2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs

The play-offs of the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition involves six of the nine runners-up in the qualifying group stage, the three top-ranked teams being directly qualified for the tournament.

Ranking of second-placed teams

Because two groups have one fewer team than the others, 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 three teams qualify directly for the final tournament, while the other six teams enter the play-offs.

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 F  Ukraine 8 6 0 2 16 7 +9 18 Final tournament
2 H  France 8 5 1 2 22 6 +16 16
3 D  Poland 8 5 1 2 20 8 +12 16
4 G  Croatia 8 5 1 2 15 14 +1 16 Play-offs
5 E  Finland 8 4 2 2 12 7 +5 14
6 I  Czech Republic 8 4 2 2 13 11 +2 14
7 A  Norway 8 4 1 3 17 11 +6 13
8 B  Belgium 8 4 1 3 8 5 +3 13
9 C  Georgia 8 4 1 3 10 10 0 13
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) wins; 6) away wins; 7) disciplinary points; 8) coefficient ranking.

Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 17 October 2024 in Nyon, Switzerland.

Summary

The three play-off winners qualify for the final tournament.

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Finland 6–3 Norway5–11–2
Belgium 1–3 Czech Republic0–21–1
Georgia 3–3 (7–6 p) Croatia1–02–3 (a.e.t.)

Matches

All times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Finland 5–1 Norway
  • Walta 2'
  • Terho 4'
  • Talvitie 79'
  • Skyttä 82'
  • Galvez 86'
Report
  • Arnstad 42'
Tammelan Stadion, Tampere
Attendance: 5,275
Referee: Alessandro Dudic (Switzerland)
Norway 2–1 Finland
  • Mvuka 81'
  • Broholm 88'
Report
  • Terho 55'
Viking Stadion, Stavanger
Attendance: 1,813
Referee: John Brooks (England)

Finland won 6–3 on aggregate.


Belgium 0–2 Czech Republic
Report
  • Karabec 34'
  • Fila 80'
Den Dreef, Leuven
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Atilla Karaoğlan (Turkey)
Czech Republic 1–1 Belgium
  • Van Den Bosch 79' (o.g.)
Report
  • Steuckers 51'
Všesportovní stadion, Hradec Králové
Attendance: 9,019
Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas (Lithuania)

Czech Republic won 3–1 on aggregate.


Georgia 1–0 Croatia
  • Soldo 4' (o.g.)
Report
Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 9,372
Referee: Adam Ladebäck (Sweden)
Croatia 3–2 (a.e.t.) Georgia
  • Beljo 10', 63' (pen.)
  • Šotiček 90+1'
Report
  • Gagnidze 28'
  • Lominadze 78'
Penalties
  • Vidović
  • Frigan
  • Stojković
  • Vušković
  • Hodža
  • Biuk
  • Šotiček
  • Badelj
6–7
  • Azarovi
  • Kvernadze
  • Abuashvili
  • Lominadze
  • Mamageishvili
  • Latsabidze
  • Ugrekhelidze
  • Khvadagiani
Stadion Rujevica, Rijeka
Attendance: 2,575
Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

3–3 on aggregate, Georgia won 7–6 on penalties.

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