2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 1

Group 1 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Italy, Sweden, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Armenia, and Luxembourg. 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 24 March 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  Republic of Ireland 7 5 1 1 12 3 +9 16 Final tournament — 0–0 12 Nov 4–1 1–0 3–0
2  Italy 5 4 1 0 15 0 +15 13 Final tournament if among five best runners-up 13 Oct — 3–0 17 Nov 6–0 5–0
3  Iceland 5 3 0 2 10 9 +1 9 1–0 9 Oct — 4 Sep 6–1 3–0
4  Sweden 4 2 0 2 10 7 +3 6 1–3 8 Sep 5–0 — 13 Oct 9 Oct
5  Armenia 6 1 0 5 3 15 −12 3 0–1 0–1 17 Nov 13 Nov — 2–0
6  Luxembourg 5 0 0 5 0 16 −16 0 17 Nov 12 Nov 13 Oct 0–3 8 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).

Republic of Ireland 3–0 Luxembourg
  • Idah  34', 68'
  • Farrugia  38'
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Attendance: 4,772
Iceland 3–0 Luxembourg
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Attendance: 412
Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (Latvia)
Republic of Ireland 1–0 Armenia
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Attendance: 3,658
Referee: Fyodor Zammit (Malta)
Iceland 6–1 Armenia
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  • Melkonyan  60'
Attendance: 335
Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)
Italy 5–0 Luxembourg
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Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Peter Kjaesgaard (Denmark)
Sweden 1–3 Republic of Ireland
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Attendance: 4078
Referee: Rade Obrenovic (Slovenia)
Republic of Ireland 0–0 Italy
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Attendance: 7,231
Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Germany)
Armenia 2–0 Luxembourg
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Attendance: 2,550
Referee: Sebastian Gishamer (Austria)
Sweden 5–0 Iceland
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Attendance: 1,832
Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)
Armenia 0–1 Italy
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Attendance: 720
Referee: Ádám Farkas (Hungary)
Iceland 1–0 Republic of Ireland
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Attendance: 228
Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)
Luxembourg 0–3 Sweden
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Gal Leibovitz (Israel)
Armenia 0–1 Republic of Ireland
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Attendance: 270
Italy 3–0 Iceland
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Referee: Horatiu Fesnic (Romania)
Italy 6–0 Armenia
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Republic of Ireland 4–1 Sweden
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Attendance: 2760
Referee: Karim Abed (France)
Iceland v Sweden
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Sweden v Italy
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Luxembourg v Armenia
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Sweden v Luxembourg
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Iceland v Italy
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Italy v Republic of Ireland
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Sweden v Armenia
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Luxembourg v Iceland
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Republic of Ireland v Iceland
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Italy v Sweden
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Goalscorers

There have been 50 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.12 goals per match (as of 19 November 2019).

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. The Italy v Armenia match was originally scheduled at 18:30 CET, but was postponed due to heavy rain.[4]
  3. All matches originally scheduled to be played in March 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3]

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.
  4. "Under 21, Italia-Armenia inizierà alle 21. Ufficiale la decisione dell'arbitro". Gazzetta dello Sport. 19 November 2019.
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