2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

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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

 **Play-offs** | TBD
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## Qualifying group stage

### Draw

Final tournament co-hosts

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

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification 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

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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

## Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

*Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).*

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## External links

* Official website

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