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innerText">Qualifying round</h2><h3 class="bigTitle innerText grp_2001656 vis_title">Group A</h3><table class="tb_stand grp_2001656 vis_grtable"><thead><tr class="lcol"><th class="rank nosort w30 innerText l"></th><th class="club l nosort ">Teams</th><th class="w30"><abbr title="Played">P</abbr></th><th class="w30"><abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="on "><td class="rank nosort w30 innerText l">0</td><td class="club l nosort "><a href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/teams/team=13/index.html"><img height="18" width="18" alt="Belgium" title="Belgium" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120105062547im_/http://img.uefa.com/imgml/flags/18x18/bel.png"/> Belgium</a></td><td class="w30">0</td><td class="w30">0</td></tr><tr class=" off "><td class="rank nosort w30 innerText l">0</td><td class="club l nosort "><a href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/teams/team=56370/index.html"><img height="18" width="18" alt="Croatia" title="Croatia" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120105062547im_/http://img.uefa.com/imgml/flags/18x18/cro.png"/> Croatia</a></td><td class="w30">0</td><td class="w30">0</td></tr><tr class="on "><td class="rank nosort w30 innerText l">0</td><td class="club l nosort "><a href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/teams/team=59205/index.html"><img height="18" width="18" alt="FYROM" title="FYROM" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120105062547im_/http://img.uefa.com/imgml/flags/18x18/mkd.png"/> FYROM</a></td><td class="w30">0</td><td class="w30">0</td></tr><tr class=" off "><td class="rank nosort w30 innerText l">0</td><td class="club l nosort "><a href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/teams/team=117/index.html"><img height="18" width="18" alt="Scotland" title="Scotland" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120105062547im_/http://img.uefa.com/imgml/flags/18x18/sco.png"/> Scotland</a></td><td class="w30">0</td><td class="w30">0</td></tr><tr class="on "><td class="rank nosort w30 innerText l">0</td><td class="club l nosort "><a href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/teams/team=147/index.html"><img height="18" width="18" alt="Serbia" title="Serbia" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120105062547im_/http://img.uefa.com/imgml/flags/18x18/srb.png"/> Serbia</a></td><td class="w30">0</td><td class="w30">0</td></tr><tr class=" off "><td class="rank nosort w30 innerText l">0</td><td class="club l nosort "><a href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/teams/team=144/index.html"><img height="18" width="18" alt="Wales" title="Wales" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120105062547im_/http://img.uefa.com/imgml/flags/18x18/wal.png"/> Wales</a></td><td class="w30">0</td><td class="w30">0</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="standings_group_link more innerText"><a title="" href="/web/20120105062547/http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2014/standings/round=2000294/group=2001656/index.html">Group details</a></div> </div><div class="row more innerText"> </div> <xsltext/></div><div class="letterbox grlist"><div class="jboxdiv scroll_3 animation_slow" id="groups_panel_17"><div class="jc-next"> </div><ul id="grlist" class="clearfix"><li id="gr2001656"><a href="#">A</a></li><li id="gr2001657"><a href="#">B</a></li><li id="gr2001658"><a href="#">C</a></li><li id="gr2001659"><a href="#">D</a></li><li id="gr2001660"><a href="#">E</a></li><li id="gr2001661"><a href="#">F</a></li><li id="gr2001662"><a href="#">G</a></li><li id="gr2001663"><a href="#">H</a></li><li id="gr2001664"><a href="#">I</a></li></ul></div></div> </div><div class="bF"> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="innGrid_4 fr"><div class="row "><div style="" class="newsBulList box bulletList"><div class="bH"><h3>Key information</h3> </div><div class="bC"><ul class="box bulletList"><li class="pdf"><h4 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