2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 5

Group 5 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Serbia, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Estonia. 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 September 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  Russia 10 7 2 1 22 4 +18 23 Final tournament — 2–2 2–0 1–0 4–0 2−0
2  Poland 10 6 2 2 19 8 +11 20 1–0 — 1–1 1–0 4–0 3–1
3  Bulgaria 10 5 3 2 14 5 +9 18 0–0 3−0 — 0–1 3–0 1–0
4  Serbia 10 3 3 4 12 9 +3 12 0–2 1–0 1–2 — 6−0 1–1
5  Estonia 10 1 2 7 3 34 −31 5 0–5 0–6 0–4 0–0 — 2–1
6  Latvia 10 0 4 6 7 17 −10 4 1–4 0–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

Estonia 0–4 Bulgaria
Report
Attendance: 207[7]
Referee: Milovan Milačić (Montenegro)
Latvia 0–1 Poland
Report
Attendance: 350[8]
Referee: Admir Šehović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Russia 1–0 Serbia
 Report
Attendance: 28,220[9]
Referee: Manfredas Lukjancukas (Lithuania)
Poland 4–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 6,358[10]
Referee: Rohit Saggi (Norway)
Serbia 1–1 Latvia
 Report
  • Regža  10'
Attendance: 723[11]
Referee: Keith Kennedy (Northern Ireland)
Bulgaria 0–0 Russia
Report
Attendance: 1,800[12]
Referee: Urs Schnyder (Switzerland)
Russia 2–2 Poland
 Report
Attendance: 16,028[13]
Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)
Bulgaria 0–1 Serbia
Report
Attendance: 1,020[14]
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)
Estonia 2–1 Latvia
 Report
  • Regža  18'
Attendance: 247[15]
Referee: Rauf Jabarov (Azerbaijan)
Latvia 0–0 Bulgaria
Report
Attendance: 305[16]
Referee: Marcel Birsan (Romania)
Poland 1–0 Serbia
 Report
Attendance: 3,628[17]
Estonia 0–5 Russia
Report
Attendance: 403[18]
Referee: Nikolas Neokleous (Cyprus)
Russia 2–0 Latvia
 Report
Attendance: 11,088[19]
Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)
Bulgaria 3–0 Poland
 Report
Attendance: 453[20]
Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk (Ukraine)
Serbia 6–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 504[21]
Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)
Serbia 0–2 Russia
Report
Attendance: 3,413[22]
Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain)
Latvia 2–2 Serbia
  • Liepa  8'
  • Regža  17'
 Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Gai Leibovitz (Israel)
Estonia 0–6 Poland
Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Russia 2–0 Bulgaria
 Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Arda Kardeşler (Turkey)
Latvia 1–1 Estonia
  • Regža  62'
 Report
  • Reinkort  54'
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)
Poland 1–0 Russia
 Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Serbia 1–2 Bulgaria
 Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
Russia 4–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 650[25]
Referee: Antonio Nobre (Portugal)
Bulgaria 1–0 Latvia
 Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Viktor Shimusik (Belarus)
Serbia 1–0 Poland
 Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Bram Van Driessche (Belgium)
Estonia 0–0 Serbia
Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Paul McLaughlin (Ireland)
Latvia 1–4 Russia
  • Lūsiņš  90+3'
 Report
Attendance: 653[27]
Referee: Roomer Tarajev (Estonia)
Poland 1–1 Bulgaria
 Report
Attendance: 1894
Referee: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)
Bulgaria 3–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Walter Altmann (Austria)
Poland 3–1 Latvia
 Report
  • Regža  89'
Attendance: 0
Referee: Dragan Petrovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Goalscorers

There have been 77 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.57 goals per match (as of 17 November 2020).

5 goals

  • Marko Regža

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  • Igor Diveyev (against Poland)
  • Magnus Villota (against Russia)

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.[23][24]
  3. The match between Estonia and Serbia was played in Latvia due to travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic between Estonia and Serbia.[26]
  4. 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. "Estonia U21 vs. Bulgaria U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  8. "Latvia U21 vs. Poland U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  9. "Russia U21 vs. Serbia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  10. "Poland U21 vs. Estonia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  11. "Serbia U21 vs. Latvia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  12. "Bulgaria U21 vs. Russia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  13. "Russia U21 vs. Poland U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  14. "Bulgaria U21 vs. Serbia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  15. "Estonia U21 vs. Latvia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  16. "Latvia U21 vs. Bulgaria U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  17. "Poland U21 vs. Serbia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  18. "Estonia U21 vs. Russia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  19. "Russia U21 vs. Latvia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  20. "Bulgaria U21 vs. Poland U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  21. "Serbia U21 vs. Estonia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  22. "Serbia U21 vs. Russia U21". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  23. "UEFA meets general secretaries of member associations". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  24. "UEFA Super Cup to test partial return of spectators". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  25. "Быстров и Березуцкий зарядили молодежку на разгром" (in Russian). sport-express.ru. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  26. "U21 koondist ootavad ees valikmäng Venemaal ja kohtumine Serbiaga Lätis". Eesti Jalgpalli Liit. 29 September 2020.
  27. "Latvija - Krievija - 1:4" (in Latvian). LFF.lv. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
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