2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 2

Group 2 of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Spain, Slovakia, Iceland, Albania, Estonia, and Northern Ireland. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 26 January 2017,[1][2] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.[3]

The group is played in home-and-away round-robin format between 8 June 2017 and 16 October 2018. The group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the runners-up advance to the play-offs if they are one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team).[4]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain (Q) 9 8 0 1 24 8 +16 24 Final tournament — 5–1 1–2 1–0 3–0 3–1
2  Slovakia (Z) 9 6 0 3 17 17 0 18 Play-offs if among four best runners-up 1–4 — 1–0 0–2 4–1 2–0
3  Northern Ireland (Z) 9 5 2 2 14 11 +3 17 3–5 16 Oct — 0–0 1–0 4–2
4  Iceland (E) 9 3 2 4 14 12 +2 11 16 Oct 2–3 0–1 — 2–3 5–2
5  Albania (E) 9 1 3 5 7 15 −8 6 0–1 2–3 1–1 0–0 — 0–0
6  Estonia (E) 9 0 1 8 9 22 −13 1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 16 Oct —
Updated to match(es) played on 12 October 2018. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (Z) Cannot qualify directly, but can still qualify via play-offs.

Matches

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

Estonia  1–2  Northern Ireland
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Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Albania  0–0  Estonia
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Attendance: 3,000[5]
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
Northern Ireland  1–0  Albania
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Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)
Estonia  1–2  Slovakia
  • Poom  83'
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Referee: Jari Järvinen (Finland)
Iceland  2–3  Albania
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Víkin – Vikingsvöllur, Reykjavík
Referee: Paul Mclaughlin (Republic of Ireland)
Estonia  0–1  Spain
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Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
Slovakia  1–0  Northern Ireland
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Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)
Slovakia  0–2  Iceland
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Referee: Georgios Kominis (Greece)
Albania  0–0  Iceland
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Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)
Slovakia  1–4  Spain
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Northern Ireland  4–2  Estonia
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Referee: Petur Reinert (Faroe Islands)
Spain  1–0  Iceland
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Albania  1–1  Northern Ireland
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Referee: Fran Jović (Croatia)
Estonia  2–3  Iceland
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Referee: Alper Ulusoy (Turkey)
Spain  5–1  Slovakia
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Northern Ireland  3–5  Spain
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Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)
Albania  2–3  Slovakia
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Referee: Stefan Apostolov (Bulgaria)
Northern Ireland  0–0  Iceland
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Slovakia  4–1  Albania
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Referee: Iwan Arwel Griffith (Wales)
Spain  3–1  Estonia
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  • Sinyavskiy  59'
Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)
Iceland  5–2  Estonia
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Spain  3–0  Albania
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Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)
Iceland  2–3  Slovakia
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Referee: Alexander Harkam (Austria)
Spain  1–2  Northern Ireland
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Iceland  0–1  Northern Ireland
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  • Ballard  90'
Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)
Albania  0–1  Spain
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Referee: João Pinheiro (Portugal)
Slovakia  2–0  Estonia
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Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)
Estonia  v  Albania
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Iceland  v  Spain
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Northern Ireland  v  Slovakia
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Goalscorers

There have been 85 goals scored in 27 matches, for an average of 3.15 goals per match (as of 12 October 2018).

7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
  • Estonia Matvei Igonen (playing against Northern Ireland)
  • Estonia Kaspar Mutso (playing against Slovakia)
  • Spain Fabián (playing against Slovakia)

Notes

  1. ↑ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 26 March and 28 October 2017 and between 25 March and 27 October 2018, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.

References

  1. ↑ "2019 Under-21 qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. 26 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "England face Netherlands, Scotland in 2019 U21 qualifying". UEFA.com. 26 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Under-21 coefficients: 2019 qualifying draw" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  4. ↑ "2017-19 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF). UEFA.
  5. ↑ attendance Albania U21 vs. Estonia U21 - 12 June 2017 Soccerway
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