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 6 6 0 0 17 4 +13 18 Final tournament — 3–2 24 Mar '22 28 Mar '22 2–0 2–0
2  Norway 6 5 0 1 18 6 +12 15 Play-offs 2 Jun '22 — 3–1 3–1 14 Jun '22 3–0
3  Austria 7 4 0 3 18 9 +9 12 1–3 28 Mar '22 — 2 Jun '22 6–0 2–0
4  Finland 6 3 1 2 9 7 +2 10 0–2 9 Jun '22 3–1 — 6 Jun '22 1–0
5  Azerbaijan (E) 6 0 1 5 3 19 −16 1 1–5 1–2 0–3 1–1 — 24 Mar '22
6  Estonia (E) 7 0 0 7 0 20 −20 0 7 Jun '22 0–5 0–4 0–3 2 Jun '22 —
Updated to match(es) played on 16 November 2021. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated

Matches

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

Austria 2–0 Estonia
 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
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'
Larsen  52'
Palumbo  73'		 Report
Attendance: 228
Referee: Jason Barcelo (Gibraltar)
Azerbaijan 1–5 Croatia
Qurbanli  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
Croatia v Austria
Report
Azerbaijan v Estonia
Report
Croatia v Finland
Report
Austria v Norway
Report
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 65 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 3.42 goals per match (as of 16 November 2021).

6 goals

5 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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