UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying Group E

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Standings and results for Group E 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
Croatia	29	12	9	2	1	28	8	+20
Russia	24	12	7	3	2	18	7	+11
England	23	12	7	2	3	24	7	+17
Israel	23	12	7	2	3	20	12	+8
FYR Macedonia	14	12	4	2	6	12	12	0
Estonia	7	12	2	1	9	5	21	-16
Andorra	0	12	0	0	12	2	42	-40

	AND	CRO	ENG	EST	MKD	ISR	RUS
Andorra	—	0–6	0–3	0–2	0–3	0–2	0–1
Croatia	7–0	—	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0
England	5–0	2–3	—	3–0	0–0	3–0	3–0
Estonia	2–1	0–1	0–3	—	0–1	0–1	0–2
FYR Macedonia	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	—	1–2	0–2
Israel	4–1	3–4	0–0	4–0	1–0	—	2–1
Russia	4–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–1	—

Notes on the tie-breaking situation:

England and Israel are ranked by their head-to-head records:
- England – 4 pts (3:0 H vs Israel, 0:0 A vs Israel)
- Israel – 1 pt (0:0 H vs England, 0:3 A vs England)

Notes on the qualified teams:

Croatia secured qualification to the tournament proper on 2007-11-17 following Israel's 2-1 win against Russia, becoming the seventh team in the whole of the qualification stage to do so.
Russia secured qualification to the tournament proper on 2007-11-21 following a 1-0 win against Andorra, and Croatia's 3-2 win against England, becoming the fourteenth and last team in the whole of the qualification stage to do so.

[edit] Results

Group E fixtures were negotiated at a meeting between the participants in Nyon, Switzerland, on March 3, 2006.

August 16, 2006 18:00 EEST	Estonia	0 – 1	FYR Macedonia	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Jakobsson (Iceland)
		Report	Sedloski 73'

September 2, 2006 17:00 BST	England	5 – 0	Andorra	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 56,290 Referee: Brugger (Austria)
	Crouch 5' 66' Gerrard 13' Defoe 38' 47'	Report

September 2, 2006 21:30 EEST	Estonia	0 – 1	Israel	A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 7,800 Referee: Verbist (Belgium)
		Report	Colautti 8'

September 6, 2006 19:00 MSD	Russia	0 – 0	Croatia	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 27,500 Referee: M. González (Spain)
		Report

September 6, 2006 19:00 CEST	Israel	4 – 1	Andorra	Stadion de Goffert, Nijmegen^[1]^[2] Attendance: 0 Referee: Zrnic (Bosnia)
	Benayoun 9' Ben-Shushan 11' Gershon 43' (pen.) Tamuz 69'	Report	Fernandez 84'

September 6, 2006 21:00 CEST	FYR Macedonia	0 – 1	England	Skopje City Stadium, Skopje Attendance: 16,500 Referee: Layec (France)
		Report	Crouch 46'

October 7, 2006 19:00 MSD	Russia	1 – 1	Israel	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Meyer (Germany)
	Arshavin 5'	Report	Ben-Shushan 84'

October 7, 2006 17:00 BST	England	0 – 0	FYR Macedonia	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 72,062 Referee: Merk (Germany)
		Report

October 7, 2006 20:15 CEST	Croatia	7 – 0	Andorra	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Zammit (Malta)
	Petrić 12' 37' 48' 50' Klasnić 58' Balaban 62' Modrić 83'	Report

October 11, 2006 15:00 CEST	Andorra	0 – 3	FYR Macedonia	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 300 Referee: Silagava (Georgia)
		Report	Pandev 13' Noveski 16' Naumoski 31'

October 11, 2006 19:00 MSD	Russia	2 – 0	Estonia	Petrovsky Stadium, St. Petersburg Attendance: 21,500 Referee: Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	Pogrebnyak 78' Sychev 90'	Report

October 11, 2006 20:00 CEST	Croatia	2 – 0	England	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Rosetti (Italy)
	Eduardo 61' G. Neville 68' (o.g.)	Report

November 15, 2006 17:00 CET	FYR Macedonia	0 – 2	Russia	Skopje City Stadium, Skopje Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Allaerts (Belgium)
		Report	Bystrov 18' Arshavin 32'

November 15, 2006 19:00 IST	Israel	3 – 4	Croatia	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Attendance: 38,000 Referee: González (Spain)
	Colautti 8' 89' Benayoun 68'	Report	Srna 35' (pen.) Eduardo 39' 54' 72'

March 24, 2007 20:30 EET	Estonia	0 – 2	Russia	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Ceferin (Slovenia)
		Report	Bystrov 66' Kerzhakov 78'

March 24, 2007 20:30 IST	Israel	0 – 0	England	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Øvrebø (Norway)
		Report

March 24, 2007 20:15 CET	Croatia	2 – 1	FYR Macedonia	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Plautz (Austria)
	Srna 58' Eduardo 88'	Report	Sedloski 36'

March 28, 2007 20:30 ISST	Israel	4 – 0	Estonia	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Attendance: 23,658 Referee: Cakir (Turkey)
	Tal 19' Colautti 29' Sahar 77' 80'	Report

March 28, 2007 20:00 CEST	Andorra	0 – 3	England	Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona Attendance: 12,800 Referee: Paixao (Portugal)
		Report	Gerrard 54' 76' Nugent 90+2'

June 2, 2007 21:30 EEST	Estonia	0 – 1	Croatia	A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Kassai (Hungary)
		Report	Eduardo 32'

June 2, 2007 19:00 MSD	Russia	4 – 0	Andorra	Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Skjerven (Norway)
	Kerzhakov 8' 16' 49' Sychev 71'	Report

June 2, 2007 19:30 CEST	FYR Macedonia	1 – 2	Israel	Skopje City Stadium, Skopje Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Kircher (Germany)
	Stojkov 13'	Report	Yitzhaki 11' Colautti 44'

June 6, 2007 18:00 CEST	Andorra	0 – 2	Israel	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 618 Referee: Stokes (Ireland)
		Report	Tamuz 37' Colautti 53'

June 6, 2007 20:30 CEST	Croatia	0 – 0	Russia	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Micheľ (Slovakia)
		Report

June 6, 2007 21:30 EEST	Estonia	0 – 3	England	A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Gilewski (Poland)
		Report	J. Cole 37' Crouch 54' Owen 62'

August 22, 2007 19:00 EEST	Estonia	2 – 1	Andorra	A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mccourt (Northern Ireland)
	Piiroja 34' Zelinski 90+2'	Report	Silva 87'

September 8, 2007 19:00 MSD	Russia	3 – 0	FYR Macedonia	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Øvrebø (Norway)
	V. Berezutskiy 8' Arshavin 84' Kerzhakov 88'	Report

September 8, 2007 17:00 BST	England	3 – 0	Israel	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 85,372 Referee: Vink (Netherlands)
	Wright-Phillips 20' Owen 49' Richards 66'	Report

September 8, 2007 20:30 CEST	Croatia	2 – 0	Estonia	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Laperriere (Switzerland)
	Eduardo 39' 45+1'	Report

September 12, 2007 18:00 CEST	Andorra	0 – 6	Croatia	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 200 Referee: Thual (France)
		Report	Srna 34' Petrić 38' 44' Kranjčar 49' Eduardo 55' Rakitić 64'

September 12, 2007 20:30 CEST	FYR Macedonia	1 – 1	Estonia	Skopje City Stadium, Skopje Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Trattou (Cyprus)
	Maznov 30'	Report	Piiroja 17'

September 12, 2007 20:00 BST	England	3 – 0	Russia	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 86,106 Referee: Hansson (Sweden)
	Owen 7' 31' Ferdinand 84'	Report

October 13, 2007 15:00 BST	England	3 – 0	Estonia	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 86,665 Referee: Vollquartz (Denmark)
	Wright-Phillips 11' Rooney 32' Rähn 33' (o.g.)	Report

October 13, 2007 20:15 CEST	Croatia	1 – 0	Israel	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Stark (Germany)
	Eduardo 52'	Report

October 17, 2007 19:00 MSD	Russia	2 – 1	England	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 84,700 Referee: Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
	Pavlyuchenko 69' (pen.) 73'	Report	Rooney 29'

October 17, 2007 20:00 CEST	FYR Macedonia	3 – 0	Andorra	Skopje City Stadium, Skopje Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Malzinskas (Lithuania)
	Naumoski 30' Sedloski 44' Pandev 59'	Report

November 17, 2007 18:00 CET	Andorra	0 – 2	Estonia	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 200 Referee: Collum (Scotland)
		Report	Oper 31' Lindpere 60'

November 17, 2007 20:00 IST	Israel	2 – 1	Russia	Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 27,563 Referee: Farina (Italy)
	Barda 10' Golan 90+2'	Report	Bilyaletdinov 61'

November 17, 2007 20:00 CET	FYR Macedonia	2 – 0	Croatia	Skopje City Stadium, Skopje Attendance: 18,000 Referee: De Bleeckere (Belgium)
	Maznov 71' Naumoski 83'	Report

November 21, 2007 19:00 IST	Israel	1 – 0	FYR Macedonia	Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 2,736 Referee: Mikulski (Poland)
	Barda 35'	Report

November 21, 2007 21:00 CET	Andorra	0 – 1	Russia	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 200 Referee: Hauge (Norway)
		Report	Sychev 39'

November 21, 2007 20:00 GMT	England	2 – 3	Croatia	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 88,091 Referee: Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)
	Lampard 56' (pen.) Crouch 65'	Report	Kranjčar 8' Olić 14' Petrić 77'

[edit] Goalscorers

Pos	Player	Country	Goals
1	Eduardo da Silva	Croatia	10
2	Mladen Petrić	Croatia	7
3	Roberto Colautti	Israel	6
4	Peter Crouch	England	5
4	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Russia	5
6	Michael Owen	England	4
7	Andrey Arshavin	Russia	3
	Steven Gerrard	England
	Ilco Naumoski	FYR Macedonia
	Goce Sedloski	FYR Macedonia
	Darijo Srna	Croatia
	Dmitri Sychev	Russia

2 goals:

Croatia: Niko Kranjčar
England: Jermain Defoe, Wayne Rooney, Shaun Wright-Phillips
Estonia: Raio Piiroja
Israel: Elyaniv Barda, Yossi Benayoun, Amit Ben-Shushan, Ben Sahar, Toto Tamuz
FYR Macedonia: Goran Maznov, Goran Pandev
Russia: Vladimir Bystrov, Roman Pavlyuchenko

1 goal:

Andorra: Juli Fernández, Fernando Silva
Croatia: Boško Balaban, Ivan Klasnić, Luka Modrić, Ivica Olić, Ivan Rakitić
England: Joe Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, David Nugent, Micah Richards
Estonia: Joel Lindpere, Andres Oper, Indrek Zelinski
Israel: Shimon Gershon, Omer Golan, Idan Tal, Barak Yitzhaki
FYR Macedonia: Nikolce Noveski, Aco Stojkov
Russia: Vasili Berezutskiy, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Pavel Pogrebnyak

Own goals:

England: Gary Neville (for Croatia)
Estonia: Taavi Rähn (for England)

[edit] References

UEFA web site

^ Reuters (2006-08-31). UEFA to reconsider ban on soccer games played in Israel. Haaretz. Retrieved on September 6, 2006.
Due to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, UEFA ordered that no matches in its competitions could be held in Israel until further notice. UEFA was scheduled to reconsider its ban on 14 September.
^ UEFA lifts Israel match ban. UEFA (2006-09-15). Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
On 15 September, UEFA lifted its ban on matches in Israel, returning to its previous policy of restricting Israel home matches to the Tel Aviv area. Israel's national stadium in Ramat Gan is within the allowed area.