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2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs

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The play-offs of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition involve the four runners-up with the best records among all nine groups in the qualifying group stage: Austria, Norway, Serbia, and Spain. The draw for the play-offs was held on 14 October 2016.[1]

The play-offs are played in home-and-away two-legged format. The two play-off winners qualify for the final tournament.[2]

Ranking of second-placed teams

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To determine the four best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance to the play-offs, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team (for groups with six teams) are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking.[3]

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 6  Spain 8 5 2 1 22 9 +13 17 Play-offs
2 2  Serbia 8 5 2 1 18 8 +10 17
3 7  Austria 8 5 1 2 20 12 +8 16
4 9  Norway 8 5 1 2 12 10 +2 16
5 4  Israel 8 4 3 1 13 4 +9 15
6 8  Netherlands 8 4 2 2 15 10 +5 14
7 3  France 8 4 2 2 13 8 +5 14
8 1  Belgium 8 4 0 4 10 10 0 12
9 5  Bulgaria 8 3 2 3 8 7 +1 11
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.

Matches

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All times are CET (UTC+1).

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Serbia  2–1  Norway 2–0 0–1
Austria  1–1 (a)  Spain 1–1 0–0
Serbia 2–0 Norway
Đurđević 6'
Haraldseid 69' (o.g.)
Report
Attendance: 8,450
Norway 1–0 Serbia
Elyounoussi 70' Report

Serbia qualified for the final tournament.


Austria 1–1 Spain
Castro 61' (o.g.) Report Deulofeu 45+2' (pen.)
Attendance: 1,503
Spain 0–0 Austria
Report

Spain qualified for the final tournament.

References

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  1. ^ "U21 play-offs: Serbia v Norway, Austria v Spain". UEFA.com. 14 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2015–17" (PDF). UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Austria, Norway, Serbia, Spain in Friday U21 play-off draw". UEFA.com. 11 October 2016.
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