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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 EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS 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 - Volkan Babacan 11/08/1988 29 - 7 0 0 0 Başakşehir - Cenk Gönen 21/02/1988 29 Málaga - 0 0 0 0 Defenders - Caner Erkin 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 - Arda Turan 30/01/1987 30 Barcelona - 3 0 0 0 - Nuri Şahin 05/09/1988 29 Dortmund - 0 0 0 0 - Mehmet Topal 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 - Ozan Tufan 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 - Cenk Tosun 07/06/1991 26 Beşiktaş - 6 2 0 0 - Emre Mor 24/07/1997 20 Celta - 5 0 0 0 Coach - Mircea Lucescu 29/07/1945 72 - 1 0 0 0 3 Turkey - Croatia Tuesday 5 September 2017 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu, Eskisehir 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 Fatih Terim 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.