Filter a range by array

Question

I have a Google Spreadsheet containing the teams of the UEFA EURO 2012, and their scores:

Team     Points  Goals scored
------   ------  ------------
Germany         


        

Answer 1

For answer-seekers who stumble onto this thread as I did, see this Google product forum page, where both Yogi and ahab present solutions to the question of how to filter a range of data by another range of data.

If A3:C contains the range of UEFA EURO 2012 data to be filtered, and D3:D contains the list of teams by which to filter, then E3 ...

=FILTER(A3:C, MATCH(A3:A, D3:D,0))

or

=FILTER(A3:C, COUNTIF(D3:D, A3:A))

Conversely, if you'd like to filter by teams not listed in D3:D, then E3...

=FILTER(A3:C, ISNA(MATCH(A3:A, D3:D,0)))

or

=FILTER(A3:C, NOT(COUNTIF(D3:D, A3:A)))

Here's an example spreadsheet I've made to demonstrate these functions' effectiveness.