The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group B was one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar.[1] Group B consisted of five teams: Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Spain and Sweden.[2] The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.[3]
The group winners, Spain, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Sweden, advanced to the second round (play-offs).
Greece, Georgia and Spain did not recognize Kosovo as an independent country, and therefore, during the match between Spain and Kosovo, the latter team was named "Kosovo Football Federation".[4]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | Spain
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8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | +10 | 19 | Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 | |
| 2 | Sweden
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8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 15 | Advance to play-offs | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | |
| 3 | Greece
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8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | ||
| 4 | Georgia
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8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 7 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | — | 0–1 | ||
| 5 | Kosovo
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8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 5 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — |
The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw.[5][6][7] Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Spain | 1–1 | Greece |
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Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)
| Sweden | 1–0 | Georgia |
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Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)
| Georgia | 1–2 | Spain |
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 90+2' |
Attendance: 16,500[10]
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)
| Kosovo | 0–3 | Sweden |
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35' 70' (pen.) |
Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)
| Greece | 1–1 | Georgia |
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Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
| Spain | 3–1 | Kosovo |
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36' 75' |
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Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)
| Georgia | 0–1 | Kosovo |
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Attendance: 122[15]
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)
| Sweden | 2–1 | Spain |
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57' |
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Attendance: 16,901[16]
Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
| Kosovo | 1–1 | Greece |
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Attendance: 1,200[17]
Referee: François Letexier (France)
| Spain | 4–0 | Georgia |
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25' 41' 63' |
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Attendance: 8,444[18]
Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)
| Greece | 2–1 | Sweden |
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78' |
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Attendance: 3,475[19]
Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)
| Kosovo | 0–2 | Spain |
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90' |
Attendance: 1,200[20]
Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)
| Georgia | 0–2 | Greece |
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90+5' |
Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
| Sweden | 3–0 | Kosovo |
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62' 79' |
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Attendance: 44,213[22]
Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)
| Kosovo | 1–2 | Georgia |
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82' |
Attendance: 3,550[23]
Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)
| Sweden | 2–0 | Greece |
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69' |
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Attendance: 47,314[24]
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)
| Georgia | 2–0 | Sweden |
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Attendance: 6,800[25]
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)
| Greece | 0–1 | Spain |
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Attendance: 7,825[26]
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
| Greece | 1–1 | Kosovo |
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Attendance: 1,388[27]
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
| Spain | 1–0 | Sweden |
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Attendance: 51,844[28]
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
There were 46 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.3 goals per match.
4 goals
Ferran Torres Alexander Isak3 goals
Vedat Muriqi2 goals
Dani Olmo Pablo Sarabia Carlos Soler Viktor Claesson Emil Forsberg Robin Quaison1 goal
Tornike Okriashvili Anastasios Douvikas Georgios Masouras Vangelis Pavlidis Dimitris Pelkas Besar Halimi Amir Rrahmani Pablo Fornals José Gayà Gerard Moreno Ludwig Augustinsson Sebastian Larsson1 own goal
Otar Kakabadze (against Greece)A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:[29]
The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:
| Team | Player | Offence(s) | Suspended for match(es) |
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| Georgia |
Giorgi Aburjania |  vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Greece (9 October 2021) |
vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) |
| Grigol Chabradze | vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) vs Spain (5 September 2021) |
vs Greece (9 October 2021) | |
| Lasha Dvali | vs Sweden (25 March 2021) vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) |
vs Sweden (11 November 2021) | |
| Guram Giorbelidze | vs Greece (9 October 2021) vs Kosovo (12 October 2021)
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| Jaba Kankava | vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Greece (9 October 2021) |
vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) | |
| Guram Kashia | vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) vs Spain (5 September 2021) |
vs Greece (9 October 2021) | |
| Levan Shengelia |  vs Spain (28 March 2021) |
vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Kosovo (2 September 2021)[30] | |
| Greece |
Anastasios Bakasetas | vs Georgia (9 October 2021) vs Sweden (12 October 2021) |
vs Spain (11 November 2021) |
| Pantelis Chatzidiakos | vs Slovenia in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020) |
vs Spain (25 March 2021)[31] | |
 vs Sweden (12 October 2021) |
vs Spain (11 November 2021) | ||
| Giorgos Giakoumakis | vs Spain (25 March 2021) vs Georgia (31 March 2021) |
vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) | |
| Manolis Siopis | vs Georgia (9 October 2021) vs Spain (11 November 2021) |
vs Kosovo (14 November 2021) | |
| Georgios Tzavellas | vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) vs Georgia (9 October 2021) |
vs Sweden (12 October 2021) | |
| Zeca | vs Spain (25 March 2021) vs Georgia (31 March 2021) |
vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) | |
| Kosovo |
Bernard Berisha | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) |
vs Spain (31 March 2021) |
| Ibrahim Drešević | vs Moldova in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020) |
vs Sweden (28 March 2021)[31] | |
| vs Sweden (9 October 2021) vs Georgia (12 October 2021) |
vs Greece (14 November 2021) | ||
| Florent Hadergjonaj | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Sweden (9 October 2021) |
vs Georgia (12 October 2021) | |
| Besar Halimi | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Greece (5 September 2021) |
vs Spain (8 September 2021) | |
| Lirim M. Kastrati | vs Georgia (2 September 2021) vs Greece (5 September 2021)
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| Hekuran Kryeziu | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Spain (31 March 2021) |
vs Georgia (2 September 2021) | |
| Sweden |
Marcus Danielson | vs Ukraine in UEFA Euro 2020 (29 June 2021) |
vs Spain (2 September 2021)[30] |
| Albin Ekdal | vs Kosovo (9 October 2021) vs Greece (12 October 2021) |
vs Georgia (11 November 2021) | |
| Dejan Kulusevski | vs Spain (2 September 2021) vs Kosovo (9 October 2021) |
vs Greece (12 October 2021) |
