2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8

Group 8 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Denmark, Romania, Ukraine, Finland, Northern Ireland, and Malta. 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 6 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  Denmark 10 8 2 0 21 9 +12 26 Final tournament — 2–1 1–1 2–1 2–1 5–1
2  Romania 10 6 2 2 22 7 +15 20 1–1 — 3–0 4–1 3–0 4–1
3  Ukraine 10 5 1 4 17 11 +6 16 2–3 1–0 — 0–2 3–0 4–0
4  Finland 10 4 1 5 14 15 −1 13 0–1 1–3 0–2 — 1–1 4–0
5  Northern Ireland 10 2 3 5 7 13 −6 9 0–1 0–0 1–0 2–3 — 0–0
6  Malta 10 0 1 9 4 30 −26 1 1–3 0–3 1–4 0–1 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

Ukraine 0–2 Finland
Report
Attendance: 3,779
Referee: Tihomir Pejin (Croatia)
Northern Ireland 0–0 Malta
Report
Attendance: 723
Referee: Ferenc Karakó (Hungary)
Ukraine 4–0 Malta
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Attendance: 3,038
Referee: Juxhin Xhaja (Albania)
Finland 1–1 Northern Ireland
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  • Thompson  35'
Attendance: 3,666
Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)
Denmark 2–1 Romania
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Attendance: 1,702
Referee: Erez Papir (Israel)
Finland 4–0 Malta
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Attendance: 1,320
Referee: Robert Ian Jenkins (Wales)
Denmark 2–1 Northern Ireland
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  • Dunwoody  57'
Attendance: 647
Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
Romania 3–0 Ukraine
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Attendance: 5,563
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)
Finland 0–1 Denmark
Report
Attendance: 1,510
Referee: Peter Kralović (Slovakia)
Romania 3–0 Northern Ireland
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Attendance: 4,067
Referee: Nejc Kajtazovic (Slovenia)
Romania 4–1 Finland
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Attendance: 2,325
Referee: Robert Hennessy (Republic of Ireland)
Ukraine 2–3 Denmark
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Attendance: 17321
Denmark 5–1 Malta
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  • Pulis  44'
Attendance: 1051
Referee: Luis Teixeira (Andorra)
Northern Ireland 0–0 Romania
Report
Attendance: 1641
Referee: Kai Erik Steen (Norway)
Malta 0–2 Northern Ireland
Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Michal Očenáš (Slovakia)
Denmark 1–1 Ukraine
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Finland 1–3 Romania
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)
Malta 0–3 Romania
Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Gergő Bogár (Hungary)
Northern Ireland 0–1 Denmark
Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)
Finland 0–2 Ukraine
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Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Thorvaldur Árnason (Iceland)
Ukraine 1–0 Romania
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Attendance: 400
Referee: Furkat Atazhanov (Kazakhstan)
Malta 1–3 Denmark
  • Attard  52'
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Greece)
Northern Ireland 2–3 Finland
  • O'Neill  23', 59'
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Vitor Fernandes Ferreira (Portugal)
Denmark 2–1 Finland
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Attendance: 287
Referee: Besfort Kasumi (Kosovo)
Romania 4–1 Malta
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  • Elouni  51'
Attendance: 0
Referee: Visar Kastrati (Kosovo)
Northern Ireland 1–0 Ukraine
  • O'Neill  61'
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Barbeno Luca (San Marino)
Malta 1–4 Ukraine
  • Elouni  47'
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Pavel Rejzek (Czech Republic)
Malta 0–1 Finland
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Nikola Popov (Bulgaria)
Ukraine 3–0 Northern Ireland
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Rauf Jabarov (Azerbaijan)
Romania 1–1 Denmark
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

Goalscorers

There have been 85 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.83 goals per match (as of 17 November 2020).

7 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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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