en 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group A

Group A of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Croatia, Austria, Norway, Finland, Azerbaijan, and Estonia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,^[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.^[2]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
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	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

8 June 2021

19:10

Austria	2–0	Estonia
Schmid 7' Demir 56'	Report

Keine Sorgen Arena, Ried im Innkreis

Attendance: 1,080

Referee: Genc Nuza (Kosovo)

2 September 2021

19:00

Croatia	2–0	Azerbaijan
Sučić 10' Šimić 24'	Report

Stadion Radnik, Velika Gorica

Attendance: 753

Referee: Denys Shurman (Ukraine)

3 September 2021

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Estonia	0–3	Finland
	Report	Olusanya 29' Sapp 49' (o.g.) Mömmö 75'

Pärnu Rannastaadion, Pärnu

Attendance: 300

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

3 September 2021

18:00

Norway	3–1	Austria
Larsen 17' Holm 60' Botheim 84'	Report	Adamu 13'

Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen

Attendance: 360

Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)

7 September 2021

17:00 (18:00 EEST)

Finland	0–2	Croatia
	Report	Sučić 73' (pen.) Ljubičić 87'

Raatti Stadium, Oulu

Attendance: 2,903

Referee: Vitor Ferreira (Portugal)

7 September 2021

18:00

Austria	6–0	Azerbaijan
Adamu 3', 40' Aiwu 19' Schmid 85' Anselm 90', 90+3'	Report

Keine Sorgen Arena, Ried im Innkreis

Attendance: 950

Referee: Amin Kurgheli (Belarus)

7 September 2021

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Estonia	0–5	Norway
	Report	Ceide 5', 8' Holm 12' Evjen 52' Palumbo 90+2'

Pärnu Rannastaadion, Pärnu

Attendance: 63

Referee: Gergö Bogár (Hungary)

8 October 2021

18:00

Croatia	3–2	Norway
Šimić 2' Sučić 16' Vušković 57'	Report	Sebulonsen 55' Ceide 58'

Stadion Varteks, Varaždin

Attendance: 718

Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk (Ukraine)

8 October 2021

18:30 (20:30 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	1–1	Finland
Hüseynli 86'	Report	Agcabayov 75' (o.g.)

Kapital Bank Arena, Sumqayit

Attendance: 150

Referee: Viktor Shimusik (Belarus)

8 October 2021

19:00 (20:00 EEST)

Estonia	0–4	Austria
	Report	Prass 16' Adamu 22' (pen.), 53' Seiwald 65'

Pärnu Rannastaadion, Pärnu

Attendance: 153

Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova)

12 October 2021

18:00

Norway	3–0	Estonia
Christensen 4' Larsen 52' Palumbo 73'	Report

Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen

Attendance: 228

Referee: Jason Barcelo (Gibraltar)

12 October 2021

18:30 (20:30 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	1–5	Croatia
Gurbanlı 55' (pen.)	Report	Šimić 9', 13', 44' (pen.) Soldo 25' Šutalo 81'

Kapital Bank Arena, Sumqayit

Attendance: 120

Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)

12 October 2021

18:30 (19:30 EEST)

Finland	3–1	Austria
Skyttä 19', 58' Antman 86'	Report	Greiml 68'

Tampere Stadium, Tampere

Attendance: 1,594

Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (Armenia)

11 November 2021

18:00

Croatia	2–0	Estonia
Šimić 39' Pršir 62'	Report

Stadion Aldo Drosina, Pula

Attendance: 548

Referee: Ishmael Barbara (Malta)

12 November 2021

17:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	0–3	Austria
	Report	Aiwu 42' Schmid 72' (pen.), 75'

Eighth Kilometer District Stadium, Baku

Attendance: 70

Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)

12 November 2021

18:00

Norway	3–1	Finland
Larsen 55', 67' (pen.) Hove 89'	Report	Suhonen 74'

Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen

Attendance: 407

Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (Denmark)

15 November 2021

17:30 (18:30 EET)

Finland	1–0	Estonia
Mömmö 31'	Report

Arto Tolsa Areena, Kotka

Attendance: 907

Referee: Georgi Davidov (Bulgaria)

16 November 2021

17:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	1–2	Norway
Zulfugarli 80'	Report	Hove 4' Sahraoui 53'

Eighth Kilometer District Stadium, Baku

Attendance: 95

Referee: Vassilis Fotias (Greece)

16 November 2021

20:30

Austria	1–3	Croatia
Schmid 67'	Report	Kačavenda 14' Franjić 41' Sučić 55' (pen.)

Keine Sorgen Arena, Ried im Innkreis

Attendance: 1,300

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

25 March 2022

16:00 (19:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	3–0	Estonia
Gurbanlı 44', 66' Khaibulaev 88'	Report

Kapital Bank Arena, Sumqayit

Attendance: 1,080

Referee: David Munro (Scotland)

25 March 2022

18:00

Croatia	0–0	Austria
	Report

Stadion Varteks, Varaždin

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Manfredas Lukjancukas (Lithuania)

29 March 2022

18:00

Austria	2–1	Norway
Schmid 11' Adamu 48'	Report	Holm 42'

Keine Sorgen Arena, Ried im Innkreis

Attendance: 1015

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

29 March 2022

20:00

Croatia	2–3	Finland
J. Šutalo 71' Fruk 87'	Report	Skyttä 11', 29' Ablade 45+3'

Stadion Varteks, Varaždin

Attendance: 1,200

Referee: Ádám Farkas (Hungary)

3 June 2022

18:00

Norway	3–2	Croatia
Botheim 37' Daland 90+1' Larsen 90+5'	Report	Sučić 5' Šimić 79'

Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen

Attendance: 670

Referee: David Munro (Scotland)

3 June 2022

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Estonia	0–5	Azerbaijan
	Report	Gurbanlı 3', 33' R. Abdullazada 49' (pen.) Nuriyev 50' Zulfugarli 84'

Pärnu Rannastaadion, Pärnu

Attendance: 174

Referee: Robert Ian Jenkins (Wales)

3 June 2022

18:00

Austria	2–3	Finland
Schmid 5' (pen.) Adamu 76'	Report	Håkans 67' Skyttä 83' Tauriainen 89' (pen.)

Keine Sorgen Arena, Ried im Innkreis

Attendance: 800

Referee: Adam Ladebäck (Sweden)

7 June 2022

15:00 (16:00 EEST)

Finland	3–0	Azerbaijan
Skyttä 50' Antman 55' Sadiku 79'	Report

Bolt Arena, Helsinki

Attendance: 1,043

Referee: Jasmin Sabotic (Luxembourg)

8 June 2022

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Estonia	0–4	Croatia
	Report	Vidović 7' Vušković 14' Marin 41' Fruk 55'

Pärnu Rannastaadion, Pärnu

Attendance: 262

Referee: Ashot Ghaltakhchyan (Armenia)

10 June 2022

17:00 (18:00 EEST)

Finland	0–2	Norway
	Report	Ceïde 63' Oppegård 78'

Veritas Stadion, Turku

Attendance: 2,333

Referee: Abdulkadir Bitigen (Turkey)

14 June 2022

18:00

Norway	2–1	Azerbaijan
Larsen 54' Botheim 77'	Report	Alekperov 65'

Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen

Attendance: 750

Referee: Luka Bilbija (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Goalscorers

There were 103 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.43 goals per match.

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

Emil Konradsen Ceide

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Arsen Agcabayov (against Finland)
Mattias Sapp (against Finland)
Viljami Sinisalo (against Azerbaijan)

Notes

^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2021 and between 29 March and 24 October 2022, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.

References

^ "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
^ "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.

External links

[Time_zone-3] CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2021 and between 29 March and 24 October 2022, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.

[seeding-1] "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.

[coefficient-2] "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.

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