Group A of the2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams:Croatia,Austria,Norway,Finland,Azerbaijan, andEstonia. The composition of the nine groups in thequalifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters inNyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.[2]
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
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| 1 | Norway | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 11 | +15 | 24 | Final tournament | — | 3–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | |
| 2 | Croatia | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 10 | +15 | 22 | Play-offs | 3–2 | — | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| 3 | Finland | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 19 | 0–2 | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Austria | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 13 | +9 | 16 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–3 | — | 6–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 5 | Azerbaijan | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 24 | −12 | 7 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 0–3 | — | 3–0 | ||
| 6 | Estonia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 32 | −32 | 0 | 0–5 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 0–5 | — |
Times areCET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Croatia | 3–2 | Norway |
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| Azerbaijan | 1–2 | Norway |
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| Azerbaijan | 3–0 | Estonia |
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| Estonia | 0–5 | Azerbaijan |
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| Norway | 2–1 | Azerbaijan |
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There were 103 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.43 goals per match.
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6 goals
5 goals
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1 goal
Yusuf DemirLeo GreimlAlexander PrassNicolas SeiwaldRüfar AbdullazadaIldar AlekperovAbdulakh KhaibulaevCeyhun NuriyevBartol FranjićLukas KačavendaMarin LjubičićAntonio MarinJurica PrširNikola SoldoGabriel VidovićTerry AbladeDaniel HåkansAnthony OlusanyaAgon SadikuAnssi SuhonenJulius TauriainenTobias ChristensenJesper DalandHåkon EvjenFredrik OppegardOsame SahraouiSebastian Sebulonsen1 own goal
Arsen Agcabayov (against Finland)Mattias Sapp (against Finland)Viljami Sinisalo (against Azerbaijan)