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 is played in home-and-away round-robin format between 6 September 2019 and 13 October 2020. The group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up advance to the play-offs.[2]

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Denmark 5 5 0 0 13 5 +8 15 Final tournament — 2–1 13 Oct 4 Sep 2–1 5–1
2  Romania 5 3 1 1 11 3 +8 10 Final tournament if among five best runners-up TBD — 4–1 3–0 3–0 13 Oct
3  Finland 5 2 1 2 8 6 +2 7 0–1 4 Sep — 8 Sep 1–1 4–0
4  Ukraine 4 1 0 3 6 8 −2 3 2–3 9 Oct 0–2 — TBD 4–0
5  Northern Ireland 5 0 3 2 2 6 −4 3 8 Sep 0–0 9 Oct 13 Oct — 0–0
6  Malta 4 0 1 3 1 13 −12 1 9 Oct 8 Sep TBD TBD 4 Sep —
Updated to match(es) played on 19 November 2019. 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
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Attendance: 3,779
Referee: Tihomir Pejin (Croatia)
Northern Ireland 0–0 Malta
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Attendance: 3,824
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
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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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Denmark 5–1 Malta
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  • Pulis  44'
Referee: Luis Teixeira (Andorra)
Northern Ireland 0–0 Romania
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Referee: Kai Erik Steen (Norway)
Malta v Northern Ireland
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Denmark v Ukraine
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Finland v Romania
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Malta v Romania
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Northern Ireland v Denmark
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Finland v Ukraine
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Malta v Denmark
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Ukraine v Romania
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Northern Ireland v Finland
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Romania v Malta
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Denmark v Finland
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Northern Ireland v Ukraine
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Goalscorers

There have been 41 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 2.93 goals per match (as of 19 November 2019).

6 goals

4 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. All matches originally scheduled to be played in March 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3]
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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.
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