Group E of
UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
The UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from March 2019 to November 2020 to determine the 24 UEFA member men's national teams that advanced to the UEFA Euro 2020 final tournament, intended to be playe ...
was one of the ten groups to decide which teams would qualify for the
UEFA Euro 2020
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finals tournament.
Group E consisted of five teams:
Azerbaijan
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,
Croatia
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,
Hungary
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,
Slovakia
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and
Wales
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, where they played against each other home-and-away in a
round-robin format.
The top two teams, Croatia and Wales, qualified directly for the finals. Unlike previous editions, the participants of the
play-offs
The playoffs, play-offs, postseason or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be eithe ...
were not decided based on results from the qualifying group stage, but instead based on their performance in the
2018–19 UEFA Nations League
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.
Standings
Matches
The fixtures were released by UEFA the same day as the draw, which was held on 2 December 2018 in
Dublin
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.
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 three yellow cards in three different matches, as well as after fifth and any subsequent yellow card (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
UEFA Euro 2020 UEFA.com
European Qualifiers UEFA.com
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2018–19 in Azerbaijani football
2019–20 in Azerbaijani football
2018–19 in Croatian football
2019–20 in Croatian football
Croatia at UEFA Euro 2020
2018–19 in Hungarian football
2019–20 in Hungarian football
Hungary at UEFA Euro 2020
2018–19 in Slovak football
2019–20 in Slovak football
Slovakia at UEFA Euro 2020
2018–19 in Welsh football
2019–20 in Welsh football
Wales at UEFA Euro 2020