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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	10	7	3	0	17	6	+11	24	Qualification to 2014 FIFA World Cup		—	4–4	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Iceland	10	5	2	3	17	15	+2	17	Advance to second round		0–2	—	2–4	2–0	2–1	2–0
3	Slovenia	10	5	0	5	14	11	+3	15			0–2	1–2	—	3–0	1–0	2–1
4	Norway	10	3	3	4	10	13	−3	12			0–2	1–1	2–1	—	0–1	2–0
5	Albania	10	3	2	5	9	11	−2	11			1–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	—	3–1
6	Cyprus	10	1	2	7	4	15	−11	5			0–0	1–0	0–2	1–3	0–0	—

Source: ^[2]

Matches

A meeting was held in Zürich, 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.^[3]

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

7 September 2012

20:30 UTC+2

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 19,400

Referee: Artyom Kuchin (Kazakhstan)

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

7 September 2012

20:30 UTC+2

Stožice, Ljubljana

Attendance: 13,213

Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

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

7 September 2012

18:45 UTC±0

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 8,352

Referee: Anthony Gautier (France)

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Cyprus	1–0	Iceland
Makrides 58'	Report

11 September 2012

20:00 UTC+3

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca

Attendance: 1,600

Referee: Sébastien Delferiere (Belgium)

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

11 September 2012

20:00 UTC+2

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 11,168

Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)

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

11 September 2012

20:30 UTC+2

Swissporarena, Lucerne

Attendance: 16,500

Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania)

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

12 October 2012

19:00 UTC+2

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 8,200

Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

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

12 October 2012

20:30 UTC+2

Stade de Suisse, Bern

Attendance: 30,712

Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)

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

12 October 2012

20:45 UTC+2

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 7,988

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

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

16 October 2012

21:00 UTC+3

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca

Attendance: 2,493

Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)

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

16 October 2012

18:30 UTC±0

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 8,369

Referee: Alan Kelly (Republic of Ireland)

Albania	1–0	Slovenia
Roshi 37'	Report

16 October 2012

20:45 UTC+2

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

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

22 March 2013

18:00 UTC+1

Stožice, Ljubljana

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Stavros Tritsonis (Greece)

Norway	0–1	Albania
	Report	Salihi 66'

22 March 2013

19:00 UTC+1

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 11,207

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Cyprus	0–0	Switzerland
	Report

23 March 2013

18:30 UTC+2

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 2,045

Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Germany)

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

7 June 2013

20:30 UTC+2

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 21,600

Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

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

7 June 2013

19:00 UTC±0

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 9,202

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

Switzerland	1–0	Cyprus
Seferovic 90'	Report

8 June 2013

17:30 UTC+2

Stade de Genève, Geneva

Attendance: 16,900

Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)

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

6 September 2013

19:00 UTC+2

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 11,295

Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)

Slovenia	1–0	Albania
Kampl 19'	Report

6 September 2013

20:30 UTC+2

Stožice, Ljubljana

Attendance: 13,843

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

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

6 September 2013

20:30 UTC+2

Stade de Suisse, Bern

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

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

10 September 2013

19:00 UTC+2

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 16,631

Referee: Howard Webb (England)

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

10 September 2013

21:30 UTC+3

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 714

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

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

10 September 2013

19:00 UTC±0

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 9,768

Referee: Andre Marriner (England)

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

11 October 2013

20:30 UTC+2

Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

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

11 October 2013

18:45 UTC±0

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 9,767

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

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

11 October 2013

20:45 UTC+2

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 10,890

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

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Cyprus	0–0	Albania
	Report

15 October 2013

19:00 UTC+3

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 341

Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

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

15 October 2013

20:00 UTC+2

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 6,796

Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

Switzerland	1–0	Slovenia
Xhaka 74'	Report

15 October 2013

20:00 UTC+2

Stade de Suisse, Bern

Attendance: 22,014

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Goalscorers

There were 71 goals scored 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

• Edgar Çani
• Valdet Rama
• Hamdi Salihi
• Efstathios Aloneftis
• Alfreð Finnbogason
• Tarik Elyounoussi
• Brede Hangeland
• Joshua King
• Tim Matavž
• Xherdan Shaqiri
• Mario Gavranović
• Gökhan Inler
• Stephan Lichtsteiner
• Granit Xhaka

1 goal

• Erjon Bogdani
• Odise Roshi
• Armando Sadiku
• Vincent Laban
• Constantinos Makrides
• Kári Árnason
• Daniel Braaten
• Markus Henriksen
• Tom Høgli
• John Arne Riise
• Valter Birsa
• Boštjan Cesar
• Josip Iličić
• Kevin Kampl
• Andraž Kirm
• Rene Krhin
• Marko Šuler
• Tranquillo Barnetta
• Blerim Džemaili
• Michael Lang
• Haris Seferovic

Discipline

Pos	Player	Country			Suspended for match(es)	Reason
DF	Boštjan Cesar	Slovenia	4	1	vs Albania (16 October 2012)	Sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match
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	Gökhan 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 Kurtić	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