2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 24 March 2023 – 19 November 2024 |
Teams | 52 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 163 |
Goals scored | 491 (3.01 per match) |
Attendance | 332,456 (2,040 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() (7 goals) |
The 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification is a men's under-21 national football team competition to determine the 15 teams that will be joining the automatically qualified hosts Slovakia in the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament.
Apart from Slovakia, Liechtenstein (dissolved their U21 team until 2025) and Russia (banned due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine), all remaining 52 UEFA member national teams entered this qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.
Format[edit]
The qualifying competition will consist of the following two rounds:
- Qualifying group stage: The 52 teams are drawn into nine groups: seven groups of six teams and two groups of five teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners and the three best runner-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining six runners-up advance to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The six teams are drawn into three ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last three qualified teams.
Tiebreakers[edit]
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;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- 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;
- 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 bests 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]
- Points;
- Goal difference;
- Goals scored;
- Away goals scored;
- Wins;
- Away wins;
- Disciplinary points;
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.
Schedule[edit]
Stage | Draw date | FIFA International Dates |
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Qualifying group stage | 2 February 2023[2] | FIFA date 1 (24–28 March 2023) |
FIFA date 2 (15–20 June 2023) | ||
FIFA date 3 (6–12 September 2023) | ||
FIFA date 4 (12–17 October 2023) | ||
FIFA date 5 (16–21 November 2023) | ||
FIFA date 6 (21–26 March 2024) | ||
FIFA date 7 (5–10 September 2024) | ||
FIFA date 8 (10–15 October 2024) | ||
Play-offs | TBD | 1st leg (11 November 2024) |
2nd leg (19 November 2024) |
Qualifying group stage[edit]
Draw[edit]
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Each group contained one team from each of Pots 1–6 (Pots 1–5 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
- Belarus and Ukraine
- Gibraltar and Spain
- Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
- Kosovo and Serbia
Groups[edit]
Group A[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 3 | +13 | 15 | Final tournament | — | 15 Oct '24 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5 Sep '24 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 13 | Play-offs | 2–2 | — | 11 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | 3–2 | 3–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 6 | +15 | 12 | 10 Sep '24 | 3–2 | — | 7–0 | 15 Oct '24 | 4–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 7[a] | 0–0 | 1–2 | 6 Sep '24 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | ||
5 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 7[a] | 0–2 | 6 Sep '24 | 2–0 | 11 Oct '24 | — | 5–0 | ||
6 | ![]() | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 35 | −35 | 0 | 0–7 | 0–7 | 0–7 | 15 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | — |
Group B[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 16 | Final tournament | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 10 Oct '24 | 15 Oct '24 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 13 | Play-offs | 6 Sep '24 | — | 11 Oct '24 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | |
3 | ![]() | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 13 | 1–1 | 0–2 | — | 15 Oct '24 | 1–0 | 3–1 | ||
4 | ![]() | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 10 | 10 Sep '24 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | 10 Oct '24 | ||
5 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 3 | 0–4 | 15 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | 0–3 | — | 5 Sep '24 | ||
6 | ![]() | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 18 | −16 | 0 | 0–6 | 10 Sep '24 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | — |
(E) Eliminated; (Y) Cannot qualify directly, but may still qualify through play-offs
Group C[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | +19 | 21 | Final tournament | — | 9 Sep '24 | 14 Oct '24 | 3–0 | 5 Sep '24 | 1–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 13 | Play-offs | 0–3 | — | 0–0 | 5 Sep '24 | 15 Oct '24 | 2–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 10 | 2–4 | 10 Oct '24 | — | 4–0 | 0–1 | 6 Sep '24 | ||
4 | ![]() | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | −9 | 6[a] | 0–3 | 0–1 | 10 Sep '24 | — | 2–1 | 1–2 | ||
5 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 6[a] | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 11 Oct '24 | — | 1–0 | ||
6 | ![]() | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 20 | −17 | 3 | 0–5 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–3 | 9 Sep '24 | — |
(E) Eliminated; (Y) Cannot qualify directly, but may still qualify through play-offs
Notes:
Group D[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 16 | Final tournament | — | 3–1 | 11 Oct '24 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 15 | Play-offs | 15 Oct '24 | — | 0–1 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | |
3 | ![]() | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 12 | 2–3 | 10 Sep '24 | — | 1–1 | 6–0 | 1–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 9 | 0–3 | 11 Oct '24 | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | 3–1 | ||
5 | ![]() | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 19 | −17 | 1 | 10 Sep '24 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 15 Oct '24 | — | 7 Sep '24 | ||
6 | ![]() | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 0 | 4 Sep '24 | 1–2 | 15 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | 10 Oct '24 | — |
Group E[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 14 | Final tournament | — | 2–2 | 11 Oct '24 | 6 Sep '24 | 4–2 | 5–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 13 | Play-offs | 15 Oct '24 | — | 1–0 | 5–0 | 6 Sep '24 | 2–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 10 | 1–2 | 10 Sep '24 | — | 4–1 | 15 Oct '24 | 6–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 10 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 15 Oct '24 | ||
5 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 7 | 10 Sep '24 | 11 Oct '24 | 1–2 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | ||
6 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 17 | −16 | 2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 6 Sep '24 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — |
Group F[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 18[a] | Final tournament | — | 3–2 | 6 Sep '24 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 5 | +27 | 18[a] | Play-offs | 11 Oct '24 | — | 9–1 | 3–0 | 7–0 | 15 Oct '24 | |
3 | ![]() | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 10 | 15 Oct '24 | 0–3 | — | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 6 | 10 Sep '24 | 6 Sep '24 | 1–2 | — | 0–1 | 12 Oct '24 | ||
5 | ![]() | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 23 | −19 | 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 15 Oct '24 | — | 6 Sep '24 | ||
6 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | −10 | 3 | 0–3 | 1–5 | 10 Sep '24 | 0–1 | 3–2 | — |
(E) Eliminated; (Y) Cannot qualify directly, but may advance via the play-offs.
Notes:
Group G[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 4 | +22 | 18 | Final tournament | — | 2–0 | 5–1 | 4–0 | 6–1 | 3–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 14 | Play-offs | 2–1 | — | 2–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 13 | 10 Sep '24 | 15 Oct '24 | — | 5 Sep '24 | 2–0 | 11 Oct '24 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 7 | 11 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | 2–4 | — | 15 Oct '24 | 2–2 | ||
5 | ![]() | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 19 | −13 | 6 | 0–5 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | — | 0–0 | ||
6 | ![]() | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 3 | 15 Oct '24 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — |
Group H[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 12 | Final tournament | — | 0–4 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 10 Sep '24 | |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 9 | Play-offs | 6 Sep '24 | — | 15 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | 9–0 | |
3 | ![]() | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 8 | 11 Oct '24 | 2–0 | — | 2–0 | 2–2 | ||
4 | ![]() | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 6 Sep '24 | — | 15 Oct '24 | ||
5 | ![]() | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 17 | −13 | 2 | 0–3 | 11 Oct '24 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — |
(Y) Cannot qualify directly, but may advance via the play-offs
Group I[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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1 | ![]() | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 11[a] | Final tournament | — | 2–2 | 15 Oct '24 | 10 Sep '24 | 3–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 11[a] | Play-offs | 1–2 | — | 1–0 | 11 Oct '24 | 2–1 | |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 6 | 6 Sep '24 | 10 Sep '24 | — | 2–1 | 10 Oct '24 | ||
4 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 5 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | — | 15 Oct '24 | ||
5 | ![]() | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 0 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 6 Sep '24 | — |
Ranking of second-placed teams[edit]
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 three teams qualify directly for the final tournament, while the other teams enter the play-offs.
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | F | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 4 | +23 | 15 | Final tournament |
2 | I | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 11 | |
3 | B | ![]() | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 10 | |
4 | H | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 9 | Play-offs |
5 | D | ![]() | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 9 | |
6 | G | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 8 | |
7 | E | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 7 | |
8 | A | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 7 | |
9 | C | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 7 |
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.
Play-offs[edit]
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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1 | TBD | TBD | ||
2 | TBD | TBD | ||
3 | TBD | TBD |
Top goalscorers[edit]
There have been 491 goals scored in 163 matches, for an average of 3.01 goals per match (as of 7 June 2024).
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
Stiven Shpendi
Jaden Philogene
Gutti Dahl-Olsen
Arnaud Kalimuendo
Ardit Tahiri
Vlad Răileanu
Million Manhoef
Ruben van Bommel
Isak Hansen-Aarøen
Filip Szymczak
Michał Rakoczy
Francisco Conceição
Rodrigo Gomes
Pedro Santos
Armstrong Oko-Flex
Sinclair Armstrong
Constantin Grameni
Kieron Bowie
Vladimir Lučić
Oscar Vilhelmsson
Alvyn Sanches
Rubin Colwill
2 goals
Medon Berisha
Adrion Pajaziti
Paul-Friedrich Koller
Maksim Kasarab
Arne Engels
Admir Bristrić
Nikola Iliev
Marin Petkov
Martin Sorakov
Veldin Hodža
Daniel Fila
Christophe Kabongo
Maurits Kjærgaard
Oliver Provstgaard
Oliver Sørensen
Liam Delap
Samuel Iling-Junior
James McAtee
Morgan Rogers
Topi Keskinen
Bradley Barcola
Mathys Tel
Rocco Reitz
Merlin Röhl
Dylan Borge
Georgios Koutsias
Vasilios Sourlis
Dominik Kocsis
Mátyás Kovács
Francesco Pio Esposito
Giovanni Fabbian
Bleron Krasniqi
Bruno Melnis
Lūkass Vapne
Andrea Zammit
Bjorn Meijer
Devyne Rensch
Kenneth Taylor
Ciaran McGuckin
Ariel Mosór
Henrique Araújo
Paulo Bernardo
Mateus Fernandes
Aidomo Emakhu
Andrew Moran
Matei Ilie
Rareș Ilie
Lyall Cameron
Mihajlo Ilić
Stefan Mitrović
Diego López
Samu Omorodion
Pablo Torre
Beñat Turrientes
Gabriel Veiga
Nikolas Muci
Lars Villiger
Cihan Çanak
Enis Destan
Ihor Krasnopir
Illya Kvasnytsya
Oleh Ocheretko
Nazar Voloshyn
Cian Ashford
For full lists of goalscorers, see sections in each group:
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship" (PDF). UEFA. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ UEFA.com (2023-03-24). "2025 Under-21 EURO qualifying groups". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-03-24.