2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group A is one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams will qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar.[1] Group A consists of five teams: Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and Serbia.[2] The teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.[3]

The group winner will qualify directly for the World Cup finals, while the runner-up will advance to the second round (play-offs).

Qatar was also partnered with the five-team Group A, which enabled the 2022 World Cup hosts to play centralised friendlies against these countries on their "spare" match dates. However, these friendlies do not count in the qualifying group standings. Qatar will play their "home" matches in Europe in order to allow short travel times for their opponents.[4][5]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to 2022 FIFA World Cup — 14 Nov 1 Sep 12 Oct 24 Mar
2  Serbia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to second round 27 Mar — 24 Mar 4 Sep 12 Oct
3  Republic of Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Nov 7 Sep — 27 Mar 4 Sep
4  Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 Mar 9 Oct 14 Nov — 1 Sep
5  Azerbaijan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Sep 30 Mar 9 Oct 11 Nov —
First match(es) will be played on 24 March 2021. Source: FIFA, UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw.[6][7][8] Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Portugal v Azerbaijan
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Republic of Ireland v Luxembourg
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Azerbaijan v Serbia
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Luxembourg v Portugal
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Luxembourg v Azerbaijan
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Portugal v Republic of Ireland
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Republic of Ireland v Azerbaijan
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Serbia v Luxembourg
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Azerbaijan v Portugal
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Republic of Ireland v Serbia
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Azerbaijan v Republic of Ireland
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Luxembourg v Serbia
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Portugal v Luxembourg
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Serbia v Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijan v Luxembourg
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Republic of Ireland v Portugal
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Luxembourg v Republic of Ireland
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Portugal v Serbia
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Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:[9]

  • Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
  • Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches (yellow card suspensions are carried forward to the play-offs, but not the finals or any other future international matches)

Notes
  1. CET (UTC+1) for matches until 27 March and from 31 October (matchday 1–2 and 9–10), and CEST (UTC+2) for matches from 28 March to 30 October 2021 (matchday 3–8).

References
  1. "UEFA preliminary competition for the FIFA World Cup 2022: Draw procedures" (PDF). FIFA. 22 October 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. "FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition – Draw Results" (PDF). UEFA. 7 December 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. "UEFA preliminary competition format for the FIFA World Cup 2022" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  4. "Group A matches with Qatar". UEFA. 11 December 2020. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  5. "World Cup Qualifying Calendar – Group A with Qatar" (PDF). UEFA. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  6. "European Qualifiers for 2022 World Cup: all the fixtures". UEFA. 9 December 2020. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  7. "Fixture List – European Qualifiers 2020–2022: FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition" (PDF). UEFA. 8 December 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  8. "Fixture List by Group – European Qualifiers 2020–2022: FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition" (PDF). UEFA. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  9. "Regulations FIFA World Cup 2022 Preliminary Competition" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
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