# 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group B 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 B consisted of five teams: Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Spain and Sweden. The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.
The group winners, Spain, qualified directly for the World Cup finals, while the runners-up, Sweden, advanced to the second round (play-offs).
Greece, Georgia and Spain did not recognize Kosovo as an independent country, and therefore, during the match between Spain and Kosovo, the latter team was named "Kosovo Football Federation".

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Spain | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | +10 | 19 | Qualification for 2022 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Sweden | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 15 | Advance to play-offs | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Greece | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 10 | | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| 4 | Georgia | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 7 | | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | — | 0–1 |
| 5 | Kosovo | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 5 | | 0–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — |

## 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 46 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.3 goals per match.
4 goals
* Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
* Ferran Torres
* Alexander Isak
3 goals
* Anastasios Bakasetas
* Vedat Muriqi
2 goals
* Álvaro Morata
* Dani Olmo
* Pablo Sarabia
* Carlos Soler
* Viktor Claesson
* Emil Forsberg
* Robin Quaison
1 goal
* Zuriko Davitashvili
* Tornike Okriashvili
* Anastasios Douvikas
* Georgios Masouras
* Vangelis Pavlidis
* Dimitris Pelkas
* Besar Halimi
* Amir Rrahmani
* Pablo Fornals
* José Gayà
* Gerard Moreno
* Ludwig Augustinsson
* Sebastian Larsson
1 own goal
* Otar Kakabadze (against Greece)

## 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) |
| Georgia | Giorgi Aburjania | vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Greece (9 October 2021) | vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) |
| Georgia | Grigol Chabradze | vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) vs Spain (5 September 2021) | vs Greece (9 October 2021) |
| Georgia | Lasha Dvali | vs Sweden (25 March 2021) vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) | vs Sweden (11 November 2021) |
| Georgia | Guram Giorbelidze | vs Greece (9 October 2021) vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) | vs Sweden (11 November 2021) |
| Georgia | Jaba Kankava | vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Greece (9 October 2021) | vs Kosovo (12 October 2021) |
| Georgia | Guram Kashia | vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) vs Spain (5 September 2021) | vs Greece (9 October 2021) |
| Georgia | Levan Shengelia | vs Spain (28 March 2021) | vs Greece (31 March 2021) vs Kosovo (2 September 2021) |
| Greece | Anastasios Bakasetas | vs Georgia (9 October 2021) vs Sweden (12 October 2021) | vs Spain (11 November 2021) |
| Greece | Pantelis Chatzidiakos | vs Slovenia in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020) | vs Spain (25 March 2021) |
| Greece | Pantelis Chatzidiakos | vs Sweden (12 October 2021) | vs Spain (11 November 2021) |
| Greece | Giorgos Giakoumakis | vs Spain (25 March 2021) vs Georgia (31 March 2021) | vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) |
| Greece | Manolis Siopis | vs Georgia (9 October 2021) vs Spain (11 November 2021) | vs Kosovo (14 November 2021) |
| Greece | Georgios Tzavellas | vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) vs Georgia (9 October 2021) | vs Sweden (12 October 2021) |
| Greece | Zeca | vs Spain (25 March 2021) vs Georgia (31 March 2021) | vs Kosovo (5 September 2021) |
| Kosovo | Bernard Berisha | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) | vs Spain (31 March 2021) |
| Kosovo | Ibrahim Drešević | vs Moldova in 2020–21 UEFA Nations League (18 November 2020) | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) |
| Kosovo | Ibrahim Drešević | vs Sweden (9 October 2021) vs Georgia (12 October 2021) | vs Greece (14 November 2021) |
| Kosovo | Florent Hadergjonaj | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Sweden (9 October 2021) | vs Georgia (12 October 2021) |
| Kosovo | Besar Halimi | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Greece (5 September 2021) | vs Spain (8 September 2021) |
| Kosovo | Lirim M. Kastrati | vs Georgia (2 September 2021) vs Greece (5 September 2021) | vs Spain (8 September 2021) |
| Kosovo | Hekuran Kryeziu | vs Sweden (28 March 2021) vs Spain (31 March 2021) | vs Georgia (2 September 2021) |
| Sweden | Marcus Danielson | vs Ukraine in UEFA Euro 2020 (29 June 2021) | vs Spain (2 September 2021) |
| Sweden | Albin Ekdal | vs Kosovo (9 October 2021) vs Greece (12 October 2021) | vs Georgia (11 November 2021) |
| Sweden | Dejan Kulusevski | vs Spain (2 September 2021) vs Kosovo (9 October 2021) | vs Greece (12 October 2021) |