UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group A - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This page shows the standings and results for Group A of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
The qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 2012 is a series of parallel association football competitions held over 2010 and 2011 to decide the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 2012, to be held in Poland and Ukraine...

tournament.

Standings

Legend
Qualified directly for the finals
Advanced to the play-offs UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying play-offs The UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying play-off ties were played over two legs, with the first legs on 11 November and the second legs on 15 November 2011...

Results and fixtures

Group A fixtures were negotiated between the participants at a meeting in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, on 21 and 22 February 2010.
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Goalscorers

9 goals Miroslav Klose

Miroslav Klose

Miroslav Josef Klose is a German footballer who plays as a striker for Lazio in the Serie A. Since bursting onto the international stage at the 2002 World Cup, he has become well known for his knack of scoring headers, front-flip goal celebrations, and decisive short passing.Klose holds German...

6 goals Mario Gómez

Mario Gómez

Mario Gómez García is a German footballer who plays as a striker for FC Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga. Gómez joined Bayern after six years in Stuttgart. The fee was a record for a player transferred in the Bundesliga, estimated to be 30–35 million euro...

5 goals

Mesut Özil

Mesut Özil

Mesut Özil is a footballer who plays for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and for the German national team. Özil has been a youth national team member since 2006, and a member of the German national team since 2009. He gained international attention during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and was nominated...

Marvin Ogunjimi

Marvin Ogunjimi is a Belgian football forward of Nigerian descent, who currently plays for RCD Mallorca and the Belgian national team.-Club career:...

4 goals

Marko Arnautović

Marko Arnautovic

Marko Arnautović is an Austrian footballer, who is playing for SV Werder Bremen.- Background :Arnautović was born in Floridsdorf, a district in the northern part of Vienna...

Arda Turan

Arda Turan is a Turkish footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid and the Turkish national team, as a left winger. At the age of 22, prior to the 2009–10 season he was made the captain of Galatasaray....

3 goals

Timmy Simons

Timmy Simons

Timmy Simons is a Belgian football central defender and defensive midfielder who plays for FC Nuremberg in the German Bundesliga. Simons' former clubs include Lommel, Club Brugge, and PSV Eindhoven. He won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 2002 while playing for Club Brugge.In the summer 2005 he decided...

Lukas Podolski

Lukas Josef Podolski ; born Łukasz Podolski ) on 4 June 1985 in Gliwice, Poland) is a German footballer who plays as a striker/winger for 1. FC Köln and for the German national team. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1995 where he broke into the first team in 2003 and made 81 appearances for the club before...

Thomas Müller

Thomas Müller was a German Waffen-SS Colonel who commanded the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen and the 27. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division Langemarck during World War II...

André Schürrle

André Schürrle is a German footballer who plays as a forward for Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. The German international was born in Ludwigshafen.-Club career:...

Burak Yilmaz

Burak Yılmaz is a Turkish footballer who plays for Trabzonspor and Turkish national team.-Antalyaspor:He began to play football in Antalyaspor and he contributed heavily in the success of Antalyaspor in 2005–2006 season to have the second place in Division 1 and promote to Süper Lig, the top...

2 goals

Martin Harnik

Martin Harnik

Martin Harnik is a German-born Austrian footballer. He currently plays for VfB Stuttgart.-Club career:Born in Hamburg to a German mother and an Austrian father , he started playing football in 1992 at SC Vier- und Marschlande...

Marc Janko

Marc Janko is an Austrian football player, who currently plays for Dutch Eredivisie side FC Twente.Janko has in various seasons been known as a goal-getter, scoring 77 goals in 121 Austrian Bundesliga matches...

Franz Schiemer

Franz Schiemer is an Austrian footballer who plays as a defender for FC Red Bull Salzburg of the T-Mobile Bundesliga in Austria.-Club career:...

Rauf Aliyev

Rauf Aliyev ; is an Azerbaijani football player who plays for FK Qarabağ and Azerbaijan national football team.-His favorites:*Food: Fried chicken*Fruit: Banana*Singer: Michael Jackson*Footballer: Cristiano Ronaldo...

Vagif Javadov Vüqar Nadirov Marouane Fellaini

Marouane Fellaini

Marouane Fellaini-Bakkioui is a Belgian footballer who plays for Everton and the Belgium national football team. Fellaini is of Moroccan descent.-Early career:...

Daniel Van Buyten
Jelle Vossen

Jelle Vossen

Jelle Vossen is a Belgian footballer who play as a striker for Belgian Pro League club Genk and the Belgian national team....

Axel Witsel

Axel Thomas Witsel is a Belgian football player who plays for Benfica. His natural position is attacking midfielder, but he came into the first team as a right-winger...

Sergey Gridin

Sergey Gridin Gridin scored a brace on his national team debut, a 2-1 victory over Azerbaijan, in a Euro 2012 qualifier on the 3rd of June 2011.-Club Career Stats:Last update: 10 July 2011-External links:*...

Hamit Altıntop

Hamit Altintop

Hamit Altıntop is a German-born Turkish professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid in La Liga. He is a versatile midfielder who can play either in a defending or attacking role and on both flanks. He is well known for his flair of long-shot ability, as shown when he played for Schalke 04...

1 goal

Erwin Hoffer

Erwin Hoffer

Erwin "Jimmy" Hoffer is an Austrian football striker who currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt, on loan from Napoli, and the Austria national team.-Club career:...

Andreas Ivanschitz

Andreas Ivanschitz is an Austrian footballer of Croatian origin who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Mainz.-Club career:...

Zlatko Junuzović

Zlatko Junuzovic

Zlatko Junuzović is an Austrian footballer of Bosnian descent playing for FK Austria Wien and the Austrian Football Team.-Early life:...

Roland Linz

Roland Gunther Linz is an Austrian footballer who plays for FK Austria Wien as a striker.-Early career / Germany:Linz started in the youth teams of local club DSV Leoben...

Sebastian Prödl

Sebastian Prödl is an Austrian footballer who plays for Werder Bremen and the Austrian national team.-Club career:Aged 19, he began his professional career playing for Sturm Graz in the Austrian Bundesliga in 2006. In July 2008 he moved to Germany to play for Werder Bremen.-International career:In...

Ruslan Abishov

Ruslan Abishov is an Azerbaijani footballer who plays for Neftchi Baku .-Early life:Abishov started playing football at the age of seven in one of Baku sports schools.-Club Career:...

Murad Hüseynov

Murad Hüseynov is an Azerbaijani football player who plays for Gabala and Azerbaijan national football team.-Club career:Hüseynov has been regular player for FK Mladost Lučani in the Serbian First League where he played between January 2009 and January 2010...

Rashad Sadygov

Rashad sadygov

Rashad Farhad oghlu Sadygov is an Azerbaijani footballer and the national team captain. He plays for the Azerbaijani club side FK Qarabağ.In 2006, as a result of missing the registration deadline for the Azerbaijani football club side PFC Neftchi, Sadygov played basketball for local club BK...

Mahir Shukurov

Mahir Shukurov is an Azerbaijani football currently playing for Gabala in the Azerbaijan Premier League.-Club career:Shukurov has been regular player for Inter Baku since 2009...

Nacer Chadli

Nacer Chadli is a Belgian professional footballer of Moroccan ancestry who plays as a winger for Dutch club FC Twente.-AGOVV Apeldoorn:Chadli played his youth football at Standard Liège and MVV Maastricht....

Eden Hazard

Eden Hazard is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for French club Lille in Ligue 1 and the Belgium national team. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and a winger. Hazard is known for his creativity, speed, and technical ability and is described as a "fearless, explosive attacking...

Vincent Kompany

Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany is a Belgian footballer who plays for Manchester City and the Belgium national team. He is capable of playing at both centre back and defensive midfielder. Kompany is of partial Congolese ancestry...

Nicolas Lombaerts

Nicolas Lombaerts is a Belgian left-footed football defender who plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Belgium national team. He is tall, a leader on the pitch and a good header, both strong in defence as in constructive play.-Brugge:Lombaerts joined Club Brugge at young age where he went...

Jan Vertonghen Holger Badstuber

Holger Badstuber

Holger Badstuber is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and the German national football team...

Mario Götze

Mario Götze is a German footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Borussia Dortmund in the German Bundesliga. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and a right winger, although he has also been deployed in central midfield. Götze is considered to be an up-and-coming, potential...

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Bastian Schweinsteiger is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bayern Munich and the German national team. A right-footed player, he is capable of playing out wide or in a more central role....

Heiko Westermann

Heiko Westermann is a German footballer who plays as defender for Hamburger SV and the German national team. Westermann is known for his good all-round abilities and goal scoring...

Ulan Konysbayev

-Club career stats:Last update: 10 July 2011- International goals :-External links:*...

Kairat Nurdauletov

Kairat Nurdauletov is a football player from Kazakhstan who plays as a defensive midfielder for FC Kairat Almaty.Nurdauletov has made 13 appearances for the Kazakhstan national football team....

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...

Vitali Yevstigneyev

- Club Career Stats :Last update: 1 February 2011-External links:*...

Hakan Balta

Hakan Kadir Balta is a German-born Turkish footballer. He currently plays as a defender for Galatasaray.-Club career:...

Gökhan Gönül

Gökhan Gönül is a Turkish international footballer who currently plays as a right back for Fenerbahçe. Gönül is also a senior international for Turkey with 20 caps to his name...

Nihat Kahveci

Nihat Kahveci is a Turkish footballer. Nihat plays as a Forward.-Biography:Nihat's family name, Kahveci, means "coffee maker." Many people in Turkey adopted the name of their profession as their family name in the early 20th century, suggesting that Nihat's ancestors were in the coffee business...

Semih Şentürk

Semih Sentürk

Semih Şentürk is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Turkish Süper Lig side Fenerbahçe as a striker, and also the Turkish national team.-Fenerbahçe:...

1 own goal

Rashad Sadygov

Rashad sadygov

(playing against Germany)
Arne Friedrich

Arne Friedrich

Arne Friedrich is a German international football defender, who plays for the German national team....

(playing against Austria)

Attendances

Highest	Lowest	Total	Average
47,500	22,500	189,000	37,800
29,858	6,000	83,770	16,754
44,185	24,231	174,285	34,857
74,244	43,751	267,640	53,528
18,000	8,500	63,300	12,660
49,532	32,174	213,420	42,684

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