2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Campionatul European de Fotbal Sub-21
Tournament details
Host countries	Romania Georgia
Dates	9 June – 2 July
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	8 (to be confirmed) (in 5 host cities)
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The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2023) will be the 24th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (27th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe.

The tournament will be co-hosted by Romania and Georgia. Romania will host the opening match, while Georgia will host the final.

A total of 16 teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to participate. Same as previous Under-21 Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, this tournament will serve as European qualifying for the Olympic football tournament. Besides France which qualify automatically as Olympic hosts, eligible teams will compete for qualifying for the men's football tournament of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where they will be represented by their under-23 national teams with maximum of three overage players allowed.

Host selection

Both Romania and Georgia bid for the tournament separately. The two countries were appointed as co-hosts at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 3 December 2020.

Venues

Romania

The Federația Română de Fotbal originally proposed the following eight venues:

• Arena Națională in Bucharest, Romania
• Steaua Stadium in Bucharest, Romania
• Rapid-Giulești Stadium in Bucharest, Romania
• Arcul de Triumf Stadium in Bucharest, Romania
• Cluj Arena in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Ilie Oană Stadium in Ploiești, Romania
• Marin Anastasovici Stadium in Giurgiu, Romania

However, four stadiums were removed from the list of venues since Georgia was also appointed as host.

Bucharest	Venues in Romania	Bucharest
Arena Națională		Steaua Stadium
Capacity: 55,634		Capacity: 31,254
Cluj-Napoca		Cluj-Napoca
Cluj Arena		Constantin Rădulescu
Capacity: 30,201		Capacity: 23,500

Georgia

In Georgia, the tournament will also be played at four stadiums.

• Batumi Stadium, Batumi
• Fazisi Stadium, Poti
• Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi
• Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Tbilisi	Venues in Georgia	Tbilisi
Boris Paichadze		Mikheil Meskhi
Capacity: 54,202		Capacity: 27,223
Batumi		Poti
Batumi Stadium		Fazisi Stadium
Capacity: 20,000		Capacity: 6,000

Qualification

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

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	02020-12-03-3 December 2020	4th	2021	02 !Semi-finals (2019)
Georgia	* !Co-hosts	02020-12-03-3 December 2020	1st	—	Debut

External links

• Official website

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