2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8

Group 5 of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Portugal, Switzerland, Romania, Wales, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Liechtenstein. 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 28 March 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  Romania 10 7 3 0 19 4 +15 24 Final tournament — 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 4–0
2  Portugal 10 7 1 2 33 11 +22 22 Play-offs 1–2 — 4–2 2–0 2–1 7–0
3  Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 6 0 4 24 11 +13 18 1–3 3–1 — 1–0 3–0 6–0
4  Wales 10 4 1 5 11 14 −3 13 0–0 0–2 0–4 — 3–1 2–1
5   Switzerland 10 3 1 6 11 18 −7 10 0–2 2–4 1–0 0–3 — 3–0
6  Liechtenstein 10 0 0 10 2 42 −40 0 0–2 0–9 0–4 1–3 0–2 —
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina 6–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 825
Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)
Switzerland  1–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Report
Attendance: 1,518
Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)
Liechtenstein 0–2 Romania
Report
Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–3 Romania
 Report
Attendance: 400
Referee: Yuriy Mozharovskyy (Ukraine)
Switzerland  0–3 Wales
Report
Referee: Tihomir Pejin (Croatia)
Romania 1–1  Switzerland
 Report
Referee: Krzysztof Jakubik (Poland)
Portugal 2–0 Wales
 Report
Referee: Anders Poulsen (Denmark)
Liechtenstein 1–3 Wales
 Report
Referee: Jason Lee Barcelo (Gibraltar)
Switzerland  0–2 Romania
Report
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3–1 Portugal
 Report
Attendance: 600
Liechtenstein 0–2  Switzerland
Report
Referee: Denis Scherbakov (Belarus)
Romania 1–1 Portugal
 Report
Attendance: 2,600[5]
Wales 0–4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Report
Attendance: 1,041
Referee: Christos Nicolaides (Cyprus)
Portugal 2–1  Switzerland
 Report
Referee: Andrew Dallas (Scotland)
Wales 0–0 Romania
Report
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–0 Wales
 Report
Attendance: 800
Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)
Portugal 7–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Referee: Genc Nuza (Kosovo)
Switzerland  2–4 Portugal
 Report
Liechtenstein 0–4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Report
Attendance: 429
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3–0  Switzerland
 Report
Attendance: 1,100
Wales 2–1 Liechtenstein
 Report
  • Graber  78'
Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)
Portugal 1–2 Romania
 Report
Romania 2–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Report
Attendance: 4,182
Switzerland  3–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk (Ukraine)
Wales 0–2 Portugal
Report
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)
Liechtenstein 0–9 Portugal
Report
Referee: Aleksei Matyunin (Russia)
Romania 2–0 Wales
 Report
Attendance: 12,588[6]
Referee: Boris Marhefka (Slovakia)
Wales 3–1  Switzerland
 Report
Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
Portugal 4–2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Report
Attendance: 8,037
Referee: Paul Tierney (England)
Romania 4–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 12,108
Referee: Besfort Kasumi (Kosovo)

Goalscorers

There were 100 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.33 goals per match.

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  • Noah Graber (playing against Portugal)
  • Dragoș Nedelcu (playing against Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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. Răzvan Burleanu a tras concluziile după meciurile cu Turcia şi cu Portugalia U21
  6. ROMÂNIA U21 - ŢARA GALILOR U21 2-0. Golurile lui Man și Pușcaș îi trimit pe tricolorii mici în proporție de 99% la Euro
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