2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group A

Group A of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Croatia, Austria, Norway, Finland, Azerbaijan, and Estonia. 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  Croatia 8 6 1 1 19 7 +12 19 Final tournament — 0–0 3–2 2–3 2–0 2–0
2  Austria (Y) 9 5 1 3 20 10 +10 16 Play-offs 1–3 — 2–1 3 Jun 6–0 2–0
3  Norway 7 5 0 2 19 8 +11 15 3 Jun 3–1 — 3–1 14 Jun 3–0
4  Finland 7 4 1 2 12 9 +3 13 0–2 3–1 10 Jun — 7 Jun 1–0
5  Azerbaijan (E) 7 1 1 5 6 19 −13 4 1–5 0–3 1–2 1–1 — 3–0
6  Estonia (E) 8 0 0 8 0 23 −23 0 8 Jun 0–4 0–5 0–3 3 Jun —
Updated to match(es) played on 29 March 2022. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated; (Y) Cannot Qualify Directly, May Only Advance To Play-Offs

Matches

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

Austria 2–0 Estonia
  • Schmid 7'
  • Demir 56'
 Report
Attendance: 1,080
Referee: Genc Nuza (Kosovo)
Croatia 2–0 Azerbaijan
 Report
Attendance: 753
Referee: Denys Shurman (Ukraine)
Estonia 0–3 Finland
Report Olusanya 29'
Sapp 49' (o.g.)
Mömmö 75'
Attendance: 300
Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)
Norway 3–1 Austria
Strand Larsen 17'
Holm 60'
Botheim 84'		 Report Adamu 13'
Attendance: 360
Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)
Finland 0–2 Croatia
Report Sučić 73' (pen.)
Ljubičić 87'
Attendance: 2,903
Referee: Vitor Ferreira (Portugal)
Austria 6–0 Azerbaijan
Adamu 3', 40'
Aiwu 19'
Schmid 85'
Anselm 90', 90+3'		 Report
Attendance: 950
Referee: Amin Kurgheli (Belarus)
Estonia 0–5 Norway
Report
Attendance: 63
Referee: Gergö Bogár (Hungary)
Croatia 3–2 Norway
 Report
Attendance: 718
Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk (Ukraine)
Azerbaijan 1–1 Finland
Sinisalo 86' (o.g.) Report Agcabayov 75' (o.g.)
Attendance: 150
Referee: Viktor Shimusik (Belarus)
Estonia 0–4 Austria
Report Prass 16'
Adamu 22' (pen.), 53'
Seiwald 65'
Attendance: 153
Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova)
Norway 3–0 Estonia
Christensen 4'
Strand Larsen 52'
Palumbo 73'		 Report
Attendance: 228
Referee: Jason Barcelo (Gibraltar)
Azerbaijan 1–5 Croatia
Gurbanlı 55' (pen.) Report Šimić 9', 13', 44' (pen.)
Soldo 25'
Šutalo 81'
Attendance: 120
Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)
Finland 3–1 Austria
Skyttä 19', 58'
Antman 86'		 Report Greiml 68'
Attendance: 1,594
Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
Croatia 2–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 548
Referee: Ishmael Barbara (Malta)
Azerbaijan 0–3 Austria
Report
Attendance: 70
Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)
Norway 3–1 Finland
 Report
Attendance: 407
Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (Denmark)
Finland 1–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 907
Referee: Georgi Davidov (Bulgaria)
Azerbaijan 1–2 Norway
 Report
Attendance: 95
Referee: Vassilis Fotias (Greece)
Austria 1–3 Croatia
 Report
Attendance: 1,300
Azerbaijan 3–0 Estonia
 Report
Attendance: 1,080
Referee: David Munro (Scotland)
Croatia 0–0 Austria
Report
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Manfredas Lukjancukas (Lithuania)
Austria 2–1 Norway
 Report
Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)
Croatia 2–3 Finland
 Report
Referee: Ádám Farkas (Hungary)
Norway v Croatia
Report
Estonia v Azerbaijan
Report
Austria v Finland
Report
Finland v Azerbaijan
Report
Estonia v Croatia
Report
Finland v Norway
Report
Norway v Azerbaijan
Report

Goalscorers

There have been 76 goals scored in 23 matches, for an average of 3.3 goals per match (as of 29 March 2022).

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  • Arsen Agcabayov (against Finland)
  • Mattias Sapp (against Finland)
  • Viljami Sinisalo (against Azerbaijan)

Notes
  1. 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.

References
  1. "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
  2. "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.


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