2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group A

Group A of the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Italy, Ireland, Norway, Turkey, Latvia, and San Marino. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 2 February 2023 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

Standings edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification            
1   Italy 7 4 3 0 16 3 +13 15 Final tournament 15 Oct '24 2–0 2–0 1–1 5 Sep '24
2   Republic of Ireland 6 4 1 1 19 8 +11 13 Play-offs 2–2 11 Oct '24 10 Sep '24 3–2 3–0
3   Norway 6 4 0 2 21 6 +15 12 10 Sep '24 3–2 7–0 15 Oct '24 4–0
4   Latvia 6 2 1 3 5 12 −7 7[a] 0–0 1–2 6 Sep '24 2–1 2–0
5   Turkey 6 2 1 3 11 8 +3 7[a] 0–2 6 Sep '24 2–0 11 Oct '24 5–0
6   San Marino (E) 7 0 0 7 0 35 −35 0 0–7 0–7 0–7 15 Oct '24 10 Sep '24
Updated to match(es) played on 26 March 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Ranked on head-to-head points: Latvia 3, Turkey 0.

Matches edit

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Latvia  2–0  San Marino
  • Šits   38'
  • Melnis   86'
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Attendance: 300
Referee: Helgi Mikael Jónasson (Iceland)

San Marino  0–7  Norway
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Attendance: 284
Referee: Mervan Bejtullahu (Kosovo)
Latvia  0–0  Italy
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Attendance: 348
Referee: Snir Levy (Israel)
Republic of Ireland  3–2  Turkey
Moran   56'
Gilsenan   87' (pen.)
Emakhu   90+6'
Report Yıldız   22' (pen.)
Çanak   76'
Attendance: 3.754
Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)

Norway  7–0  Latvia
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Attendance: 580
Referee: Roman Jitari (Moldova)
Turkey  0–2  Italy
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Attendance: 2,358
Referee: Pierre Gaillouste (France)
Republic of Ireland  3–0  San Marino
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Attendance: 3,826
Referee: Antoine Paul Chiaramonti (Andorra)

Latvia  1–2  Republic of Ireland
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Attendance: 274
Referee: Oliver Reitala (Finland)
Turkey  5–0  San Marino
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Attendance: 472
Referee: Viktor Shimusik (Belarus)

Latvia  2–1  Turkey
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Attendance: 237
Referee: Tim Marshall (Northern Ireland)
Italy  2–0  Norway
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Attendance: 4,627

San Marino  0–7  Italy
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Attendance: 1,185
Referee: Joni Hyytiä (Finland)
Norway  3–2  Republic of Ireland
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Attendance: 566
Referee: Walter Altmann (Austria)

Turkey  2–0  Norway
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Attendance: 457
Referee: Denys Shurman (Ukraine)
Republic of Ireland  2–2  Italy
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Attendance: 6,157
Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Switzerland)

San Marino  0–7  Republic of Ireland
Report
Attendance: 213
Referee: Viktor Kopiievskyi (Ukraine)
Italy  2–0  Latvia
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Attendance: 4,315
Referee: Philip Farrugia (Malta)

Norway  4–0  San Marino
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Attendance: 510
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)
Italy  1–1  Turkey
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Attendance: 3,921
Referee: Cesar Soto Grado (Spain)

Italy  v  San Marino
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Latvia  v  Norway
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Turkey  v  Republic of Ireland
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San Marino  v  Turkey
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Norway  v  Italy
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Republic of Ireland  v  Latvia
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Turkey  v  Latvia
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Republic of Ireland  v  Norway
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San Marino  v  Latvia
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Norway  v  Turkey
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Italy  v  Republic of Ireland
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Goalscorers edit

There have been 72 goals scored in 199 matches, for an average of 0.362 goals per match (as of 26 March 2024).

5 goals

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes edit

  1. ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 26 March and 29 October 2023 and between 31 March and 27 October 2024, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.

References edit

  1. ^ "2025 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw: See the groups". UEFA.com.