2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group D

Group D of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Portugal, Greece, Iceland, Belarus, Cyprus, and Liechtenstein. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.[2]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Portugal 10 9 1 0 41 3 +38 28 Final tournament — 1–1 2–1 1–0 6–0 11–0
2  Iceland 10 5 3 2 25 7 +18 18 Play-offs 0–1 — 1–1 3–1 5–0 9–0
3  Greece 10 5 2 3 16 10 +6 17 0–4 1–0 — 2–0 0–0 4–0
4  Belarus 10 4 0 6 16 15 +1 12 1–5 1–2 0–2 — 2–0 6–0
5  Cyprus 10 3 2 5 16 16 0 11 0–1 1–1 3–0 0–1 — 6–0
6  Liechtenstein 10 0 0 10 0 63 −63 0 0–9 0–3 0–5 0–4 0–6 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

Greece 0–0 Cyprus
Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)
Liechtenstein 0–5 Greece
Report
Attendance: 39[3]
Referee: Viktor Kopiyevskyi (Ukraine)
Belarus 1–2 Iceland
Shestyuk 71' Report Haraldsson 20', 54'
Attendance: 3,260
Referee: Juxhin Xhaja (Albania)
Liechtenstein 0–6 Cyprus
Report
Attendance: 70
Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)
Portugal 1–0 Belarus
Vieira 32' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 809
Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca (Austria)
Cyprus 6–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 161
Referee: Luis Texeira (Portugal)
Iceland 1–1 Greece
Þórðarson 37' Report Ioannidis 45+1'
Attendance: 435
Referee: Gal Leibovitz (Israel)
Portugal 11–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 5,239
Referee: Vitālijs Spasjoņņikovs (Latvia)
Belarus 0–2 Greece
Report
Torpedo Stadium, Zhodino
Attendance: 320
Iceland 0–1 Portugal
Report Vieira 55'
Attendance: 502
Referee: Robert Ian Jenkins (Wales)
Belarus 6–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 50
Referee: Yasar Kemal Ugurlu (Turkey)
Greece 2–0 Belarus
Report
Attendance: 660
Referee: Irakli Kvirikashvili (Georgia)
Liechtenstein 0–3 Iceland
Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Joni Hyytiä (Finland)
Cyprus 0–1 Portugal
Report
Attendance: 224
Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)
Greece 1–0 Iceland
 Report
Attendance: 450
Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)
Liechtenstein 0–4 Belarus
Report
Attendance: 68
Referee: Ashot Ghaltakhchyan (Armenia)
Portugal 6–0 Cyprus
 Report
Greece 4–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 405
Referee: Rauf Jabarov (Azerbaijan)
Portugal 1–1 Iceland
 Report
Attendance: 4,094
Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)
Cyprus 0–1 Belarus
Report Vegerya 32'
Attendance: 250
Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)
Cyprus 1–1 Iceland
Gerolemou 27' Report K. Hlynsson 90+4'
Attendance: 75
Referee: Georgi Davidov (Bulgaria)
Greece 0–4 Portugal
Report
  • Carvalho 12'
  • Vieira 32' (pen.)
  • Silva 45+1'
  • H. Araújo 82'
Attendance: 1620
Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)
Belarus 2–0 Cyprus
 Report
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Jakob Alexander Sundberg (Denmark)
Iceland 9–0 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 240
Referee: Ishmael Barbara (Malta)
Belarus 1–5 Portugal
Report
  • Vieira 33', 56'
  • Ramos 50'
  • Costa 79'
  • Vitinha 90+4'
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Ondřej Berka (Czech Republic)
Cyprus 3–0 Greece
 Report
Attendance: 257
Liechtenstein 0–9 Portugal
Report
  • Silva 3', 27', 57'
  • Bernardo 43'
  • Vitinha 45', 65'
  • Carvalho 78'
  • H. Araújo 83'
  • Ramos 90'
Attendance: 784
Referee: Denys Shurman (Ukraine)
Iceland 3–1 Belarus
Report
Attendance: 332
Referee: Sander van der Eijk (Netherlands)
Iceland 5–0 Cyprus
 Report
Attendance: 895
Referee: Damian Sylwestrzak (Poland)
Portugal 2–1 Greece
 Report
Attendance: 11,523
Referee: David Coote (England)

Goalscorers

There were 114 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.8 goals per match.

12 goals

7 goals

  • Portugal Fábio Vieira

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes

  1. ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2021 and between 29 March and 24 October 2022, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
  2. ^ a b c d Due to the country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus is required to play its home matches at neutral venues behind closed doors until further notice.[5]

References

  1. ^ "2021–23 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
  2. ^ "Under-21 National Teams Coefficient" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  3. ^ "Liechtenstein vs. Greece" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  4. ^ 2023 Under-21 EURO qualifying: Belarus-Cyprus match rescheduled, Belta, 1 June 2021
  5. ^ "Belarus teams to play on neutral ground in UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

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