2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round#Iceland v Croatia

The eight best runners-up from the UEFA first round qualified for the play-offs; with one group having one team fewer than the others, matches against the sixth-placed team in each First Round group did not count for this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of ranking the runners-up (below table).

The eight best runners-up were determined by the following parameters in this order:

1. Highest number of points
2. Goal difference
3. Highest number of goals scored

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The second round draw took place at the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich on 21 October at 14:00 UTC+2, and was conducted by Gordon Savic, Head of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, with the assistance of former Switzerland international Alexander Frei.{{cite web|title=Watch the European play-off draw on FIFA.com|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2199207/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021035503/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2199207/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2013|publisher=UEFA|access-date=21 October 2013|date=18 October 2013}}{{cite web|title=2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil – Preliminary Competition Format and Draw Procedures – European Zone |url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/44/46/23/2014fwc_drawprocedures_europe_en.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921174920/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/44/46/23/2014fwc%5fdrawprocedures%5feurope%5fen.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2011 |work=FIFA.com |publisher=Fédération Internationale de Football Association |date=29 July 2011 |access-date=23 January 2012}} October 2013 FIFA World Rankings were used to decide which of the teams would be seeded (shown below in brackets).{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2201358/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021135046/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2201358/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2013|title=European hopefuls learn play-off fate|publisher=FIFA.com|date=21 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/21/world-cup-2014-play-offs-draw-live|title=World Cup 2014 play-offs draw – live!|date=21 October 2013|work=Guardian UK|access-date=22 October 2013}}

The following teams participated in the second round:{{cite web|title=World Cup play-off seeds confirmed|url=http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=2011261.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131017115743/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=2011261.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 17, 2013|publisher=UEFA|access-date=17 October 2013|date=17 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2198420/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017162000/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/news/newsid=2198420/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 17, 2013|title=European play-off draw procedures explained|publisher=FIFA.com|date=17 October 2013}}

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{{TwoLegResult|{{fb-rt|GRE}}||4–2|{{fb|ROU}}||3–1|1–1}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fb-rt|ISL}}||0–2|{{fb|CRO}}||0–0|0–2}}

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|id = Portugal v Sweden

|date=15 November 2013

|time=19:45 UTC±0

|team1={{fb-rt|POR}}

|score=1–0

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|team2={{fb|SWE}}

|goals1=Ronaldo {{goal|82}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

|attendance=61,467

|referee=Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

}}

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|id = Sweden v Portugal

|date=19 November 2013

|time=20:45 UTC+1

|team1={{fb-rt|SWE}}

|score=2–3

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|team2={{fb|POR}}

|goals1=Ibrahimović {{goal|68||72}}

|goals2=Ronaldo {{goal|50||77||79}}

|stadium=Friends Arena, Solna

|attendance=49,766

|referee=Howard Webb (England)

}}

Portugal won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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|id = Ukraine v France

|date=15 November 2013

|time=21:45 UTC+2

|team1={{fb-rt|UKR}}

|score=2–0

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131120020902/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/round=258394/match=300261017/report.html Report]

|team2={{fb|FRA|1974}}

|goals1=Zozulya {{goal|62}}
Yarmolenko {{goal|82|pen.}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Olympic Stadium, Kyiv

|attendance=67,732

|referee=Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

}}

{{football box

|id = France v Ukraine

|date=19 November 2013

|time=21:00 UTC+1

|team1={{fb-rt|FRA|1974}}

|score=3–0

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131124004051/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/round=258394/match=300261014/report.html Report]

|team2={{fb|UKR}}

|goals1=Sakho {{goal|22||72}}
Benzema {{goal|34}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Stade de France, Saint-Denis

|attendance=77,098

|referee=Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

}}

France won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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|id = Greece v Romania

|date=15 November 2013

|time=21:45 UTC+2

|team1={{fb-rt|GRE}}

|score=3–1

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230905/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/round=258394/match=300261018/report.html Report]

|team2={{fb|ROU}}

|goals1=Mitroglou {{goal|14||67}}
Salpingidis {{goal|21}}

|goals2=Stancu {{goal|19}}

|stadium=Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens

|attendance=26,200

|referee=Pedro Proença (Portugal)

}}

{{football box

|id = Romania v Greece

|date=19 November 2013

|time=21:00 UTC+2

|team1={{fb-rt|ROU}}

|score=1–1

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131123073523/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/round=258394/match=300261020/report.html Report]

|team2={{fb|GRE}}

|goals1=Torosidis {{goal|55|o.g.}}

|goals2=Mitroglou {{goal|23}}

|stadium=Arena Națională, Bucharest

|attendance=49,793

|referee=Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

}}

Greece won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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|id = Iceland v Croatia

|date=15 November 2013

|time=19:00 UTC±0

|team1={{fb-rt|ISL}}

|score=0–0

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131202231817/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/round=258394/match=300261019/report.html Report]

|team2={{fb|CRO}}

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium=Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

|attendance=9,767

|referee=Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

}}

{{football box

|id = Croatia v Iceland

|date=19 November 2013

|time=20:15 UTC+1

|team1={{fb-rt|CRO}}

|score=2–0

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131124031236/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/round=258394/match=300261016/report.html Report]

|team2={{fb|ISL}}

|goals1=Mandžukić {{goal|27}}
Srna {{goal|47}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

|attendance=22,612

|referee=Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

}}

Croatia won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

{{Goalscorers

|matches = 8 |goals = 19

|4 goals=

• {{fbicon|POR}} Cristiano Ronaldo

|3 goals=

• {{fbicon|GRE}} Kostas Mitroglou

|2 goals=

• {{fbicon|FRA|1974}} Mamadou Sakho
• {{fbicon|SWE}} Zlatan Ibrahimović

|1 goal=

• {{fbicon|CRO}} Mario Mandžukić
• {{fbicon|CRO}} Darijo Srna
• {{fbicon|FRA|1974}} Karim Benzema
• {{fbicon|GRE}} Dimitris Salpingidis
• {{fbicon|ROU}} Bogdan Stancu
• {{fbicon|UKR}} Andriy Yarmolenko
• {{fbicon|UKR}} Roman Zozulya

|1 own goal=

• {{fbicon|GRE}} Vasilis Torosidis (against Romania)

}}

{{Reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071129205128/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/matches/index.html Results and schedule (FIFA.com version)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111008093054/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/matches/round=2000295/index.html Results and schedule (UEFA.com version)]

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