EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS /16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS

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1 EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS /16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estonia Last updated 08/07/ :40CET A. Le Coq Arena - Tallinn Sunday 12 October CET (19.00 local time) Group E - Matchday -10 England EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 10 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1

2 Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2008 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 13/10/2007 QR (GS) England - Estonia 3-0 London 06/06/2007 QR (GS) Estonia - England 0-3 Tallinn Wright-Phillips 11, Rooney 32, Rähn 33 (og) J. Cole 37, Crouch 54, Owen 62 EURO Qualifying Home Away Final tournament Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Estonia England FIFA* Estonia England Friendlies Estonia England Total Estonia England * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2

3 Match background Another 3-0 win would suit Group E leaders England nicely as they take on Estonia for a third time, the sides having previously been paired in UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying. Match background David Beckham was the star of the show when the sides first met in Tallinn on 6 June 2007, setting up goals for Peter Crouch (53) and Michael Owen (61) after Joe Cole (36) had put Steve McClaren's England in front. Estonia found the going similarly tough in the return fixture on 13 October the same year. Shaun Wright-Phillips (11) and Wayne Rooney (32) were on target the latter with his first competitive England goal since 2004 before Taavi Rähn's headed own goal (33) completed the scoring. England have won all four of their UEFA age-group competition meetings with Estonia, scoring 18 goals without reply. The only meetings between the nations' clubs in UEFA competitions came in the first round of the 2006/07 UEFA Cup, when Newcastle United FC beat FC Levadia Tallinn 1-0 in Estonia and then 2-1 at home. 3

4 Squad list Estonia Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Sergei Pareiko 31/01/ Volga Mihkel Aksalu 07/11/ SJK Pavel Londak 14/05/ Bodø/Glimt Defenders - Enar Jääger 18/11/ Alo Bärengrub 12/02/ Kalju Ragnar Klavan 30/10/ Augsburg Dmitri Kruglov 24/05/ Levadia Gert Kams 25/05/ SJK Igor Morozov 27/05/ Debrecen Artjom Artjunin 24/01/ Levadia Artur Pikk 05/03/ Levadia Karol Mets 16/05/ Flora Midfielders - Joel Lindpere 05/10/ Baník Martin Vunk 21/08/ Kalju Aleksandr Dmitrijev 18/02/ Levadia Konstantin Vassiljev 16/08/ Piast Taijo Teniste 31/01/ Sogndal Henrik Ojamaa 20/05/ Motherwell Ilja Antonov 05/12/ Levadia Forwards - Kaimar Saag 05/08/ Assyriska Sergei Zenjov 20/04/ Blackpool Henri Anier 17/12/ Erzgebirge Rimo Hunt 05/11/ Kaysar Coach - Magnus Pehrsson 25/05/

5 England Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Fraser Forster 17/03/ Southampton Joe Hart 19/04/ Man. City Ben Foster 03/04/ West Brom Defenders - Phil Jagielka 17/08/ Everton Leighton Baines 11/12/ Everton Gary Cahill 19/12/ Chelsea Kieran Gibbs 26/09/ Arsenal Nathaniel Clyne 05/04/ Southampton Calum Chambers 20/01/ Arsenal Midfielders - James Milner 04/01/ Man. City Adam Lallana 10/05/ Liverpool Jack Wilshere 01/01/ Arsenal Andros Townsend 16/07/ Tottenham Fabian Delph 21/11/ Aston Villa Jonjo Shelvey 27/02/ Swansea Jordan Henderson 17/06/ Liverpool Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 15/08/ Arsenal Raheem Sterling 08/12/ Liverpool Forwards - Wayne Rooney 24/10/ Man. United Danny Welbeck 26/11/ Arsenal Rickie Lambert 16/02/ Liverpool Coach - Roy Hodgson 09/08/

6 Head coach Magnus Pehrsson Date of birth: 25 May 1976 Nationality: Swedish Playing career: IF Brommapojkarna, Djurgårdens IF (twice), Bradford City AFC (loan), IFK Göteborg Coaching career: Åtvidabergs FF, IK Sirius, GAIS Göteborg, Aalborg BK, Djurgårdens IF, Estonia A midfielder who made his name with Djurgården, Pehrsson lifted the Swedish title with the Stockholm club in 2002 yet was forced to end his career in 2003 after suffering serious injury. Despite his young age Pehrsson learned the coaching ropes at Åtvidaberg before a move to Sirius in 2006; tasted life in Sweden's top tier when he joined GAIS in After a season in the Allsvenskan he went to Denmark with AaB in January 2009, guiding the side to a seventhplaced finish in his first term. The club came two places higher the following campaign, yet Pehrsson departed the helm in October Returned to Sweden to take charge of former team Djurgården in May 2011, helping them avoid relegation in his first season before steering them to a ninth-placed finish in the 2012 campaign. Resigned as Djurgården boss in April 2013 and appointed Estonia's national team coach in December that year. Roy Hodgson Date of birth: 9 August 1947 Nationality: English Playing career: Crystal Palace FC, Tonbridge Angels FC, Gravesend and Northfleet FC, Maidstone United FC, Berea Park FC Coaching career: Halmstads BK, Bristol City FC, IK Oddevold, Örebro SK, Malmö FF, Neuchâtel Xamax FC, Switzerland, FC Internazionale Milano (twice), Blackburn Rovers FC, Grasshopper Club, FC København, Udinese Calcio, United Arab Emirates, Viking FK, Finland, Fulham FC, Liverpool FC, West Bromwich Albion FC, England After he spent most of his playing days in the English non-league system, Hodgson's coaching career spanning eight countries began with Halmstad. He guided the Swedish club to their first-ever Allsvenskan titles in 1976 and 1979; then guided Malmö to top of the table for five years in a row, although the play-off system then used meant they were champions only twice in that time. A period at Xamax followed before the first of four forays into international management. Hodgson's Switzerland qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup their first in 28 years and then EURO '96 but the coach departed for Inter before the latter tournament. After taking the Nerazzurri to the 1997 UEFA Cup final, Hodgson had spells in England, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, the UAE, Norway and Finland, as well as a short stint back at Inter as technical director. He returned to England and relegation-threatened Fulham in 2007/08, helping them to safety in his first term, a clubbest seventh in the Premier League in his second and then the 2010 UEFA Europa League final. The 2-1 extra-time defeat by Club Atlético de Madrid proved his last game with the Cottagers, before he accepted the reins at Liverpool. He left Anfield after 31 matches in charge, the shortest reign in Liverpool history, yet within five weeks was at West Brom, whom he steered to a then Premier League high of 11th. He was appointed England manager on 1 May 2012 and took them to the quarter-finals of UEFA EURO 2012 and the 2014 World Cup, where they failed to get out of the group stage. 6

7 Match officials Referee Assistant referees Additional assistant referees Fourth official UEFA Delegate UEFA Referee observer Marijo Strahonja (CRO) Siniša Premužaj (CRO), Igor Krmar (CRO) Ante Vučemilović (CRO), Domagoj Vučkov (CRO) Ivica Modrić (CRO) Balázs Makray (HUN) Luciano Luci (ITA) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA EURO matches UEFA matches Marijo Strahonja 21/08/ UEFA European Championship matches featuring the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage Home Away Result Venue 15/05/2004 U17 3rdPO Portugal England 4-4 Chateauroux 15/07/2004 UEL 1QR FC Levadia Tallinn Bohemian FC 0-0 Tallinn 25/09/2004 U17 1QR Poland Estonia 3-0 Strejnic 28/03/2005 U19 ELITE England Sweden 1-0 Bury 30/03/2005 U19 ELITE Moldova England 0-1 Blackpool 07/10/2005 U19FRIE R1 England Czech Republic 1-2 Grodzisk Wielkopolski 03/03/2010 U21 QR England Greece 1-2 Doncaster 02/11/2011 UCL GS Manchester United FC FC Oţelul Galaţi 2-0 Manchester 01/12/2011 UEL GS FC Twente Fulham FC 1-0 Enschede 02/10/2012 UCL GS FC Nordsjælland Chelsea FC 0-4 Copenhagen 15/10/2013 WC QR Romania Estonia 2-0 Bucharest 7

8 Competition facts UEFA European Championship qualifying records There have been 14 qualifying tournaments for the UEFA European Championship with 11 countries participating in all of them: Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Spain and Turkey. The Soviet Union and Russia combined have also been involved in all 14 qualifying tournaments, as have Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Of those ever-present nations, Spain have the most successful record, reaching the final tournament on nine occasions, including the 1964 event which they hosted. The most prolific qualifying country are West Germany/Germany, with ten successful attempts out of 11. Their only failure was in their first participation, for the 1968 tournament. They are on a run of ten successful qualifications, broken only by EURO '88, for which they qualified automatically as hosts. Discounting host nation exemptions, France and Germany hold the record for consecutive qualifications, from 1992 to Like West Germany/Germany, the Soviet Union/Russia have enjoyed a record ten successful qualifications but from a maximum 14 entries. The best percentage record for a single country is shared by Germany and the Czech Republic, who both have a 100% success rate, with six and five qualifications respectively. Next best are Croatia, who have qualified four times out of five (80%), from 1996 to Excluding tournament hosts, 2016 organisers France among them, ten countries are on a run of multiple successful qualifications going into UEFA EURO 2016 Germany (six), Czech Republic, Italy and Spain (five), Sweden (four), Croatia, Greece, Netherlands and Russia (three), and Portugal (two). Including tournament hosts, the longest sequences of ongoing consecutive multiple participations at the finals are as follows: West Germany/Germany (11), the Netherlands (seven), France (six), Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal and Spain (five), Sweden (four), Croatia, Greece, Russia (three), and Poland (two). Of the 53 nations pursuing a UEFA EURO 2016 spot via the qualifiers, 26 have never featured at a final tournament. Additionally, neither Austria nor Ukraine have ever experienced a fruitful qualifying campaign, their only appearances at the finals being in 2008 and 2012 respectively, when they were co-hosts. Gibraltar are the sole association in the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying field to be making their competition debut. Montenegro will make their second appearance and Kazakhstan their third. On just one of their ten successful qualification bids have West Germany/Germany failed to qualify as group winners. That was in 2008, when the Czech Republic edged them into second place, a position that also carried automatic qualification. The longest ongoing streak of qualifying group victories is held by Italy, who have topped their section in each of the last four competitions. Greece have the next best record in that regard, finishing first in the last three qualifying events. Spain are the only other nation to have won their group in the qualifying campaigns for both 2008 and Hungary and the Republic of Ireland share the record for the highest number of qualification matches played by a single nation, with 111 apiece, although the Soviet Union/Russia have contested 113. Fourteen other countries or combinations have amassed a century or more of qualifying games with four Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Portugal joining that select band when they played their first fixture on the road to UEFA EURO Spain have registered the most UEFA European Championship qualifying wins, 74, followed by Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic on 71, with the Soviet Union/Russia on 68 and the Netherlands on 68. Spain are also the competition's top goalscorers, finding the net 270 times. The Netherlands are second in the list with 237. The side with the highest number of defeats are Luxembourg with 86, followed by Malta (79) and Cyprus (69). Aside from debutants Gibraltar, two teams have never won a UEFA European Championship qualifier. Indeed, both San Marino and Andorra have lost every one of their matches 58 and 42 respectively. The most goals conceded by one team is 284, by Luxembourg, closely followed by Malta on 277. San Marino are next up on 260 from just 58 games, in which they have scored a mere six goals, the fewest by any competing nation. The Republic of Ireland have drawn 32 qualifiers, more than any other side but closely followed by Romania on 31. Only five teams have qualified with a perfect record in their group France (eight victories out of eight, EURO '92 8

9 and UEFA EURO 2004), Czech Republic (ten out of ten, UEFA EURO 2000), Germany (ten, UEFA EURO 2012), and Spain (eight, UEFA EURO 2012). Italy have the longest ongoing unbeaten UEFA European Championship qualifying run, having avoided defeat in each of their last 22 qualifying matches. Greece's 18-game unbeaten run was ended by Romania on matchday one, Spain's own 18-match streak and Germany's 13-game sequence both ended on matchday two. England (13) are also on a long sequence without defeat. Those five countries all came through the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying campaign unbowed, but no side avoided defeat en route to UEFA EURO Armenia have never qualified for a UEFA European Championship final tournament but they boast the player with the most appearances in the qualifying competition, defender Sargis Hovsepyan with 47. Liechtenstein's Mario Frick is next on the all-time listing with 45 appearances - followed on 40 by Latvia's Vitālijs Astafjevs with Finland's Jari Litmanen on 38. The Republic of Ireland's Robbie Keane became the highest scorer in UEFA European Championship qualifying matches on matchday two as his hat-trick against Gibraltar took him to 21 goals. He leapfrogged Turkey's Hakan Şükür on 20 goals and Czech Republic's Jan Koller and Denmark's Jon Dahl Tomasson, both on 19. Two players are on 18 goals: Miroslav Klose (Germany) and Raúl González (Spain). The highest number of goals netted in a single qualifying tournament is 13, by Northern Ireland's David Healy ahead of the 2008 finals. Next on the chart are Davor Šuker (1996) and Huntelaar (2012) with 12 apiece. 9

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11 Team facts UEFA European Championship records: Estonia History 2012 did not qualify 2008 did not qualify 2004 did not qualify 2000 did not qualify 1996 did not qualify Qualifying win 5-0: Estonia v Faroe Islands, 04/06/98 Qualifying defeat 7-1: Croatia v Estonia, 03/09/95 Overall appearances 35: Mart Poom 27: Raio Piiroja 27: Martin Reim 27: Enar Jääger 27: Ragnar Klavan 25: Marko Kristal 24: Dmitri Kruglov 24: Andres Oper Overall goals 6: Konstantin Vassiljev 5: Martin Reim 4: Andres Oper 4: Raio Piiroja UEFA European Championship records: England History 2012 quarter-finals 2008 did not qualify 2004 quarter-finals 2000 group stage 1996 semi-finals 1992 group stage 1988 group stage 1984 did not qualify 1980 group stage 1976 did not qualify 1972 quarter-finals 1968 third place 1964 did not qualify 1960 did not enter Final tournament win 1-4: Netherlands v England, 18/06/96 3-0: England v Switzerland, 17/06/04 Final tournament defeat 1-3: England v USSR, 18/06/88 1-3: England v Netherlands, 15/06/88 Qualifying win 9-0: England v Luxembourg, 15/12/82 Qualifying defeat 5-2: France v England, 27/02/63 Final tournament appearances 11

12 11: Gary Neville 9: Tony Adams 9: Steven Gerrard 9: Alan Shearer 8: Sol Campbell 8: Stuart Pearce Final tournament goals 7: Alan Shearer 5: Wayne Rooney 3: Frank Lampard Overall appearances 30: Steven Gerrard 29: Ashley Cole 28: Wayne Rooney 26: Michael Owen 24: Gary Neville 24: John Terry Overall goals 14: Wayne Rooney 13: Michael Owen 13: Alan Shearer 8: Geoff Hurst 8: Kevin Keegan 12

13 Legend :: Previous meetings Goals for/against: Goal totals include the outcome of disciplinary decisions (e.g. match forfeits when a 3-0 result is determined). Goals totals do not include goals scored during a penalty shoot-out after a tie ended in a draw :: Squad list Qual.: Total European Qualifiers appearances/goals for UEFA EURO 2016 only. FT: Total UEFA EURO 2016 appearances/goals in final tournament only. Overall: Total international appearances/goals. DoB: Date of birth Age: Based on the date press kit was last updated D: Disciplinary (*: misses next match if booked, S: suspended) :: Team facts EURO finals: The UEFA European Championship was a four-team event in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 (when the preliminary round and quarter-finals were considered part of qualifying). From 1980 it was expanded to an eight-team finals and remained in that format in 1984, 1988 and 1992 until 1996, when the 16-team format was adopted. UEFA EURO 2016 is the first tournament to be played as a 24-team finals. Records of inactive countries A number of UEFA associations have been affected by dissolution or splits of member associations. For statistical purposes, the records of these inactive countries have been allocated elsewhere: therefore, all Soviet Union matches are awarded to Russia; all West Germany but not East Germany matches are awarded to Germany; all Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro matches are awarded to Serbia; all Czechoslovakia matches are allocated to both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Abandoned/forfeited matches For statisical purposes, when a match has been started and then abandoned but later forfeited, the result on the pitch at the time of abandonment is counted. Matches that never started and were either cancelled or forfeited are not included in the overall statistics. Competitions Other abbreviations (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties No.: Number og: Own goal ag: Match decided on away goals P: Penalty agg: Aggregate Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition Pts: Points D: Drawn R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth Res.: Result ET: Extra Time sg: Match decided by silver goal GA: Goals against t: Match decided by toss of a coin GF: Goals for W: Won gg: Match decided by golden goal Y: Booked L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow cards) Nat.: Nationality N/A: Not applicable Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com. 13