Group 5 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Serbia, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Estonia. 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 5 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 edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | Russia
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10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 4 | +18 | 23 | Final tournament | — | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2−0 | |
| 2 | Poland
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10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 20 | 1–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | ||
| 3 | Bulgaria
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10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 18 | 0–0 | 3−0 | — | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Serbia
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10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 12 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | — | 6−0 | 1–1 | ||
| 5 | Estonia
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10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 34 | −31 | 5 | 0–5 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 0–0 | — | 2–1 | ||
| 6 | Latvia
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10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 4 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — |
Matches edit
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Russia | 2–2 | Poland |
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| Bulgaria | 0–1 | Serbia |
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| Serbia | 0–2 | Russia |
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| Russia | 2–0 | Bulgaria |
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Goalscorers edit
There were 77 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.57 goals per match.
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Zdravko Dimitrov- Ilian Iliev
- Lachezar Kotev
- Ertan Tombak
Sten Reinkort- Markus Soomets
- Ander Ott Valge
Kristaps Liepa- Kristers Lūsiņš
Bartosz Białek- Bartosz Bida
- Karol Fila
- Robert Gumny
- Kamil Jóźwiak
- Jakub Kamiński
- Jakub Piotr Kiwior
- Przemysław Płacheta
- Paweł Tomczyk
Danil Glebov- Nikita Kalugin
- Danil Krugovoy
- Daniil Lesovoy
- Aleksandr Lomovitskiy
- Nail Umyarov
- Daniil Utkin
- Roman Yevgenyev
Ivan Ilić- Erhan Mašović
- Veljko Nikolić
- Filip Stuparević
- Slobodan Tedić
1 own goal
- Igor Diveyev (against Poland)
- Magnus Villota (against Russia)
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 g h i j k Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, all matches scheduled for September 2020 were played behind closed doors.[7][8]
- ^ The match between Estonia and Serbia was played in Latvia due to travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic between Estonia and Serbia.[9]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "U21 koondist ootavad ees valikmäng Venemaal ja kohtumine Serbiaga Lätis". Eesti Jalgpalli Liit. 29 September 2020.
External links edit
- Under-21 Matches: 2021 Qualifying, UEFA.com