1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

{{main|1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship}}

The 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification began in 1992 and finished in early 1994. The final tournament was held in March and April 1994 in France.

The 32 national teams were divided into six groups (four groups of 5 + two groups of 6). The group winners and the two best runners-up played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis to determine the final four, one of whom would host the last four matches.

The team from Serbia and Montenegro, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (founded in April 1992) were excluded from the tournament for political reasons. They had been drawn in group five. In the first competition since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia competed. Wales also competed for the first time.

Albeit had been dissolved in 1992, Czechoslovakia still competed for this time.

Qualifying group stage

=Draw=

The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:

  • Group 1 did not include Estonia
  • Groups 2 and 6 featured the same nations
  • Group 3 did not include Northern Ireland, Lithuania and Latvia, but included Germany (who did not participate in World Cup qualification)
  • Group 4 did not include Faroe Islands
  • Group 5 featured the same nations. As in the World Cup qualifiers, Yugoslavia was excluded from the group after the draw

=Group 1=

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width="175"|Team

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| Pld | Played}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| W | Won}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| D | Drawn}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| L | Lost}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| GF | Goals for}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| GA | Goals against}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| GD | Goal difference}}

!width="20"|{{Tooltip| Pts | Points}}

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|align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Italy

|8

701166+1021
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|align=left|{{flagicon|POR}} Portugal

|8

521184+1417
align=left|{{flagicon|SUI}} Switzerland

|8

323118+311
align=left|{{flagicon|SCO}} Scotland

|8

224811−38
align=left|{{flagicon|MLT}} Malta

|8

008125−240

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|date=8 September 1992

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|score=2–0

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|date=13 October 1992

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|team1=Scotland {{flagicon|SCO}}

|score=0–0

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|team2={{flagicon|POR}} Portugal

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|stadium=McDiarmid Park, Perth

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|referee=Finn Lambek (Denmark) }}

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|date=15 October 1992

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|score=1–0

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|date=17 November 1992

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|score=1–0

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|date=18 November 1992

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|score=1–2

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|date=16 December 1992

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|team1=Malta {{flagicon|MLT}}

|score=0–1

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|date=23 January 1993

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|team1=Malta {{flagicon|MLT}}

|score=0–2

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782866/MaltavsPortugal (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|POR}} Portugal

|goals1=

|goals2=Bruno {{goal|57||83}}

|stadium=Hibernians Ground, Paola

|attendance=

|referee=Andreas Georghiou (Cyprus) }}

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|date=16 February 1993

|time=

|team1=Scotland {{flagicon|SCO}}

|score=3–0

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|date=23 February 1993

|time=

|team1=Portugal {{flagicon|POR}}

|score=2–0

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782858/PortugalvsItaly (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|ITA}} Italy

|goals1=J. Costa {{goal|55}}
Toni {{goal|62}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga

|attendance=

|referee=Roger Philippi (Luxembourg) }}

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|date=25 March 1993

|time=

|team1=Italy {{flagicon|ITA}}

|score=3–0

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|date=30 March 1993

|time=

|team1=Switzerland {{flagicon|SUI}}

|score=1–1

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782848/SuicavsPortugal (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|POR}} Portugal

|goals1=

|goals2=Bruno {{goal|18}}

|stadium=Stade Municipal, Yverdon-les-Bains

|attendance=

|referee=Atanas Ouzounov (Bulgaria) }}

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|date=16 April 1993

|time=

|team1=Malta {{flagicon|MLT}}

|score=1–4

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|date=27 April 1993

|time=

|team1=Portugal {{flagicon|POR}}

|score=2–1

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782846/PortugalvsSCotland (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|SCO}} Scotland

|goals1=Gil {{goal|8}}
Bruno {{goal|78}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Estádio Municipal Dr. Alves Vieira, Torres Novas

|attendance=

|referee=Markus Merk (Germany) }}

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|date=25 March 1993

|time=

|team1=Switzerland {{flagicon|SUI}}

|score=0–2

|report=

|team2={{flagicon|ITA}} Italy

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|referee= }}

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|date=18 June 1993

|time=

|team1=Portugal {{flagicon|POR}}

|score=7–0

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782836/PortugalvsMalta (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|MLT}} Malta

|goals1=Toni {{goal|13||76||91}}
Torres {{goal|20}}
Bruno {{goal|51||61||75}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Estádio Primeiro de Maio, Braga

|attendance=

|referee=Frank Mcdonald (Northern Ireland) }}

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{{footballbox

|date=18 June 1993

|time=

|team1=Portugal {{flagicon|POR}}

|score=3–0

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782834/PortugalvsSuica (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|SUI}} Switzerland

|goals1=Toni {{goal|3||45}}
Torres {{goal|27}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Estádio Professor Doutor José Vieira de Carvalho, Maia

|attendance=

|referee=Keith Cooper (Wales) }}

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{{footballbox

|date=7 September 1993

|time=

|team1=Scotland {{flagicon|SCO}}

|score=0–0

|report=

|team2={{flagicon|SUI}} Switzerland

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|stadium=

|attendance=

|referee= }}

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{{footballbox

|date=13 October 1993

|time=

|team1=Italy {{flagicon|ITA}}

|score=5–2

|report=

|team2={{flagicon|SCO}} Scotland

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium=

|attendance=

|referee= }}

----

{{footballbox

|date=16 November 1993

|time=

|team1=Malta {{flagicon|MLT}}

|score=0–1

|report=

|team2={{flagicon|SCO}} Scotland

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium=

|attendance=

|referee= }}

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{{footballbox

|date=18 November 1993

|time=

|team1=Italy {{flagicon|ITA}}

|score=2–1

|report=[https://www.fpf.pt/National-Teams/Football/Male/U21s/Matches-and-Results/Match-Detail/id/782832/ItalyvsPortugal (Report)]

|team2={{flagicon|POR}} Portugal

|goals1=

|goals2=Toni {{goal|33}}

|stadium=Stadio Silvio Appiani, Padua

|attendance=

|referee=Werner Kasimir (Germany) }}

=Group 2=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2"|Qualifying Group 2

!rowspan="1" width="50"|P

!rowspan="1" width="50"|W

!colspan="1" width="50"|D

!colspan="1" width="50"|L

!colspan="1" width="50"|F

!colspan="1" width="50"|A

!colspan="1" width="50"|Pts

style="background:#ccffcc;" align=center

|width="50" |1

|align=left width="150" |{{fbu|21|POL}}

|10

|7

|0

|3

|26

|10

|21

align=center

|2

|align=left|{{fbu|21|TUR}}

|10

|6

|2

|2

|15

|10

|20

align=center

|3

|align=left|{{fbu|21|NOR}}

|10

|6

|1

|3

|20

|13

|19

align=center

|4

|align=left|{{fbu|21|ENG}}

|10

|4

|3

|3

|20

|8

|15

align=center

|5

|align=left|{{fbu|21|NED}}

|10

|3

|2

|5

|11

|14

|11

align=center

|6

|align=left|{{fbu|21|SMR}}

|10

|0

|0

|10

|3

|40

|0

width=100%

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Norway 3–2 San Marino
  • Poland 3–0 Turkey
  • Norway 1–0 Netherlands
  • San Marino 0–3 Norway
  • England 0–2 Norway
  • Netherlands 1–3 Poland
  • Turkey 4–0 San Marino
  • England 0–1 Turkey
  • Turkey 1–1 Netherlands
  • England 6–0 San Marino
  • Netherlands 0–1 Turkey
  • San Marino 0–2 Turkey
  • Netherlands 3–0 San Marino
  • Turkey 0–0 England
  • Poland 7–0 San Marino

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Norway 5–2 Turkey
  • England 3–0 Netherlands
  • San Marino 0–5 Poland
  • Poland 1–4 England
  • Norway 1–1 England
  • Netherlands 2–1 Norway
  • England 1–2 Poland
  • Norway 3–1 Poland
  • San Marino 1–3 Netherlands
  • Poland 2–0 Norway
  • Netherlands 1–1 England
  • Turkey 1–0 Poland
  • Turkey 3–1 Norway
  • Poland 2–0 Netherlands
  • San Marino 0–4 England

{{fbu|21|POL}} qualify as group winners

=Group 3=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2"|Qualifying Group 3

!rowspan="1" width="50"|P

!rowspan="1" width="50"|W

!colspan="1" width="50"|D

!colspan="1" width="50"|L

!colspan="1" width="50"|F

!colspan="1" width="50"|A

!colspan="1" width="50"|Pts

style="background:#ccffcc;" align=center

|width="50" |1

|align=left width="150" |{{fbu|21|ESP}}

|8

|7

|1

|0

|15

|4

|22

align=center

|2

|align=left|{{fbu|21|GER}}

|8

|5

|0

|3

|20

|8

|15

align=center

|3

|align=left|{{fbu|21|DEN}}

|8

|4

|0

|4

|12

|9

|12

align=center

|4

|align=left|{{fbu|21|ALB}}

|8

|1

|2

|5

|5

|18

|5

align=center

|5

|align=left|{{fbu|21|IRL}}

|8

|1

|1

|6

|7

|20

|4

width=100%

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Spain 1–1 Albania
  • Ireland 3–1 Albania
  • Denmark 3–2 Ireland
  • Albania 0–1 Germany
  • Spain 2–1 Ireland
  • Germany 1–2 Spain
  • Germany 4–1 Albania
  • Ireland 0–1 Germany
  • Germany 8–0 Ireland
  • Denmark 0–1 Spain

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Denmark 1–4 Germany
  • Ireland 0–2 Denmark
  • Albania 1–1 Ireland
  • Denmark 5–0 Albania
  • Albania 1–0 Denmark
  • Albania 0–3 Spain
  • Germany 0–1 Denmark
  • Ireland 0–2 Spain
  • Spain 1–0 Denmark
  • Spain 3–1 Germany

{{fbu|21|ESP}} qualify as group winners

=Group 4=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2"|Qualifying Group 4

!rowspan="1" width="50"|P

!rowspan="1" width="50"|W

!colspan="1" width="50"|D

!colspan="1" width="50"|L

!colspan="1" width="50"|F

!colspan="1" width="50"|A

!colspan="1" width="50"|Pts

style="background:#ccffcc;" align=center

|width="50" |1

|align=left width="150" |{{fbu|21|TCH}}

|8

|6

|1

|1

|16

|4

|19

align=center

|2

|align=left|{{fbu|21|ROU}}

|8

|5

|0

|3

|13

|10

|15

align=center

|3

|align=left|{{fbu|21|BEL}}

|8

|4

|1

|3

|9

|7

|13

align=center

|4

|align=left|{{fbu|21|WAL}}

|8

|3

|2

|3

|16

|16

|11

align=center

|5

|align=left|{{fbu|21|CYP}}

|8

|0

|0

|8

|4

|21

|0

width=100%

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Belgium 3–0 Cyprus
  • Romania 2–3 Wales
  • Czechoslovakia 1–0 Belgium
  • Cyprus 2–4 Wales
  • Belgium 1–0 Romania
  • Romania 1–0 Czechoslovakia
  • Belgium 3–1 Wales
  • Cyprus 0–2 Romania
  • Cyprus 0–1 Belgium
  • Cyprus 0–2 Czechoslovakia

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Wales 0–0 Belgium
  • Romania 1–0 Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia 1–1 Wales
  • Czechoslovakia 4–2 Romania
  • Wales 0–4 Czechoslovakia
  • Romania 3–1 Belgium
  • Wales 6–2 Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia 2–0 Cyprus
  • Wales 1–2 Romania
  • Belgium 0–2 Czechoslovakia

{{fbu|21|TCH}} qualify as group winners

=Group 5=

{{fbu|21|FRY}} was excluded due to Yugoslav war.

class="wikitable"
colspan="2"|Qualifying Group 5

!rowspan="1" width="50"|P

!rowspan="1" width="50"|W

!colspan="1" width="50"|D

!colspan="1" width="50"|L

!colspan="1" width="50"|F

!colspan="1" width="50"|A

!colspan="1" width="50"|Pts

style="background:#ccffcc;" align=center

|width="50" |1

|align=left width="150" |{{fbu|21|RUS|1991}}

|8

|6

|2

|0

|25

|4

|20

style="background:#ccffcc;" align=center

|2

|align=left|{{fbu|21|GRE}}

|8

|6

|2

|0

|23

|6

|20

align=center

|3

|align=left|{{fbu|21|ISL}}

|8

|3

|0

|5

|11

|17

|9

align=center

|4

|align=left|{{fbu|21|HUN}}

|8

|2

|1

|5

|8

|16

|7

align=center

|5

|align=left|{{fbu|21|LUX}}

|8

|0

|1

|7

|2

|26

|1

width=100%

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Greece 3–0 Iceland
  • Hungary 3–2 Iceland
  • Luxembourg 0–0 Hungary
  • Iceland 1–3 Greece
  • Russia 5–0 Iceland
  • Russia 2–1 Luxembourg
  • Greece 2–1 Hungary
  • Greece 6–0 Luxembourg
  • Hungary 1–2 Greece
  • Luxembourg 0–6 Russia

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Russia 2–0 Hungary
  • Luxembourg 1–3 Iceland
  • Russia 1–1 Greece
  • Iceland 0–1 Russia
  • Iceland 2–1 Hungary
  • Hungary 0–6 Russia
  • Iceland 3–0 Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg 0–4 Greece
  • Hungary 2–0 Luxembourg
  • Greece 2–2 Russia

{{fbu|21|RUS|1991}} qualify as group winners
{{fbu|21|GRE}} qualify as a "best runner-up"

=Group 6=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2"|Qualifying Group 6

!rowspan="1" width="50"|P

!rowspan="1" width="50"|W

!colspan="1" width="50"|D

!colspan="1" width="50"|L

!colspan="1" width="50"|F

!colspan="1" width="50"|A

!colspan="1" width="50"|Pts

style="background:#ccffcc;" align=center

|width="50" |1

|align=left width="150" |{{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

|10

|8

|1

|1

|20

|6

|25

align=center

|2

|align=left|{{fbu|21|SWE}}

|10

|4

|4

|2

|21

|8

|16

align=center

|3

|align=left|{{fbu|21|FIN}}

|10

|4

|2

|4

|10

|13

|14

align=center

|4

|align=left|{{fbu|21|BUL}}

|10

|4

|2

|4

|9

|13

|14

align=center

|5

|align=left|{{fbu|21|ISR}}

|10

|3

|1

|6

|17

|16

|10

align=center

|6

|align=left|{{fbu|21|AUT}}

|10

|1

|2

|7

|8

|29

|5

width=100%

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Finland 0–0 Bulgaria
  • Finland 1–0 Sweden
  • Bulgaria 0–1 France
  • Sweden 6–0 Bulgaria
  • France 6–1 Austria
  • Austria 1–5 Israel
  • Israel 1–1 Sweden
  • France 1–2 Finland
  • Israel 1–2 Bulgaria
  • Israel 1–2 France
  • Austria 0–1 France
  • Austria 2–0 Bulgaria
  • Bulgaria 3–1 Finland
  • France 2–1 Sweden
  • Bulgaria 1–0 Israel

|valign="middle" align="left" width=50%|

  • Finland 2–0 Austria
  • Sweden 1–1 Austria
  • Sweden 4–1 Israel
  • Finland 1–0 Israel
  • Sweden 1–1 France
  • Austria 2–2 Finland
  • Finland 0–1 France
  • Bulgaria 0–0 Sweden
  • Bulgaria 3–0 Austria
  • Sweden 4–0 Finland
  • France 3–0 Israel
  • Israel 6–0 Austria
  • Israel 2–1 Finland
  • Austria 1–3 Sweden
  • France 2–0 Bulgaria

{{fbu|21|FRA|1974}} qualify as group winners

=Ranking of second-placed teams=

Because groups contained different number or teams (six and five), matches against the fifth- and sixth-placed teams in each group are not included in the ranking. As a result, six matches played by each team counted for the purposes of the second-placed table. The top seven advanced to the play-off.

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 90%;"
width=30|{{Tooltip|Grp|Group}}

!width=165|Team

!width=30|{{Tooltip|Pld|Played}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|Pts|Points}}

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|5

align="left"|{{fbu|21|GRE}}

|6

420136+714
bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|1

align="left"|{{fbu|21|POR}}

|6

321144+1011
2align="left"|{{fbu|21|TUR}}

|6

31279−210
3align="left"|{{fbu|21|GER}}

|6

303118+39
4align="left"|{{fbu|21|ROM}}

|6

303101009
6align="left"|{{fbu|21|SWE}}

|6

222124+88

See also