2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	25 March 2017 – 20 November 2018
Teams	54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	274
Goals scored	833 (3.04 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dawid Kownacki (11 goals)
	← 2017 2021 →

Last updated October 01, 2022

The 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-21 football competition that determined the 11 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Italy in the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament (the other co-hosts San Marino would not qualify automatically).^[1]

Format

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:^[3]

Qualifying group stage: The 54 teams are drawn into nine groups of six teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the four best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) advance to the play-offs.
Play-offs: The four teams are drawn into two ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last two 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):^[3]

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 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;
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying group stage draw.

To determine the four 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 14.02):^[3]

Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Away goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying group stage draw.

In the play-offs, the team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs qualifies for the final tournament. If the aggregate score is level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e., the team that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances. If away goals are also equal, extra time is played. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e., if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 19.01).^[3]

Schedule

The qualifying matches are played on dates that fall within the FIFA International Match Calendar.^[2]

Stage	FIFA International Dates
Qualifying group stage	20–28 March 2017
	5–13 June 2017
	28 August – 5 September 2017
	2–10 October 2017
	6–14 November 2017
	19–27 March 2018
	3–11 September 2018
	8–16 October 2018
Play-offs	12–20 November 2018

Qualifying group stage

Draw

The draw for the qualifying group stage was held on 26 January 2017, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[4]^[5]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[6]

2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (20%)
2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (40%)
2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition (40%)

Each group contained one team from each of Pots A–F. For political reasons, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.^[2]

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Italy	35,546	6

Teams entering qualifying group stage

Pot A
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Germany	39,037	1
Portugal	38,378	2
England	36,621	3
Spain	36,536	4
Denmark	35,590	5
France	34,262	7
Sweden	34,259	8
Czech Republic	33,690	9
Serbia	31,060	10

Pot B
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Slovakia	31,057	11
Israel	30,786	12
Netherlands	29,817	13
Austria	29,406	14
Croatia	28,239	15
Belgium	28,237	16
Poland	28,102	17
Switzerland	27,882	18
Slovenia	27,372	19

Pot C
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Ukraine	27,372	20
Norway	26,830	21
Russia	26,414	22
Turkey	25,927	23
Romania	25,859	24
Iceland	25,679	25
Greece	25,522	26
Montenegro	24,791	27
Finland	24,581	28

Pot D
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Wales	23,683	29
Bulgaria	23,309	30
Macedonia	23,283	31
Georgia	22,402	32
Hungary	22,349	33
Republic of Ireland	22,004	34
Scotland	21,784	35
Moldova	20,696	36
Albania	18,584	37

Pot E
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Lithuania	18,411	38
Azerbaijan	18,331	39
Armenia	18,126	40
Bosnia and Herzegovina	18,056	41
Belarus	17,741	42
Kazakhstan	16,826	43
Cyprus	16,636	44
Latvia	16,516	45
Estonia	14,498	46

Pot F
Team	Coeff	Rank^[6]
Malta	14,331	47
Luxembourg	12,878	48
Northern Ireland	12,611	49
Faroe Islands	12,113	50
San Marino	10,740	51
Andorra	10,045	52
Liechtenstein	8,058	53
Gibraltar	0	54
Kosovo	0	55

Notes

Teams marked in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Groups

The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament.

The four best group runners-up (not counting results against sixth-placed team) advance to the play-offs.

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	10	8	1	1	31	5	+26	25^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Final tournament	—	2–0	5–1	2–1	4–0	5–0
2	Greece	10	8	1	1	26	5	+21	25^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Play-offs	1–1	—	3–0	2–0	5–1	4–0
3	Czech Republic	10	5	1	4	14	15	−1	16		2–1	1–2	—	1–1	1–0	3–1
4	Belarus	10	4	2	4	11	14	−3	14		0–4	0–2	1–0	—	3–1	1–0
5	Moldova	10	2	1	7	8	23	−15	7		0–3	0–2	1–3	2–2	—	1–0
6	San Marino	10	0	0	10	1	29	−28	0		0–4	0–5	0–2	0–2	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1 2 Head-to-head results: Greece 1–1 Croatia, Croatia 2–0 Greece.

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	10	9	0	1	31	10	+21	27	Final tournament	—	1–2	5–1	1–0	3–0	3–1
2	Northern Ireland	10	6	2	2	15	11	+4	20		3–5	—	1–0	0–0	1–0	4–2
3	Slovakia	10	6	0	4	17	18	−1	18		1–4	1–0	—	0–2	4–1	2–0
4	Iceland	10	3	2	5	16	19	−3	11		2–7	0–1	2–3	—	2–3	5–2
5	Albania	10	1	4	5	9	17	−8	7		0–1	1–1	2–3	0–0	—	0–0
6	Estonia	10	0	2	8	11	24	−13	2		0–1	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	10	7	2	1	30	8	+22	23	Final tournament	—	1–1	5–2	2–0	6–0	3–0
2	Poland	10	6	4	0	22	9	+13	22	Play-offs	3–1	—	3–0	3–3	1–0	1–1
3	Georgia	10	3	3	4	11	19	−8	12		2–2	0–3	—	2–2	1–0	1–0
4	Finland	10	2	3	5	13	21	−8	9		0–5	1–3	1–2	—	0–2	1–1
5	Lithuania	10	2	2	6	7	16	−9	8		0–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	—	3–0
6	Faroe Islands	10	1	4	5	10	20	−10	7		0–3	2–2	3–1	1–3	2–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	10	8	2	0	23	4	+19	26	Final tournament	—	0–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	7–0
2	Netherlands	10	5	3	2	21	6	+15	18		1–1	—	3–0	1–2	3–0	8–0
3	Ukraine	10	5	2	3	18	12	+6	17		0–2	1–1	—	3–1	3–2	1–0
4	Scotland	10	4	2	4	13	13	0	14		0–2	2–0	0–2	—	1–1	3–0
5	Latvia	10	0	4	6	5	18	−13	4		1–2	0–3	1–1	0–2	—	0–0
6	Andorra	10	0	3	7	1	28	−27	3		0–1	0–1	0–6	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	10	8	1	1	33	7	+26	25	Final tournament	—	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	6–1
2	Norway	10	4	3	3	15	13	+2	15		3–1	—	2–1	0–0	0–3 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–1
3	Republic of Ireland	10	4	2	4	12	15	−3	14^{[lower-alpha 2]}		0–6	0–0	—	4–0	1–0	1–0
4	Israel	10	4	2	4	17	18	−1	14^{[lower-alpha 2]}		2–5	1–3	3–1	—	3–0	3–1
5	Kosovo	10	3	3	4	9	12	−3	12		0–0	3–2	1–1	0–4	—	2–0
6	Azerbaijan	10	0	3	7	6	27	−21	3		0–7	1–3	1–3	1–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

↑ The Norway v Kosovo match originally ended with a 5–0 win for Norway, but was later awarded as a 0–3 win for Kosovo, after UEFA concluded that Norway had played Kristoffer Ajer in this match, who was ineligible after being suspended due to cards in his U-19 tournament match.^[7]^[8]
1 2 Head-to-head results: Republic of Ireland 4–0 Israel, Israel 3–1 Republic of Ireland.

Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	10	8	2	0	23	5	+18	26	Final tournament	—	1–1	0–0	3–0	3–2	2–1
2	Sweden	10	6	2	2	19	8	+11	20		0–3	—	0–1	1–0	4–1	3–0
3	Turkey	10	5	2	3	14	10	+4	17		1–2	0–3	—	0–0	4–0	4–2
4	Hungary	10	3	2	5	12	14	−2	11		0–3	2–2	1–2	—	4–0	2–1
5	Cyprus	10	2	1	7	8	23	−15	7		0–2	0–1	2–1	0–2	—	2–1
6	Malta	10	1	1	8	8	24	−16	4		0–4	0–4	0–1	2–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	10	8	2	0	23	5	+18	26	Final tournament	—	0–0	3–2	0–0	2–1	4–0
2	Austria	10	7	1	2	25	7	+18	22	Play-offs	1–3	—	3–2	2–1	2–0	3–0
3	Russia	10	6	1	3	25	13	+12	19		1–2	1–0	—	0–0	5–1	3–0
4	Armenia	10	2	3	5	9	16	−7	9		0–1	0–5	1–2	—	0–3	1–0
5	Macedonia	10	2	1	7	17	24	−7	7		0–2	0–4	3–4	3–3	—	6–1
6	Gibraltar	10	1	0	9	2	36	−34	3		0–6	0–5	0–5	0–3	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	10	7	3	0	19	4	+15	24	Final tournament	—	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	4–0
2	Portugal	10	7	1	2	33	11	+22	22	Play-offs	1–2	—	4–2	2–0	2–1	7–0
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	6	0	4	24	11	+13	18		1–3	3–1	—	1–0	3–0	6–0
4	Wales	10	4	1	5	11	14	−3	13		0–0	0–2	0–4	—	3–1	2–1
5	Switzerland	10	3	1	6	11	18	−7	10		0–2	2–4	1–0	0–3	—	3–0
6	Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	2	42	−40	0		0–2	0–9	0–4	1–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group 9

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	10	9	1	0	24	6	+18	28	Final tournament	—	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–0	2–0
2	Slovenia	10	4	4	2	14	12	+2	16		1–3	—	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–1
3	Montenegro	10	3	2	5	15	15	0	11		0–2	1–3	—	5–1	0–0	3–0
4	Kazakhstan	10	2	4	4	13	18	−5	10^{[lower-alpha 1]}		0–3	0–0	1–1	—	1–1	3–0
5	Bulgaria	10	2	4	4	10	11	−1	10^{[lower-alpha 1]}		0–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	—	0–1
6	Luxembourg	10	2	1	7	7	21	−14	7		2–3	1–1	1–3	0–3 ^{[lower-alpha 2]}	1–0	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1 2 Head-to-head results: Bulgaria 2–2 Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan 1–1 Bulgaria (Kazakhstan won on away goals).
↑ The Luxembourg v Kazakhstan originally ended with a 1–2 win for Kazakhstan, but was later awarded as a 0–3 win for Kazakhstan, after UEFA concluded that Luxembourg had played an ineligible player.^[9]

Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the four best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance to the play-offs, 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 are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	3	Poland	8	6	2	0	19	6	+13	20	Play-offs
2	1	Greece	8	6	1	1	17	5	+12	19
3	7	Austria	8	5	1	2	17	7	+10	16
4	8	Portugal	8	5	1	2	17	11	+6	16
5	6	Sweden	8	4	2	2	12	8	+4	14
6	2	Northern Ireland	8	4	2	2	9	8	+1	14
7	4	Netherlands	8	3	3	2	12	6	+6	12
8	9	Slovenia	8	3	3	2	10	10	0	12
9	5	Norway	8	3	2	3	11	11	0	11

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.

Play-offs

Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 19 October 2018, 13:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[10] The four teams were drawn into two ties of home-and-away two-legged format.

Matches

The two play-off winners qualify for the final tournament.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Greece	0–2	Austria	0–1	0–1
Poland	3–2	Portugal	0–1	3–1

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Under-21 Euro ¹ only U-21 era (since 1978)
Italy	Hosts	9 December 2016^[1]	19 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 2000 , 2002, 2004 , 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017)
Croatia	Group 1 winners	15 October 2018	2 (2000, 2004)
Spain	Group 2 winners	6 September 2018	13 (1982, 1984, 1986 , 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996 , 1998 , 2000, 2009, 2011 , 2013 , 2017)
Denmark	Group 3 winners	16 October 2018	7 (1978, 1986, 1992, 2006, 2011 , 2015, 2017)
England	Group 4 winners	11 October 2018	14 (1978, 1980, 1982 , 1984 , 1986, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
Germany	Group 5 winners	12 October 2018	11 (1982 ², 1990 ², 1992, 1996, 1998, 2004 , 2006, 2009 , 2013, 2015, 2017 )
Belgium	Group 6 winners	16 October 2018	2 (2002, 2007)
Serbia	Group 7 winners	12 October 2018	10 ( 1978 ³, 1980 ³, 1984 ³, 1990 ³, 2004 ⁴, 2006 ⁴, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2017)
Romania	Group 8 winners	16 October 2018	1 ( 1998 )
France	Group 9 winners	7 September 2018	8 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988 , 1994 , 1996, 2002, 2006)
Austria	Play-off winners	20 November 2018	0 (debut)
Poland	Play-off winners	20 November 2018	6 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994, 2017 )

¹Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

² As West Germany

³ As Yugoslavia

⁴ As Serbia and Montenegro

Top goalscorers

11 goals

Dawid Kownacki

8 goals

7 goals

Source: UEFA.com^[11]

For full lists of goalscorers, see sections in each group:

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[table_hth_CRO0.21231818814404-7] 1 2 Head-to-head results: Greece 1–1 Croatia, Croatia 2–0 Greece.

[table_note_NOR_KOS0.65465081746441-10] The Norway v Kosovo match originally ended with a 5–0 win for Norway, but was later awarded as a 0–3 win for Kosovo, after UEFA concluded that Norway had played Kristoffer Ajer in this match, who was ineligible after being suspended due to cards in his U-19 tournament match.^[7]^[8]

[table_hth_IRL0.65465081746441-11] 1 2 Head-to-head results: Republic of Ireland 4–0 Israel, Israel 3–1 Republic of Ireland.

[table_hth_KAZ0.30847629686281-12] 1 2 Head-to-head results: Bulgaria 2–2 Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan 1–1 Bulgaria (Kazakhstan won on away goals).

[table_note_LUX_KAZ0.30847629686281-14] The Luxembourg v Kazakhstan originally ended with a 1–2 win for Kazakhstan, but was later awarded as a 0–3 win for Kazakhstan, after UEFA concluded that Luxembourg had played an ineligible player.^[9]

[hosts-1] 1 2 "Italy to host 2019 Under-21 EURO". uefa.com. 9 December 2016.

[seeding-2] 1 2 3 "Seedings set for live 2019 U21 qualifying draw". UEFA.com. 25 January 2017.

[regulations-3] 1 2 3 4 "2017-19 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF). UEFA.

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v t e 2017–18 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '17 '18 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '17 '18 Faroe Islands '17 '18 Finland '17 '18 France Georgia '17 '18 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '17 '18 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '17 '18 Kosovo Latvia '17 '18 Lithuania '17 '18 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova '17 '18 Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '17 '18 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '17 '18 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '17 '18 Finland France Georgia '17 '18 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '17 '18 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '17 '18 Kosovo Latvia '17 '18 Liechtenstein Lithuania '17 '18 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '17 '18 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Estonia France Iceland '17 '18 Israel Latvia Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Scotland Wales
Supercups	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic & Slovakia England Estonia Faroe Islands France Georgia '17 '18 Germany Gibraltar Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Lithuania '17 '18 Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '17 '18 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '17 '18 Romania Russia San Marino Spain Turkey Ukraine
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup Youth League UEFA Champions League Path Domestic Champions Path knockout phase final
International competitions	2018 FIFA World Cup UEFA qualification 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019 Euro Under-21 qualification 2018 Euro Under-19 qualification 2018 Euro Under-17 qualification

v t e 2018–19 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '18 '19 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '18 '19 Faroe Islands '18 '19 Finland '18 '19 France Georgia '18 '19 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '18 '19 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '18 '19 Kosovo Latvia '18 '19 Lithuania '18 '19 Luxembourg Malta Moldova '18 '19 Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway '18 '19 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '18 '19 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '18 '19 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '18 '19 Finland '17–'18 '19 France Georgia '18 '19 Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '18 '19 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '18 '19 Kosovo Latvia '18 '19 Liechtenstein Lithuania '18 '19 Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway '18 '19 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '18 '19 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Estonia France Iceland '18 '19 Israel Latvia Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '18 '19 Scotland Wales
Supercups	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus England Estonia Faroe Islands France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Lithuania '18 '19 Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '18 '19 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '18 '19 Romania Russia San Marino Spain Turkey Ukraine
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round Champions Path Main Path group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup Youth League UEFA Champions League Path Domestic Champions Path knockout phase final
International competitions	UEFA Euro 2020 qualification 2018–19 UEFA Nations League League A League B League C League D Finals Final 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019 Euro Under-21 qualification 2019 Euro Under-19 qualification 2019 Euro Under-17 qualification

2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Contents

Format

Tiebreakers

Schedule

Qualifying group stage

Draw

Groups

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Ranking of second-placed teams

Play-offs

Draw

Matches

Qualified teams

Top goalscorers

Related Research Articles

References

External links