UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group E

The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group E was one of nine groups drawn to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament.^[1] Group E consisted of six teams: England, Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, and San Marino,^[2] who played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.^[3]

The top two teams would qualify directly for the finals. The third-placed team would qualify directly too if they had the best records among the third-placed teams of all qualifying groups, otherwise they would enter the play-offs for another chance to qualify.

England and Switzerland qualified for the finals as the group winners and runners-up respectively. As third-placed Slovenia weren't the highest-ranked among all third-placed teams, they advanced to the play-offs, where they lost to Ukraine and thus failed to qualify.

England won all ten of their matches becoming only the fifth national side to qualify for a European Championship with a 100% record, and the sixth instance, after France (1992 and 2004), Czech Republic (2000), Germany and Spain (both 2012).^[4]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	10	10	0	0	31	3	+28	30	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	3–1	2–0	4–0	5–0
2	Switzerland	10	7	0	3	24	8	+16	21			0–2	—	3–2	3–0	4–0	7–0
3	Slovenia	10	5	1	4	18	11	+7	16	Advance to play-offs		2–3	1–0	—	1–0	1–1	6–0
4	Estonia	10	3	1	6	4	9	−5	10			0–1	0–1	1–0	—	1–0	2–0
5	Lithuania	10	3	1	6	7	18	−11	10			0–3	1–2	0–2	1–0	—	2–1
6	San Marino	10	0	1	9	1	36	−35	1			0–6	0–4	0–2	0–0	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 23 February 2014 in Nice.^[5] Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).

Estonia  v  Slovenia

8 September 2014 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Estonia	1–0	Slovenia
Purje  86'	Report

A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 6,561[6] Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

San Marino  v  Lithuania

8 September 2014 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

San Marino	0–2	Lithuania
	Report	Matulevičius  5' Novikovas  36'

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle Attendance: 986[7] Referee: Libor Kovařík (Czech Republic)

Switzerland   v  England

8 September 2014 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

Switzerland	0–2	England
	Report	Welbeck  58', 90+4'

St. Jakob-Park, Basel Attendance: 35,500[8] Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

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England  v  San Marino

9 October 2014 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	5–0	San Marino
Jagielka  25' Rooney  43' (pen.) Welbeck  49' Townsend  72' Della Valle  78' (o.g.)	Report

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 55,990[9] Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

Lithuania  v  Estonia

9 October 2014 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	1–0	Estonia
Mikoliūnas  76'	Report

LFF Stadium, Vilnius Attendance: 4,780[10] Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez (Spain)

Slovenia  v   Switzerland

9 October 2014 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

Slovenia	1–0	Switzerland
Novaković  79' (pen.)	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 8,500[11] Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

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Estonia  v  England

12 October 2014 18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–1	England
	Report	Rooney  74'

A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 10,195[12] Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)

Lithuania  v  Slovenia

12 October 2014 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	0–2	Slovenia
	Report	Novaković  33', 37'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius Attendance: 4,250[13] Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)

San Marino  v   Switzerland

14 October 2014 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

San Marino	0–4	Switzerland
	Report	Seferović  10', 23' Džemaili  30' Shaqiri  79'

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle Attendance: 2,289[14] Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

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England  v  Slovenia

15 November 2014 18:00 (17:00 UTC±0)

England	3–1	Slovenia
Rooney  59' (pen.) Welbeck  66', 72'	Report	Henderson  58' (o.g.)

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 82,309[15] Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

San Marino  v  Estonia

15 November 2014 18:00 (18:00 UTC+1)

San Marino	0–0	Estonia
	Report

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle Attendance: 759[16] Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Switzerland   v  Lithuania

15 November 2014 20:45 (20:45 UTC+1)

Switzerland	4–0	Lithuania
Arlauskis  66' (o.g.) Schär  68' Shaqiri  80', 90'	Report

AFG Arena, St. Gallen Attendance: 17,300[17] Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)

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England  v  Lithuania

27 March 2015 20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)

England	4–0	Lithuania
Rooney  6' Welbeck  45' Sterling  58' Kane  73'	Report

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 83,671[18] Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

Slovenia  v  San Marino

27 March 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+1)

Slovenia	6–0	San Marino
Iličić  10' Kampl  49' Struna  50' Novaković  52' Lazarević  73' Ilić  88'	Report

Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana Attendance: 8,325[19] Referee: Oliver Drachta (Austria)

Switzerland   v  Estonia

27 March 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+1)

Switzerland	3–0	Estonia
Schär  17' Xhaka  27' Seferović  80'	Report

Swissporarena, Lucerne Attendance: 14,500[20] Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

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Estonia  v  San Marino

14 June 2015 18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	2–0	San Marino
Zenjov  35', 63'	Report

A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 6,131[21] Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Slovenia  v  England

14 June 2015 18:00 (18:00 UTC+2)

Slovenia	2–3	England
Novaković  37' Pečnik  84'	Report	Wilshere  57', 73' Rooney  86'

Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana Attendance: 15,796[22] Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Lithuania  v   Switzerland

14 June 2015 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	1–2	Switzerland
Černych  64'	Report	Drmić  69' Shaqiri  84'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius Attendance: 4,786[23] Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

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Estonia  v  Lithuania

5 September 2015 18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Estonia	1–0	Lithuania
Vassiljev  71'	Report

A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 6,621[24] Referee: Oliver Drachta (Austria)

San Marino  v  England

5 September 2015 18:00 (18:00 UTC+2)

San Marino	0–6	England
	Report	Rooney  13' (pen.) Brolli  30' (o.g.) Barkley  46' Walcott  68', 78' Kane  77'

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle Attendance: 4,378[25] Referee: Leontios Trattou (Cyprus)

Switzerland   v  Slovenia

5 September 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

Switzerland	3–2	Slovenia
Drmić  80', 90+4' Stocker  84'	Report	Novaković  45' Cesar  48'

St. Jakob-Park, Basel Attendance: 25,750[26] Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

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England  v   Switzerland

8 September 2015 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	2–0	Switzerland
Kane  67' Rooney  84' (pen.)	Report

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 75,751[27] Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

Lithuania  v  San Marino

8 September 2015 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	2–1	San Marino
Černych  7' Spalvis  90+2'	Report	M. Vitaioli  55'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius Attendance: 2,856[28] Referee: Clayton Pisani (Malta)

Slovenia  v  Estonia

8 September 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

Slovenia	1–0	Estonia
Berić  63'	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 6,868[29] Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

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England  v  Estonia

9 October 2015 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	2–0	Estonia
Walcott  45' Sterling  85'	Report

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 75,427[30] Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Slovenia  v  Lithuania

9 October 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

Slovenia	1–1	Lithuania
Birsa  45+1' (pen.)	Report	Novikovas  79' (pen.)

Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana Attendance: 10,498[31] Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Switzerland   v  San Marino

9 October 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

Switzerland	7–0	San Marino
Lang  17' Inler  55' (pen.) Mehmedi  65' Djourou  72' (pen.) Kasami  75' Embolo  80' (pen.) Derdiyok  89'	Report

AFG Arena, St. Gallen Attendance: 16,200[32] Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)

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Estonia  v   Switzerland

12 October 2015 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Estonia	0–1	Switzerland
	Report	Klavan  90+4' (o.g.)

A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Attendance: 7,304[33] Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)

Lithuania  v  England

12 October 2015 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	0–3	England
	Report	Barkley  29' Arlauskis  35' (o.g.) Oxlade-Chamberlain  62'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius Attendance: 5,051[34] Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)

San Marino  v  Slovenia

12 October 2015 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)

San Marino	0–2	Slovenia
	Report	Cesar  54' Pečnik  75'

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle Attendance: 781[35] Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)

Goalscorers

England's Wayne Rooney was the group's top scorer, with seven goals

7 goals

• Wayne Rooney

6 goals

• Danny Welbeck
• Milivoje Novaković

4 goals

• Xherdan Shaqiri

3 goals

• Harry Kane
• Theo Walcott
• Josip Drmić
• Haris Seferović

2 goals

• Ross Barkley
• Raheem Sterling
• Jack Wilshere
• Sergei Zenjov
• Fiodor Černych
• Arvydas Novikovas
• Boštjan Cesar
• Nejc Pečnik
• Fabian Schär

1 goal

• Phil Jagielka
• Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
• Andros Townsend
• Ats Purje
• Konstantin Vassiljev
• Deivydas Matulevičius
• Saulius Mikoliūnas
• Lukas Spalvis
• Matteo Vitaioli
• Robert Berić
• Valter Birsa
• Branko Ilić
• Josip Iličić
• Kevin Kampl
• Dejan Lazarević
• Andraž Struna
• Eren Derdiyok
• Johan Djourou
• Blerim Džemaili
• Breel Embolo
• Gökhan Inler
• Pajtim Kasami
• Michael Lang
• Admir Mehmedi
• Valentin Stocker
• Granit Xhaka

1 own goal

• Jordan Henderson (playing against Slovenia)
• Ragnar Klavan (playing against Switzerland)
• Cristian Brolli (playing against England)
• Alessandro Della Valle (playing against England)

2 own goals

• Giedrius Arlauskis (playing against Switzerland & England)

Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[3]

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

The following suspensions were (or will be) served during the qualifying matches:

Team	Player	Offence(s)	Suspended for match(es)
Estonia	Ken Kallaste	vs Lithuania (9 October 2014)	vs England (12 October 2014)
	Ragnar Klavan	vs England (12 October 2014)	vs San Marino (15 November 2014)
	Aleksandr Dmitrijev	vs San Marino (15 November 2014) vs Switzerland (27 March 2015) vs Lithuania (5 September 2015)	vs Slovenia (8 September 2015)
Lithuania	Giedrius Arlauskis	vs San Marino (8 September 2015)	vs Slovenia (9 October 2015)
	Marius Žaliūkas	vs England (27 March 2015) vs Estonia (5 September 2015) vs Slovenia (9 October 2015)	vs England (12 October 2015)
San Marino	Alessandro Della Valle	vs Ukraine (15 October 2013)[note 2]	vs Lithuania (8 September 2014)
	Mirko Palazzi	vs Ukraine (15 October 2013)[note 2]	vs Lithuania (8 September 2014)
	Manuel Battistini	vs Lithuania (8 September 2014) vs Estonia (14 June 2015) vs Lithuania (8 September 2015)	vs Switzerland (9 October 2015)
	Nicola Chiaruzzi	vs Lithuania (8 September 2015)	vs Switzerland (9 October 2015)
Slovenia	Dalibor Stevanović	vs Estonia (8 September 2014)	vs Switzerland (9 October 2014)
	Kevin Kampl	vs England (14 June 2015) vs Switzerland (5 September 2015) vs Estonia (8 September 2015)	vs Lithuania (9 October 2015)

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for matches on 15 November 2014 and 27 March 2015, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.
2. The suspension was carried over from the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

References

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External links

• UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round Group E