2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6
Encyclopedia
The 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 6 was a UEFA
qualifying group for the 2010 FIFA World Cup
. The group comprised Croatia
, England
, Ukraine
, Belarus
, Kazakhstan
and Andorra
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The group was won by England, who qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Ukraine entered the UEFA play-off stage
.
, Croatia
. The August 2009 date in the international match calendar was moved forward by one week, from 19 August to 12 August 2009, at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on 27 May 2008.
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Own Goals Aleksandr Kuchma
(for England) Ildefons Lima (for Ukraine)
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UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....
qualifying group for the 2010 FIFA World Cup
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...
. The group comprised Croatia
Croatia national football team
The Croatia national football team represents Croatia in international football. The team is controlled by the Croatian Football Federation, the governing body for football in the country, and has been managed since 2006 by former player Slaven Bilić...
, England
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
, Ukraine
Ukraine national football team
The Ukraine national football team is the national football team of Ukraine and is controlled by the Football Federation of Ukraine. After Ukrainian Independence and breakaway from the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Hungary on 29 April 1992...
, Belarus
Belarus national football team
The Belarus national football team represents Belarus in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk...
, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan national football team
The Kazakhstan national football team represents Kazakhstan in international men's association football and is directed by Football Federation of Kazakhstan. They split from the Soviet Union national football team after independence in 1991 and joined the Asian Football Confederation's Central and...
and Andorra
Andorra national football team
The Andorra national football team represents Andorra in association football and is controlled by the Andorran Football Federation, the governing body for football in Andorra. The team has enjoyed very little success due to the Principality's tiny population, the fourth smallest of any UEFA...
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The group was won by England, who qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Ukraine entered the UEFA play-off stage
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Second Round
The UEFA second round was contested by the best eight runners-up from the nine first round groups from the UEFA segment of the qualification tournament for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in football. The winners of each of four home and away ties joined the group winners in the World Cup in South Africa...
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Standings
Results
The fixture list was determined on 14 January 2008 in ZagrebZagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
. The August 2009 date in the international match calendar was moved forward by one week, from 19 August to 12 August 2009, at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on 27 May 2008.
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Goalscorers
There were 107 goals scored during the 30 games, an average of 3.56 goals per game.| Pos | Player | Country | Goals |
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| 1 | Wayne Rooney Wayne Rooney Wayne Mark Rooney is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team... |
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| 2 | Andriy Shevchenko Andriy Shevchenko Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukraine national team as a striker. He is the third-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 67 goals as of 2011-03-10, behind Filippo Inzaghi and Raúl. With 175 goals scored with A.C... |
6 | |
| 3 | Serhiy Nazarenko Serhiy Nazarenko Serhiy Yuriyovych Nazarenko is a Ukrainian football midfielder for SC Tavriya Simferopol and the Ukrainian national football team.- Club career :... |
5 | |
| Timofei Kalachev Timofei Kalachev Timofei Kalachev ; ; born 1 May 1981 in Mogilev) is a Belarusian footballer. He plays in midfield for FC Rostov and the Belarus national side.... |
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| 5 | Frank Lampard Frank Lampard Frank James Lampard is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chelsea and the England national team. He also holds the position of vice-captain for his club side... |
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| Peter Crouch Peter Crouch Peter James Crouch is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City and the England national team.Crouch started his career as a trainee with Tottenham Hotspur... |
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| 7 | Ivan Rakitić Ivan Rakitic Ivan Rakitić is a Croatian footballer who plays for Sevilla FC and the Croatian national team.Born in Möhlin, he started his professional career at Swiss giants Basel and spent two seasons with them before establishing popularity for his time in the German Bundesliga with Schalke 04... |
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| Luka Modrić Luka Modric Luka Modrić is a Croatian footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and for the Croatia national football team.Modrić's childhood coincided with the Croatian War of Independence. After showing promise in hometown club Zadar's youth team, he was signed by Dinamo Zagreb as a teenager in 2002. His... |
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| Ivica Olić Ivica Olic Ivica Olić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays for Bayern Munich in Germany and internationally for the Croatian national team.- Early career :Olić was born and raised in the village of Davor near Nova Gradiška, Croatia, Yugoslavia... |
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| Eduardo Eduardo da Silva Eduardo Alves da Silva , commonly known as Eduardo, sometimes nicknamed as Dudu, is a Brazilian-born Croatian footballer who plays for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk and the Croatia national team... |
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| Steven Gerrard Steven Gerrard Steven George Gerrard MBE is an English footballer who plays for and captains Premier League club Liverpool. He also has 89 caps for the England national team. He has played much of his career in a centre midfielder role, but he has also been used as a second striker and right winger... |
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| Jermain Defoe Jermain Defoe Jermain Colin Defoe is an English footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, and the England national football team.... |
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| Theo Walcott Theo Walcott Theo James Walcott is an English footballer of Jamaican descent who plays for Arsenal and the England national team. Walcott is a product of the Southampton F.C. Academy. He is a striker who is usually deployed on the right wing as a wide forward to exploit his speed... |
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| Sergey Khizhnichenko | |||
| Sergei Ostapenko Sergei Ostapenko Sergei Sergeyevich Ostapenko is a Kazakh footballer, who currently plays for FC Lokomotiv Astana.-Career:In 2003, Ostapenko had graduated from FC Almaty football academy and had been starting in the first team since then, before his transfer to FC Tobol in 2007. That was definitely an upward... |
2 goals
- Gennadi BliznyukGennadi BliznyukGennadiy Petrovich Bliznyuk is a Belarusian footballer . As of 2011 he plays for Belshina Bobruisk .- Career :...
- Sergei KornilenkoSergei KornilenkoSergei Aleksandrovich Kornilenko is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara.- Career :Vitebsk-born Kornilenko began his career in his native Belarus as a trainee with FC Dinamo Minsk before joining his hometown club...
- Vitali RodionovVitali RodionovVitaliy Rodionov ; ; born December 11, 1983) is a Belarusian footballer playing currently for BATE Borisov.- Career :He began his career in Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk, before being scouted from Torpedo Zhodino. He played 57 games for Torpedo, before being transferred to FC BATE in 2005...
- Dmitry VerkhovtsovDmitry VerkhovtsovDzmitry Verkhovtsov is a Belarusian footballer who plays as a defender for FC Naftan Novopolotsk and the Belarus national team. On September 10, 2008, in only his 4th game for the national side, Verkhovtsov scored a goal in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Andorra.-International...
- Mladen PetrićMladen PetricMladen Petrić is a Croatian international footballer who plays for Hamburger SV in the Fußball-Bundesliga Bundesliga. He also holds the Swiss citizenship.-Early life:...
- Joe ColeJoe ColeJoseph John "Joe" Cole is an English footballer who plays for Lille, on loan from Liverpool, and the England national football team as midfielder. He started his career with where he played more than 100 games during five years, until he left for Chelsea in 2003...
- Artem MilevskiyArtem MilevskiyArtem Volodymyrovych Milevskiy is a Belarusian-Ukrainian professional football second striker who currently plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premiere League. He is also a Ukrainian international.- Club career :...
- Yevhen Seleznyov
- Andriy YarmolenkoAndriy YarmolenkoAndriy Mykolaiovich Yarmolenko is a Ukrainian football forward for Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukraine national football team.-Early life and career:...
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1 goal
- Ildefons Lima
- Marc PujolMarc PujolMarc Pujol Pons is an Andorran footballer. He currently plays for Balaguer in Spain's Tercera Division and the Andorran national team...
- Oscar SonejeeÓscar SonejeeÓscar Sonejee Masand is an Andorran football midfielder, currently playing for Santa Coloma and the Andorran national team. He is the most capped player for the Andorra national football team with 85 caps...
- Maksim BardachovMaksim BardachovMaksim Bordachev ; ; born 18 June 1986 in Kustovichi, Belarussian SSR) is a Belarusian professional footballer. As of 2009, he plays for BATE Borisov....
- Alexander Hleb
- Vyacheslav HlebVyacheslav HlebVyacheslav Paŭlavich Hleb is a Belarusian footballer who currently plays for FSV Frankfurt.-Career:Hleb has had unsuccessful trials with Scottish Premier League sides Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 2005 and Hearts...
- Leonid KovelLeonid KovelLeanid Leanidovich Kovel is a Belarussian footballer who plays as a forward for FC Dinamo Minsk.Before coming to Saturn Moscow Oblast in 2008, he played for Karpaty Lviv for 2 years....
- Pavel SitkoPavel SitkoPavel Sitko is a Belarusian footballer who plays as a midfielder at club level for FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk and also for the Belarus national team. Sitko scored his first goal for the national team against England in Minsk on October 15, 2008, in a World Cup qualifier...
- Ihar Stasevich
- Ivan KlasnićIvan KlasnicIvan Klasnić is a Croatian footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers of the Premier League. He is a Croatian international. In 2007, Klasnić underwent a kidney transplant, and became the first player to participate in a major tournament after a transplant.-St. Pauli:Klasnić started his...
- Niko KovačNiko KovacNiko Kovač is a former Croatian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Red Bull Salzburg. He was the long-standing captain of Croatia before retiring from international football in January 2009...
- Niko KranjčarNiko KranjcarNiko Kranjčar is a Croatian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and the Croatia national team.He represented two of the biggest clubs in his homeland, playing for Dinamo Zagreb before sparking controversy by making a move to their fierce rivals Hajduk Split in 2005...
- Mario MandžukićMario MandžukicMario Mandžukić is a Croatian professional footballer playing for VfL Wolfsburg and Croatian national team.-Club career:Mandžukić was born in Slavonski Brod, at the time in SFR Yugoslavia....
- Ognjen VukojevićOgnjen VukojevicOgnjen Vukojević is a Croatian international footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv.-Early career:...
- Gareth BarryGareth BarryGareth Barry is an English footballer who plays for Manchester City and the England national football team.Barry moved to Aston Villa from Brighton & Hove Albion as a youngster, and spent 12 years at the club. He captained Aston Villa, and, at the end of his career with the club, lay eighth in...
- Rio FerdinandRio FerdinandRio Gavin Ferdinand is an English footballer. He plays at centre back for Manchester United in the Premier League and for the England national football team...
- Emile HeskeyEmile HeskeyEmile William Ivanhoe Heskey is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa as a striker.Born in Leicester, Heskey started his career with hometown club Leicester City after progressing through their youth system, making his first team debut in 1995...
- John TerryJohn TerryJohn George Terry is an English professional footballer. Terry plays in a centre back position and is the captain of Chelsea in the Premier League...
- Shaun Wright-PhillipsShaun Wright-PhillipsShaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers and the England national team. He is the adopted son of former England international, Ian Wright and the half-brother of fellow professional football player Bradley Wright-Phillips...
- Rinat AbdulinRinat AbdulinRinat Abdulin is a Kazakhstani footballer who plays for FC Vostok.-International career:He scored his first goal for Kazakhstan on 1 April 2009 in a 5–1 defeat to Belarus in a World Cup qualifying match. In his next appearance, he fouled England striker Emile Heskey to concede a penalty in a 4-0...
- Ruslan Baltiyev
- Zhambyl Kukeyev
- Tanat NusserbayevTanat NusserbayevTanat Nusserbayev is a Kazakh football striker and attacking midfielder who was born on January 1, 1988 in Shymkent.He plays his club football for FC Ordabasy and represents the Kazakhstan national football team internationally. Tanat made his U-21 debut on August 19, 2008 against the Poland...
- Roman UzdenovRoman UzdenovRoman Uzdenov is a Kazakh football coach and a former forward. He is currently an assistant coach with FC Shakhter Karagandy.He also has caps in the Kazakhstan national football team.-External links:*...
- Oleksiy Gai
- Oleh HusyevOleh HusyevOleh Anatoliyovych Husyev is a Ukrainian football midfielder for FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team. He is a winger who can also play right full-back.- Club career :Husyev started his career for FC Arsenal Kyiv....
- Yaroslav RakytskiyYaroslav RakytskiyYaroslav Rakitskiy is a Ukrainian footballer currently playing as a defender for Shakhtar Donetsk. He is also a member of the Ukraine national football team, he made his first team appearance for Ukraine national football team on 10 October 2009 and scored his first goal on October 14 of the same...
Own Goals Aleksandr Kuchma
Aleksandr Kuchma
Alexander Kuchma is a Kazakh football defender. He currently plays for Kazakhstani side FC Irtysh.-External links:**...
(for England) Ildefons Lima (for Ukraine)
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Attendances
| Team | Highest | Lowest | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,300 | 510 | 2,666 | |
| 29,600 | 8,500 | 18,296 | |
| 35,218 | 14,441 | 24,957 | |
| 89,107 | 57,897 | 79,753 | |
| 24,000 | 7,700 | 15,590 | |
| 38,500 | 11,500 | 23,974 |