EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2016/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu - Eskisehir Tuesday 5 September 2017 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Turkey Group I - Matchday 8 Croatia Last updated 13/10/2017 17:59CET

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Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 5 Match officials 6 Competition facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Legend 10

1 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir

Previous meetings Head to Head FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Rakitić 44 (P); Hakan 05/09/2016 QR (GS) Croatia - Turkey 1-1 Zagreb Çalhanoğlu 45+2

2016 UEFA European Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 12/06/2016 GS-FT Turkey - Croatia 0-1 Paris Modrić 41

UEFA EURO 2012 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 0-0 15/11/2011 PO Croatia - Turkey Zagreb agg: 3-0 Olić 2, Mandžukić 32, 11/11/2011 PO Turkey - Croatia 0-3 Istanbul Ćorluka 51

UEFA EURO 2008 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Klasnić 119 ET; 1-1 20/06/2008 QF Croatia - Turkey Vienna Semih Şentürk 120+2 (aet, 1-3pens) ET

EURO '96 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 11/06/1996 GS-FT Turkey - Croatia 0-1 Nottingham Vlaović 86

Final Qualifying Total tournament

Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Total Turkey 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 3 0 1 2 8 0 5 3 5 10 Croatia 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 8 3 5 0 10 5

2 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir Squad list

Turkey Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Serkan Kırıntılı 15/02/1985 32 Konyaspor - 0 0 0 0 İstanbul - 11/08/1988 29 - 7 0 0 0 Başakşehir - Cenk Gönen 21/02/1988 29 Málaga - 0 0 0 0 Defenders - 04/10/1988 28 Beşiktaş * 2 0 0 0 - Ömer Toprak 21/07/1989 28 Dortmund - 3 0 0 0 - İsmail Köybaşı 10/07/1989 28 Fenerbahçe - 4 0 0 0 - Şener Özbayraklı 23/01/1990 27 Fenerbahçe - 4 0 0 0 - Çağlar Söyüncü 23/05/1996 21 Freiburg - 2 0 0 0 Midfielders İstanbul - Emre Belözoğlu 07/09/1980 36 - 1 0 0 0 Başakşehir - Selçuk İnan 10/02/1985 32 Galatasaray * 3 0 0 0 - 30/01/1987 30 Barcelona - 3 0 0 0 - Nuri Şahin 05/09/1988 29 Dortmund - 0 0 0 0 - 03/03/1986 31 Fenerbahçe - 7 0 0 0 - Oğuzhan Özyakup 23/09/1992 24 Beşiktaş * 3 0 0 0 - Yunus Mallı 24/02/1992 25 Wolfsburg - 2 0 0 0 - Okay Yokuşlu 09/03/1994 23 Trabzonspor - 2 0 0 0 - Hakan Çalhanoğlu 08/02/1994 23 Milan * 5 2 0 0 - Kaan Ayhan 10/11/1994 22 Düsseldorf - 3 0 0 0 - 23/03/1995 22 Fenerbahçe * 5 2 0 0 - Cengiz Ünder 14/07/1997 20 Roma - 3 1 0 0 Forwards - Burak Yılmaz 15/07/1985 32 Trabzonspor * 2 2 0 0 - 07/06/1991 26 Beşiktaş - 6 2 0 0 - 24/07/1997 20 Celta - 5 0 0 0 Coach - Mircea Lucescu 29/07/1945 72 - 1 0 0 0

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Croatia Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Danijel Subašić 27/10/1984 32 Monaco - 5 0 0 0 - Lovre Kalinić 03/04/1990 27 Gent - 2 0 0 0 Dinamo - Dominik Livaković 09/01/1995 22 - 0 0 0 0 Zagreb Defenders - Dejan Lovren 05/07/1989 28 Liverpool - 2 0 0 0 - Josip Pivarić 30/01/1989 28 Dynamo Kyiv * 6 0 0 0 - Domagoj Vida 29/04/1989 28 Dynamo Kyiv * 7 1 0 0 - Šime Vrsaljko 10/01/1992 25 Atlético * 5 0 0 0 - Matej Mitrović 10/11/1993 23 Beşiktaş - 3 1 0 0 - Zoran Nižić 11/10/1989 27 Hajduk Split - 0 0 0 0 - Borna Barišić 10/11/1992 24 Osijek - 0 0 0 0 Midfielders - Luka Modrić 09/09/1985 31 Real Madrid - 5 0 0 0 - Milan Badelj 25/02/1989 28 Fiorentina * 7 0 0 0 - Ivan Perišić 02/02/1989 28 Internazionale - 6 1 0 0 - Mateo Kovačić 06/05/1994 23 Real Madrid - 6 0 0 0 - Marcelo Brozović 16/11/1992 24 Internazionale - 7 2 0 0 Spartak - Mario Pašalić 09/02/1995 22 - 0 0 0 0 Moskva - Filip Bradarić 11/01/1992 25 Rijeka - 0 0 0 0 - Marko Rog 19/07/1995 22 Napoli - 3 0 0 0 Forwards - Nikola Kalinić 05/01/1988 29 Milan - 6 2 0 0 - Mario Mandžukić 21/05/1986 31 Juventus - 7 4 0 0 - Andrej Kramarić 19/06/1991 26 Hoffenheim - 6 0 0 0 - Duje Čop 01/02/1990 27 Cagliari - 2 0 0 0 - Ivan Santini 21/05/1989 28 Caen - 1 0 0 0 Coach - Ante Čačić 29/09/1953 63 - 7 0 0 0

4 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir Head coach Mircea Lucescu Date of birth: 29 July 1945 Nationality: Romanian Playing career: FC Dinamo Bucureşti, FC Sportul Studenţesc Bucureşti, FC Corvinul Hunedoara Coaching career: FC Corvinul Hunedoara, Romania, FC Dinamo Bucureşti, AC Pisa 1909, Brescia Calcio, AC Reggiana 1919, FC Rapid Bucureşti (twice), FC Internazionale Milano, Galatasaray AŞ, Beşiktaş JK, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, FC Zenit, Turkey • A useful striker for Dinamo in the 1960s and 1970s, winning six league titles and 70 caps for Romania as well as playing at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Lucescu became Corvinul player-coach in his early 30s and went on to win three Romanian championships with Dinamo. • Fluent in six foreign languages and regarded as a workaholic, he cemented his reputation at Pisa, Brescia and Reggiana before returning home for the first of two spells as Rapid coach, winning the league in 1998 and 2000. • Returned to Serie A for a short spell at Inter in 1998/99 before a one-season return to Rapid. After joining Galatasaray in 2000 he lifted the UEFA Super Cup in his first game as coach and took them to the Turkish title in 2001/02 – a feat he repeated with Beşiktaş in 2002/03, their centenary season. • Left Beşiktaş in 2004 and promptly joined Shakhtar, leading the Donetsk club to titles in 2005, 2006 and 2008, when his side also won the Ukrainian Cup. In May 2009, Lucescu's Shakhtar became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup. He suffered a heart attack that summer but swiftly returned to work, guiding the club to another league title at the end of the season and winning the domestic double in 2010/11, when Shakhtar also reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. • More success followed, Lucescu's team completing a hat-trick of domestic doubles in 2012/13 and making it five league titles in a row the following year. Lucescu stepped down in 2016 after 12 years in charge having won a sixth Ukrainian Cup and, after a year at Zenit, he succeeded as Turkey coach in August 2017. Ante Čačić Date of birth: 29 September 1953 Nationality: Croatian Playing career: NK Prigorje Markuševac Coaching career: NK Dubrava, NK Inter Zaprešić (three times), NK Osijek, NK Zadar, NK Slaven Belupo (twice), GNK Dinamo Zagreb, NK Radnik Sesvete, NK Maribor, NK Kamen Ingrad, NK Lokomotiva Zagreb (twice), NK Croatia Sesvete, Croatia Under-21 (assistant), Libya (assistant), Croatia • A graduate of the University of Zagreb's coaching school, Čačić was among the first ten Croatian coaches to receive a UEFA Pro licence; he started his coaching career at lower-league Prigorje Markuševac, where he had also played. • Spent the bulk of his career in the Croatian top division, also earning promotion to the First League with Dubrava and Inter Zaprešić. • His highest-profile job was at Dinamo Zagreb; hired in December 2011, he won a domestic double and led the club into the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage. Left in November 2012. • From 1994 to 1998, he was assistant coach of Croatia's Under-21 team, and from 2003 to 2006 assisted countryman Ilija Lončarević during his time as Libya coach. • In 2013, he took Maribor to the UEFA Europa League group stage; he was most recently in charge of Lokomotiva, whom he guided into 2015/16 UEFA Europa League qualifying. Took over the national side in September 2015, guiding them to UEFA EURO 2016 and subsequently the last 16 in France, losing in extra time to eventual winners Portugal.

5 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir Match officials

Referee Viktor Kassai (HUN) Assistant referees Vencel Tóth (HUN) , György Ring (HUN) Fourth official Ádám Farkas (HUN) FIFA Match Commissioner David Findlay (SCO) Referee observer Markus Nobs (SUI)

Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Viktor Kassai 10/09/1975 6 100

FIFA Wold Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 11/10/2008 WC QR Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 Istanbul

Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 28/08/2003 UEL QR NK Kamen Ingrad FC Etzella Ettelbruck 7-0 Velika 16/09/2003 U17 1QR Croatia Northern Ireland 2-2 Kajaani 28/07/2004 UCL 2QR HNK Hajduk Split Shelbourne FC 3-2 Split 07/09/2004 U21 QR Greece Turkey 2-1 Athens 06/09/2006 U21 QR Croatia Ukraine 1-2 Rijeka 02/06/2007 EURO QR Estonia Croatia 0-1 Tallinn 11/10/2008 WC QR Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 Istanbul 12/03/2009 UEL R16 Hamburger SV Galatasaray AŞ 1-1 Hamburg 02/10/2013 UCL GS Juventus Galatasaray AŞ 2-2 Turin 02/10/2014 UEL GS Trabzonspor AŞ Legia Warszawa 0-1 Trabzon 06/09/2015 EURO QR Norway Croatia 2-0 Oslo 24/11/2015 UCL GS Arsenal FC GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 London

6 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir Competition facts

The Week of Football concept enables fans around the world to enjoy the very best action from the European Qualifiers – which will determine UEFA's representatives at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup comprises nine groups of six teams, with matches played on a home-and- away basis. Qualifying takes place under the 'Week of Football' concept, introduced ahead of the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying campaign, in which games are spread out from Thursday to Tuesday, shining the spotlight on more teams on the road to the finals in Russia. Moreover, thanks to the Week of Football, at least 43% of matches will be played on weekends, giving fans a better chance to follow the action on television, in the stadiums and on UEFA.com. Kick-off times will be set mainly at 18:00CET and 20:45CET on Saturdays and Sundays and at 20:45CET for Thursdays, Fridays, Mondays and Tuesdays. In double-header matchweeks, sides will play on Thursday/Sunday, Friday/Monday or Saturday/Tuesday. Each day of the Week of Football will feature eight to ten games. The nine group winners will qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight best runners-up will contest play-offs to decide the last four qualifiers for the finals. The 13 qualifiers then join hosts Russia in the finals to make it 14 UEFA member associations represented. How qualification works The other confederations have the following qualifying berths: Africa: 5 Asia: 4.5 North and Central America and Caribbean: 3.5 Oceania: 0.5 South America: 4.5

7 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir Match-by-match lineups Turkey

FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Group I Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts Croatia 8 5 1 2 12 3 16 Ukraine 7 4 2 1 11 5 14 Iceland 7 4 1 2 9 7 13 Turkey 7 3 2 2 11 8 11 Finland 7 1 1 5 5 10 4 Kosovo 8 0 1 7 3 20 1

Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Croatia 1-1 Turkey Goals: 1-0 Rakitić 44 (P) , 1-1 Hakan Çalhanoğlu 45+2 Turkey: Volkan Babacan, Şener Özbayraklı, İsmail Köybaşı, Serdar Aziz, Okay Yokuşlu, Cenk Tosun (71 Olcay Şahan), Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Mehmet Topal, Ozan Tufan, Emre Mor (85 Volkan Şen), Kaan Ayhan (53 Ahmet Çalık) Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Turkey 2-2 Ukraine Goals: 0-1 Yarmolenko 24 (P) , 0-2 Kravets 27, 1-2 Ozan Tufan 45+1, 2-2 Hakan Çalhanoğlu 81 (P) Turkey: Volkan Babacan, Şener Özbayraklı, (46 Kaan Ayhan), Ömer Toprak, Cenk Tosun, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Enes Ünal (46 Ciğerci), Mehmet Topal, Ozan Tufan (77 Volkan Şen), Caner Erkin, Emre Mor Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Iceland 2-0 Turkey Goals: 1-0 E. Bjarnason 42, 2-0 Finnbogason 44 Turkey: Volkan Babacan, Şener Özbayraklı, Ömer Toprak, Yasin Öztekin (59 Cenk Tosun), Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Mehmet Topal, Ozan Tufan (43 Ciğerci), Caner Erkin, Volkan Şen (66 Mevlüt Erdinç), Emre Mor, Kaan Ayhan Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Turkey 2-0 Kosovo Goals: 1-0 Burak Yılmaz 51, 2-0 Volkan Şen 55 Turkey: Volkan Babacan, Ahmet Çalık, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Gökhan Gönül, Selçuk İnan, Arda Turan, Hasan Ali Kaldırım, Oğuzhan Özyakup (46 Yunus Mallı), Mehmet Topal, Burak Yılmaz (87 Cenk Tosun), Volkan Şen (76 Cengiz Ünder) Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Turkey 2-0 Finland Goals: 1-0 Cenk Tosun 9, 2-0 Cenk Tosun 13 Turkey: Volkan Babacan, İsmail Köybaşı, Ömer Toprak, Gökhan Gönül, Selçuk İnan, Cenk Tosun (84 Enes Ünal), Arda Turan, Olcay Şahan (72 Emre Mor), Mehmet Topal, Yunus Mallı (63 Okay Yokuşlu), Volkan Şen Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Kosovo 1-4 Turkey Goals: 0-1 Volkan Şen 6, 1-1 Rrahmani 22, 1-2 Cengiz Ünder 31, 1-3 Burak Yılmaz 61, 1-4 Ozan Tufan 82 Turkey: Volkan Babacan, Ozan Tufan, Gökhan Gönül, Selçuk İnan, Hasan Ali Kaldırım (85 İsmail Köybaşı), Oğuzhan Özyakup (73 Yusuf Yazıcı), Mehmet Topal, Burak Yılmaz, Cengiz Ünder, Volkan Şen (80 Emre Mor), Çağlar Söyüncü Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Ukraine 2-0 Turkey Goals: 1-0 Yarmolenko 18, 2-0 Yarmolenko 42 Turkey: Volkan Babacan, Şener Özbayraklı, İsmail Köybaşı, Serdar Aziz (73 Çağlar Söyüncü), Emre Belözoğlu, Ozan Tufan (60 Oğuzhan Özyakup), Ciğerci, Cenk Tosun, Hakan Çalhanoğlu (68 Arda Turan), Mehmet Topal, Cengiz Ünder Matchday 8 (05/09/2017)

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Turkey-Croatia Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Turkey-Iceland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Finland-Turkey Croatia

FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Croatia 1-1 Turkey Goals: 1-0 Rakitić 44 (P) , 1-1 Hakan Çalhanoğlu 45+2 Croatia: Kalinić, Vrsaljko, Strinić, Perišić, Ćorluka, Rakitić (64 Brozović), Modrić, Mandžukić (85 Kramarić), Badelj, Pjaca (80 N. Kalinić), Vida Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Kosovo 0-6 Croatia Goals: 0-1 Mandžukić 6, 0-2 Mandžukić 24, 0-3 Mandžukić 35, 0-4 Mitrović 68, 0-5 Perišić 83, 0-6 N. Kalinić 90+2 Croatia: Subašić, Vrsaljko, Perišić, Ćorluka (46 Mitrović), Kovačić, Kramarić (71 Rog), Brozović, Mandžukić (59 N. Kalinić), Badelj, Vida, Pivarić Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Finland 0-1 Croatia Goals: 0-1 Mandžukić 18 Croatia: Subašić, Vrsaljko, Perišić, Mitrović, Kovačić, Kramarić (81 Rog), Brozović (71 Čop), Mandžukić (87 N. Kalinić), Badelj, Vida, Pivarić Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Croatia 2-0 Iceland Goals: 1-0 Brozović 15, 2-0 Brozović 90+1 Croatia: Subašić, Vrsaljko, Perišić, Ćorluka, Rakitić (85 Kramarić), Kovačić (46 Modrić), Brozović, Mandžukić (92 Čop), Badelj, Vida, Pivarić Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Croatia 1-0 Ukraine Goals: 1-0 N. Kalinić 38 Croatia: Subašić, Mitrović, Rakitić (79 Kovačić), Modrić, Brozović (91 Rog), Jedvaj, N. Kalinić (87 Kramarić), Mandžukić, Badelj, Vida, Pivarić Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Iceland 1-0 Croatia Goals: 1-0 H. Magnússon 90 Croatia: Kalinić, Perišić, Lovren, Kovačić, Modrić, Jedvaj, N. Kalinić (63 Brozović), Mandžukić (88 Santini), Badelj, Vida, Pivarić Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Croatia 1-0 Kosovo Goals: 1-0 Vida 74 Croatia: Subašić, Vrsaljko, Perišić, Lovren, Rakitić (55 Kramarić), Kovačić (55 Badelj), Modrić, Brozović (72 N. Kalinić), Mandžukić, Vida, Pivarić Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Turkey-Croatia Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Croatia-Finland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Ukraine-Croatia

9 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir Legend Competitions

Club competitions National team competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League EURO: UEFA European Football Championship ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup WC: FIFA World Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup UCUP: UEFA Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals SCUP: UEFA Super Cup U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship 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 Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended Overall: Total appearances in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament only 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.

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