2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 4

Group 4 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Scotland, Lithuania, and San Marino. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 11 December 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 5 June 2019 and 13 October 2020. Under the original format, the group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the play-offs.[2]

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the qualifying group stage would be extended and end on 17 November 2020, while the play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in November 2020, would be cancelled. Instead, the group winners and the five best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for the final tournament.[4][5][6]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Czech Republic 10 6 3 1 20 4 +16 21 Final tournament — 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 6–0
2  Croatia 10 6 2 2 37 7 +30 20 1–2 — 1–2 5–0 7–0 10–0
3  Scotland 10 5 3 2 16 5 +11 18 2–0 2–2 — 0–1 0–0 2–0
4  Greece 10 5 1 4 10 11 −1 16 0–2 0–1 1–0 — 1–0 5–0
5  Lithuania 10 3 1 6 9 15 −6 10 0–1 1–3 0–1 2–0 — 3–0
6  San Marino 10 0 0 10 0 50 −50 0 0–6 0–7 0–7 0–1 0–3 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

San Marino 0–3 Lithuania
Report
  • Kloniūnas  7'
  • Dubickas  29'
  • Čyžas  60'
Attendance: 240
Greece 5–0 San Marino
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Attendance: 258
Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)
Scotland 2–0 San Marino
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Attendance: 1,542
Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Ukraine)
Czech Republic 2–0 Lithuania
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Attendance: 3,823
Referee: Nicolas Laforge (Belgium)
Greece 1–0 Lithuania
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Attendance: 258
Referee: Besfort Kasumi (Kosovo)
Croatia 1–2 Scotland
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Attendance: 2,134
Referee: Michal Ocenáš (Slovakia)
Czech Republic 1–1 Greece
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Attendance: 2,126
Referee: Jørgen Burchardt (Denmark)
Scotland 0–0 Lithuania
Report
Attendance: 1,084
Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)
Czech Republic 0–0 Scotland
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Attendance: 5,187
Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)
San Marino 0–7 Croatia
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Attendance: 170
Referee: Kaarlo Oskari Hämäläinen (Finland)
Lithuania 1–3 Croatia
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Attendance: 243
Referee: Kristoffer Hagenes (Norway)
Czech Republic 6–0 San Marino
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Attendance: 1,977
Referee: Helgi Mikael Jónasson (Iceland)
Scotland 0–1 Greece
Report
Attendance: 1284
Croatia 1–2 Czech Republic
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Attendance: 1636
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
San Marino 0–6 Czech Republic
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Amine Kourgheli (Belarus)
Croatia 5–0 Greece
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)
San Marino 0–1 Greece
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Jason Lee Barcelo (Gibraltar)
Czech Republic 0–0 Croatia
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Ivaylo Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
Lithuania 0–1 Scotland
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Juri Frischer (Estonia)
Lithuania 2–0 Greece
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Attendance: 223
Croatia 10–0 San Marino
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Ivar Orri Kristjansson (Iceland)
Scotland 2–0 Czech Republic
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Attendance: 155
Referee: Guillermo Cuadra Fernandez (Spain)
Greece 0–1 Croatia
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Attendance: 0
Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero (Spain)
San Marino 0–7 Scotland
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Luis Teixeira (Portugal)
Lithuania 0–1 Czech Republic
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Attendance: 97
Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)
Scotland 2–2 Croatia
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Attendance: 132
Referee: Michael Fabbri (Italy)
Lithuania 3–0 San Marino
  • Petkevičius  31'
  • Banevičius  55'
  • Uzėla  77'
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Dzmitry Dzmitryieu (Belarus)
Greece 0–2 Czech Republic
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Attendance: 0
Croatia 7–0 Lithuania
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Ian McNabb (Northern Ireland)
Greece 1–0 Scotland
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Benoît Millot (France)

Goalscorers

There have been 92 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.07 goals per match (as of 17 November 2020).

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  • Alessandro Tosi (against Scotland)

Notes
  1. CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2019 and between 29 March and 24 October 2020, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
  2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, all matches scheduled for September 2020 were played behind closed doors.[7][8]
  3. All matches originally scheduled to be played in March 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3] These matches were subsequently rescheduled to be played in November 2020.

References
  1. "2020/21 Under-21 qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
  2. "2019-21 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF). UEFA.
  3. "COVID-19: latest updates on UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. 17 March 2020.
  4. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  5. "Updated UEFA competitions calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  6. "Under-21 EURO: New format and schedule announced". UEFA.com. 17 June 2020.
  7. "UEFA meets general secretaries of member associations". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  8. "UEFA Super Cup to test partial return of spectators". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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