| 10th September 2008, 20.30 CET |
 MACEDONIA 1:2 NETHERLANDS  |
| HT 0:0 |
| Goals: 77′ (pen) Goran Pandev – 46′ John Heittinga, 60′ Rafael van der Vaart |
| Stadium: Gradski in Skopje |
| Attendance: 13.000 |
| MKD |
NED |
| 1. |
Petar Miloshevski (GK) |
1. |
Maarten Stekelenburg (GK)  76′ |
| 2. |
Nikolche Noveski |
2. |
John Heitinga |
| 4. |
Goce Sedloski (C) |
3. |
André Ooijer  28′ |
| 5. |
Igor Mitreski |
4. |
Joris Mathijsen |
| 7. |
Vlatko Grozdanoski 74′ |
5. |
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (C) |
| 8. |
Veliche Shumulikoski |
6. |
Mark van Bommel |
| 9. |
Goran Maznov 62′ |
7. |
Robin van Persie 15′ 70′ |
| 10. |
Goran Pandev |
8. |
Nigel de Jong |
| 11. |
Ilcho Naumoski 20′ |
9. |
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar |
| 14. |
Vlade Lazarevski 58′ |
10. |
Rafael van der Vaart 75′ |
| 16. |
Vancho Trajanov 83′ |
11. |
Arjen Robben 82′ |
| Substitutes: |
| 3. |
Robert Petrov  58′ |
12. |
Khalid Boulahrouz 28′ |
| 6. |
Darko Tasevski 62′ |
13. |
Ryan Babel |
| 12. |
Tome Pachovski (GK) |
14. |
Dirk Kuijt 70′ |
| 13. |
Artim Polozhani |
15. |
Tim de Cler |
| 15. |
Ertan Demiri |
16. |
Henk Timmer (GK) |
| 17. |
Boban Grncharov |
17. |
Ibrahim Afellay 82′ |
| 18. |
Stevica Ristikj 83′ 87′ |
18. |
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink |
| Coaches: |
| Srečko Katanec (SVN) |
Lambertus “Bert” van Marwijk (NED) |
| Officials: |
| Referee: Grzegorz Gilewski (POL) |
| Assistants: Maciej Wierzbowski, Rafał Rostkowski (POL) |
| 4th Official: Hubert Siejewicz (POL) |
