2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Campionatul European de Fotbal Sub-21
(in Romanian)
21 წლამდე ნაკრებთა ევროპის ჩემპიონატი (in Georgian)
Tournament details
Host countriesRomania
Georgia
Dates21 June – 8 July
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)8 (in 5 host cities)
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The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2023) will be the 24th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (27th 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 Romania and Georgia.[1] Romania will host the opening match, while Georgia will host the final. Romania already hosted the 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

A total of 16 teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to participate. Same as previous Under-21 Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, this tournament will serve as European qualifying for the Olympic football tournament. Besides France which qualify automatically as Olympic hosts, eligible teams will compete for qualifying for the men's football tournament of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where they will be represented by their under-23 national teams with maximum of three overage players allowed.

Germany are the defending champions.

Host selection

Both Romania and Georgia bid for the tournament separately.[2] The two countries were appointed as co-hosts at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 3 December 2020.[1][3][4]

Qualification

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

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
 Romania Co-hosts 3 December 2020 4th 2021 Semi-finals (2019)
 Georgia 1st Debut
 Belgium Group I winners 29 March 2022 4th 2019 Semi-finals (2007)
 Spain Group C winners 2 May 2022[a] 16th 2021 Champions (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2019)
 Germany Group B winners 3 June 2022 14th 2021 Champions (2009, 2017, 2021)
 Portugal Group D winners 6 June 2022 10th 2021 Runners-up (1994, 2015, 2021)
 England Group G winners 7 June 2022 17th 2021 Champions (1982, 1984)
 Netherlands Group E winners 8 June 2022 9th 2021 Champions (2006, 2007)
 France Group H winners 9 June 2022 11th 2021 Champions (1988)
 Italy Group F winners 14 June 2022 22nd 2021 Champions (1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Norway Group A winners 14 June 2022 3rd 2013 Semi-finals (1998, 2013)
  Switzerland Group E runners-up[b] 14 June 2022 5th 2021 Runners-up (2011)
 Ukraine Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 3rd 2011 Runners-up (2006)
 Czech Republic Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 9th (15th incl. Czechoslovakia) 2021 Champions (2002)
 Croatia Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 5th 2021 Quarter-finals (2021)
 Israel Play-offs winner 27 September 2022 3rd 2013 Group stage (2007, 2013)
Notes
  1. ^
    On 2 May 2022, UEFA announced that Russia were removed from European Under-21 Championship qualification due to their country's invasion of Ukraine, with all their earlier results considered null and void.[5] Spain therefore qualified for the European Under-21 Championship, as no other teams could surpass them.
  2. ^
    The best runner-up among all nine groups qualified for the final tournament.

Final draw

The final draw will be held on 18 October 2022, 18:00 CET in Bucharest.[6]. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying stage, calculated based on the following:[7]

The hosts Romania and Georgia are assigned to position A1 and B1 respectively in the draw, while the other fourteen teams will be drawn to the other available positions in their group.[8]

Pot 1
Team Coeff[8]
 Spain 41,837
 Portugal 40,130
 Germany 39,668
 France 37,887
Pot 2
Team Coeff[8]
 Netherlands 36,626
 England 35,798
 Italy 35,244
 Romania (position B1) 32,414
Pot 3
Team Coeff[8]
 Croatia 31,945
  Switzerland 31,744
 Belgium 31,550
 Czech Republic 30,455
Pot 4
Team Coeff[8]
 Ukraine 29,362
 Norway 27,872
 Israel 25,732
 Georgia (position A1) 24,442

Venues

Romania

The Federația Română de Fotbal originally proposed the following eight venues:[9]

However, four stadiums were removed from the list of venues since Georgia was also appointed as host.[10]

Bucharest Venues in Romania Bucharest
Steaua Stadium
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Location of venues used in the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (Romania)
 Rapid-Giulești Stadium
Capacity: 31,254 Capacity: 14,047
Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca
Cluj Arena Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium
Capacity: 30,201 Capacity: 22,198

Georgia

In Georgia, the tournament will also be played at four stadiums.[11] Initially these venues were proposed:

Based on recommendation of the UEFA organizing group experts, in January 2022 Fazisi Stadium was replaced by Ramaz Shengelia Stadium located in Kutaisi.[12]

Tbilisi Venues in Georgia Tbilisi
Boris Paichadze
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Location of venues used in the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (Georgia)
 Mikheil Meskhi
Capacity: 54,202 Capacity: 27,223
Batumi Kutaisi
Batumi Stadium Ramaz Shengelia Stadium
Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 14,700
File:Batumi-stadio-georgia-1 - Copy.jpg

Qualified teams for 2024 Summer Olympics

The following four teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic men's football tournament including France which qualified as the hosts.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
 France 13 September 2017 13 (1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1948, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1996, 2020)
TBD TBD
TBD TBD
TBD TBD
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. ^ a b "Romania and Georgia to host 2023 Under-21 EURO". UEFA.com. 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ "România nu va organiza EURO U21: UEFA va da turneul final Georgiei". Prosport.ro. 26 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Tirana to host first UEFA Europa Conference League Final". UEFA.com. 3 December 2020.
  4. ^ "România va organiza EURO U21 din 2023". Prosport.ro. 3 December 2020.
  5. ^ "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs". uefa.com. UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  6. ^ "2023 Under-21 EURO final tournament draw: 18 October, Bucharest". UEFA.com.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference regulations was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ a b c d e "UEFA Under-21 2021-23 Final Draw Procedure" (PDF). UEFA.
  9. ^ "Încă un turneu final găzduit de România? UEFA a aprobat dosarul FRF de candidatură pentru organizarea EURO U21 din 2023". Digisport.ro. 17 September 2020.
  10. ^ "România va organiza Euro U21 2023 alături de Georgia!". Digisport.ro. 3 December 2020.
  11. ^ "ევრო 2023 : 21 წლამდე ნაკრებთა ევროპის ჩემპიონატი საქართველოსა და რუმინეთში გაიმართება". Georgian Football Federation. 3 December 2020.
  12. ^ "ევრო 2023: ახალგაზრდული ჩემპიონატი საქართველოს სამ ქალაქში გაიმართება". gff.ge (in Georgian), 24 January 2022.

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