UEFA U21 Championship - Qualification

Euro U21 - Qualification (UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification) is the qualifying competition for national teams that determines the line-up for the Under-21 EURO final tournament. Regulations: the host association or associations qualify automatically, the remaining teams are drawn into nine groups of five or six and play a home-and-away league system, with 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a defeat. Group winners and the best runner-up qualify directly for the finals, the remaining runners-up enter the play-offs, ties and the order of legs are decided by a draw, the play-offs are played over two legs home and away, the winner is decided on aggregate score, and if level extra time is played at the end of the second leg and, if still level, a penalty shoot-out decides who qualifies. To determine the best runner-up, results against the sixth-placed team in six-team groups are discarded, and runners-up are compared by points, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored, wins, away wins, disciplinary points and position in the UEFA coefficient ranking. If teams are level on points within a group, rankings are determined by head-to-head points, head-to-head goal difference and head-to-head goals scored, with the head-to-head criteria reapplied to the remaining tied teams if needed, then by overall goal difference, overall goals scored, away goals scored in all group matches, wins, away wins, disciplinary points and position in the UEFA coefficient ranking.