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2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

FieldValue
tourney_nameUEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
year2015
dates22 March 2013 – 14 October 2014
num_teams52
confederations1
matches234
goals790
top_scorerENG Saido Berahino (10 goals)
prevseason[2013](2013-uefa-european-under-21-championship-qualification)
nextseason[2017](2017-uefa-european-under-21-championship-qualification)

The 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship started with a qualifying competition which began in March 2013 and finished in September 2014. The final tournament was held in the Czech Republic. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 31 January 2013 in Nyon, with matches played between March 2013 and September 2014.

There were ten groups. Two of these groups had six teams; the remaining eight groups consisted of five teams. Group competition was a double round robin: each team hosted a game with every other team in its group. At the conclusion of qualifying, the 10 teams at the top of each group and four best second-placed teams qualified for the two-legged play-offs scheduled in October 2014, with the seven winners of the play-off ties joining Czech Republic in the finals.

Seeding

A total of fifty-two participating teams were divided in five draw pots based on the UEFA Under-21 coefficient ranking. Pots A through D contained ten teams, while pot E twelve teams.

Pot APot BPot CPot DPot E

Before the draw UEFA confirmed that, for political reasons, Armenia would not be drawn against Azerbaijan (due to the dispute concerning territory of Nagorno-Karabakh) and Georgia would not be drawn against Russia (due to the dispute regarding the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia) in the qualifiers for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.

  1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question
  2. Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question
  4. Higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question
  5. If, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two or more teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6) and 7) will apply
  6. Results of all group matches:
  7. Superior goal difference
  8. Higher number of goals scored
  9. Higher number of goals scored away from home
  10. Position in the UEFA Under-21 coefficient ranking used for the group stage draw

Qualifying group stage

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and four best runners up advance to the [play-offs](2015-uefa-european-under-21-championship-qualification-play-offs)

Group 1

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 1

Group 2

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 2

Group 3

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 3

Group 4

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 4

Group 5

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 5

Group 6

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 6

Group 7

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 7

Group 8

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8

Group 9

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 9

Group 10

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 10

Ranking of second-placed teams

Because some groups contain six teams and some five, matches against the sixth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team will count for the purposes of the second-placed table.

The following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.

  1. Higher number of points obtained in these matches
  2. Superior goal difference from these matches
  3. Higher number of goals scored in these matches
  4. Higher number of away goals scored in these matches
  5. Position in the UEFA Under-21 coefficient ranking used for the group stage draw

Play-offs

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs

The play-offs for the tournament finals were held on 9,10 and 14 October 2014. The seven winners qualify for the final tournament in Czech Republic.

Seedings

The draw for the play-offs was held on 12 September 2014 in Nyon to determine the seven pairings as well as the order of the home and away ties. The seven group winners with the highest competition coefficients were seeded and were drawn against the unseeded teams. Nations from the same group could not be drawn against each other.

Each nation's coefficient was generated by calculating:

;Seeded

;Unseeded

Matches

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Top goalscorers

The top scorers in the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification were as follows. Players in italics have also played in the play-offs.

RankNameGoalsAppsMinutes played
1ENG *Saido Berahino*1010800
2POL Arkadiusz Milik96517
3ESP *Álvaro Morata*87583
ISL *Emil Atlason*810599
ISR Mu'nas Dabbur87616
6CRO Marcelo Brozović77586
NED Quincy Promes77596
GER *Philipp Hofmann*710726

References

References

  1. [https://www.uefa.com/under21/news/0257-0deb92b270a9-6b5ce537b73d-1000--spain-learn-fate-in-u21-qualifying-draw/ 2015 UEFA European U21 Championship qualifying draw] UEFA.com
  2. "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2013–15".
  3. (12 September 2014). "Under-21 play-off seedings confirmed for draw". UEFA.
  4. (10 September 2014). "Jong Oranje in Pot B". onsoranje.nl.
  5. "Statistics – Goals scored". [[UEFA]].
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