2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

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 will advance 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. Tiebreakers In the qualifying group stage, teams were ranked according to points (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): • Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • 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. • Goal difference in all group matches; • Goals scored in all group matches; • Away goals scored in all group matches; • Wins in all group matches; • Away wins in all group matches; • 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); • 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): • Points; • Goal difference; • Goals scored; • Away goals scored; • Wins; • Away wins; • Disciplinary points; • UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw. == Schedule ==

Draw 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 Groups Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Group G Group H Group I Ranking of second-placed teams 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. == Play-offs ==

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

Below are goalscorer lists for all groups: == References ==