2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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Tournament details | |
Host countries | Hungary Slovenia |
Dates | 9–26 June 2021 |
Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 8 (in 8 host cities) |
The 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2021) will be the 23rd edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (26th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The tournament will be co-hosted by Hungary and Slovenia in 9–26 June 2021.[1]
Initially, 12 teams were to play in the tournament, however on 6 February 2019, UEFA's Executive Committee increased this number to 16.[2] Only players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to participate.[3]
Spain are the defending champions.
Host selection
The following associations indicated their interests to bid for the tournament:
Hungary and Slovenia were appointed as co-hosts at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 3 December 2018.[6][1]
Qualification
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the co-hosts Hungary and Slovenia qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 14 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[3]
- 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.
The draw for the qualifying group stage will be held on 11 December 2018.[7] The qualifying group stage will take place from March 2019 to October 2020, while the play-offs will take place in November 2020.[3]
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).
Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
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Co-hosts | 3 December 2018 | 5th | 1996 (quarter-finals) | Semi-finals (1986) |
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Co-hosts | 3 December 2018 | 1st | — | Debut |
Final draw
The final draw will be held in late 2020. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams. The two hosts will be assigned to positions A1 and B1 in the draw, while the other teams will be seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying stage, calculated based on the following:
- 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (20%)
- 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (40%)
- 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition (group stage only) (40%)
Venues
The Hungarian Football Federation proposed the following venues:[8]
- MOL Aréna Sóstó, Székesfehérvár
- Haladás Sportkomplexum, Szombathely
- Bozsik Stadion, Budapest
- Ménfői úti Stadion, Gyírmót-Győr
The Slovenian Football Association proposed the following venues:[9]
The provisional schedule was announced on 6 November 2019.[10][11] The opening match will be in Slovenia, while the final will be in Hungary.
Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he can be replaced by another player.[3]
Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.
- Tiebreakers
In the 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 Articles 18.01 and 18.02):[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;
- 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;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
- Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the final draw.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
2 | A2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | A3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | A4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
A3 | v | A4 |
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A2 | v | A4 |
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A2 | v | A3 |
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Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
2 | B2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | B3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | B4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Slovenia ![]() | v | B2 |
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B3 | v | B4 |
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B2 | v | B4 |
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B2 | v | B3 |
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Group C
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | C1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
2 | C2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | C3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | C4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Group D
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | D1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
2 | D2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | D3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | D4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
D1 | v | D2 |
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D3 | v | D4 |
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D1 | v | D3 |
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D2 | v | D4 |
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D4 | v | D1 |
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D2 | v | D3 |
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[3]
Bracket
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
19 June – Székesfehérvár | ||||||||||
Winner Group A | ||||||||||
23 June – Budapest | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group C | ||||||||||
Winner Quarter-final 1 | ||||||||||
20 June – Szombathely | ||||||||||
Winner Quarter-final 2 | ||||||||||
Winner Group C | ||||||||||
26 June – Székesfehérvár | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group A | ||||||||||
Winner Semi-final 1 | ||||||||||
19 June – Maribor | ||||||||||
Winner Semi-final 2 | ||||||||||
Winner Group B | ||||||||||
23 June – Ljubljana | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group D | ||||||||||
Winner Quarter-final 3 | ||||||||||
20 June – Ljubljana | ||||||||||
Winner Quarter-final 4 | ||||||||||
Winner Group D | ||||||||||
Runner-up Group B | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
Winner Group A | Quarter-final 1 | Runner-up Group C |
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Winner Group B | Quarter-final 3 | Runner-up Group D |
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Winner Group C | Quarter-final 2 | Runner-up Group A |
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Winner Group D | Quarter-final 4 | Runner-up Group B |
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Semi-finals
Winner Quarter-final 1 | Semi-final 1 | Winner Quarter-final 2 |
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Winner Quarter-final 3 | Semi-final 2 | Winner Quarter-final 4 |
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Final
Winner Semi-final 1 | v | Winner Semi-final 2 |
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Broadcasting
Europe
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Free | Pay | |
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Sky Sports[12] | |
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Outside Europe
TBA
References
- ^ a b "Hungary and Slovenia to co-host 2021 Under-21 EURO". UEFA. 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Aleksander Čeferin re-elected UEFA President until 2023". UEFA.com. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f "2019-21 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF). UEFA.
- ^ "Szlovéniával együtt pályázzuk meg az U21-es foci Eb-t". 444.hu. 26 July 2018.
- ^ "Maribor resen kandidat za gostitelja EP U21 v nogometu leta 2021". mariborinfo.com. 18 August 2018.
- ^ "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for Dublin meeting". UEFA.com. 16 November 2018.
- ^ "UEFA Direct #181" (PDF). UEFA.com. 31 October 2018. p. 51.
- ^ "Példátlan nemzetközi sorozat: 2021-ben U21-es Eb-t rendezünk". Hungarian Football Federation. 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Sloveniji UEFA Euro do 21 let" (in Slovenian). Slovenian Football Association. 3 December 2018.
- ^ "2021 UEFA U21 provisional finals schedule". UEFA.com. 6 November 2019.
- ^ "Labdarúgás: a 2021-es U21-es Európa-bajnokság előzetes menetrendje" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport Online. 8 November 2019.
- ^ "European U21 Championship 2017 live on Sky Sports this summer". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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External links
- 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
- UEFA European Under-21 Championship
- 2020–21 in UEFA football
- Scheduled association football competitions
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- International association football competitions hosted by Hungary
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