2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualificationTournament details |
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Dates | 25 March 2021 – 27 September 2022 |
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Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
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Tournament statistics |
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Matches played | 255 |
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Goals scored | 778 (3.05 per match) |
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Top scorer(s) | Gonçalo Ramos (12 goals) |
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International football competition
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 were eligible to participate.
The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:
- Qualifying group stage: The 53 teams were drawn into nine groups: eight groups of six teams and one group of five teams. Each group was 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) qualified directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up advanced to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The eight teams were 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 were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 14.01):[1]
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Away goals scored in all group matches;
- Wins in all group matches;
- Away wins in all group matches;
- Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- 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 were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 15.02):[1]
- Points;
- Goal difference;
- Goals scored;
- Away goals scored;
- Wins;
- Away wins;
- Disciplinary points;
- 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)[a] |
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) |
- ^ 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
Each group contained one team from each of Pots A–F (Pots A–E for a five-team group). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, six pairs of 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
Source: UEFA
Group B
Source: UEFA
Group C
On 28 February 2022, FIFA and UEFA announced that Russia was suspended from all competitions.[6][7] 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.[8][9]
Source: UEFA
Notes:
- ^ On 28 February 2022, FIFA and UEFA suspended Russian national teams from all competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6][10] On 2 May 2022, UEFA expelled Russia and declared all of their results to be null and void.[8][11]
Group D
Source: UEFA
Group E
Source: UEFA
Group F
Source: UEFA
Group G
Source: UEFA
Group H
Source: UEFA
Group I
Source: UEFA
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 were taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team in six-team groups were not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team were counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The top-ranked team qualified directly for the final tournament, while the other teams entered the play-offs.
Source: [citation needed]
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
Play-offs
The draw for the play-offs was held on 21 June 2022 in Nyon, Switzerland.[12]
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[a] | 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) |
- ^ 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.[8] Spain therefore qualified for the European Under-21 Championship, as no other teams could surpass them.
Top goalscorers
There were 778 goals scored in 255 matches, for an average of 3.05 goals per match.
12 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
For full lists of goalscorers, see sections in each group:
References
- ^ a b "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship" (PDF). UEFA. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ^ UEFA.com (2021-01-04). "2021-23 Under-21 qualifying draw: 28 January". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ UEFA.com (2022-06-10). "2023 Under-21 EURO qualifying latest: France, Netherlands, England, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium in finals". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ^ UEFA.com (2021-01-04). "2021-23 Under-21 qualifying draw: 28 January". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ UEFA.com (2014-07-17). "Emergency Panel decisions | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ a b "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". FIFA. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ UEFA.com (2022-02-28). "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ a b c "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs". uefa.com. UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion". BBC Sport. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ UEFA.com (2022-02-28). "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ "Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion". BBC Sport. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "2023 Under-21 EURO qualifying latest: France, Netherlands, England, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium in finals - Under-21 - News - UEFA.com". www.uefa.com. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
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