2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

The 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship started with a qualifying competition which began on 27 March 2009 and finished on 13 October 2010. The final tournament was held in Denmark between 11–25 June 2011.

The first stage of the qualifying competition was a group stage followed by play-offs. Each of the 10 group winners, as well as the four highest ranked second place teams, advanced to the play-off. The play-offs determined which seven nations joined Denmark in the final tournament. Denmark, as hosts, qualified automatically.

Groups

Summary

Teams that secured a place in the play-offs are highlighted in green in their respective qualifying groups. The teams are ordered by final group position.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5
Romania	Switzerland	Italy	Netherlands  Spain	Czech Republic  Iceland
Russia  Moldova  Latvia  Faroe Islands  Andorra	Turkey  Georgia  Armenia  Estonia  Republic of Ireland	Wales  Hungary  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Luxembourg	Finland  Poland  Liechtenstein	Germany  Northern Ireland  San Marino

Group 6	Group 7	Group 8	Group 9	Group 10
Sweden	Croatia	Ukraine	Greece  England	Scotland  Belarus
Israel  Montenegro  Kazakhstan  Bulgaria	Slovakia  Serbia  Norway  Cyprus	Belgium  France  Slovenia  Malta	Portugal  Lithuania  Macedonia	Austria  Albania  Azerbaijan

In case of equal points, the teams are ranked by their head-to-head record:

1. number of points
2. goal difference
3. goals scored
4. goals scored away from home.

If some teams have equal head-to-head record, then the following tiebreaks apply:

1. overall goal difference
2. overall goals scored
3. overall goals scored away from home
4. fair play conduct.

Group 1

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Romania	10	8	1	1	23	6	+17	25		—	3–0	3–0	4–1	3–0	2–0
Russia	10	7	1	2	22	6	+16	22		0–0	—	3–1	2–1	2–0	4–0
Moldova	10	4	2	4	9	13	−4	14		0–1	0–3	—	1–0	1–0	1–0
Latvia	10	4	1	5	16	15	+1	13		5–1	0–4	1–1	—	0–1	4–0
Faroe Islands	10	3	2	5	8	16	−8	11		0–4	1–0	1–1	1–3	—	3–1
Andorra	10	0	1	9	3	25	−22	1		0–2	0–4	1–3	0–1	1–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	10	6	2	2	15	8	+7	20		—	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0
Turkey	10	5	1	4	13	11	+2	16		1–3	—	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0
Georgia	10	4	3	3	12	9	+3	15		0–0	4–0	—	0–2	2–0	1–1
Armenia	10	4	1	5	18	19	−1	13		1–3	2–5	2–3	—	1–1	4–1
Estonia	10	3	3	4	9	16	−7	12		1–4	1–0	2–0	2–3	—	1–1
Republic of Ireland	10	1	4	5	11	15	−4	7		1–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	5–0	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	8	5	1	2	12	5	+7	16		—	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0
Wales	8	5	1	2	15	6	+9	16		2–1	—	4–1	2–0	5–1
Hungary	8	4	1	3	9	7	+2	13		2–0	0–1	—	0–0	3–0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	2	2	4	4	8	−4	8		0–1	2–1	0–2	—	0–1
Luxembourg	8	1	1	6	2	16	−14	4		0–4	0–0	0–1	0–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 4

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	8	7	0	1	19	5	+14	21		—	2–1	2–0	3–2	3–0
Spain	8	6	1	1	15	5	+10	19		2–1	—	1–0	2–0	3–1
Finland	8	3	1	4	11	7	+4	10		0–1	1–1	—	2–0	3–0
Poland	8	3	0	5	11	13	−2	9		0–4	0–1	2–1	—	2–0
Liechtenstein	8	0	0	8	1	27	−26	0		0–3	0–4	0–4	0–5	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 5

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Czech Republic	8	7	1	0	25	4	+21	22		—	3–1	1–1	2–0	5–0
Iceland	8	5	1	2	29	11	+18	16		0–2	—	4–1	2–1	8–0
Germany	8	3	3	2	26	10	+16	12		1–2	2–2	—	3–0	6–0
Northern Ireland	8	2	1	5	12	16	−4	7		1–2	2–6	1–1	—	4–0
San Marino	8	0	0	8	0	51	−51	0		0–8	0–6	0–11	0–3	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 6

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	8	6	1	1	15	5	+10	19		—	1–2	2–0	5–1	2–1
Israel	8	5	1	2	18	8	+10	16		0–1	—	5–0	1–1	4–0
Montenegro	8	4	1	3	9	11	−2	13		0–2	1–0	—	3–1	2–0
Kazakhstan	8	1	2	5	7	17	−10	5		1–1	1–2	0–2	—	2–0
Bulgaria	8	1	1	6	8	16	−8	4		0–1	3–4	1–1	3–0	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 7

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	8	5	2	1	17	10	+7	17		—	1–1	3–1	4–1	0–2
Slovakia	8	4	2	2	11	11	0	14		1–2	—	2–1	1–4	1–0
Serbia	8	4	1	3	14	12	+2	13		2–2	1–2	—	3–2	2–0
Norway	8	2	1	5	14	18	−4	7		1–3	2–2	0–1	—	1–3
Cyprus	8	2	0	6	8	13	−5	6		1–2	0–1	1–3	1–3	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 8

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ukraine	8	4	4	0	13	5	+8	16		—	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–0
Belgium	8	4	3	1	8	5	+3	15		0–2	—	0–0	2–0	1–0
France	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15		2–2	0–1	—	1–0	2–0
Slovenia	8	2	2	4	6	10	−4	8		0–2	2–2	1–3	—	1–0
Malta	8	0	0	8	0	13	−13	0		0–3	0–1	0–2	0–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 9

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Greece	8	6	1	1	13	7	+6	19		—	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1
England	8	5	2	1	15	7	+8	17		1–2	—	1–0	3–0	6–3
Portugal	8	4	1	3	12	8	+4	13		2–1	0–1	—	4–1	3–1
Lithuania	8	1	2	5	3	11	−8	5		0–1	0–0	0–1	—	1–0
Macedonia	8	0	2	6	9	19	−10	2		1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 10

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Scotland	8	5	2	1	16	7	+9	17		—	1–0	3–1	5–2	2–2
Belarus	8	5	2	1	16	11	+5	17		1–1	—	2–1	4–2	1–0
Austria	8	4	2	2	17	11	+6	14		1–0	3–3	—	3–1	4–0
Albania	8	1	1	6	11	20	−9	4		0–1	1–2	2–2	—	1–0
Azerbaijan	8	1	1	6	8	19	−11	4		0–4	2–3	1–2	3–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Ranking of second-placed teams

Since Groups 1 and 2 were composed of six teams, results against the 6th-ranked team were excluded.

Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
4	Spain	8	6	1	1	15	5	+10	19
9	England	8	5	2	1	15	7	+8	17
10	Belarus	8	5	2	1	16	11	+5	17
5	Iceland	8	5	1	2	29	11	+18	16
6	Israel	8	5	1	2	18	8	+10	16
3	Wales	8	5	1	2	15	6	+9	16
1	Russia	8	5	1	2	14	6	+8	16
8	Belgium	8	4	3	1	8	5	+3	15
7	Slovakia	8	4	2	2	11	11	0	14
2	Turkey	8	3	1	4	9	11	−2	10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1. Total points, 2. Goal difference, 3. Goals scored, 4. Goals scored away from home, 5. Disciplinary record, 6. Drawing of lots.

Play-offs

The play-off first legs played on 9 October 2010, second legs played on 13 October 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
England	2–1	Romania	2–1	0–0
Netherlands	3–3 (a)	Ukraine	1–3	2–0
Spain	5–1	Croatia	2–1	3–0
Switzerland	5–2	Sweden	4–1	1–1
Iceland	4–2	Scotland	2–1	2–1
Czech Republic	5–0	Greece	3–0	2–0
Italy	2–3	Belarus	2–0	0–3

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament
Denmark	00Host	0010 December 2008	41 (1978, 1986, 1992, 2006)
Switzerland	Play-off winners against  Sweden	11 October 2010	2 (2002, 2004)
Iceland	Play-off winners against  Scotland	11 October 2010	First appearance
England	Play-off winners against  Romania	12 October 2010	10 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009)
Spain	Play-off winners against  Croatia	12 October 2010	10 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2009)
Belarus	Play-off winners against  Italy	12 October 2010	2 (2004, 2009)
Czech Republic	Play-off winners against  Greece	12 October 2010	4 (1996, 2000, 2002, 2007)
Ukraine	Play-off winners against  Netherlands	12 October 2010	1 (2006)