2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

In the qualifying group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 14.01):[1]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Wins in all group matches;
9. Away wins in all group matches;
10. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
11. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

To determine the bests runner-up from the qualifying group stage, the results against the teams in sixth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.02):[1]

1. Points;
2. Goal difference;
3. Goals scored;
4. Away goals scored;
5. Wins;
6. Away wins;
7. Disciplinary points;
8. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

Final tournament host

Team
Slovakia

Pot 1 Team  Spain  Portugal  Germany  France  Netherlands  England  Denmark  Italy  Romania	Pot 2 Team  Croatia  Switzerland  Belgium  Czech Republic  Poland  Ukraine  Sweden  Austria  Republic of Ireland	Pot 3 Team  Norway  Greece  Iceland  Slovenia  Israel  Finland  Georgia  Serbia  Scotland
Pot 4 Team  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Hungary  Turkey  North Macedonia  Wales  Belarus  Northern Ireland  Albania	Pot 5 Team  Kosovo  Montenegro  Moldova  Lithuania  Faroe Islands  Cyprus  Kazakhstan  Azerbaijan  Latvia	Pot 6 Team  Malta  Armenia  Luxembourg  Andorra  Estonia  Gibraltar  San Marino

Each group contained one team from each of Pots 1–6 (Pots 1–4 for five-team group). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following teams would not be drawn in the same group.

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
• Belarus and Ukraine
• Gibraltar and Spain
• Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
• Kosovo and Serbia

Only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team in six-team groups are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The top-ranked team qualifies directly for the final tournament, while the other teams enter the play-offs.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	G	Greece	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	Final tournament
2	A	Group A runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	B	Group B runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	C	Group C runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Play-offs
5	D	Group D runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	E	Group E runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	F	Group F runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	H	Group H runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	I	Group I runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0