2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
International football competition
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The 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-21 football competition to determine the 14 teams that would be joining the automatically qualified co-hosts Albania and Serbia in the 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament.
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| Dates | 5 June 2025 – 6 October 2026 |
| Teams | 51 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 172 |
| Goals scored | 534 (3.1 per match) |
| Attendance | 399,022 (2,320 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Nicolò Tresoldi(6 goals) |
← 2025 2029 →
All statistics correct as of 22 April 2026. | |
51 UEFA member national teams will enter the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible to participate.
Two teams are not taking part in this tournament: Russia was suspended on 28 February 2022 by FIFA and UEFA from all competitions due to its invasion of Ukraine,[1][2] while the Liechtenstein team has been temporarily dissolved based on a decision announced on 5 October 2022.[3]
Format
The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:
- Qualifying group stage: The 51 teams were drawn into nine groups: six groups of six teams and three groups of five teams. Each group will be 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) will qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up will advance to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The eight teams will be 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):[4]
- 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 total based only on yellow and red cards received by players and team officials in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- Position in the UEFA men's Under-21 national team coefficient rankings used 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 are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.02):[4]
- 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 |
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| Qualifying group stage | 6 February 2025[5] | Matchday 1 (5–10 June 2025) |
| Matchday 2 (4–5 September 2025) | ||
| Matchday 3 (8–9 September 2025) | ||
| Matchday 4 (9–10 October 2025) | ||
| Matchday 5 (13–14 October 2025) | ||
| Matchday 6 (13–15 November 2025) | ||
| Matchday 7 (17–18 November 2025) | ||
| Matchday 8 (26–27 March 2026) | ||
| Matchday 9 (30–31 March 2026) | ||
| Matchday 10 (24–26 September 2026) | ||
| Matchday 11 (28 September – 1 October 2026) | ||
| Matchday 12 (5–6 October 2026) | ||
| Play-offs | TBA | 1st and 2nd legs (9–17 November 2026) |
Qualifying group stage
Draw
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Each group contained one team from each of Pots A–F (Pots A–E for a five-team group). Based on the previous decisions taken by the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Emergency Panel, four pairs of teams were not drawn in the same group.
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Gibraltar and Spain
- Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
- Belarus and Ukraine
Groups
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Spain |
7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | +24 | 21 | Final tournament | — | 2–1 | 6 Oct | 2–0 | 3–0 | 7–0 | |
| 2 | Finland |
7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 2 | +24 | 16 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 25 Sep | — | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 7–0 | |
| 3 | Romania |
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 13 | 0–2 | 30 Sep | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | Kosovo |
7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 8 | 1–3 | 6 Oct | 0–1 | — | 30 Sep | 7–0 | ||
| 5 | Cyprus (E) |
7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 24 | −19 | 3 | 0–7 | 0–5 | 25 Sep | 0–4 | — | 6 Oct | ||
| 6 | San Marino (E) |
7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 39 | −39 | 0 | 30 Sep | 0–8 | 0–2 | 25 Sep | 0–5 | — |
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Portugal |
7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 0 | +28 | 19 | Final tournament | — | 6 Oct | 3–0 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 30 Sep | |
| 2 | Czech Republic |
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 14 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 30 Sep | 5–0 | 5–0 | |
| 3 | Scotland |
8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 10 | +8 | 11 | 0–2 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 30 Sep | 12–0 | ||
| 4 | Bulgaria |
7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 11 | 25 Sep | 2–1 | 6 Oct | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 5 | Azerbaijan |
7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | −13 | 6 | 0–4 | 25 Sep | 3–3 | 1–1 | — | 6 Oct | ||
| 6 | Gibraltar (E) |
8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 37 | −36 | 0 | 0–11 | 1–2 | 25 Sep | 0–1 | 0–1 | — |
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | France |
6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 4 | +17 | 16 | Final tournament | — | 6 Oct | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3 Oct | 6–1 | |
| 2 | Switzerland |
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 14 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 25 Sep | 2–1 | |
| 3 | Iceland |
7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | +5 | 11 | 25 Sep | 29 Sep | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 6–2 | ||
| 4 | Faroe Islands |
7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 9 | 0–6 | 1–3 | 6 Oct | — | 30 Sep | 2–1 | ||
| 5 | Luxembourg |
6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 4 | 1–5 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | — | 6 Oct | ||
| 6 | Estonia (E) |
7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 21 | −13 | 2 | 29 Sep | 0–2 | 1–1 | 25 Sep | 2–2 | — |
Group D
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | England |
7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 2 | +16 | 19 | Final tournament | — | 2 Oct | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 25 Sep | |
| 2 | Slovakia |
7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 16 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 0–4 | — | 25 Sep | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| 3 | Republic of Ireland |
7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 11 | 6 Oct | 2–2 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 29 Sep | ||
| 4 | Andorra (E) |
8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 7 | 1–1 | 6 Oct | 4–0 | — | 2 Oct | 1–0 | ||
| 5 | Moldova (E) |
8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | −8 | 5 | 0–4 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | — | 6 Oct | ||
| 6 | Kazakhstan (E) |
7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 4 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | — |
Group E
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Poland |
8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 2 | +21 | 24 | Final tournament | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 30 Sep | 3–0 | 4–1 | |
| 2 | Italy |
8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 5 | +20 | 21 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 5 Oct | — | 2–1 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 5–1 | |
| 3 | Montenegro (E) |
8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 10 | 0–1 | 1–4 | — | 2–0 | 3–2 | 5 Oct | ||
| 4 | Sweden (E) |
8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 19 | −9 | 10 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 2–2 | — | 5 Oct | 3–0 | ||
| 5 | North Macedonia (E) |
8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 6 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 30 Sep | 1–4 | — | 2–1 | ||
| 6 | Armenia (E) |
8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 23 | −19 | 0 | 0–4 | 30 Sep | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — |
Group F
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | |
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| 1 | Germany |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 4 | +18 | 18 | Final tournament | — | 2–3 | 3–0 | 6 Oct | 5–0 | 6–0 | |
| 2 | Greece |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 4 | +17 | 18 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 0–2 | — | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1 Oct | 5–0 | |
| 3 | Northern Ireland |
7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 10 | 1–2 | 6 Oct | — | 1 Oct | 1–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 4 | Georgia |
7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 9 | 0–2 | 26 Sep | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 4–1 | ||
| 5 | Latvia (E) |
7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 5 | 26 Sep | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | — | 6 Oct | ||
| 6 | Malta (E) |
7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 28 | −27 | 0 | 30 Sep | 0–5 | 26 Sep | 0–5 | 0–1 | — |
Group G
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Norway |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 12 | Final tournament | — | 29 Sep | 6 Oct | 3–2 | 5–0 | |
| 2 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 7 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
| 3 | Israel |
6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 7 | 0–3 | 0–0 | — | 3–1 | 1–1 | ||
| 4 | Netherlands |
5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 5 | 25 Sep | 6 Oct | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | ||
| 5 | Slovenia (Y) |
6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 5 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 29 Sep | 2 Oct | — |
Group H
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Croatia |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 13 | Final tournament | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | 26 Sep | 4–0 | |
| 2 | Turkey |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 11 | Final tournament or Play-offs | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 6 Oct | 2–0 | |
| 3 | Ukraine |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 8 | 2 Oct | 26 Sep | — | 3–3 | 1–1 | ||
| 4 | Hungary |
5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — | 1 Oct | ||
| 5 | Lithuania (E) |
6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 2 | 6 Oct | 1–2 | 0–4 | 1–1 | — |
Group I
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | Belgium |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 10[a] | Final tournament | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 28 Sep | 24 Sep | |
| 2 | Austria |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10[a] | Final tournament or Play-offs | 1–0 | — | 2 Oct | 0–2 | 2–1 | |
| 3 | Denmark |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 10[a] | 6 Oct | 1–1 | — | 4–0 | 28 Sep | ||
| 4 | Wales |
6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 20 | −14 | 6 | 0–7 | 6 Oct | 2–6 | — | 2–0 | ||
| 5 | Belarus (E) |
6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 4 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 3–0 | — |
- Head-to-head points: Belgium 6, Austria 4, Denmark 1
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 will 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 | E | Italy |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 4 | +16 | 18 | Final tournament |
| 2 | F | Greece |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 12 | Play-offs |
| 3 | H | Turkey |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 11 | |
| 4 | A | Finland |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 10 | |
| 5 | D | Slovakia |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 10 | |
| 6 | I | Austria |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 | |
| 7 | B | Czech Republic |
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 8 | |
| 8 | C | Switzerland |
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 8 | |
| 9 | G | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +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
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Qualified teams
Top goalscorers
There have been 534 goals scored in 172 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match (as of 31 March 2026).
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
Norman Bassette- Lucas Stassin
Nikola Iliev- Georgi Lazarov
Matěj Mikulenka
Otto Ruoppi- Matias Siltanen
Eli Junior Kroupi- Wilson Odobert
- Mathys Tel
Gabriel Sigua
Tom Bischof- Muhammed Damar
- Lennart Karl
Daníel Guðjohnsen
Seydou Fini- Luca Koleosho
- Luca Lipani
Eliot Bujupi- Leon Frokaj
Vladislav Costin
Ernest Poku- Gjivai Zechiël
Dimitar Trajkov
Tomasz Pieńko
Gustavo Varela
Adrian Fiala
Pablo García
Below are goalscorer lists for all groups: