en 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group D

Group D of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Portugal, Greece, Iceland, Belarus, Cyprus, and Liechtenstein. 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	Portugal	10	9	1	0	41	3	+38	28	Final tournament	—	1–1	2–1	1–0	6–0	11–0
2	Iceland	10	5	3	2	25	7	+18	18	Play-offs	0–1	—	1–1	3–1	5–0	9–0
3	Greece	10	5	2	3	16	10	+6	17		0–4	1–0	—	2–0	0–0	4–0
4	Belarus	10	4	0	6	16	15	+1	12		1–5	1–2	0–2	—	2–0	6–0
5	Cyprus	10	3	2	5	16	16	0	11		0–1	1–1	3–0	0–1	—	6–0
6	Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	0	63	−63	0		0–9	0–3	0–5	0–4	0–6	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

25 March 2021

16:30

Greece	0–0	Cyprus
	Report

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 0

Referee: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)

5 June 2021

17:00

Liechtenstein	0–5	Greece
	Report	G. Christopoulos 39' Macheras 55' Botos 61' Zagaritis 65' Sardelis 73'

Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen

Attendance: 39^[3]

Referee: Viktor Kopiyevskyi (Ukraine)

2 September 2021

16:00 (17:00 EEST)

Belarus	1–2	Iceland
Shestyuk 71'	Report	Haraldsson 20', 54'

OSK Brestsky, Brest

Attendance: 3,260

Referee: Juxhin Xhaja (Albania)

3 September 2021

18:00

Liechtenstein	0–6	Cyprus
	Report	Sotiriou 12' (pen.) Kakoullis 22' Kosti 36' Paroutis 53' Charalambous 61' Kyprianou 89'

Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen

Attendance: 70

Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)

6 September 2021

20:00 (19:00 WEST)

Portugal	1–0	Belarus
Vieira 32' (pen.)	Report

Estádio José Gomes, Amadora

Attendance: 809

Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca (Austria)

7 September 2021

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Cyprus	6–0	Liechtenstein
Kakoullis 31', 41' (pen.) Kosti 33', 38' Gerolemou 46' Pikis 63'	Report

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 161

Referee: Luis Texeira (Portugal)

7 September 2021

19:00 (17:00 WET)

Iceland	1–1	Greece
Þórðarson 37'	Report	Ioannidis 45+1'

Fylkisvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 435

Referee: Gal Leibovitz (Israel)

7 October 2021

20:15 (19:15 WEST)

Portugal	11–0	Liechtenstein
Tavares 5' Almeida 8' Ramos 12', 19', 25', 39' Silva 13', 44' Vieira 37' (pen.) Tomás 63' Conceição 76'	Report

Estádio do FC Vizela, Vizela

Attendance: 5,239

Referee: Vitālijs Spasjoņņikovs (Latvia)

8 October 2021

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Belarus	0–2	Greece
	Report	Diamantis 27' Sardelis 84'

Torpedo Stadium, Zhodino

Attendance: 320

Referee: Mohammad Al-Emara (Finland)

12 October 2021

17:00 (15:00 WET)

Iceland	0–1	Portugal
	Report	Vieira 55'

Víkingsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 502

Referee: Robert Ian Jenkins (Wales)

12 October 2021

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Belarus	6–0	Liechtenstein
Morozov 15', 49', 59' Oreshkevich 29' (pen.) Shestyuk 45+1' Nikiforenko 68'	Report

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 50

Referee: Yasar Kemal Ugurlu (Turkey)

12 November 2021

15:00 (16:00 EET)

Greece	2–0	Belarus
Sourlis 16' Supranovich 53' (o.g.)	Report

Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium, Tripoli

Attendance: 660

Referee: Irakli Kvirikashvili (Georgia)

12 November 2021

15:00

Liechtenstein	0–3	Iceland
	Report	K. Hlynsson 15' Á. Hlynsson 25' Willumsson 31'

Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen

Attendance: 100

Referee: Joni Hyytiä (Finland)

12 November 2021

17:00 (18:00 EET)

Cyprus	0–1	Portugal
	Report	Ramos 15'

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca

Attendance: 224

Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

16 November 2021

15:00 (16:00 EET)

Greece	1–0	Iceland
Michailidis 37' (pen.)	Report

Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium, Tripoli

Attendance: 450

Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

16 November 2021

15:00

Liechtenstein	0–4	Belarus
	Report	Latykhov 10', 44' Lozhkin 46' Nikiforenko 90+3'

Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen

Attendance: 68

Referee: Ashot Ghaltakhchyan (Armenia)

16 November 2021

20:15 (19:15 WET)

Portugal	6–0	Cyprus
Ramos 6', 53', 61' Inácio 21' Vieira 51' H. Araújo 71'	Report

Estádio de São Luís, Faro

Attendance: 3,107

Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Sweden)

25 March 2022

18:00 (19:00 EET)

Greece	4–0	Liechtenstein
Michelis 21' Kosidis 27' Tzolis 38', 90+5'	Report

Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium, Tripoli

Attendance: 405

Referee: Rauf Jabarov (Azerbaijan)

25 March 2022

21:15 (20:15 WET)

Portugal	1–1	Iceland
Ramos 34'	Report	Willumsson 17'

Estádio Municipal de Portimão, Portimão

Attendance: 4,094

Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)

26 March 2022

15:00 (16:00 EET)

Cyprus	0–1	Belarus
	Report	Vegerya 32'

Dasaki Stadium, Achna

Attendance: 250

Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)

29 March 2022

15:00 (16:00 EEST)

Cyprus	1–1	Iceland
Gerolemou 27'	Report	K. Hlynsson 90+4'

Dasaki Stadium, Achna

Attendance: 75

Referee: Georgi Davidov (Bulgaria)

29 March 2022

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Greece	0–4	Portugal
	Report	Carvalho 12' Vieira 32' (pen.) Silva 45+1' H. Araújo 82'

Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium, Tripoli

Attendance: 1620

Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)

1 June 2022^[4]

15:00 (17:00 AMT)

Belarus	2–0	Cyprus
Davyskiba 59' Lozhkin 90+2'	Report

Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan (Armenia)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 0^{[note 2]}

Referee: Jakob Alexander Sundberg (Denmark)

3 June 2022

19:00 (17:00 WET)

Iceland	9–0	Liechtenstein
K. Hlynsson 3', 29' (pen.) Barkarson 5', 82' Ingason 10' Þórvaldsson 19', 33' Willumsson 35', 37'	Report

Víkingsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 240

Referee: Ishmael Barbara (Malta)

4 June 2022

15:00 (17:00 AMT)

Belarus	1–5	Portugal
Vasilevich 90'	Report	Vieira 33', 56' Ramos 50' Costa 79' Vitinha 90+4'

Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan (Armenia)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 0^{[note 2]}

Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)

6 June 2022

18:30 (19:30 EEST)

Cyprus	3–0	Greece
Katsantonis 27' (pen.) Nikolaou 73' Naoum 83' (pen.)	Report

Dasaki Stadium, Achna

Attendance: 257

Referee: Alexandre Boucaut (Belgium)

7 June 2022

20:45

Liechtenstein	0–9	Portugal
	Report	Silva 3', 27', 57' Bernardo 43' Vitinha 45', 65' Carvalho 78' H. Araújo 83' Ramos 90'

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 784

Referee: Denys Shurman (Ukraine)

8 June 2022

20:00 (18:00 WET)

Iceland	3–1	Belarus
K. Hlynsson 15' Ingason 44' Andrason 82'	Report	Zinovich 48'

Víkingsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 332

Referee: Sander van der Eijk (Netherlands)

11 June 2022

21:15 (19:15 WET)

Iceland	5–0	Cyprus
Ingason 11', 57' Karamanolis 33' (o.g.) Magnússon 65' K. Hlynsson 90'	Report

Víkingsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 895

Referee: Damian Sylwestrzak (Poland)

11 June 2022

21:15 (20:15 WEST)

Portugal	2–1	Greece
Bernardo 48' Ramos 56'	Report	Koutsias 90+1'

Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos

Attendance: 11,523

Referee: David Coote (England)

Goalscorers

There were 114 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.8 goals per match.

12 goals

Gonçalo Ramos

7 goals

Fábio Vieira

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Nikita Supranovich (against Greece)
Andreas Karamanolis (against Iceland)

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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Due to the country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus is required to play its home matches at neutral venues behind closed doors until further notice.^[5]

References

^ "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
^ "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.
^ "Liechtenstein vs. Greece" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
^ 2023 Under-21 EURO qualifying: Belarus-Cyprus match rescheduled, Belta, 1 June 2021
^ "Belarus teams to play on neutral ground in UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

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.

[Belarus-7] Due to the country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus is required to play its home matches at neutral venues behind closed doors until further notice.^[5]

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

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

[4] "Liechtenstein vs. Greece" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

[5] 2023 Under-21 EURO qualifying: Belarus-Cyprus match rescheduled, Belta, 1 June 2021

[ExCo-6] "Belarus teams to play on neutral ground in UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

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