EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2016/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Tampere Stadion - Tampere Saturday 2 September 2017 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Finland Group I - Matchday 7 Iceland Last updated 02/09/2017 01:10CET

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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 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere

Previous meetings Head to Head FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Árnason 37, Finnbogason 90+1, R. 06/10/2016 QR (GS) Iceland - Finland 3-2 Reykjavik Sigurdsson 90+6; Pukki 21, Lod 39

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 Finland - - - - 1 0 0 1 - - - - 12 6 2 4 19 14 Iceland 1 1 0 0 ------12 4 2 6 14 19

2 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere Squad list

Finland Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Anssi Jaakkola 13/03/1987 30 Reading - 0 0 0 0 - Lukas Hradecky 24/11/1989 27 Frankfurt * 6 0 0 0 - Jesse Joronen 21/03/1993 24 Horsens - 0 0 0 0 Defenders - Markus Halsti 19/03/1984 33 Midtjylland * 3 0 0 0 - Juhani Ojala 19/06/1989 28 Häcken - 2 0 0 0 - Juha Pirinen 22/10/1991 25 HJK - 0 0 0 0 - Paulus Arajuuri 15/06/1988 29 Brøndby - 5 1 0 0 - Thomas Lam 18/12/1993 23 Nottm Forest * 4 0 0 0 - Jere Uronen 13/07/1994 23 Genk * 3 0 0 0 - Sauli Väisänen 05/06/1994 23 Spal * 3 0 0 0 - Albin Granlund 01/09/1989 28 Mariehamn - 0 0 0 0 Midfielders - Kasper Hämäläinen 08/08/1986 31 Legia - 3 0 0 0 - Tim Sparv 20/02/1987 30 Midtjylland - 0 0 0 0 - Joona Toivio 10/03/1988 29 Molde - 1 0 0 0 - Perparim Hetemaj 12/12/1986 30 Chievo - 2 0 0 0 New York - Alexander Ring 09/04/1991 26 * 5 0 0 0 City FC - Robin Lod 17/04/1993 24 Panathinaikos - 6 1 0 0 - Glen Kamara 28/10/1995 21 Dundee - 0 0 0 0 - Fredrik Jensen 09/09/1997 19 Twente - 1 0 0 0 Forwards - Teemu Pukki 29/03/1990 27 Brøndby * 6 1 0 0 - Simon Skrabb 19/01/1995 22 Norrköping - 0 0 0 0 - Eero Markkanen 03/07/1991 26 Dresden - 4 0 0 0 - Jasse Tuominen 12/11/1995 21 BATE - 0 0 0 0 Coach - Markku Kanerva 24/05/1964 53 - 2 0 0 0

3 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere

Iceland Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Hannes Halldórsson 27/04/1984 33 Randers - 5 0 0 0 - Ingvar Jónsson 18/10/1989 27 Sandefjord - 0 0 0 0 - Rúnar Rúnarsson 18/02/1995 22 Nordsjælland - 0 0 0 0 Defenders - Ragnar Sigurdsson 19/06/1986 31 Rubin - 6 1 0 0 - Ari Skúlason 14/05/1987 30 Lokeren - 4 0 0 0 - Birkir Sævarsson 11/11/1984 32 Hammarby - 6 0 0 0 - Jón Gudni Fjóluson 10/04/1989 28 Norrköping - 0 0 0 0 - Hordur Magnússon 11/02/1993 24 Bristol City - 4 1 0 0 - Sverrir Ingason 05/08/1993 24 Rostov - 1 0 0 0 - Hjörtur Hermannsson 08/02/1995 22 Brøndby - 0 0 0 0 Midfielders - Ólafur Skúlason 01/04/1983 34 Karabükspor - 1 0 0 0 - Emil Hallfredsson 29/06/1984 33 Udinese - 3 0 0 0 - Rúrik Gíslason 25/02/1988 29 Nürnberg * 2 0 0 0 - Birkir Bjarnason 27/05/1988 29 Aston Villa * 5 0 0 0 - Kári Árnason 13/10/1982 34 Aberdeen * 6 1 0 0 - Aron Gunnarsson 22/04/1989 28 Cardiff - 5 0 0 0 - Gylfi Sigurdsson 08/09/1989 27 Everton - 6 1 0 0 - Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson 18/06/1990 27 Grasshoppers - 0 0 0 0 - Arnór Ingvi Traustason 30/04/1993 24 AEK - 3 0 0 0 Forwards - Björn Sigurdarsson 26/02/1991 26 Molde - 4 1 0 0 - Johann Gudmundsson 27/10/1990 26 Burnley - 5 0 0 0 - Alfred Finnbogason 01/02/1989 28 Augsburg * 4 3 0 0 - Jón Dadi Bödvarsson 25/05/1992 25 Reading - 4 0 0 0 Coach - Heimir Hallgrímsson 10/06/1967 50 - 6 0 0 0

4 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere Head coach Markku Kanerva Date of birth: 24 May 1964 Nationality: Finnish Playing career: HJK Helsinki (twice), IF Elfsborg, Finnairin Palloilijat Coaching career: HJK Helsinki (assistant), FC Viikingit, Finland Under-21s, Finland (assistant), Finland (caretaker, twice), Finland • A defender in his playing days, Markku Kanerva started out at home-town club HJK and won five Finnish titles and three Finnish Cups over two spells, returning for four years until his retirement in 1998 after an initial stay from 1983 to 1990. • Contested five games in the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League with HJK, having rejoined after stints with Swedish side Elfsborg and Finnish outfit FinnPa; Kanerva also picked up 59 caps for his national team, scoring once. • Began his coaching career as an assistant at HJK before briefly holding the reins at Viikingit in 2003 and entering the Football Association of Finland (SPL-FBF) coaching set-up the following year. • Took charge of Finland's U21s between 2004 and 2009, earning recognition as Finland's coach of the year in 2008 after booking the side a historic maiden place at the 2009 UEFA European U21 Championship finals. • Assistant coach of Finland's senior team between 2010 and 2016, Kanerva took over in an interim capacity in both 2011 and 2015 before being handed the role full time as Hans Backe's replacement in December 2016. Heimir Hallgrímsson Date of birth: 10 June 1967 Nationality: Icelandic Playing career: ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (twice), Íþróttafélagið Höttur, KF Smástund Coaching career: Íþróttafélagið Höttur (women), ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (women, twice), ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (twice), Iceland (assistant), Iceland (joint coach), Iceland • Spent the majority of his playing career with ÍBV, who he represented between 1986 and 1992 and again from 1994 to 1996; he spent 1993 playing for Höttur, also managing their women's team. • Hallgrímsson – who combined his playing career with his part-time duties as a dentist – moved to Smástund in 1996 and continued to represent the club following their merger the following year with Framherjar, from his home town of Vestmannaeyjar. • Started coaching ÍBV's women's side in 1999 and was appointed assistant coach of the men's team three years later. Returned to the women's selection in 2003, staying for two years; took over as head coach of ÍBV's men's squad in 2006. • Stayed in that role until 2011; that October, following Lars Lagerbäck's appointment as Iceland coach, Hallgrímsson was named as his assistant. Promoted to the joint coaching role following the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, when Iceland lost in the play-offs to Croatia. • UEFA EURO 2016 was to be a competition to remember for Iceland, however, as they qualified for a first major finals from a section including the Czech Republic, Turkey and the Netherlands. Even better was to follow in France, Iceland remaining unbeaten to reach the knockout stages and then famously getting the better of England in the last 16 before a 5-2 defeat by the hosts in the last 16. Hallgrímsson took sole charge after the tournament.

5 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere Match officials

Referee Pavel Královec (CZE) Assistant referees Roman Slyško (SVK) , Ivo Nadvornik (CZE) Fourth official Miroslav Zelinka (CZE) FIFA Match Commissioner Karl Espen Eriksen (NOR) Referee observer Rodger Gifford (WAL)

Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Pavel Královec 16/08/1977 4 89

FIFA Wold Cup matches involving teams from 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 Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 29/03/2005 U17 ELITE Finland Russia 2-4 Blagoevgrad 04/08/2010 UCL 3QR HJK Helsinki FK Partizan 1-2 Helsinki

6 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere 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 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere Match-by-match lineups Finland

FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Group I Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts Croatia 6 4 1 1 11 2 13 Iceland 6 4 1 1 9 6 13 Turkey 6 3 2 1 11 6 11 Ukraine 6 3 2 1 9 5 11 Finland 6 0 1 5 4 10 1 Kosovo 6 0 1 5 3 18 1

Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Finland 1-1 Kosovo Goals: 1-0 Arajuuri 18, 1-1 V. Berisha 60 (P) Finland: Hradecky, Arajuuri, Moisander, Eremenko, Lod (88 Schüller), Pukki (73 Hämäläinen), Lam (65 Ring), Halsti, Uronen, Pohjanpalo, Raitala Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Iceland 3-2 Finland Goals: 0-1 Pukki 21, 1-1 Árnason 37, 1-2 Lod 39, 2-2 Finnbogason 90+1, 3-2 R. Sigurdsson 90+6 Finland: Hradecky, Arajuuri, Moisander, Väisänen, Ring (94 Schüller), P. Hetemaj, Pukki, Arkivuo, Halsti, Lod, Hämäläinen (56 Markkanen) Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Finland 0-1 Croatia Goals: 0-1 Mandžukić 18 Finland: Hradecky, Arajuuri, Moisander, Väisänen (87 Riski), Ojala, Ring (67 Lam), Pukki, Arkivuo (46 Schüller), Lod, Saksela, Raitala Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Ukraine 1-0 Finland Goals: 1-0 Kravets 25 Finland: Hradecky, Arajuuri, Väisänen (83 Saksela), Toivio, Ring (46 Markkanen), Lod, Pukki, Arkivuo, Halsti (63 Lam), Mattila, Raitala Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Turkey 2-0 Finland Goals: 1-0 Cenk Tosun 9, 2-0 Cenk Tosun 13 Finland: Hradecky, Arajuuri, Moisander, Ring (84 Forsell), Lod, P. Hetemaj, Pukki, Arkivuo, Mattila (67 Yaghoubi), Uronen, Pohjanpalo (72 Markkanen) Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Finland 1-2 Ukraine Goals: 0-1 Konoplyanka 51, 1-1 Pohjanpalo 72, 1-2 Besedin 75 Finland: Hradecky, Moisander, Ojala, Lod (68 Jensen), Pukki (68 Pohjanpalo), Arkivuo, Yaghoubi, Uronen (84 Markkanen), Lam, Hämäläinen, Raitala Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Finland-Iceland Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Kosovo-Finland Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Croatia-Finland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017)

8 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere

Finland-Turkey Iceland

FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Ukraine 1-1 Iceland Goals: 0-1 Finnbogason 6, 1-1 Yarmolenko 41 Iceland: Halldórsson, B. Sævarsson, R. Sigurdsson, Gudmundsson (84 Hallfredsson), B. Bjarnason (75 Traustason), G. Sigurdsson, Finnbogason, Árnason, Bödvarsson, A. Gunnarsson, A. Skúlason (42 H. Magnússon) Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Iceland 3-2 Finland Goals: 0-1 Pukki 21, 1-1 Árnason 37, 1-2 Lod 39, 2-2 Finnbogason 90+1, 3-2 R. Sigurdsson 90+6 Iceland: Kristinsson, B. Sævarsson (89 E. Bjarnason), R. Sigurdsson, Gudmundsson, B. Bjarnason, G. Sigurdsson, Finnbogason, Árnason, A. Gunnarsson, Sigurdarsson (75 Kjartansson), A. Skúlason Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Iceland 2-0 Turkey Goals: 1-0 E. Bjarnason 42, 2-0 Finnbogason 44 Iceland: Halldórsson, B. Sævarsson, R. Sigurdsson, Gudmundsson, B. Bjarnason, G. Sigurdsson, Finnbogason (67 Kjartansson), Árnason, E. Bjarnason (85 H. Magnússon), Bödvarsson (61 Sigurdarsson), A. Skúlason Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Croatia 2-0 Iceland Goals: 1-0 Brozović 15, 2-0 Brozović 90+1 Iceland: Halldórsson, B. Sævarsson, R. Sigurdsson, Gudmundsson, B. Bjarnason, G. Sigurdsson, Árnason, A. Gunnarsson, E. Bjarnason (75 Traustason), H. Magnússon, Bödvarsson (75 Kjartansson) Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Kosovo 1-2 Iceland Goals: 0-1 Sigurdarsson 25, 0-2 G. Sigurdsson 35 (P) , 1-2 Nuhiu 52 Iceland: Halldórsson, B. Sævarsson, R. Sigurdsson, Kjartansson (69 Bödvarsson), G. Sigurdsson, Árnason, A. Gunnarsson, Hallfredsson, Traustason (72 Gíslason), Sigurdarsson (86 Skúlason), A. Skúlason Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Iceland 1-0 Croatia Goals: 1-0 H. Magnússon 90 Iceland: Halldórsson, B. Sævarsson, R. Sigurdsson (91 Ingason), Gudmundsson, B. Bjarnason (81 Gíslason), G. Sigurdsson, Finnbogason (77 Sigurdarsson), Árnason, A. Gunnarsson, H. Magnússon, Hallfredsson Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Finland-Iceland Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Iceland-Ukraine Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Turkey-Iceland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Iceland-Kosovo

9 Finland - Iceland Saturday 2 September 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadion, Tampere 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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