2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

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2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates 25 March 2021 – 27 September 2022
Teams 53 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 255
Goals scored 778 (3.05 per match)
Top scorer(s) Gonçalo Ramos (12 goals)
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The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-21 football competition to determine the 14 teams that would be joining the automatically qualified co-hosts Romania and Georgia in the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament.

Apart from Romania and Georgia, all remaining 53 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to participate.

Format

The qualifying competition will consist of the following two rounds:

  • Qualifying group stage: The 53 teams are drawn into nine groups: eight groups of six teams and one group of five teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners and the best runner-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up advance to the play-offs.
  • Play-offs: The eight teams are drawn into four ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last four qualified teams.

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 14.01):[1]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
  9. Wins in all group matches;
  10. Away wins in all group matches;
  11. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  12. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

To determine the best runner-up from the qualifying group stage, the results against the teams in sixth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.02):[1]

  1. Points;
  2. Goal difference;
  3. Goals scored;
  4. Away goals scored;
  5. Wins;
  6. Away wins;
  7. Disciplinary points;
  8. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

Schedule

Stage Draw date FIFA International Dates
Qualifying group stage 28 January 2021[2] Matchday 1 (1–3 September 2021)[lower-alpha 1]
Matchday 2 (6–7 September 2021)
Matchday 3 (7–8 October 2021)
Matchday 4 (11–12 October 2021)
Matchday 5 (10–12 November 2021)
Matchday 6 (14–16 November 2021)
Matchday 7 (24–25 March 2022)
Matchday 8 (28–29 March 2022)
Matchday 9 (2–6 June 2022)
Matchday 10 (6–14 June 2022)
Play-offs 21 June 2022[3] 1st leg (23 September 2022)
2nd leg (27 September 2022)
  1. ↑ Some matches of Matchday 1 were played on 25 and 29 March 2021 and some matches were played on 4–8 June 2021

Qualifying group stage

Draw

Final tournament co-hosts
Team
 Romania
 Georgia
Pot A
Team
 Spain
 Germany
 France
 England
 Italy
 Denmark
 Portugal
 Netherlands
 Croatia
Pot B
Team
 Austria
 Poland
 Sweden
 Czech Republic
 Belgium
 Russia
 Serbia
  Switzerland
 Greece
Pot C
Team
 Slovakia
 Iceland
 Ukraine
 Slovenia
 Republic of Ireland
 Israel
 Norway
 Bulgaria
 Turkey
Pot D
Team
 Scotland
 Macedonia
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Wales
 Northern Ireland
 Finland
 Hungary
 Belarus
 Albania
Pot E
Team
 Montenegro
 Kosovo
 Lithuania
 Kazakhstan
 Moldova
 Cyprus
 Faroe Islands
 Azerbaijan
 Latvia
Pot F
Team
 Luxembourg
 Armenia
 Malta
 Andorra
 Estonia
 Gibraltar
 Liechtenstein
 San Marino

Each group contained one team from each of Pots A–F (Pots A–E for five-team group). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following teams would not be drawn in the same group.[4]

  • Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Gibraltar and Spain
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
  • Kosovo and Serbia
  • Kosovo and Russia
  • Russia and Ukraine[5]

Groups

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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On 28 February 2022, FIFA and UEFA announced that Russia was suspended from all competitions.[6] On 2 May 2022, UEFA announced that Russia would no longer be allowed to take part in the competition, that their previous results were nullified, and that Group C would continue with five teams.[7][8] 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group C

Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Group G

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Group H

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Group I

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Ranking of second-placed teams

Only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team in six-team groups are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The top-ranked team qualifies directly for the final tournament, while the other teams enter the play-offs.

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) wins; 6) away wins; 7) disciplinary points; 8) coefficient ranking.

Advanced teams

Advanced teams
Group Group winners Runners-up (Direct entrant) Runners-up (Play-offs)
A  Norway  Croatia
B  Germany  Israel
C  Spain  Slovakia
D  Portugal  Iceland
E  Netherlands   Switzerland
F  Italy  Republic of Ireland
G  England  Czech Republic
H  France  Ukraine
I  Belgium  Denmark

Play-offs

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The draw for the play-offs was held on 21 June 2022 in Nyon, Switzerland.[9]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Croatia  3–3 (5–4 p)  Denmark 2–1 1–2 (a.e.t.)
Slovakia  3–5  Ukraine 3–2 0–3
Republic of Ireland  1–1 (1–3 p)  Israel 1–1 0–0 (a.e.t.)
Iceland  1–2  Czech Republic 1–2 0–0

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).

Team Method of qualification Date of qualification Appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 Romania Co-hosts 3 December 2020 4th 2021 Semi-finals (2019)
 Georgia 1st Debut
 Belgium Group I winners 29 March 2022 4th 2019 Semi-finals (2007)
 Spain Group C winners 2 May 2022[lower-alpha 1] 16th 2021 Champions (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2019)
 Germany Group B winners 3 June 2022 14th 2021 Champions (2009, 2017, 2021)
 Portugal Group D winners 6 June 2022 10th 2021 Runners-up (1994, 2015, 2021)
 England Group G winners 7 June 2022 17th 2021 Champions (1982, 1984)
 Netherlands Group E winners 8 June 2022 9th 2021 Champions (2006, 2007)
 France Group H winners 9 June 2022 11th 2021 Champions (1988)
 Italy Group F winners 14 June 2022 22nd 2021 Champions (1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Norway Group A winners 14 June 2022 3rd 2013 Semi-finals (1998, 2013)
  Switzerland Best runner-up 14 June 2022 5th 2021 Runners-up (2011)
 Ukraine Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 3rd 2011 Runners-up (2006)
 Czech Republic Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 9th 2021 Champions (2002)
 Croatia Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 5th 2021 Quarter-finals (2021)
 Israel Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 3rd 2013 Group stage (2007, 2013)
  1. ↑ On 2 May 2022, UEFA announced that Russia were removed from European Under-21 Championship qualification due to their country's invasion of Ukraine, with all their earlier results considered null and void.[7] Spain therefore qualified for the European Under-21 Championship, as no other teams could surpass them.

Top goalscorers

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References

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