2014 Fifa World Cup Qualification – Uefa Group B

The group comprised Italy, Denmark, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Armenia and Malta.

The group winners, Italy, qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Denmark finished runners-up but were ranked as the poorest of the nine group runners-up and so did not advance to the play-offs.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	10	6	4	0	19	9	+10	22	Qualification to 2014 FIFA World Cup		—	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–0
2	Denmark	10	4	4	2	17	12	+5	16			2–2	—	0–0	1–1	0–4	6–0
3	Czech Republic	10	4	3	3	13	9	+4	15			0–0	0–3	—	0–0	1–2	3–1
4	Bulgaria	10	3	4	3	14	9	+5	13			2–2	1–1	0–1	—	1–0	6–0
5	Armenia	10	4	1	5	12	13	−1	13			1–3	0–1	0–3	2–1	—	0–1
6	Malta	10	1	0	9	5	28	−23	3			0–2	1–2	1–4	1–2	0–1	—

Denmark was ranked as the worst runner-up among all nine groups (having scored fewer points than the other eight) and so they failed to advance to the play-offs.

The match schedule was determined at a meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, on 28 November 2011.

7 September 2012

20:00 UTC+2

Malta	0–1	Armenia
	Report	Sarkisov   70'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,517

Referee: Rene Eisner (Austria)

7 September 2012

21:45 UTC+3

Bulgaria	2–2	Italy
Manolev   30' G. Milanov   66'	Report	Osvaldo   36', 40'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 12,993

Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

8 September 2012

20:15 UTC+2

Denmark	0–0	Czech Republic
	Report

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 24,004

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

11 September 2012

21:00 UTC+3

Bulgaria	1–0	Armenia
Manolev   43'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 17,883

Referee: Stephan Studer (Switzerland)

11 September 2012

20:45 UTC+2

Italy	2–0	Malta
Destro   5' Peluso   90+2'	Report

Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Antti Munukka (Finland)

12 October 2012

18:00 UTC+2

Czech Republic	3–1	Malta
Gebre Selassie   34' Pekhart   52' Rezek   67'	Report	Briffa   38'

Stadion města Plzně, Plzeň

Attendance: 10,358

Referee: Anar Salmanov (Azerbaijan)

12 October 2012

21:00 UTC+4

Armenia	1–3	Italy
Mkhitaryan   28'	Report	Pirlo   11' (pen.) De Rossi   64' Osvaldo   82'

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)

12 October 2012

21:00 UTC+3

Bulgaria	1–1	Denmark
Rangelov   7'	Report	Bendtner   40'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 20,780

Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

16 October 2012

20:00 UTC+2

Czech Republic	0–0	Bulgaria
	Report

Generali Arena, Prague

Attendance: 16,163

Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)

16 October 2012

20:45 UTC+2

Italy	3–1	Denmark
Montolivo   34' De Rossi   37' Balotelli   54'	Report	Kvist   45+1'

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan

Attendance: 37,027

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

22 March 2013

18:00 UTC+2

Bulgaria	6–0	Malta
Tonev   6', 38', 68' I. Popov   47' Gargorov   55' Ivanov   78'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 0

Referee: Eitan Shemeulevitch (Israel)

22 March 2013

20:30 UTC+1

Czech Republic	0–3	Denmark
	Report	Cornelius   57' Kjær   67' Zimling   83'

Andrův stadion, Olomouc

Attendance: 12,288

Referee: Manuel De Sousa (Portugal)

26 March 2013

20:00 UTC+4

Armenia	0–3	Czech Republic
	Report	Vydra   47', 81' Kolář   90+4'

Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 14,403

Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)

26 March 2013

20:15 UTC+1

Denmark	1–1	Bulgaria
Agger   63' (pen.)	Report	Manolev   51'

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 22,357

Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)

26 March 2013

20:45 UTC+1

Malta	0–2	Italy
	Report	Balotelli   8' (pen.), 45'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 17,011

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

7 June 2013

20:00 UTC+4

Armenia	0–1	Malta
	Report	Mifsud   8'

Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 8,500

Referee: Arnold Hunter (Northern Ireland)

7 June 2013

20:45 UTC+2

Czech Republic	0–0	Italy
	Report

Generali Arena, Prague

Attendance: 18,235

Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)

11 June 2013

20:15 UTC+2

Denmark	0–4	Armenia
	Report	Movsisyan   1', 59' Özbiliz   19' Mkhitaryan   82'

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 14,284

Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev (Russia)

6 September 2013

18:00 UTC+2

Czech Republic	1–2	Armenia
Rosický   70'	Report	Mkrtchyan   30' Ghazaryan   90+2'

Eden Arena, Prague

Attendance: 17,628

Referee: Antony Gautier (France)

6 September 2013

20:00 UTC+2

Malta	1–2	Denmark
Failla   38'	Report	Andreasen   2' Camilleri   52' (o.g.)

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 5,576

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

6 September 2013

20:45 UTC+2

Italy	1–0	Bulgaria
Gilardino   38'	Report

Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo

Attendance: 28,662

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

10 September 2013

20:00 UTC+4

Armenia	0–1	Denmark
	Report	Agger   73' (pen.)

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)

10 September 2013

20:00 UTC+2

Malta	1–2	Bulgaria
Herrera   77'	Report	Dimitrov   9' Gargorov   59'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 4,884

Referee: Alexandru Tudor (Romania)

10 September 2013

20:45 UTC+2

Italy	2–1	Czech Republic
Chiellini   51' Balotelli   54' (pen.)	Report	Kozák   19'

Juventus Stadium, Turin

Attendance: 35,299

Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

11 October 2013

19:00 UTC+4

Armenia	2–1	Bulgaria
Özbiliz   45+1' Movsisyan   87'	Report	Popov   61'

Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

11 October 2013

19:30 UTC+2

Malta	1–4	Czech Republic
Mifsud   47'	Report	Hübschman   3' Lafata   33' Kadlec   51' Pekhart   90'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 4,530

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

11 October 2013

20:15 UTC+2

Denmark	2–2	Italy
Bendtner   45+1', 79'	Report	Osvaldo   28' Aquilani   90+1'

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 35,305

Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

15 October 2013

21:15 UTC+3

Bulgaria	0–1	Czech Republic
	Report	Dočkal   51'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 25,464

Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

15 October 2013

20:15 UTC+2

Denmark	6–0	Malta
Rasmussen   8', 74' Agger   11' (pen.), 39' (pen.) Bjelland   28' Nielsen   84'	Report

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 11,479

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)

15 October 2013

20:45 UTC+2

Italy	2–2	Armenia
Florenzi   24' Balotelli   76'	Report	Movsisyan   5' Mkhitaryan   70'

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

Notes

There were 80 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.67 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal