UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group I

Armenia vs Portugal match in Yerevan, 13 June 2015

The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group I was one of the nine groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament.[1] Group I consisted of five teams: Portugal, Denmark, Serbia, Armenia, and Albania,[2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.[3]

The top two teams, Portugal and Albania, qualified directly for the finals. As third-placed Denmark weren't the highest-ranked among all third-placed teams, they advanced to the play-offs, where they lost to Sweden and thus failed to qualify.

France were also partnered with the five-team Group I, which enabled the 2016 tournament hosts to play centralized friendlies against these countries on their 'spare' dates.[4] However, these friendlies did not count in the qualifying group standings.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ "UEFA EURO 2016 Qualifying Draw Procedure" (PDF). UEFA. p. 1. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Spain face Ukraine return in EURO 2016 qualifying". UEFA.com. 23 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2014-16" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  4. ^ "Centralised friendlies" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  5. ^ "Centralised friendlies" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  6. ^ Association, Press (23 January 2014). "European Championship hosts France to take part in qualification stages". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Euro 2016: Hosts France to feature in qualifying". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  8. ^ "UEFA sets fixture list of Euro 2016 host France". FOX Sports. Retrieved 21 February 2024.