2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group D

The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consists of six teams: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Moldova, and Georgia.

The draw for the first round (group stage) was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The group winners will qualify directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Among the nine group runners-up, the eight best runners-up will advance to the play-offs, where they will be drawn into four home-and-away ties to determine the other four qualifiers.

Standings

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tiebreakers

In home-and-away league format, the ranking of teams in each group is based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7): Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss) Goal difference Goals scored Points in matches between tied teams Goal difference in matches between tied teams Goals scored in matches between tied teams Away goals scored in matches between tied teams (if the tie is only between two teams) Play-off match(es) on neutral ground (if approved by FIFA Organizing Committee), with extra time and penalty shoot-out if necessary

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Serbia	6	3	3	0	13	7	+6	12	Qualification to 2018 FIFA World Cup
Republic of Ireland	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12	Possible Second round
Wales	6	1	5	0	9	5	+4	8
Austria	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8
Georgia	6	0	3	3	6	10	−4	3
Moldova	6	0	2	4	4	15	−11	2

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).

5 September 2016 (2016-09-05) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Georgia	1–2	Austria	Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi Attendance: 28,500 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
	Ananidze  78'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hinteregger  16' Janko  42'

5 September 2016 (2016-09-05) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Serbia	2–2	Republic of Ireland	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 7,896 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
	Kostić  62' Tadić  69' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hendrick  3' Murphy  80'

5 September 2016 (2016-09-05) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Wales	4–0	Moldova	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 31,731 Referee: Liran Liany (Israel)
	Vokes  38' Allen  44' Bale  51', 90+5' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

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6 October 2016 (2016-10-06) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Austria	2–2	Wales	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 44,200 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)
	Arnautović  28', 48'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Allen  22' Wimmer  45+1' (o.g.)

6 October 2016 (2016-10-06) 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)	Moldova	0–3	Serbia	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău Attendance: 6,192 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Kostić  19' Ivanović  37' Tadić  59'

6 October 2016 (2016-10-06) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Republic of Ireland	1–0	Georgia	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 39,793 Referee: Tony Chapron (France)
	Coleman  56'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

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9 October 2016 (2016-10-09) 18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)	Wales	1–1	Georgia	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 32,652 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)
	Bale  10'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Okriashvili  57'

9 October 2016 (2016-10-09) 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)	Moldova	1–3	Republic of Ireland	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău Attendance: 6,089 Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)
	Bugaiov  45+1'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Long  2' McClean  69', 76'

9 October 2016 (2016-10-09) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Serbia	3–2	Austria	Rajko Mitic, Belgrade Attendance: 14,200 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
	A. Mitrović  6', 23' Tadić  74'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sabitzer  16' Janko  62'

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12 November 2016 (2016-11-12) 18:00 (18:00 UTC+1)	Austria	0–1	Republic of Ireland	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 48,500 Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	McClean  48'

12 November 2016 (2016-11-12) 18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)	Georgia	1–1	Moldova	Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi Attendance: 40,642 Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
	Qazaishvili  16'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Gațcan  78'

12 November 2016 (2016-11-12) 20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)	Wales	1–1	Serbia	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 32,879 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)
	Bale  30'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	A. Mitrović  86'

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24 March 2017 (2017-03-24) 18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)	Georgia	1–3	Serbia	Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
	Kacharava  6'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Tadić  45' (pen.) A. Mitrović  64' Gaćinović  86'

24 March 2017 (2017-03-24) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+1)	Austria	2–0	Moldova	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 21,000 Referee: István Vad (Hungary)
	Arnautović  75' Harnik  90'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

24 March 2017 (2017-03-24) 20:45 (19:45 UTC±0)	Republic of Ireland	0–0	Wales	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 49,989 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

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11 June 2017 (2017-06-11) 18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)	Moldova	2–2	Georgia	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)
	Gînsari  15' Dedov  36'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Merebashvili  66' Qazaishvili  70'

11 June 2017 (2017-06-11) 18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)	Republic of Ireland	1–1	Austria	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)
	Walters  85'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hinteregger  31'

11 June 2017 (2017-06-11) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Serbia	1–1	Wales	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 46,673 Referee: Jorge Sousa (Portugal)
	A. Mitrović  74'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Ramsey  35' (pen.)

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2 September 2017 (2017-09-02) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Georgia	1–1	Republic of Ireland	Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)
	Qazaishvilli  34'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Duffy  4'

2 September 2017 (2017-09-02) 18:00 (18:00 UTC+2)	Serbia	3–0	Moldova	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)
	Gaćinović  20' Kolarov  30' A. Mitrović  81'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

2 September 2017 (2017-09-02) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Wales	1–0	Austria	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 32,633 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)
	Woodburn  74'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

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5 September 2017 (2017-09-05) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Austria	1–1	Georgia	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Referee: Orel Grinfeeld (Israel)
	Schaub  43'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Gvilia  8'

5 September 2017 (2017-09-05) 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)	Moldova	0–2	Wales	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Robson-Kanu  80' Ramsey  90+3'

5 September 2017 (2017-09-05) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Republic of Ireland	0–1	Serbia	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Kolarov  55'

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6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Georgia	2–3	Wales	Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Austria	0–0	Serbia	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Republic of Ireland	4–1	Moldova	Aviva Stadium, Dublin
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9 October 2017 (2017-10-09) 20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)	Moldova	1–5	Austria	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău
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9 October 2017 (2017-10-09) 20:45 (20:45 UTC+2)	Serbia	2–3	Georgia
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9 October 2017 (2017-10-09) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Wales	3–0	Republic of Ireland
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Goalscorers

There have been 49 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 2.72 goals per match.

5 goals

• Aleksandar Mitrović

4 goals

• Dušan Tadić
• Gareth Bale

3 goals

• Marko Arnautović
• James McClean

2 goals

• Martin Hinteregger
• Marc Janko
• Valeri Qazaishvili
• Filip Kostić
• Joe Allen

1 goal

• Martin Harnik
• Marcel Sabitzer
• Jano Ananidze
• Nika Kacharava
• Giorgi Merebashvili
• Tornike Okriashvili
• Igor Bugaiov
• Alexandru Dedov
• Alexandru Gațcan
• Radu Gînsari
• Séamus Coleman
• Jeff Hendrick
• Shane Long
• Daryl Murphy
• Jonathan Walters
• Mijat Gaćinović
• Branislav Ivanović
• Aaron Ramsey
• Sam Vokes

1 own goal

• Kevin Wimmer (against Wales)

Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:

• Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
• Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches (yellow card suspensions are carried forward to the play-offs, but not the finals or any other future international matches)

The following suspensions were (or will be) served during the qualifying matches:

Player	Team	Offence(s)	Suspended for match(es)
Aleksandar Kolarov	Serbia	vs Portugal in UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying (11 October 2015)	vs Republic of Ireland (5 September 2016)
Nemanja Matić	Serbia	vs Portugal in UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying (11 October 2015)	vs Republic of Ireland (5 September 2016) vs Moldova (6 October 2016) vs Austria (9 October 2016)
Shane Duffy	Republic of Ireland	vs France in UEFA Euro 2016 (26 June 2016)	vs Serbia (5 September 2016)
Jeff Hendrick	Republic of Ireland	vs Serbia (5 September 2016) vs Georgia (6 October 2016)	vs Moldova (9 October 2016)
Andrei Cojocari	Moldova	vs Serbia (6 October 2016) vs Republic of Ireland (9 October 2016)	vs Georgia (12 November 2016)
Alexandru Dedov	Moldova	vs Wales (5 September 2016) vs Republic of Ireland (9 October 2016)	vs Georgia (12 November 2016)
Aleksandar Kolarov	Serbia	vs Moldova (6 October 2016) vs Austria (9 October 2016)	vs Wales (12 November 2016)
Julian Baumgartlinger	Austria	vs Serbia (9 November 2016) vs Republic of Ireland (12 November 2016)	vs Moldova (24 March 2017)
Murtaz Daushvili	Georgia	vs Wales (9 October 2016) vs Moldova (12 November 2016)	vs Serbia (24 March 2017)
Tornike Okriashvili	Georgia	vs Wales (9 October 2016) vs Moldova (12 November 2016)	vs Serbia (24 March 2017)
Robbie Brady	Republic of Ireland	vs Serbia (5 September 2016) vs Austria (12 November 2016)	vs Wales (24 March 2017)
Aleksandar Katai	Serbia	vs Republic of Ireland (5 September 2016) vs Wales (12 November 2016)	vs Georgia (24 March 2017)
Matija Nastasić	Serbia	vs Republic of Ireland (5 September 2016) vs Wales (12 November 2016)	vs Georgia (24 March 2017)
Marko Arnautović	Austria	vs Wales (6 October 2016) vs Moldova (24 March 2017)	vs Republic of Ireland (11 June 2017)
Stefan Ilsanker	Austria	vs Serbia (9 October 2016) vs Moldova (24 March 2017)	vs Republic of Ireland (11 June 2017)
Alexandru Gațcan	Moldova	vs Republic of Ireland (9 October 2016) vs Austria (24 March 2017)	vs Georgia (11 June 2017)
Gareth Bale	Wales	vs Serbia (12 November 2016) vs Republic of Ireland (24 March 2017)	vs Serbia (11 June 2017)
Neil Taylor	Wales	vs Republic of Ireland (24 March 2017)	vs Serbia (11 June 2017) vs Austria (2 September 2017)
Jaba Kankava	Georgia	vs Serbia (24 March 2017) vs Moldova (11 June 2017)	vs Republic of Ireland (2 September 2017)
Vitalie Bordian	Moldova	vs Georgia (12 November 2016) vs Georgia (11 June 2017)	vs Serbia (2 September 2017)
Luka Milivojević	Serbia	vs Austria (9 October 2016) vs Wales (11 June 2017)	vs Moldova (2 September 2017)
Vladimir Stojković	Serbia	vs Wales (12 November 2016) vs Wales (11 June 2017)	vs Moldova (2 September 2017)
Joe Allen	Wales	vs Serbia (12 November 2016) vs Serbia (11 June 2017)	vs Austria (2 September 2017)

External links

• Official website
  • Qualifiers – Europe: Round 1, FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup, UEFA.com
  • Standings – Qualifying round: Group D, UEFA.com