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2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates25 March 2021–November 2022
Teams53 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played183
Goals scored534 (2.92 per match)
2021
2025

The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-21 football competition that will determine the 14 teams 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 runners-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. 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 five best runners-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. 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 Matchday 1 (1–3 September 2021)
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 TBD TBD
TBD

Qualifying group stage[]

Draw[]

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

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

Groups[]

Group A[]

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Group B[]

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Group C[]

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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[]

Main article:2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification 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 Template:2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification second-placed table

Play-offs[]

Main article:2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs
Team #1   Agg.   Team #2   1st leg     2nd leg  
1 TBD TBD
2 TBD TBD
3 TBD TBD
4 TBD TBD

Advanced teams[]

Teams qualified
Group Group winners Runners-up (Direct entrant(s)) Runners-up (Play-offs) Qualified (Position TBD)
A
B
C Flag of Spain Spain
D Flag of Portugal Portugal
E Switzerland rectangle Switzerland
F
G Flag of Czech Czech Republic
H Flag of France France
I Belgium Belgium

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 Romania Co-hosts 3 December 2020 4th 2021 Semi-finals (2019)
Flag of Georgia Georgia 1st Debut
Belgium Belgium Group I winners 29 March 2022 4th 2019 Semi-finals (2007)

External links[]

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