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Group 2 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: France, Slovakia, Switzerland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Liechtenstein. 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, with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 6 June 2019 and 13 October 2020. Under the original format, the group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the play-offs.

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the qualifying group stage would be extended and end on 17 November 2020, while the play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in November 2020, would be cancelled. Instead, the group winners and the five best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for the final tournament.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	10	9	0	1	32	10	+22	27	Final tournament		—	3–1	3–2	1–0	5–0	5–0
2	Switzerland	10	9	0	1	26	8	+18	27			3–1	—	2–1	4–1	2–1	3–0
3	Georgia	10	5	0	5	17	14	+3	15			0–2	0–3	—	2–1	1–0	4–0
4	Slovakia	10	4	0	6	22	21	+1	12			3–5	1–2	3–2	—	2–1	6–0
5	Azerbaijan	10	2	0	8	6	18	−12	6			1–2	0–1	0–3	2–1	—	1–0
6	Liechtenstein	10	1	0	9	3	35	−32	3			0–5	0–5	0–2	2–4	1–0	—

Matches

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

Liechtenstein	1–0	Azerbaijan
Frick 10' (pen.)	Report

Georgia	4–0	Liechtenstein
Kavtaradze 30' Samurkasovi 36' Arabidze 53' Bugridze 70'	Report

Azerbaijan	2–1	Slovakia
Ekincier 7', 90+3'	Report	Tupta 82'

Liechtenstein	0–5	Switzerland
	Report	Zeqiri 40', 49' Ndoye 74' Okafor 77' Stojilković 90+3'

Azerbaijan	0–3	Georgia
	Report	Arveladze 45+3' Bugridze 73' Arabidze 84'

Liechtenstein	2–4	Slovakia
Caglar 63' Frick 67'	Report	Strelec 8' Bernát 43' Herc 68', 90+3'

France	5–0	Azerbaijan
Édouard 2', 36' Zagadou 40' Aouar 51' Nordin 76'	Report

Switzerland	2–1	Georgia
Vargas 57' Lotomba 83'	Report	Arabidze 61'

Azerbaijan	0–1	Switzerland
	Report	Bajrami 33'

Slovakia	3–5	France
Strelec 5' Herc 52' Tupta 62'	Report	Reine-Adélaïde 3' Aouar 13' Édouard 23', 35', 81'

Azerbaijan	1–0	Liechtenstein
Ekincier 65'	Report

France	3–2	Georgia
Reine-Adélaïde 15', 54' Édouard 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Kokhreidze 58' Kvaratskhelia 60'

Slovakia	3–2	Georgia
Kolesár 28' Herc 52' Gamboš 66'	Report	Kutsia 8' Spanderashvili 89'

Switzerland	3–1	France
Guillemenot 44' Zeqiri 45+1', 53'	Report	Édouard 19' (pen.)

Georgia	0–2	France
	Report	Beriashvili 38' (o.g.) Édouard 90+3' (pen.)

Switzerland	4–1	Slovakia
Zeqiri 10' (pen.), 77' Okafor 37' Ndoye 71'	Report	Tupta 43'

Azerbaijan	1–2	France
Bayramov 90+1'	Report	Édouard 26' (pen.) Gouiri 84'

Liechtenstein	0–2	Georgia
	Report	Spanderashvili 20' Samurkasovi 35'

Slovakia	1–2	Switzerland
Strelec 66'	Report	Zeqiri 88' (pen.) Ndoye 90+3'

Slovakia	2–1	Azerbaijan
Tupta 61' Mesík 90+4'	Report	Çelik 66'

France	5–0	Liechtenstein
Gouiri 7', 30' Ikoné 9' Marxer 43' (o.g.) Faivre 51'	Report

Georgia	0–3	Switzerland
	Report	Ndoye 27' Zeqiri 69' (pen.) Pusic 81'

France	1–0	Slovakia
Koundé 22'	Report

Georgia	1–0	Azerbaijan
Guliashvili 42'	Report

Switzerland	3–0	Liechtenstein
Guillemenot 4' Zeqiri 42' Sidler 54'	Report

Georgia	2–1	Slovakia
Fabiš 9' (o.g.) Mekvabishvili 78'	Report	Gono 90+1'

Switzerland	2–1	Azerbaijan
Toma 49' Stojilković 90+1'	Report	Kökçü 22'

Liechtenstein	0–5	France
	Report	Dagba 3' Faivre 5' Spirig 17' (o.g.) Reine-Adélaïde 57' Lihadji 80'

France	3–1	Switzerland
Édouard 18', 23' Kolo 90+2'	Report	Imeri 88'

Slovakia	6–0	Liechtenstein
Kadák 5' Unterrainer 9' (o.g.) Almási 33' Gono 67' Bernát 71' Vallo 77'	Report

Goalscorers

There were 106 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.53 goals per match.

11 goals

• Odsonne Édouard

9 goals

• Andi Zeqiri

4 goals

• Jeff Reine-Adélaïde
• Christián Herc
• Ľubomír Tupta
• Dan Ndoye

3 goals

• Baris Ekincier
• Amine Gouiri
• Giorgi Arabidze
• Dávid Strelec

2 goals

• Houssem Aouar
• Romain Faivre
• Irakli Bugridze
• Davit Samurkasovi
• Nugzar Spanderashvili
• Noah Frick
• Ján Bernát
• Miroslav Gono
• Jérémy Guillemenot
• Noah Okafor
• Filip Stojilković

1 goal

• Tural Bayramov
• Mert Çelik
• Ozan Kökçü
• Colin Dagba
• Jonathan Ikoné
• Randal Kolo
• Jules Koundé
• Isaac Lihadji
• Arnaud Nordin
• Dan-Axel Zagadou
• Vato Arveladze
• Giorgi Guliashvili
• Beka Kavtaradze
• Giorgi Kokhreidze
• Giorgi Kutsia
• Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
• Anzor Mekvabishvili
• Menderes Caglar
• Ladislav Almási
• Martin Gamboš
• Jakub Kadák
• Peter Kolesár
• Ivan Mesík
• Kristián Vallo
• Nedim Bajrami
• Kastriot Imeri
• Jordan Lotomba
• Petar Pusic
• Silvan Sidler
• Bastien Toma
• Ruben Vargas

1 own goal

• Ilia Beriashvili (against France)
• Martin Marxer (against France)
• Roman Spirig (against France)
• Fabian Unterrainer (against Slovakia)
• Lukáš Fabiš (against Georgia)

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. ^ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, all matches scheduled for September 2020 were played behind closed doors.
3. ^ All matches originally scheduled to be played in March 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. These matches were subsequently rescheduled to be played in November 2020.

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. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
5. "Updated UEFA competitions calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
6. "Under-21 EURO: New format and schedule announced". UEFA.com. 17 June 2020.
7. "UEFA meets general secretaries of member associations". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
8. "UEFA Super Cup to test partial return of spectators". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.

External links

• Under-21 Matches: 2021 Qualifying, UEFA.com

• 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification