2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group G

Group G of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: England, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Albania, Kosovo, and Andorra. 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	England	10	8	1	1	26	7	+19	25	Final tournament	—	3–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	4–1
2	Czech Republic	10	7	1	2	23	6	+17	22	Play-offs	1–2	—	1–0	3–0	4–0	7–0
3	Slovenia	10	4	4	2	11	7	+4	16		2–2	1–1	—	0–0	3–0	2–0
4	Kosovo	10	3	3	4	8	13	−5	12		0–5	0–1	0–0	—	2–1	2–0
5	Albania	10	3	1	6	9	17	−8	10		0–3	0–1	2–0	1–1	—	2–0
6	Andorra	10	0	0	10	1	28	−27	0		0–1	0–3	0–1	0–3	0–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

4 June 2021

18:00

Andorra	0–3	Albania
	Report	Broja 17' Mehmeti 43' (pen.) Álvarez 62' (o.g.)

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 185

Referee: Amin Kurgheli (Belarus)

8 June 2021

20:00

Kosovo	2–0	Andorra
Dio. Berisha 82' Marleku 85'	Report

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 0

Referee: Nikolas Neokleous (Cyprus)

2 September 2021

18:00

Czech Republic	1–0	Slovenia
Vitík 89'	Report

Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České Budějovice

Attendance: 1,552

Referee: Don Robertson (Scotland)

6 September 2021

18:00

Czech Republic	4–0	Albania
Ostrák 7' Fila 13' Danek 32' Šulc 83'	Report

Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České Budějovice

Attendance: 1,784

Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

6 September 2021

19:00

Andorra	0–1	Slovenia
	Report	Stojinović 61'

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 324

Referee: Petri Viljanen (Finland)

7 September 2021

20:00 (19:00 BST)

England	2–0	Kosovo
Brewster 10' (pen.) Palmer 26'	Report

Stadium MK, Milton Keynes

Attendance: 5,781

Referee: Kaarlo Oskari Hämäläinen (Finland)

7 October 2021

19:00

Kosovo	0–1	Czech Republic
	Report	Gabriel 38'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 300

Referee: Rauf Jabarov (Azerbaijan)

7 October 2021

20:15

Slovenia	2–2	England
Španring 49' Stojinović 66'	Report	Gallagher 5' Palmer 14'

Stadion Z'dežele, Celje

Attendance: 457

Referee: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Greece)

7 October 2021

19:00

Albania	2–0	Andorra
Muçi 36', 90+2'	Report

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 100

Referee: Alex Troleis (Faroe Islands)

11 October 2021

18:30

Albania	2–0	Slovenia
Karrica 53' Dobra 58'	Report

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 200

Referee: Bram Van Driessche (Belgium)

11 October 2021

20:00

Andorra	0–1	England
	Report	Smith Rowe 67'

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 572

Referee: Igor Stojchevski (North Macedonia)

12 October 2021

18:00

Czech Republic	3–0	Kosovo
Sejk 10' Gabriel 38' Šulc 57'	Report

Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České Budějovice

Attendance: 2,439

Referee: Gal Leibovitz (Israel)

11 November 2021

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

England	3–1	Czech Republic
Gordon 4', 11' Balogun 30'	Report	Karabec 40' (pen.)

Turf Moor, Burnley

Attendance: 6,507

Referee: Michael Fabbri (Italy)

12 November 2021

18:00

Slovenia	3–0	Albania
Flakus Bosilj 7', 75' Matko 24'	Report

Bonifika Stadium, Koper

Attendance: 320

Referee: Rob Hennessy (Republic of Ireland)

16 November 2021

18:00

Slovenia	1–1	Czech Republic
Zec 32'	Report	Čvančara 59'

Bonifika Stadium, Koper

Attendance: 320

Referee: Bojan Pandžić (Sweden)

16 November 2021

19:00

Kosovo	2–1	Albania
E. Krasniqi 66' Sejdiu 90+2'	Report	Karrica 58'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 600

Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

25 March 2022

18:00

Kosovo	0–0	Slovenia
	Report

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 600

Referee: Ian McNabb (Northern Ireland)

25 March 2022

19:00

Albania	0–1	Czech Republic
	Report	Kalaj 35' (o.g.)

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 700

Referee: Antonio Emanuel Carvalho Nobre (Portugal)

25 March 2022

20:45 (19:45 GMT)

England	4–1	Andorra
Balogun 6' Ramsey 34' Gibbs-White 54' Gordon 80'	Report	Rosas 63'

Dean Court, Bournemouth

Attendance: 8,852

Referee: Jasmin Sabotic (Luxembourg)

29 March 2022

16:00

Slovenia	0–0	Kosovo
	Report

Ljudski vrt, Maribor

Attendance: 437

Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (Greece)

29 March 2022

18:00

Andorra	0–3	Czech Republic
	Report	Karabec 6' Fila 10', 56'

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 250

Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)

29 March 2022

20:45

Albania	0–3	England
	Report	Balogun 47', 62' Jones 51'

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 700

Referee: Kaspar Sjöberg (Sweden)

3 June 2022

18:00

Czech Republic	1–2	England
Fila 88'	Report	Smith Rowe 22' Ramsey 46'

Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České Budějovice

Attendance: 5,654

Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)

4 June 2022

18:00

Andorra	0–3	Kosovo
	Report	Veliu 11' (pen.) Sadriu 52' K. Krasniqi 54'

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 522

Referee: Sandi Putros (Denmark)

7 June 2022

20:45 (19:45 BST)

England	3–0	Albania
Balogun 45', 66' Archer 77'	Report

Chesterfield FC Stadium, Chesterfield

Attendance: 4,422

Referee: Ivar Orri Kristjansson (Iceland)

9 June 2022

18:00

Slovenia	2–0	Andorra
Stojinović 22' Begić 62'	Report

Stanko Mlakar Stadium, Kranj

Attendance: 270

Referee: Iwan Arwel Griffith (Wales)

10 June 2022

20:00

Kosovo	0–5	England
	Report	Lewis-Potter 1' Gordon 13' Archer 52', 72' I. Krasniqi 85' (o.g.)

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (Latvia)

13 June 2022

18:00

Czech Republic	7–0	Andorra
Karabec 12', 34' Gabriel 16' Sejk 25', 31' Ševčík 27' Daněk 55'	Report

Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská, Brno

Attendance: 1,679

Referee: Marcel Birsan (Romania)

13 June 2022

19:30

Albania	1–1	Kosovo
Ruçi 90+5'	Report	E. Krasniqi 32'

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 350

Referee: Marian Barbu (Romania)

13 June 2022

20:45 (19:45 BST)

England	1–2	Slovenia
Archer 90+1'	Report	Spence 1' (o.g.) Zabukovnik 65'

Kirklees Stadium, Huddersfield

Attendance: 5,236

Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)

Goalscorers

There were 78 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.6 goals per match.

6 goals

Folarin Balogun

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Sergio Kalaj (against Czech Republic)
Iker (against Albania)
Djed Spence (against Slovenia)
Ilir Krasniqi (against England)

Notes

^ 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

^ "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
^ "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.

External links

[Time_zone-3] 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.

[seeding-1] "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.

[coefficient-2] "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.

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