2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Host selection

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Qualification

• Qualifying group stage: The 53 teams were drawn into nine groups: eight groups of six teams and one group of five teams. Each group was played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners and the best runner-up qualified directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up advance to the play-offs.
• Play-offs: The eight teams were drawn into four ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last four qualified teams.

Qualified teams

Final draw

• 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
• 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
• 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition

Venues

Match officials

• Jérôme Brisard
• Irakli Kvirikashvili
• Ádám Farkas
• Daniele Doveri
• Espen Eskås
• Horațiu Feșnic
• Rade Obrenović
• Juan Martínez Munuera

Squads

Group stage

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. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above ;
8. Disciplinary points ;
9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the final draw.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Awards

• Player of the Tournament: Fábio Vieira
• Golden Boot: Lukas Nmecha

Team of the tournament