2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition will be 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.
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| Dates | TBD |
| Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
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.
Schedule
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| Qualifying group stage | 28 January 2021[1] | TBD |
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| Play-offs | TBD | TBD |
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Qualifying group stage
Draw
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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, there following teams would not be drawn in the same group.[2]
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Gibraltar and Spain
- Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
- Kosovo and Serbia
- Kosovo and Russia
- Russia and Ukraine[3]
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 | Qualification |
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| 1 | 1 | Group A runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Final tournament |
| 2 | 2 | Group B runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Play-offs |
| 3 | 3 | Group C runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 4 | Group D runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | 5 | Group E runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | 6 | Group F runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | 7 | Group G runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | 8 | Group H runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | 9 | Group I runners-up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.
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 |
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| Romania |
Co-hosts | 3 December 2020 | 4th | 2021 | Semi-finals (2019) |
| Georgia |
Co-hosts | 3 December 2020 | 1st | — | Debut |
References
- UEFA.com (2021-01-04). "2021-23 Under-21 qualifying draw: 28 January". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- 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.