2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group I
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group I was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group consisted of six teams: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland, and Kosovo.
The draw for the first round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK, at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Kosovo was added to the group after the draw, after becoming FIFA members together with Gibraltar in May 2016, and UEFA decided not to put Kosovo in group H as the UEFA Emergency Panel considered that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia should not play against Kosovo for security reasons.
The group winners, Iceland, qualified directly for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The group runners-up, Croatia, advanced to the play-offs as one of the best 8 runners-up. This was the first time Ukraine was eliminated after the first round, as the team had been eliminated in 1998, 2002, 2010 and 2014 after the play-offs, and qualified in 2006.
Standings
Matches
The fixture list prior to the inclusion of Kosovo was confirmed by UEFA on 26 July 2015, the day following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA.----
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Discipline
A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:- Receiving a red card
- Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches
| Player | Team | Offence | Suspended for match |
| Aron Gunnarsson | vs Ukraine vs Finland | vs Turkey | |
| Niklas Moisander | vs Iceland vs Croatia | vs Ukraine | |
| Hekuran Kryeziu | vs Finland vs Ukraine | vs Turkey | |
| Emre Mor | vs Ukraine vs Iceland | vs Kosovo | |
| Ivan Perišić | vs Iceland | vs Ukraine | |
| Thomas Lam | vs Kosovo vs Ukraine | vs Turkey | |
| Theódór Elmar Bjarnason | vs Ukraine vs Croatia | vs Kosovo | |
| Enis Alushi | vs Finland vs Turkey | vs Iceland | |
| Eduard Sobol | vs Turkey vs Finland | vs Croatia | |
| Paulus Arajuuri | vs Iceland vs Turkey | vs Ukraine | |
| Alexander Ring | vs Croatia vs Turkey | vs Ukraine | |
| Bernard Berisha | vs Turkey | vs Croatia | |
| Burak Yılmaz | vs Kosovo vs Kosovo | vs Ukraine | |
| Yaroslav Rakitskiy | vs Finland vs Finland | vs Turkey | |
| Jere Uronen | vs Turkey vs Iceland | vs Kosovo | |
| Rúrik Gíslason | vs Finland | vs Ukraine | |
| Milan Badelj | vs Iceland vs Turkey | vs Finland | |
| Robin Lod | vs Iceland vs Kosovo | vs Croatia | |
| Emil Hallfreðsson | vs Finland vs Ukraine | vs Turkey | |
| Bernard Berisha | vs Turkey vs Finland | vs Ukraine | |
| Valon Berisha | vs Ukraine vs Finland | vs Ukraine | |
| Hakan Çalhanoğlu | vs Ukraine vs Croatia | vs Iceland | |
| Viktor Kovalenko | vs Finland vs Iceland | vs Kosovo | |
| Oleksandr Zinchenko | vs Finland vs Iceland | vs Kosovo | |
| Hekuran Kryeziu | vs Iceland vs Ukraine | vs Iceland | |
| Caner Erkin | vs Ukraine vs Iceland | vs Finland | |
| Artem Kravets | vs Finland vs Kosovo | vs Croatia | |
| Ivan Ordets | vs Turkey vs Kosovo | vs Croatia |