2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Dates	5 June 2025 – 6 October 2026
Teams	51 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	127
Goals scored	396 (3.12 per match)
Attendance	183,820 (1,447 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Divin Mubama (5 goals)
←2025 2029 → All statistics correct as of 18 November 2025.

The2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-21football competition to determine the 14 teams that would be joining the automatically qualified co-hostsAlbania andSerbia in the2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament.

51UEFA member national teams will enter the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible to participate.

Two teams are not taking part in this tournament: Russia was suspended on 28 February 2022 byFIFA and UEFA from all competitions due to itsinvasion of Ukraine,^[1][2] while theLiechtenstein team has been temporarily dissolved based on a decision announced on 5 October 2022.^[3]

The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:

• Qualifying group stage: The 51 teams were drawn into nine groups: six groups of six teams and three groups of five teams. Each group will be played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners and the best runner-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) will qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up advanced to the play-offs.
• Play-offs: The eight teams will be drawn into four ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last four qualified teams.

In the qualifying group stage, teams were ranked according topoints (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 14.01):^[4]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams.
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Wins in all group matches;
9. Away wins in all group matches;
10. Disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received by players and team officials in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
11. Position in the UEFA men's Under-21 national team coefficient rankings used for the qualifying group stage draw.

To determine the best runner-up from the qualifying group stage, the results against the teams in sixth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.02):^[4]

1. Points;
2. Goal difference;
3. Goals scored;
4. Away goals scored;
5. Wins;
6. Away wins;
7. Disciplinary points;
8. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

Final tournament co-hosts

Team
Albania
Serbia

Pot A Team  Spain  England  Portugal  Netherlands  Germany  France  Ukraine  Italy  Denmark	Pot B Team  Romania   Switzerland  Croatia  Czech Republic  Poland  Norway  Belgium  Georgia  Republic of Ireland	Pot C Team  Slovenia  Finland  Sweden  Austria  Slovakia  Greece  Iceland  Hungary  Bulgaria
Pot D Team  Scotland  Wales  Israel  North Macedonia  Turkey  Kosovo  Northern Ireland  Faroe Islands  Moldova	Pot E Team  Belarus  Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Cyprus  Latvia  Lithuania  Kazakhstan  Azerbaijan  Luxembourg	Pot F Team  Estonia  Malta  Armenia  Andorra  Gibraltar  San Marino

Each group contained one team from each of Pots A–F (Pots A–E for a five-team group). Based on the previous decisions taken by the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Emergency Panel, four pairs of teams were not drawn in the same group.

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
• Gibraltar and Spain
• Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
• Belarus and Ukraine

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	5	5	0	0	17	2	+15	15	Final tournament		—	2–1	31 Mar '26	6 Oct '26	3–0	7–0
2	Finland	5	3	1	1	15	2	+13	10	Play-offs		25 Sep '26	—	0–0	2–0	31 Mar '26	7–0
3	Kosovo	5	2	2	1	12	3	+9	8			1–3	6 Oct '26	—	27 Mar '26	30 Sep '26	7–0
4	Romania	5	2	1	2	4	4	0	7			0–2	30 Sep '26	0–0	—	2–0	31 Mar '26
5	Cyprus	5	1	0	4	5	14	−9	3			27 Mar '26	0–5	0–4	25 Sep '26	—	6 Oct '26
6	San Marino	5	0	0	5	0	28	−28	0			30 Sep '26	26 Mar '26	25 Sep '26	0–2	0–5	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	5	4	1	0	21	0	+21	13	Final tournament		—	31 Mar '26	6 Oct '26	3–0	5–0	30 Sep '26
2	Scotland	6	3	1	2	18	7	+11	10	Play-offs		0–2	—	27 Mar '26	1–0	30 Sep '26	12–0
3	Czech Republic	5	3	1	1	10	3	+7	10			0–0	2–0	—	30 Sep '26	5–0	31 Mar '26
4	Bulgaria	5	2	1	2	6	6	0	7			25 Sep '26	6 Oct '26	2–1	—	31 Mar '26	3–0
5	Azerbaijan	5	1	2	2	5	14	−9	5			27 Mar '26	3–3	25 Sep '26	1–1	—	6 Oct '26
6	Gibraltar	6	0	0	6	1	31	−30	0			0–11	25 Sep '26	1–2	26 Mar '26	0–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	4	3	1	0	14	2	+12	10	Final tournament		—	1–0	6 Oct '26	30 Mar '26	6–1	3 Oct '26
2	Faroe Islands	6	3	0	3	6	12	−6	9	Play-offs		0–6	—	1–3	6 Oct '26	2–1	30 Sep '26
3	Switzerland	5	2	2	1	7	4	+3	8			1–1	27 Mar '26	—	0–0	31 Mar '26	25 Sep '26
4	Iceland	5	2	2	1	7	5	+2	8			25 Sep '26	1–2	29 Sep '26	—	26 Mar '26	2–1
5	Estonia	5	0	2	3	5	13	−8	2			29 Sep '26	25 Sep '26	0–2	1–1	—	2–2
6	Luxembourg	5	1	1	3	6	9	−3	4			26 Mar '26	0–1	25 Sep '26	1–3	6 Oct '26	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	5	5	0	0	13	0	+13	15	Final tournament		—	2 Oct '26	2–0	1–0	25 Sep '26	31 Mar '26
2	Slovakia	6	4	1	1	12	9	+3	13	Play-offs		0–4	—	25 Sep '26	3–0	2–1	2–0
3	Republic of Ireland	5	2	1	2	5	9	−4	7			6 Oct '26	2–2	—	1–0	29 Sep '26	26 Mar '26
4	Andorra	7	2	0	5	5	9	−4	6			27 Mar '26	6 Oct '26	4–0	—	1–0	2 Oct '26
5	Kazakhstan	5	1	1	3	3	6	−3	4			0–2	27 Mar '26	31 Mar '26	1–0	—	1–1
6	Moldova	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5	4			0–4	2–3	1–2	3–0	6 Oct '26	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland	6	6	0	0	18	1	+17	18	Final tournament		—	2–1	2–0	30 Sep '26	3–0	27 Mar '26
2	Italy	6	5	0	1	17	5	+12	15	Play-offs		5 Oct '26	—	2–1	4–0	26 Mar '26	5–1
3	Montenegro	6	3	0	3	9	11	−2	9			31 Mar '26	1–4	—	2–0	3–2	5 Oct '26
4	Sweden	6	3	0	3	8	13	−5	9			0–6	31 Mar '26	27 Mar '26	—	5 Oct '26	3–0
5	North Macedonia	6	1	0	5	5	13	−8	3			0–1	0–1	30 Sep '26	1–4	—	2–1
6	Armenia	6	0	0	6	3	17	−14	0			0–4	30 Sep '26	1–2	0–1	31 Mar '26	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	5	5	0	0	16	2	+14	15	Final tournament		—	31 Mar '26	4–0	3–0	1 Oct '26	27 Mar '26
2	Germany	5	4	0	1	17	4	+13	12	Play-offs		2–3	—	27 Mar '26	6 Oct '26	5–0	6–0
3	Northern Ireland	5	2	1	2	5	7	−2	7			6 Oct '26	1–2	—	1 Oct '26	1–0	2–0
4	Georgia	5	1	2	2	7	7	0	5			26 Sep '26	0–2	1–1	—	27 Mar '26	31 Mar '26
5	Latvia	5	1	1	3	2	8	−6	4			0–1	26 Sep '26	31 Mar '26	1–1	—	6 Oct '26
6	Malta	5	0	0	5	0	19	−19	0			0–5	30 Sep '26	26 Sep '26	0–5	0–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Final tournament		—	6 Oct '26	29 Sep '26	27 Mar '26	5–0
2	Israel	5	1	3	1	6	7	−1	6	Play-offs		0–3	—	31 Mar '26	3–1	1–1
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	1	2	1	2	1	+1	5			0–1	0–0	—	0–0	27 Mar '26
4	Netherlands	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	5			25 Sep '26	2–2	6 Oct '26	—	2–0
5	Slovenia	4	0	1	3	1	10	−9	1			31 Mar '26	29 Sep '26	0–2	2 Oct '26	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	5	3	2	0	7	3	+4	11	Final tournament		—	1–1	1–0	6 Oct '26	2–0
2	Croatia	4	3	1	0	8	1	+7	10	Play-offs		31 Mar '26	—	1–0	26 Sep '26	4–0
3	Ukraine	4	1	1	2	7	5	+2	4			26 Sep '26	2 Oct '26	—	3–3	27 Mar '26
4	Hungary	4	0	3	1	5	7	−2	3			1–1	0–2	31 Mar '26	—	1 Oct '26
5	Lithuania	5	0	1	4	2	13	−11	1			1–2	6 Oct '26	0–4	1–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	4	2	1	1	10	2	+8	7	Final tournament		—	2–0	27 Mar '26	24 Sep '26	28 Sep '26
2	Denmark	4	2	1	1	8	5	+3	7	Play-offs		6 Oct '26	—	1–1	28 Sep '26	31 Mar '26
3	Austria	4	2	1	1	5	5	0	7			1–0	2 Oct '26	—	31 Mar '26	0–2
4	Belarus	4	1	1	2	6	5	+1	4			1–1	0–1	2–3	—	3–0
5	Wales	4	1	0	3	4	16	−12	3			0–7	2–6	6 Oct '26	27 Mar '26	—

Only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team in six-team groups are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The top-ranked team will qualify directly for the final tournament, while the other teams enter the play-offs.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	E	Italy	5	4	0	1	12	4	+8	12	Final tournament
2	H	Croatia	4	3	1	0	8	1	+7	10	Play-offs
3	F	Germany	4	3	0	1	11	4	+7	9
4	A	Finland	4	2	1	1	8	2	+6	7
5	I	Denmark	4	2	1	1	8	5	+3	7
6	D	Slovakia	4	2	1	1	7	7	0	7
7	G	Israel	5	1	3	1	6	7	−1	6
8	C	Faroe Islands	5	2	0	3	5	12	−7	6
9	B	Scotland	4	1	1	2	4	7	−3	4

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Serbia	Co-hosts	4 February 2025	6th(12th incl.Yugoslavia)	2019	Final (2007)
Albania			2nd	1984	Quarterfinals (1984)

There have been 396 goals scored in 127 matches, for an average of 3.12 goals per match (as of 18 November 2025).

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

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