World Cup 2014

FIFA World Cup
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The 20th FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil in 2014.

The qualification tournament began in September 2012. 13 European teams will qualify for the finals. These will be the nine group winners plus the four winners of two-legged play-offs between the eight best runners-up.

Group F

NORTHERN IRELAND

Fixtures:
07-09-2012 Russia 2-0 Northern Ireland
11-09-2012 Northern Ireland 1-1 Luxembourg (Dean Shiels)
16-10-2012 Portugal 1-1 Northern Ireland (Niall McGinn)
14-11-2012 Northern Ireland 1-1 Azerbaijan (David Healy)
22-03-2013 Northern Ireland P-P Russia
26-03-2013 Northern Ireland 0-2 Israel
14-08-2013 Northern Ireland 1-0 Russia (Martin Paterson)
06-09-2013 Northern Ireland 2-4 Portugal (Gareth McAuley, Jamie Ward)
10-09-2013 Luxembourg 3-2 Northern Ireland (Martin Paterson, Gareth McAuley)
11-10-2013 Azerbaijan 2-0 Northern Ireland
15-10-2013 Israel 1-1 Northern Ireland (Steven Davis)

Final Table:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Russia Portugal Israel Azerbaijan N. Ireland Luxembourg	10 10 10 10 10 10	7 6 3 1 1 1	1 3 5 6 4 3	2 1 2 3 5 6	20 20 19 7 9 7	5 9 14 11 17 26	+15 +11 +5 -4 -8 -19	22 21 14 9 7 6

Results:

-	AZE	ISR	LUX	NIR	POR	RUS
Azerbaijan	---	1-1	1-1	2-0	0-2	1-1
Israel	1-1	---	3-0	1-1	3-3	0-4
Luxembourg	0-0	0-6	---	3-2	1-2	0-4
N. Ireland	1-1	0-2	1-1	---	2-4	1-0
Portugal	3-0	1-1	3-0	1-1	---	1-0
Russia	1-0	3-1	4-1	2-0	1-0	---