# 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C was one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar. Group C consisted of five teams: Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Northern Ireland and Switzerland. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.
The group winners, Switzerland, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Italy, advanced to the second round (play-offs).

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Switzerland | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 18 | Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Italy | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 2 | +11 | 16 | Advance to play-offs | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 |
| 3 | Northern Ireland | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 9 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 8 | | 1–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | — | 1–0 |
| 5 | Lithuania | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 19 | −15 | 3 | | 0–4 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 3–1 | — |

## Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 8 December 2020, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

## Goalscorers

There were 44 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match.
3 goals
* Breel Embolo
2 goals
* Kiril Despodov
* Todor Nedelev
* Giovanni Di Lorenzo
* Ciro Immobile
* Moise Kean
* Fedor Černych
* Conor Washington
* Steven Zuber
1 goal
* Ivaylo Chochev
* Atanas Iliev
* Andrea Belotti
* Domenico Berardi
* Federico Chiesa
* Manuel Locatelli
* Giacomo Raspadori
* Stefano Sensi
* Rolandas Baravykas
* Justas Lasickas
* Daniel Ballard
* Shayne Lavery
* Paddy McNair
* Christian Fassnacht
* Remo Freuler
* Mario Gavranović
* Cedric Itten
* Noah Okafor
* Haris Seferovic
* Xherdan Shaqiri
* Renato Steffen
* Ruben Vargas
* Silvan Widmer
1 own goal
* Benas Šatkus (against Northern Ireland)
* Edgaras Utkus (against Italy)

## Discipline

A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:
* Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
* Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches (yellow card suspensions were carried forward to the play-offs, but not the finals or any other future international matches)
The following suspensions were served during the qualifying matches:
| Team | Player | Offence(s) | Suspended for match(es) |
| Bulgaria | Valentin Antov | vs Northern Ireland (31 March 2021) vs Lithuania (9 October 2021) | vs Northern Ireland (12 October 2021) |
| Bulgaria | Atanas Iliev | vs Northern Ireland (31 March 2021) vs Lithuania (5 September 2021) | vs Lithuania (9 October 2021) |
| Bulgaria | Nikolay Mihaylov | vs Lithuania (5 September 2021) | vs Lithuania (9 October 2021) |
| Bulgaria | Georgi Yomov | vs Italy (2 September 2021) vs Lithuania (9 October 2021) | vs Northern Ireland (12 October 2021) |
| Italy | Manuel Locatelli | vs Bulgaria (28 March 2021) vs Lithuania (31 March 2021) | vs Bulgaria (2 September 2021) |
| Lithuania | Fedor Černych | vs Switzerland (28 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (5 September 2021) | vs Italy (8 September 2021) |
| Lithuania | Domantas Šimkus | vs Italy (31 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (5 September 2021) | vs Italy (8 September 2021) |
| Lithuania | Egidijus Vaitkūnas | vs Italy (31 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (9 October 2021) | vs Switzerland (12 October 2021) |
| Northern Ireland | Jamal Lewis | vs Switzerland (9 October 2021) | vs Bulgaria (12 October 2021) |
| Northern Ireland | Paddy McNair | vs Bulgaria (31 March 2021) vs Lithuania (2 September 2021) | vs Switzerland (8 September 2021) |
| Northern Ireland | George Saville | vs Italy (25 March 2021) vs Bulgaria (31 March 2021) | vs Lithuania (2 September 2021) |
| Switzerland | Manuel Akanji | vs Bulgaria (25 March 2021) vs Italy (12 November 2021) | vs Bulgaria (15 November 2021) |
| Switzerland | Fabian Frei | vs Italy (5 September 2021) vs Northern Ireland (8 September 2021) | vs Northern Ireland (9 October 2021) |
| Switzerland | Remo Freuler | vs Spain in UEFA Euro 2020 (2 July 2021) | vs Italy (5 September 2021) |
| Switzerland | Denis Zakaria | vs Northern Ireland (8 September 2021) vs Northern Ireland (9 October 2021) | vs Lithuania (12 October 2021) |