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2018–19 UEFA Nations League C

2018–19 UEFA Nations League C

Tournament details
Dates	6 September – 20 November 2018
Teams	15
Promoted	Bulgaria  Finland  Hungary  Israel  Norway  Romania  Scotland  Serbia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	42
Goals scored	92 (2.19 per match)
Attendance	338,393 (8,057 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Aleksandar Mitrović (6 goals)
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The 2018–19 UEFA Nations League C was the third division of the 2018–19 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA.^[1]

League C consisted of 15 UEFA members ranked from 25 to 39, which were split into four groups (one group of three and three groups of four). The top two teams of each group were promoted to the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League B, and the bottom four ranked teams were initially relegated to the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League D (the bottom teams of Group 2, 3, and 4, along with the lowest ranked third-placed team of League C).^[2] However, following UEFA announcement of format changes for the next edition's groups in September 2019, none of the 2018–19 League C teams were relegated to League D.^[3]

In addition, League C was allocated one of the four remaining UEFA Euro 2020 places.^[4][5] The play-off berths were first allocated to each Nations League group winner, and if any of the group winners had already qualified for the European Championship finals, then to the next best-ranked team of the league, etc. As Finland already qualified for the European Championship finals through regular qualifiers and 11 teams in League A did the same, the seven best-ranked teams from League C competed in the play-offs, played in October and November 2020.

Teams were allocated to League C according to their UEFA national team coefficients after the conclusion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying group stage on 11 October 2017. Teams were split into four pots (three pots of four teams and one pot of the three lowest teams), ordered based on their UEFA national team coefficient.^[6][7] The group with three teams contained teams only from pots 1, 2, and 3. The seeding pots for the draw were announced on 7 December 2017.^[8]

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank  Hungary 26,486 25  Romania 26,057 26  Scotland 25,662 27  Slovenia 25,148 28

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank  Greece 24,931 29  Serbia 24,847 30  Albania 24,430 31  Norway 24,208 32

Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank  Montenegro 23,912 33  Israel 22,792 34  Bulgaria 22,091 35  Finland 20,501 36

Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank  Cyprus 19,491 37  Estonia 19,441 38  Lithuania 18,101 39

The group draw took place at the SwissTech Convention CenterinLausanne, Switzerland on 24 January 2018, 12:00 CET.^{[9][10][11][12]} Due to winter venue restrictions, a group could only contain a maximum of two of the following teams: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania.^[13]

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 24 January 2018 following the draw.^[14][15]

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion[a]
1	Scotland (P)	4	3	0	1	10	4	+6	9	Promotion to League B		—	3–2	2–0
2	Israel (P)	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6			2–1	—	2–0
3	Albania	4	1	0	3	1	8	−7	3			0–4	1–0	—

Albania	1–0	Israel
Xhaka 55'	Report

Attendance: 4,126^[16]

Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

Scotland	2–0	Albania
Djimsiti 47' (o.g.) Naismith 68'	Report

Attendance: 17,455^[16]

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

Israel	2–1	Scotland
Peretz 52' Tierney 75' (o.g.)	Report	Mulgrew 25' (pen.)

Attendance: 10,234^[16]

Referee: Daniel Stefański (Poland)

Israel	2–0	Albania
Hemed 8' Saba 83'	Report

Attendance: 14,950^[16]

Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)

Albania	0–4	Scotland
	Report	Fraser 14' Fletcher 45+2' (pen.) Forrest 55', 67'

Attendance: 8,632^[16]

Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)

Scotland	3–2	Israel
Forrest 34', 43', 64'	Report	Kayal 9' Zahavi 75'

Attendance: 21,281^[16]

Referee: Tobias Welz (Germany)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion[a]
1	Finland (P)	6	4	0	2	5	3	+2	12	Promotion to League B		—	1–0	2–0	1–0
2	Hungary (P)	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10			2–0	—	2–1	2–0
3	Greece	6	3	0	3	4	5	−1	9			1–0	1–0	—	0–1
4	Estonia	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4			0–1	3–3	0–1	—

Finland	1–0	Hungary
Pukki 7'	Report

Attendance: 10,220^[17]

Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

Estonia	0–1	Greece
	Report	Fortounis 14'

Attendance: 5,567^[17]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

Hungary	2–1	Greece
Sallai 15' Kleinheisler 43'	Report	Manolas 18'

Attendance: 120^{[17][note 2]}

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Finland	1–0	Estonia
Pukki 12'	Report

Attendance: 4,632^[17]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

Greece	1–0	Hungary
Mitroglou 65'	Report

Attendance: 9,040^[17]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

Estonia	0–1	Finland
	Report	Pukki 90+1'

Attendance: 8,087^[17]

Referee: Craig Pawson (England)

Estonia	3–3	Hungary
Luts 20' Pátkai 70' (o.g.) Anier 79'	Report	D. Nagy 24' Szalai 54', 81'

Attendance: 3,043^[17]

Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)

Finland	2–0	Greece
Soiri 46' Kamara 89'	Report

Attendance: 10,107^[17]

Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)

Hungary	2–0	Estonia
Orbán 8' Szalai 69'	Report

Attendance: 7,775^[17]

Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

Greece	1–0	Finland
Granlund 25' (o.g.)	Report

Attendance: 6,376^[17]

Referee: Luca Banti (Italy)

Hungary	2–0	Finland
Szalai 29' Á. Nagy 37'	Report

Attendance: 9,200^[17]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Greece	0–1	Estonia
	Report	Lambropoulos 44' (o.g.)

Attendance: 5,179^[17]

Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Ukraine)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion[a]
1	Norway (P)	6	4	1	1	7	2	+5	13	Promotion to League B		—	1–0	2–0	1–0
2	Bulgaria (P)	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11			1–0	—	2–1	1–1
3	Cyprus	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5			0–2	1–1	—	2–1
4	Slovenia	6	0	3	3	5	8	−3	3			1–1	1–2	1–1	—

Slovenia	1–2	Bulgaria
Zajc 40'	Report	Kraev 3', 59'

Attendance: 5,100^[19]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

Norway	2–0	Cyprus
Johansen 21', 42'	Report

Attendance: 6,172^[19]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Bulgaria	1–0	Norway
Vasilev 59'	Report

Attendance: 7,100^[19]

Referee: Daniel Stefański (Poland)

Cyprus	2–1	Slovenia
Sotiriou 69' Stojanović 89' (o.g.)	Report	Berić 54'

Attendance: 1,115^[19]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

Norway	1–0	Slovenia
Selnæs 45+5'	Report

Attendance: 14,712^[19]

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

Bulgaria	2–1	Cyprus
Despodov 59' Nedelev 68'	Report	Kastanos 41'

Attendance: 6,700^[19]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

Norway	1–0	Bulgaria
M. Elyounoussi 31'	Report

Attendance: 9,523^[19]

Referee: John Beaton (Scotland)

Slovenia	1–1	Cyprus
Skubic 83'	Report	Papoulis 37'

Attendance: 5,318^[19]

Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (Denmark)

Cyprus	1–1	Bulgaria
Zachariou 24'	Report	Dimitrov 89' (pen.)

Attendance: 3,844^[19]

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

Slovenia	1–1	Norway
Verbič 9'	Report	Johnsen 85'

Attendance: 10,254^[19]

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

Bulgaria	1–1	Slovenia
Ivanov 68'	Report	Zajc 75'

Attendance: 3,092^[19]

Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)

Cyprus	0–2	Norway
	Report	Kamara 36', 48'

Attendance: 1,513^[19]

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion[a]
1	Serbia (P)	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7	14	Promotion to League B		—	2–2	2–1	4–1
2	Romania (P)	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12			0–0	—	0–0	3–0
3	Montenegro	6	2	1	3	7	6	+1	7			0–2	0–1	—	2–0
4	Lithuania	6	0	0	6	3	16	−13	0			0–1	1–2	1–4	—

Lithuania	0–1	Serbia
	Report	Tadić 38' (pen.)

Attendance: 4,378^[20]

Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

Romania	0–0	Montenegro
	Report

Attendance: 0^{[20][note 3]}

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Serbia	2–2	Romania
Mitrović 26', 63'	Report	Stanciu 48' (pen.) Țucudean 68'

Attendance: 15,496^[20]

Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)

Montenegro	2–0	Lithuania
Savić 34' (pen.) Janković 35'	Report

Attendance: 5,239^[20]

Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)

Lithuania	1–2	Romania
Žulpa 90'	Report	Chipciu 13' Maxim 90+4'

Attendance: 2,279^[20]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

Montenegro	0–2	Serbia
	Report	Mitrović 18' (pen.), 81'

Attendance: 9,394^[20]

Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

Romania	0–0	Serbia
	Report

Attendance: 48,513^[20]

Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)

Lithuania	1–4	Montenegro
Baravykas 88'	Report	Mugoša 10', 45+1' (pen.) Kopitović 35' Zorić 86'

Attendance: 1,515^[20]

Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Serbia	2–1	Montenegro
Ljajić 30' Mitrović 32'	Report	Mugoša 70'

Attendance: 15,416^[20]

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Romania	3–0	Lithuania
Pușcaș 7' Keșerü 47' Stanciu 65'	Report

Attendance: 34^{[20][note 4]}

Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

Serbia	4–1	Lithuania
Žulpa 51' (o.g.) Mitrović 58' Prijović 71' Ljajić 74'	Report	Petravičius 64'

Attendance: 2,088^[20]

Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

Montenegro	0–1	Romania
	Report	Țucudean 44'

Attendance: 3,574^[20]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

There were 92 goals scored in 42 matches, for an average of 2.19 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

Stefan Mugoša

2 goals

Stefan Johansen

Ola Kamara

Nicolae Stanciu

George Țucudean

Adem Ljajić

Miha Zajc

1 goal

Kiril Despodov

Nikolay Dimitrov

Galin Ivanov

Todor Nedelev

Radoslav Vasilev

Grigoris Kastanos

Fotios Papoulis

Pieros Sotiriou

Panagiotis Zachariou

Henri Anier

Siim Luts

Glen Kamara

Pyry Soiri

Kostas Fortounis

Kostas Manolas

Kostas Mitroglou

László Kleinheisler

Ádám Nagy

Dominik Nagy

Willi Orbán

Roland Sallai

Tomer Hemed

Beram Kayal

Dor Peretz

Dia Saba

Eran Zahavi

Rolandas Baravykas

Deimantas Petravičius

Artūras Žulpa

Marko Janković

Boris Kopitović

Stefan Savić

Darko Zorić

Mohamed Elyounoussi

Bjørn Maars Johnsen

Ole Selnæs

Alexandru Chipciu

Claudiu Keșerü

Alexandru Maxim

George Pușcaș

Steven Fletcher

Ryan Fraser

Charlie Mulgrew

Steven Naismith

Aleksandar Prijović

Dušan Tadić

Robert Berić

Nejc Skubic

Benjamin Verbič

1 own goal

Albin Granlund (against Greece)

Vassilis Lambropoulos (against Estonia)

Máté Pátkai (against Estonia)

Artūras Žulpa (against Serbia)

Kieran Tierney (against Israel)

Petar Stojanović (against Cyprus)

The 15 League C teams were ranked 25th to 39th overall in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:^[2][23]

• The teams finishing first in the groups will be ranked 25th to 28th according to the results of the league phase, not considering results against the fourth-placed teams.
• The teams finishing second in the groups will be ranked 29th to 32nd according to the results of the league phase, not considering results against the fourth-placed teams.
• The teams finishing third in the groups will be ranked 33rd to 36th according to the results of the league phase, not considering results against the fourth-placed teams.
• The teams finishing fourth in the groups will be ranked 37th to 39th according to the results of the league phase, considering all results.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
25	C1	Scotland	4	3	0	1	10	4	+6	9
26	C3	Norway	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	9
27	C4	Serbia	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8
28	C2	Finland	4	2	0	2	3	3	0	6
29	C3	Bulgaria	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
30	C1	Israel	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6
31	C2	Hungary	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	6
32	C4	Romania	4	1	3	0	3	2	+1	6
33	C2	Greece	4	2	0	2	3	4	−1	6
34	C1	Albania	4	1	0	3	1	8	−7	3
35	C4	Montenegro	4	0	1	3	1	5	−4	1
36	C3	Cyprus	4	0	1	3	2	7	−5	1
37	C2	Estonia	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4
38	C3	Slovenia	6	0	3	3	5	8	−3	3
39	C4	Lithuania	6	0	0	6	3	16	−13	0

The prize money to be distributed was announced in March 2018.^[24] Each team in League C received a solidarity fee of €750,000. In addition, the four group winners received double this amount with a €750,000 bonus fee. This meant that the maximum amount of solidarity and bonus fees for a team from League C was €1.5 million.

The seven best teams in League C according to the overall ranking that did not qualify for UEFA Euro 2020 through the qualifying group stage competed in the play-offs, with the winners qualifying for the final tournament.

League C

Rank	Team
25 GW	Scotland[H]
26 GW	Norway
27 GW	Serbia
28 GW	Finland
29	Bulgaria
30	Israel
31	Hungary[H]
32	Romania[H]
33	Greece
34	Albania
35	Montenegro
36	Cyprus
37	Estonia
38	Slovenia
39	Lithuania

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