Nicola, Bari Attendance: 37,500 Referee: De Bleeckere (Belgium)
	Toni 12' 70'	Report

June 2, 2007 21:00 EEST	Lithuania	1 – 0	Georgia	S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Circhetta (Switzerland)
	Mikoliūnas 78'	Report

June 2, 2007 21:00 CEST	France	2 – 0	Ukraine	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 80,051 Referee: Medina (Spain)
	Ribéry 57' Anelka 71'	Report

June 2, 2007 19:45 WEST	Faroe Islands	1 – 2	Italy	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn Attendance: 5,987 Referee: Malek (Poland)
	R. Jacobsen 77'	Report	Inzaghi 12' 48'

June 6, 2007 17:15 WEST	Faroe Islands	0 – 2	Scotland	Svangaskard, Toftir Attendance: 4,600 Referee: Kasnaferis (Greece)
		Report	Maloney 31' O'Connor 35 '

June 6, 2007 21:00 CEST	France	1 – 0	Georgia	Stade de l'Abbé Deschamps, Auxerre Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Batista (Portugal)
	Nasri 33'	Report

June 6, 2007 21:45 EEST	Lithuania	0 – 2	Italy	S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Vink (Netherlands)
		Report	Quagliarella 31' 45'

September 8, 2007 15:00 BST	Scotland	3 – 1	Lithuania	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 51,349 Referee: Skomina (Slovenia)
	Boyd 31' McManus 77' McFadden 83'	Report	Danilevičius 61' (pen)

September 8, 2007 19:00 UTC+4	Georgia	1 – 1	Ukraine	Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hamer (Luxembourg)
	Siradze 87'	Report	Shelayev 7'

September 8, 2007 20:50 CEST	Italy	0 – 0	France	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Micheľ (Slovakia)
		Report

September 12, 2007 20:00 EEST	Lithuania	2 – 1	Faroe Islands	S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Georgiev (Bulgaria)
	Jankauskas 8' Danilevičius 52'	Report	R. Jacobsen 90+3'

September 12, 2007 21:45 EEST	Ukraine	1 – 2	Italy	NSC Olimpiysky, Kiev Attendance: 41,500 Referee: Webb (England)
	Shevchenko 71'	Report	Di Natale 41' 77'

September 12, 2007 21:00 CEST	France	0 – 1	Scotland	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Plautz (Austria)
		Report	McFadden 64'

October 13, 2007 15:00 BST	Scotland	3 – 1	Ukraine	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 50,589 Referee: Vink (Netherlands)
	Miller 4' McCulloch 10' McFadden 68'	Report	Shevchenko 24'

October 13, 2007 16:00 WEST	Faroe Islands	0 – 6	France	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn Attendance: 8,076 Referee: Rossi (San Marino)
		Report	Anelka 6' Henry 8' Benzema 50' 81' Rothen 66' Ben Arfa 90+4'

October 13, 2007 20:50 CEST	Italy	2 – 0	Georgia	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa Attendance: 23,057 Referee: Megía Dávila (Spain)
	Pirlo 44' Grosso 84'	Report

October 17, 2007 19:00 EEST	Ukraine	5 – 0	Faroe Islands	NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium, Kiev Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Jakov (Israel)
	Kalynychenko 40' 49' Husyev 43' 45' Vorobei 64'	Report

October 17, 2007 21:00 UTC+4	Georgia	2 – 0	Scotland	Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 36,500 Referee: Kircher (Germany)
	Mchedlidze 16' Siradze 64'	Report

October 17, 2007 21:00 CEST	France	2 – 0	Lithuania	Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes Attendance: 36,350 Referee: Kassai (Hungary)
	Henry 80' 81'	Report

November 17, 2007 17:00 GMT	Scotland	1 – 2	Italy	Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 51,301 Referee: Mejuto González (Spain)
	Ferguson 65'	Report	Toni 2' Panucci 90+1'

November 17, 2007 20:00 EET	Lithuania	2 – 0	Ukraine	S.Darius and S.Girėnas, Kaunas Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Malcolm (Northern Ireland)
	Savėnas 41' Danilevičius 67'	Report

November 21, 2007 19:30 UTC+4	Georgia	0 – 2	Lithuania	Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Krstevski (Macedonia)
		Report	Kšanavičius 52' 90+6'

November 21, 2007 20:30 CET	Italy	3 – 1	Faroe Islands	Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Meyer (Germany)
	Benjaminsen 11' (o.g.) Toni 36' Chiellini 41'	Report	R. Jacobsen 83'

November 21, 2007 21:30 EET	Ukraine	2 – 2	France	NSC Olympiyskiy, Kiev Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Øvrebø (Norway)
	Voronin 14' Shevchenko 46'	Report	Henry 20' Govou 34'

[edit] Goalscorers

Pos	Player	Country	Goals
1	Thierry Henry	France	6
2	Shota Arveladze	Georgia	5
	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine
	Luca Toni	Italy
5	Nicolas Anelka	France	4
	Kris Boyd	Scotland
	Tomas Danilevičius	Lithuania
	Oleh Husyev	Ukraine
	Rógvi Jacobsen	Faroe Islands
	James McFadden	Scotland
11	Sidney Govou	France	3
	Alexander Iashvili	Georgia
	Filippo Inzaghi	Italy
	Kenny Miller	Scotland
	David Siradze	Georgia