2026 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group F

The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group F was one of the twelve UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Group F consisted of four teams: Armenia, Hungary, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format from September to November 2025.

The group winners, Portugal, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, the Republic of Ireland, advanced to the second round (play-offs).

Standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Portugal	6	4	1	1	20	7	+13	13	Qualification to 2026 FIFA World Cup
Republic of Ireland	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Advance to play-offs
Hungary (E)	6	2	2	2	11	10	+1	8
Armenia (E)	6	1	0	5	3	19	−16	3

Matches

The fixture list will be confirmed by UEFA following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

6 September 2025 (2025-09-06) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Armenia	0–5	Portugal	Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan Attendance: 14,403 Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Félix  10', 62' Ronaldo  21', 46' Cancelo  32'

6 September 2025 (2025-09-06) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Republic of Ireland	2–2	Hungary	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 50,137 Referee: Harm Osmers (Germany)
	Ferguson  49' Idah  90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Varga  2' Sallai  15'

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9 September 2025 (2025-09-09) 18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)	Armenia	2–1	Republic of Ireland	Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan Attendance: 13,144 Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)
	Spertsyan  45+1' (pen.) Ranos  51'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Ferguson  57'

9 September 2025 (2025-09-09) 20:45	Hungary	2–3	Portugal	Puskás Aréna, Budapest Attendance: 61,473 Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
	Varga  21', 84'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	B. Silva  36' Ronaldo  58' (pen.) Cancelo  86'

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11 October 2025 (2025-10-11) 18:00	Hungary	2–0	Armenia	Puskás Aréna, Budapest Attendance: 57,285 Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)
	Lukács  56' Gruber  90+4'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

11 October 2025 (2025-10-11) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Portugal	1–0	Republic of Ireland	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 48,821 Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)
	R. Neves  90+1'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

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14 October 2025 (2025-10-14) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Republic of Ireland	1–0	Armenia	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 42,292 Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)
	Ferguson  70'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

14 October 2025 (2025-10-14) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)	Portugal	2–2	Hungary	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 47,854 Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)
	Ronaldo  22', 45+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Szalai  8' Szoboszlai  90+1'

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13 November 2025 (2025-11-13) 18:00 (21:00 UTC+4)	Armenia	0–1	Hungary	Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan Attendance: 14,247 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)
		Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Varga  33'

13 November 2025 (2025-11-13) 20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)	Republic of Ireland	2–0	Portugal	Aviva Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 50,717 Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
	Parrott  17', 45'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

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16 November 2025 (2025-11-16) 15:00	Hungary	2–3	Republic of Ireland	Puskás Aréna, Budapest Attendance: 59,411 Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
	Lukács  3' Varga  37'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Parrott  15' (pen.), 80', 90+6'

16 November 2025 (2025-11-16) 15:00 (14:00 UTC+0)	Portugal	9–1	Armenia	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 46,702 Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
	Veiga  7' Ramos  28' J. Neves  30', 41', 81' Fernandes  45+3' (pen.), 52', 72' (pen.) Conceição  90+2'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Spertsyan  18'

Goalscorers

There were 43 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.58 goals per match.

5 goals

• Barnabás Varga
• Cristiano Ronaldo
• Troy Parrott

3 goals

• Bruno Fernandes
• João Neves
• Evan Ferguson

2 goals

• Eduard Spertsyan
• Dániel Lukács
• João Cancelo
• João Félix

1 goal

• Grant-Leon Ranos
• Zsombor Gruber
• Roland Sallai
• Attila Szalai
• Dominik Szoboszlai
• Francisco Conceição
• Rúben Neves
• Gonçalo Ramos
• Bernardo Silva
• Renato Veiga
• Adam Idah

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)

External links

• Official website
  • Qualifiers – UEFA, FIFA.com
• European Qualifiers, UEFA.com

Team	Player	Offence(s)	Suspended for match(es)
Hungary	Roland Sallai	vs Republic of Ireland (6 September 2025)	vs Portugal (9 September 2025) vs Armenia (11 October 2025)
	Barnabás Varga	vs Republic of Ireland (6 September 2025) vs Portugal (9 September 2025)	vs Armenia (11 October 2025)
Republic of Ireland	Josh Cullen	vs Hungary (6 September 2025) vs Portugal (11 October 2025)	vs Armenia (14 October 2025)
Republic of Ireland	Ryan Manning	vs Portugal (11 October 2025) vs Armenia (14 October 2025)	vs Portugal (13 November 2025)
Republic of Ireland	Jayson Molumby
Armenia	Tigran Barseghyan	vs Republic of Ireland (14 October 2025)	vs Hungary (13 November 2025) vs Portugal (16 November 2025) +1 match
Portugal	Cristiano Ronaldo	vs Republic of Ireland (13 November 2025)	vs Armenia (16 November 2025)