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The UEFA U-21 Championship 2007 began in May 2006 and is the 16th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Football Championship.

For the first time, a host nation has been chosen ahead of the competition — the Netherlands, who will be exempt from qualifying. The host nation was chosen on December 15, 2005. England, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Sweden also submitted bids. Of UEFA's 52 member countries, only the Faroe Islands will not compete. That leaves 50 nations attempting to qualify for the 7 remaining spots at the finals, expected to be held in late May or June 2007.

This will be the first time that the competition's final matches will take place in an odd-numbered year. In order to make the switch, the 2007 edition will be a shortened version, condensed from a two-year campaign into a one-year campaign. Therefore, a completely new format has been devised to eliminate the weaker nations early, and sees a decrease in the size and duration of qualification groups. The competition's structure is as follows:

The 16 lowest ranked nations play-off (on a home-and-away basis) before the qualifying group stage, to eliminate 8 teams.
1. This round must be completed by July 15, 2006.
The 42 teams left form 14 three-team groups.
1. Each team will play one home match and one away match.
2. This round will be completed on September 6, 2006.
The 14 group winners play-off (on a home-and-away basis) to decide the seven qualifying nations.

The draw for the first two stages has already been made, with teams going into the preliminary rounds already knowing who they will face should they get through.

Qualification

For more details see UEFA U-21 Championship 2007 (Qualifying Round).

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Estonia	1-7	Wales	0-2	1-5
Malta	2-4	Georgia	1-2	1-2
San Marino	3-4	Armenia	3-0*	0-4
Liechtenstein	1-8	Northern Ireland	1-4	0-4
Kazakhstan	0-1	Moldova	0-0	0-1
Luxembourg	0-5	Republic of Macedonia	0-3	0-2
Andorra	0-2	Iceland	0-0	0-2
Azerbaijan	1-5	Republic of Ireland	1-2	0-3

Team #1 played the first leg at home.
(*) Match awarded 3-0 to San Marino due to Armenia including suspended players in their squad.

Qualifying Groups

Teams shown in order of seeding.

Group 1 Template:NORu21f Template:BIHu21f Template:ARMu21f	Group 2 Template:ESPu21f Template:SVKu21f Template:ALBu21f	Group 3 Template:SERu21f Template:LTUu21f Template:GEOu21f	Group 4 Template:BELu21f Template:GREu21f Template:IRLu21f	Group 5 Template:ITAu21f Template:AUTu21f Template:ISLu21f

Group 6 Template:RUSu21f Template:HUNu21f Template:FINu21f	Group 7 Template:PORu21f Template:POLu21f Template:LATu21f	Group 8 Template:SUIu21f Template:ENGu21f Template:MOLu21f	Group 9 Template:CZEu21f Template:BLRu21f Template:CYPu21f	Group 10 Template:GERu21f Template:ROMu21f Template:NIRu21f

Group 11 Template:DENu21f Template:SWEu21f Template:MKDu21f	Group 12 Template:CROu21f Template:UKRu21f Template:BULu21f	Group 13 Template:TURu21f Template:ISRu21f Template:WALu21f	Group 14 Template:FRAu21f Template:SVNu21f Template:SCOu21f

Finals Tournament Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Arnhem	Gelredome	30,000
Heerenveen	Abe Lenstra Stadion	28,000
Groningen	Euroborg	20,000
Nijmegen	De Goffert	13,000

Sources/External links

Draw and Fixtures at uefa.com

v t e National under-21 men's football teams of Europe (UEFA)
Active	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany Soviet Union Yugoslavia

National under-21 men's football teams of Europe (UEFA)

Active

Defunct

UEFA European U-21 and U-23 Championship

Under-23

Without host	1970–1972 1972–1974 1974–1976

Under-21

Without host	1976–1978 1978–1980 1980–1982 1982–1984 1984–1986 1986–1988 1988–1990 1990–1992
With host	France 1994 Spain 1996 Romania 1998 Slovakia 2000 Switzerland 2002 Germany 2004 Portugal 2006 Netherlands 2007 Sweden 2009 Denmark 2011 Israel 2013 Czech Republic 2015 Poland 2017 Italy 2019 Hungary / Slovenia 2021 Romania / Georgia 2023 Slovakia 2025 TBD 2027
Qualification	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025
Finals	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
Squads	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023

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