2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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Tournament details
Host countries Hungary
Slovenia
Dates 24–31 March 2021 (group stage)
31 May – 6 June 2021 (knockout stage)
Teams 16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Germany (3rd title)
Runners-up  Portugal
Tournament statistics
Matches played 31
Goals scored 83 (2.68 per match)
Attendance 13,413 (433 per match)
Top scorer(s) Germany Lukas Nmecha
(4 goals)
Best player Portugal Fábio Vieira[1]
← 2019
2023 →

The 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2021) was 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. 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 were eligible to participate.[3]

The tournament was co-hosted by Hungary and Slovenia. It was originally scheduled to take place from 9 to 26 June 2021.[4] However, the tournament was rescheduled following the postponement of UEFA Euro 2020 to June/July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] The new dates were to be decided initially on 27 May 2020,[6] but then postponed to 17 June 2020,[7] where the UEFA Executive Committee meeting discussed the calendar and format of the tournament.[8] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the tournament would be played in two stages; the group stage, which took place from 24 to 31 March 2021, and the knockout stage, which took place from 31 May to 6 June 2021.[9][10][11] Due to COVID-19 Pandemic the VAR system wasn't used.

Spain were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the knockout phase by Portugal.

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.[4][14]

Qualification

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Main article: 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and, unlike the last competition, co-hosts Hungary and Slovenia qualified automatically, and the other 53 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 14 spots in the final tournament. The draw for the qualifying group stage was held on 11 December 2018.[15] The qualifying group stage took place from March 2019 to October 2020, while the play-offs were set to take place in November 2020.[3] The qualifying competition would originally consist of two rounds:[3]

  • 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 (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) 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.

However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe which caused the postponement of matches in the qualifying group stage, UEFA announced on 17 June 2020 that the play-offs would be cancelled. Instead, the nine group winners and the five best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualified for the final tournament.[9][10][11]

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
 Hungary Co-hosts 3 December 2018 5th 1996 (quarter-finals) Semi-finals (1986)
 Slovenia Co-hosts 3 December 2018 1st — Debut
 Russia Group 5 winners 13 October 2020 4th (7th incl. Soviet Union) 2013 (group stage) Champions (1980, 1990)
  Switzerland Group 2 runners-up[^] 13 October 2020 4th 2011 (runners-up) Runners-up (2011)
 Netherlands Group 7 winners 13 October 2020 8th 2013 (semi-finals) Champions (2006, 2007)
 Denmark Group 8 winners 13 October 2020 9th 2019 (group stage) Semi-finals (1992, 2015)
 Spain Group 6 winners 13 October 2020 15th 2019 (champions) Champions (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2019)
 England Group 3 winners 13 October 2020 16th 2019 (group stage) Champions (1982, 1984)
 France Group 2 winners 12 November 2020 10th 2019 (semi-finals) Champions (1988)
 Italy Group 1 winners 15 November 2020 21st 2019 (group stage) Champions (1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Portugal Group 7 runners-up[^] 15 November 2020 9th 2017 (group stage) Runners-up (1994, 2015)
 Czech Republic Group 4 winners 17 November 2020 8th (14th incl. Czechoslovakia) 2017 (group stage) Champions (2002)
 Germany Group 9 winners 17 November 2020 13th 2019 (runners-up) Champions (2009, 2017)
 Croatia Group 4 runners-up[^] 17 November 2020 4th 2019 (group stage) Group stage (2000, 2004, 2019)
 Romania Group 8 runners-up[^] 17 November 2020 3rd 2019 (semi-finals) Semi-finals (2019)
 Iceland Group 1 runners-up[^] 24 November 2020 2nd 2011 (group stage) Group stage (2011)
Notes
  1. ^ The best five runners-up among all nine groups qualified for the final tournament.

Final draw

The final draw was held on 10 December 2020, 15:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[16] 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:[3]

The hosts Hungary and Slovenia were assigned to position A1 and B1 respectively in the draw, while the other fourteen teams were drawn to the other available positions in their group.[17]

Pot 1
Team Coeff[17]
 Spain 40,620
 Germany 38,490
 France 37,147
 England 36,846
Pot 2
Team Coeff[17]
 Italy 36,361
 Denmark 36,088
 Portugal 35,863
 Netherlands 32,686
Pot 3
Team Coeff[17]
 Romania 32,198
 Croatia 31,902
 Czech Republic 29,648
 Russia 29,162
Pot 4
Team Coeff[17]
  Switzerland 28,059
 Iceland 26,071
 Slovenia (position B1) 25,851
 Hungary (position A1) 21,318

Venues

The following were the venues where the competition was played:[18]

 Hungary
Székesfehérvár Szombathely Budapest Győr
MOL Aréna Sóstó

(Aréna Sóstó)[18]

 Haladás Sportkomplexum

(Haladás Stadion)[18]

 Bozsik Aréna Ménfői úti Stadion

(Gyirmóti Stadion)[18]
Capacity: 14,000[18] Capacity: 8,900[18] Capacity: 8,468[18] Capacity: 4,335[18]
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2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship is located in Hungary
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár
Budapest
Budapest
Szombathely
Szombathely
Győr
Győr

Locations of stadiums in Hungary
2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship is located in Slovenia
Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Celje
Celje
Maribor
Maribor
Koper
Koper

Locations of stadiums in Slovenia
 Slovenia
Ljubljana Celje Maribor Koper
Stožice Stadium Stadion Z'dežele

(Stadion Celje)[18]

 Ljudski vrt Bonifika Stadium
Capacity: 16,100[19] Capacity: 13,600[20] Capacity: 12,702[21] Capacity: 4,010[22]
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The provisional schedule was announced in November 2019, with the above eight venues hosting matches.[23] Hungary (Groups A and C) and Slovenia (Groups B and D) would both host two groups, two quarter-finals and one semi-final each, while the final would be played in Slovenia at the Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana.[24]

Match officials

Country Referee 1st assistant referee 2nd assistant referee
 Belgium Lawrence Visser Thibaud Nijssen Ruben Wyns
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Irfan Peljto Davor Beljo Senad Ibrišimbegović
 Spain Guillermo Cuadra Fernández Íñigo Prieto López de Cerain José Enrique Naranjo Pérez
 Italy Maurizio Mariani Alberto Tegoni Daniele Bindoni
  Switzerland Sandro Schärer Stéphane De Almeida Bekim Zogaj
 Turkey Halil Umut Meler Mustafa Emre Eyisoy Abdullah Bora Özkara
 France François Letexier Cyril Mugnier Mehdi Rahmouni
 Georgia Giorgi Kruashvili Levan Varamishvili Zaza Pipia
 Germany Harm Osmers Eduard Beitinger Dominik Schaal
 Netherlands Dennis Higler Joost van Zuilen Johan Balder
 Poland Bartosz Frankowski Jakub Winkler Dawid Golis
 Sweden Glenn Nyberg Mahbod Beigi Andreas Söderkvist

Fourth officials

Squads

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Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.[3]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 18.01 and 18.02):[3]

  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 (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
  8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the final draw.

All times are local, CET (UTC+1) for matches between 24 and 27 March 2021, CEST (UTC+2) for matches between 28 and 31 March 2021.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers


24 March 2021 (2021-03-24)
21:00
Hungary  0–3  Germany
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030672/

24 March 2021 (2021-03-24)
21:00
Romania  1–1  Netherlands
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030673/

27 March 2021 (2021-03-27)
18:00
Hungary  1–2  Romania
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030674/

27 March 2021 (2021-03-27)
21:00
Germany  1–1  Netherlands
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030675/

30 March 2021 (2021-03-30)
18:00
Netherlands  6–1  Hungary
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030680/

30 March 2021 (2021-03-30)
18:00
Germany  0–0  Romania
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030681/

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers


24 March 2021 (2021-03-24)
18:00
Slovenia  0–3  Spain
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030668/

24 March 2021 (2021-03-24)
18:00
Czech Republic  1–1  Italy
Maggiore Goal 75' (o.g.) https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030669/ Scamacca Goal 31'

27 March 2021 (2021-03-27)
18:00
Slovenia  1–1  Czech Republic
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030676/

27 March 2021 (2021-03-27)
21:00
Spain  0–0  Italy
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030677/

30 March 2021 (2021-03-30)
21:00
Italy  4–0  Slovenia
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030682/

30 March 2021 (2021-03-30)
21:00
Spain  2–0  Czech Republic
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030683/

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers


25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)
18:00
Russia  4–1  Iceland
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030670/ Guðjohnsen Goal 59'

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)
21:00
France  0–1  Denmark
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030671/ Dreyer Goal 75'

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)
21:00
Russia  0–2  France
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030678/

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)
15:00
Iceland  0–2  Denmark
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030679/

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)
18:00
Denmark  3–0  Russia
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030684/

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)
18:00
Iceland  0–2  France
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030685/

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers


25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)
21:00
Portugal  1–0  Croatia
Vieira Goal 68' https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030686/

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25)
15:00
England  0–1   Switzerland
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030687/

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)
18:00
Croatia  3–2   Switzerland
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030688/

28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)
21:00
Portugal  2–0  England
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030689/

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)
18:00
Switzerland   0–3  Portugal
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030690/

31 March 2021 (2021-03-31)
18:00
Croatia  1–2  England
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2030691/

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.[3]

Bracket

 
 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
 
                    
 
 31 May – Budapest
 
 
  Netherlands 2
 
 3 June – Székesfehérvár
 
  France 1
 
  Netherlands 1
 
 31 May – Székesfehérvár
 
  Germany 2
 
  Denmark 2 (5)
 
 6 June – Ljubljana
 
  Germany (p) 2 (6)
 
  Germany 1
 
 31 May – Maribor
 
  Portugal 0
 
  Spain (a.e.t.) 2
 
 3 June – Maribor
 
  Croatia 1
 
  Spain 0
 
 31 May – Ljubljana
 
  Portugal 1
 
  Portugal (a.e.t.) 5
 
 
  Italy 3
 

Quarter-finals

31 May 2021 (2021-05-31)
18:00
Netherlands  2–1  France
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2031975/
Bozsik Aréna, Budapest
Attendance: 1,672[49]
Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)

31 May 2021 (2021-05-31)
21:00
Denmark  2–2 (a.e.t.)  Germany
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2031976/
  Penalties  
*Isaksen Penalty scored 5–6 *Penalty missed Burkardt

31 May 2021 (2021-05-31)
18:00
Spain  2–1 (a.e.t.)  Croatia
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2031977/
Ljudski vrt, Maribor
Attendance: 1,886[51]
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

31 May 2021 (2021-05-31)
21:00
Portugal  5–3 (a.e.t.)  Italy
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2031978/

Semi-finals

3 June 2021 (2021-06-03)
21:00
Netherlands  1–2  Germany
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2031979/

3 June 2021 (2021-06-03)
18:00
Spain  0–1  Portugal
https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/2031980/
Ljudski vrt, Maribor
Attendance: 1,910[54]
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

Final

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2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final

Goalscorers

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Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Team of the tournament

After the tournament the Under-21 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observers.[57]

Position Player
Goalkeepers Andrei Vlad
Marco Carnesecchi
Diogo Costa
Defenders David Raum
Diogo Queirós
Nico Schlotterbeck
Mads Bech Sørensen
Perr Schuurs
Victor Nelsson
Ridle Baku
Jorge Cuenca
Midfielders Fábio Vieira
Dani de Wit
Gonzalo Villar
Vitinha
Niklas Dorsch
Denis Makarov
Arne Maier
Forwards Luka Ivanušec
Lukas Nmecha
Jacob Bruun Larsen
Dany Mota
Javi Puado

Broadcasting

Europe

Country/region Broadcaster
Free Pay
 Austria ORF
 Belgium RTBF
 Bulgaria BNT
 Croatia HRT
 Czech Republic ČT
 Denmark DR
 France France Télévisions
 Hungary MTV
 Ireland Sky Sports
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(England games only)[59]
 United Kingdom
 Italy RAI
 Germany ProSiebenSat.1[60]
 Netherlands NOS (Netherlands games only and Final)[61]
 Russia Match TV
 Portugal RTP[62]
 Romania TVR[63]
 Slovenia RTV Slovenia
 Spain Mediaset España
 Sweden SVT[64]
  Switzerland SRG SSR
 Turkey TRT
 Ukraine UA:First

Outside Europe

Country/Region Broadcaster
 China Super Sports
 India Sony Six
 Japan Wowow
Latin America ESPN
Middle East beIN Sports
North Africa beIN Sports
 United States ESPN, TUDN

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.

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