2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round

Qualified teams

The eight best runners-up from the UEFA first round qualified for the play-offs; with one group having one team fewer than the others, matches against the sixth-placed team in each First Round group did not count for this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of ranking the runners-up (below table).

Ranking of second-placed teams

The eight best runners-up were determined by the following parameters in this order:

1. Highest number of points
2. Goal difference
3. Highest number of goals scored

Seeding and draw

The second round draw took place at the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich on 21 October at 14:00 UTC+2, and was conducted by Gordon Savic, Head of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, with the assistance of former Switzerland international Alexander Frei. October 2013 FIFA World Rankings were used to decide which of the teams would be seeded (shown below in brackets).

The following teams participated in the second round:

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Matches

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Portugal won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Yarmolenko Benzema France won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Salpingidis Greece won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Srna Croatia won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Discipline

Goalscorers

• Cristiano Ronaldo

• Kostas Mitroglou

• Mamadou Sakho

• Zlatan Ibrahimović

• Mario Mandžukić

• Darijo Srna

• Karim Benzema

• Dimitris Salpingidis

• Bogdan Stancu

• Andriy Yarmolenko

• Roman Zozulya

• Vasilis Torosidis (against Romania)

References

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