2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8

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Group 8 of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Portugal, Switzerland, Romania, Wales, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Liechtenstein. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 26 January 2017, [1] [2] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking. [3]

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The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format between 28 March 2017 and 16 October 2018. The group winners qualified directly for the final tournament, while the runners-up advanced to the play-offs if they were one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team). [4]

Standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualificationFlag of Romania.svgFlag of Portugal.svgFlag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svgFlag of Wales (1959-present).svgFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svgFlag of Liechtenstein.svg
1Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 10730194+1524 Final tournament 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 4–0
2Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 107123311+2222 Play-offs 1–2 4–2 2–0 2–1 7–0
3Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 106042411+1318 1–3 3–1 1–0 3–0 6–0
4Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 104151114313 0–0 0–2 0–4 3–1 2–1
5Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 103161118710 0–2 2–4 1–0 0–3 3–0
6Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein 100010242400 0–2 0–9 0–4 1–3 0–2
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Bosnia and Herzegovina  Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg6–0Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein
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Bosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre, Zenica
Attendance: 825
Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)

Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg1–0Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne
Attendance: 1,518
Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)
Liechtenstein  Flag of Liechtenstein.svg0–2Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
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Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen
Attendance: 427
Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (Armenia)

Bosnia and Herzegovina  Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg1–3Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
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Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg0–3Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
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Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne
Attendance: 412
Referee: Tihomir Pejin (Croatia)

Romania  Flag of Romania.svg1–1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
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Stadionul Viitorul, Ovidiu
Attendance: 1,621
Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)
Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg2–0Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
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Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira, Chaves
Attendance: 7,111
Referee: Anders Poulsen (Denmark)

Liechtenstein  Flag of Liechtenstein.svg1–3Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
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Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen
Attendance: 278
Referee: Jason Lee Barcelo (Gibraltar)
Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg0–2Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
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Cornaredo Stadium, Lugano
Attendance: 550
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

Bosnia and Herzegovina  Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg3–1Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Liechtenstein  Flag of Liechtenstein.svg0–2Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
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Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 471
Referee: Denis Scherbakov (Belarus)

Romania  Flag of Romania.svg1–1Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg0–4Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Nantporth, Bangor
Attendance: 1,041
Referee: Christos Nicolaides (Cyprus)

Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg2–1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
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Estádio da Mata Real, Paços de Ferreira
Attendance: 6,554
Referee: Andrew Dallas (Scotland)
Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg0–0Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
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Nantporth, Bangor
Attendance: 916
Referee: Bastian Dankert (Germany)

Bosnia and Herzegovina  Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg1–0Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
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Bosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre, Zenica
Attendance: 800
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg7–0Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein
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Estádio João Cardoso, Tondela
Attendance: 2,847
Referee: Genc Nuza (Kosovo)

Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg2–4Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Liechtenstein  Flag of Liechtenstein.svg0–4Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 429
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

Bosnia and Herzegovina  Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg3–0Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
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Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg2–1Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein
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Nantporth, Bangor
Attendance: 307
Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)
Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg1–2Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
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Romania  Flag of Romania.svg2–0Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Stadionul Viitorul, Ovidiu
Attendance: 4,182
Referee: François Letexier (France)
Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg3–0Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein
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Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne
Attendance: 324
Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk (Ukraine)
Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg0–2Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Nantporth, Bangor
Attendance: 625
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

Liechtenstein  Flag of Liechtenstein.svg0–9Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
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Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
Attendance: 810
Referee: Aleksei Matyunin (Russia)
Romania  Flag of Romania.svg2–0Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
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Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca
Attendance: 12,588
Referee: Boris Marhefka (Slovakia)

Wales  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg3–1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
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Rodney Parade, Newport
Attendance: 242
Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg4–2Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Estádio do Marítimo, Funchal
Attendance: 8,037
Referee: Paul Tierney (England)
Romania  Flag of Romania.svg4–0Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein
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Stadionul Ilie Oană, Ploiești
Attendance: 12,108
Referee: Besfort Kasumi (Kosovo)

Goalscorers

There were 100 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.33 goals per match.

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes

  1. CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 26 March and 28 October 2017 and between 25 March and 27 October 2018, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.

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