The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C was one of the ten
UEFA groups in the
World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the
2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is an international association football, football tournament contested by the men's national teams of FIFA's member associations. The 22nd FIFA World Cup is taking place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022 ...
finals tournament in Qatar. Group C consisted of five teams: the
Bulgaria national football team
The Bulgaria national football team ( bg, Български национален отбор по футбол, Bǎlgarski natsionalen otbor po futbol) represents Bulgaria in men's international Association football, football and is administere ...
, the
Italy national football team, the
Lithuania national football team, the
Northern Ireland national football team
The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. From 1882 to 1920, all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team (1882–1950), Ireland natio ...
and the
Switzerland national football team
The Switzerland national football team (german: Schweizer Fussballnationalmannschaft, it, Nazionale di calcio della Svizzera, french: Équipe nationale suisse de football, rm, Squadra naziunala da ballape da la Svizra) represents Switzerland ...
. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a
round-robin format.
The group winners, Switzerland, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Italy, advanced to the
second round (play-offs).
Standings
Matches
The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw.
Times are
CET/
CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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Goalscorers
Discipline
A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:
* Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
* Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches (yellow card suspensions were carried forward to the play-offs, but not the finals or any other future international matches)
The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:
Notes
References
External links
*
Qualifiers – Europe FIFA.com
European Qualifiers UEFA.com
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Group C
2020–21 in Bulgarian football
2021–22 in Bulgarian football
2020–21 in Italian football
2021–22 in Italian football
2021 in Lithuanian football
2020–21 in Northern Ireland association football
2021–22 in Northern Ireland association football
2020–21 in Swiss football
2021–22 in Swiss football
Switzerland at the 2022 FIFA World Cup