2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8
Group 8 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Denmark, Romania, Ukraine, Finland, Northern Ireland, and Malta. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 11 December 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.
The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 6 September 2019 and 13 October 2020. Under the original format, the group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the play-offs.[2]
On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the qualifying group stage would be extended and end on 17 November 2020, while the play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in November 2020, would be cancelled. Instead, the group winners and the five best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for the final tournament.[4][5][6]
Standings
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10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 9 | +12 | 26 | Final tournament | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 5–1 | |
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10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 7 | +15 | 20 | 1–1 | — | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | ||
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10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 11 | +6 | 16 | 2–3 | 1–0 | — | 0–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | ||
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10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 13 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 4–0 | ||
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10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 9 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | — | 0–0 | ||
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10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 30 | −26 | 1 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — |
Matches
[edit]Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Finland ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Denmark ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Denmark ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Romania ![]() | 4–1 | ![]() |
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Ukraine ![]() | 2–3 | ![]() |
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Northern Ireland ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
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Northern Ireland ![]() | 2–3 | ![]() |
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Northern Ireland ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Ukraine ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Goalscorers
[edit]There were 85 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.83 goals per match.
7 goals
5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Mikkel Damsgaard
Emil Riis Jakobsen
Jesper Lindstrøm
Nikolas Nartey
Victor Nelsson
Andreas Poulsen
Jasin-Amin Assehnoun
Marcus Forss
Kaan Kairinen
Timo Stavitski
Naatan Skyttä
Ayrton Attard
Nicholas Pulis
Jake Dunwoody
Ross Larkin
David Parkhouse
Lewis Thompson
Tudor Băluță
Florinel Coman
George Ganea
Denis Haruț
Olimpiu Moruțan
Alexandru Mățan
Darius Olaru
Vladyslav Babohlo
Serhiy Buletsa
Yevhen Isayenko
Yukhym Konoplya
Bohdan Lyednyev
Bogdan Milovanov
Illya Shevtsov
Dmytro Topalov
1 own goal
Juho Hyvärinen (against Romania)
Andreas Vella (against Finland)
Notes
[edit]- ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2019 and between 29 March and 24 October 2020, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
- ^ a b c d e f Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, all matches scheduled for September 2020 were played behind closed doors.[7][8]
- ^ a b c d All matches originally scheduled to be played in March 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3] These matches were subsequently rescheduled to be played in November 2020.
References
[edit]- ^ "2020/21 Under-21 qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
- ^ "2019-21 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF). UEFA.
- ^ a b "COVID-19: latest updates on UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. 17 March 2020.
- ^ "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Updated UEFA competitions calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Under-21 EURO: New format and schedule announced". UEFA.com. 17 June 2020.
- ^ "UEFA meets general secretaries of member associations". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "UEFA Super Cup to test partial return of spectators". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
External links
[edit]- Under-21 Matches: 2021 Qualifying, UEFA.com