Group 2 of the2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams:Spain,Slovakia,Iceland,Albania,Estonia, andNorthern Ireland. The composition of the nine groups in thequalifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 26 January 2017,^[1][2] with the teams seeded according to theircoefficient ranking.^[3]

The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format between 8 June 2017 and 16 October 2018. The group winners qualified directly for thefinal tournament, while the runners-up advanced to theplay-offs if they wereone of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team).^[4]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	10	9	0	1	31	10	+21	27	Final tournament		—	1–2	5–1	1–0	3–0	3–1
2	Northern Ireland	10	6	2	2	15	11	+4	20			3–5	—	1–0	0–0	1–0	4–2
3	Slovakia	10	6	0	4	17	18	−1	18			1–4	1–0	—	0–2	4–1	2–0
4	Iceland	10	3	2	5	16	19	−3	11			2–7	0–1	2–3	—	2–3	5–2
5	Albania	10	1	4	5	9	17	−8	7			0–1	1–1	2–3	0–0	—	0–0
6	Estonia	10	0	2	8	11	24	−13	2			0–1	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–2	—

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

8 June 2017 (2017-06-08)

17:00(18:00EEST)

Estonia	1–2	Northern Ireland
Sappinen 50'	Report	Parkhouse 74' Donnelly 90+4' (pen.)

Kadriorg Stadium,Tallinn

Attendance: 312

Referee:Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

12 June 2017 (2017-06-12)

20:00

Albania	0–0	Estonia
	Report

Elbasan Arena,Elbasan

Attendance: 3,000^[5]

Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)

31 August 2017 (2017-08-31)

20:30(19:30BST)

Northern Ireland	1–0	Albania
Donnelly 90+5' (pen.)	Report

Mourneview Park,Lurgan

Attendance: 234

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

1 September 2017 (2017-09-01)

16:45(17:45EEST)

Estonia	1–2	Slovakia
Poom 83'	Report	Sipľak 14' Mutso 89' (o.g.)

Kadriorg Stadium,Tallinn

Attendance: 243^[6]

Referee: Jari Järvinen (Finland)

4 September 2017 (2017-09-04)

19:00(17:00WET)

Iceland	2–3	Albania
Andrésson 45' Einarsson 71'	Report	Abazaj 45+1',65' Durmishaj 75'

Víkingsvöllur,Reykjavík

Attendance: 584

Referee: Paul Mclaughlin (Republic of Ireland)

5 September 2017 (2017-09-05)

19:15(20:15EEST)

Estonia	0–1	Spain
	Report	Soler 65'

A. Le Coq Arena,Tallinn

Attendance: 964

Referee:Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

5 September 2017 (2017-09-05)

20:30

Slovakia	1–0	Northern Ireland
Bénes 61'	Report

Štadión FK Senica,Senica

Attendance: 2,339^[7]

Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

5 October 2017 (2017-10-05)

17:20

Slovakia	0–2	Iceland
	Report	A. Guðmundsson 8',90+5'

NTC Poprad,Poprad

Attendance: 3,076^[8]

Referee: Georgios Kominis (Greece)

10 October 2017 (2017-10-10)

19:00

Albania	0–0	Iceland
	Report

Elbasan Arena,Elbasan

Attendance: 2,150

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

10 October 2017 (2017-10-10)

20:30

Slovakia	1–4	Spain
Vavro 59'	Report	Merino 26' Oyarzabal 49' Rodri 56' Ceballos 69'

NTC Poprad,Poprad

Attendance: 5,574^[9]

Referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)

10 October 2017 (2017-10-10)

20:30(19:30BST)

Northern Ireland	4–2	Estonia
Johnson 2' Gorman 43' Sykes 61' Igonen 75' (o.g.)	Report	Liivak 11' Sappinen 20'

Mourneview Park,Lurgan

Attendance: 463

Referee: Petur Reinert (Faroe Islands)

9 November 2017 (2017-11-09)

19:30

Spain	1–0	Iceland
Fabián 36'	Report

La Condomina,Murcia

Attendance: 15,168

Referee:Eitan Shmuelevitz (Israel)

10 November 2017 (2017-11-10)

18:00

Albania	1–1	Northern Ireland
Ramadani 83'	Report	Lavery 89'

Selman Stërmasi Stadium,Tirana

Attendance: 1,250

Referee: Fran Jović (Croatia)

14 November 2017 (2017-11-14)

17:00(18:00EET)

Estonia	2–3	Iceland
Sinyavskiy 45' Lilander 51'	Report	A. Guðmundsson 56' H. Guðmundsson 74' Karlsson 80'

A. Le Coq Arena,Tallinn

Attendance: 369

Referee: Alper Ulusoy (Turkey)

14 November 2017 (2017-11-14)

21:50

Spain	5–1	Slovakia
Ceballos 38',55',61' Córdoba 53' Mayoral 86'	Report	Fabián 23' (o.g.)

Cartagonova,Cartagena

Attendance: 12,912

Referee:Bojan Pandžić (Sweden)

22 March 2018 (2018-03-22)

20:45(19:45GMT)

Northern Ireland	3–5	Spain
Donnelly 30' (pen.),45+2' Lavery 68'	Report	Oyarzabal 15',44' Mayoral 47',75',84'

Shamrock Park,Portadown

Attendance: 2,309

Referee:Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

23 March 2018 (2018-03-23)

17:20

Albania	2–3	Slovakia
Manaj 44',52'	Report	Špalek 48' Dimun 80' Mráz 87'

Selman Stërmasi Stadium,Tirana

Attendance: 985^[10]

Referee: Stefan Apostolov (Bulgaria)

26 March 2018 (2018-03-26)

20:30(19:30BST)

Northern Ireland	0–0	Iceland
	Report

The Showgrounds,Coleraine

Attendance: 1,088

Referee: Fedayi San (Switzerland)

27 March 2018 (2018-03-27)

17:20

Slovakia	4–1	Albania
Haraslín 19' Mráz 45+2',74' Sipľak 70'	Report	Manaj 63'

Štadión pod Dubňom,Žilina

Attendance: 2,177^[11]

Referee: Iwan Arwel Griffith (Wales)

27 March 2018 (2018-03-27)

19:30

Spain	3–1	Estonia
Fabián 8' Mayoral 37',51'	Report	Sinyavskiy 59'

El Toralín,Ponferrada

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)

6 September 2018 (2018-09-06)

18:45(16:45WET)

Iceland	5–2	Estonia
Karlsson 19',22' Friðjónsson 45+3' Sigurðsson 53' A. Guðmundsson 64'	Report	Liivak 61' (pen.) Kaldma 68'

Kópavogsvöllur,Kópavogur

Attendance: 332

Referee: Rahim Hasanov (Azerbaijan)

6 September 2018 (2018-09-06)

20:00

Spain	3–0	Albania
Oyarzabal 5' Mayoral 56' Mir 90+2'	Report

Nuevo Arcángel,Córdoba

Attendance: 8,025

Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)

11 September 2018 (2018-09-11)

17:30(15:30WET)

Iceland	2–3	Slovakia
Guðmundsson 33',90+3' (pen.)	Report	Bénes 58' Vestenický 90' Rodák 90+4'

KR-völlur,Reykjavík

Attendance: 337^[12]

Referee: Alexander Harkam (Austria)

11 September 2018 (2018-09-11)

18:45

Spain	1–2	Northern Ireland
Mir 90+2'	Report	Lavery 4' Donnelly 8' (pen.)

Carlos Belmonte,Albacete

Attendance: 3,400

Referee:Jonathan Lardot (Belgium)

11 October 2018 (2018-10-11)

18:45(16:45WET)

Iceland	0–1	Northern Ireland
	Report	Ballard 90'

Fylkisvöllur,Reykjavík

Attendance: 337

Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)

11 October 2018 (2018-10-11)

19:00

Albania	0–1	Spain
	Report	Mir 84'

Selman Stërmasi Stadium,Tirana

Attendance: 1,150

Referee:João Pinheiro (Portugal)

12 October 2018 (2018-10-12)

20:30

Slovakia	2–0	Estonia
Jirka 1' Vestenický 58'	Report

MOL Aréna,Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 3,373^[13]

Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)

16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)

18:00(19:00EEST)

Estonia	2–2	Albania
Liivak 32' Kuusk 87'	Report	Seferi 12',69'

Pärnu Rannastaadion,Pärnu

Attendance: 237

Referee: Yigal Frid (Israel)

16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)

18:45(16:45WET)

Iceland	2–7	Spain
Þorsteinsson 41' Karlsson 58'	Report	Oyarzabal 24' (pen.) Mir 25',40' Gunnarsson 45+2' (o.g.) Soler 54' Mayoral 87' Fabián 90'

Fylkisvöllur,Reykjavík

Attendance: 368

Referee: Cătălin Gaman (Romania)

16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)

20:30(19:30BST)

Northern Ireland	1–0	Slovakia
Sykes 62'	Report

Windsor Park,Belfast

Attendance: 5,462^[14]

Referee: Eitan Shmuelevitz (Israel)

There were 99 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.3 goals per match.

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• Under-21 Standings: 2017–19 qualifying, UEFA.com

• 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification