Group 3 of the2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams:England,Austria,Turkey,Kosovo,Albania, andAndorra. The composition of the nine groups in thequalifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 11 December 2018, 09:00CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters inNyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to theircoefficient ranking.
The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 23 March 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 theCOVID-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 thefive best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for thefinal tournament.[4][5][6]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
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| 1 | England | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 9 | +25 | 28 | Final tournament | — | 5–1 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | |
| 2 | Austria | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 18 | 1–2 | — | 1–5 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | ||
| 3 | Albania | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 21 | −5 | 14 | 0–3 | 0–4 | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | ||
| 4 | Turkey | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | −3 | 13 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 2–2 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 5 | Kosovo | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 9 | 0–6 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 6 | Andorra | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 24 | −14 | 5 | 3–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–4 | — |
Times areCET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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| Kosovo | 3–1 | Turkey |
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| England | 5–1 | Austria |
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| England | 2–1 | Turkey |
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| Turkey | 3–2 | Austria |
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There were 108 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.6 goals per match.
13 goals
7 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Enis ÇokajOmar ImeriSherif KallakuLeonardo MalokuArbnor MucolliDin SulaIndrit TuciGiacomo VrioniAlbert RosasKelvin AraseKevin DansoPatrick SchmidtMaximilian WöberJude BellinghamJosh DasilvaTom DaviesConor GallagherBen GodfreyCurtis JonesJames JustinJamal MusialaRyan SessegnonBen WilmotEris AbediniBlendi BaftiuArdit GashiLirim KastratiLirim MemaArbenit XhemajliBerkay ÖzcanDoğukan Sinikİlker YükselBerat Özdemir1 own goal
Hüseyin Türkmen (against England)