2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs

The play-offs of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition involved eight of the nine runners-up in the qualifying group stage, the top-ranked team being directly qualified for the tournament.

Ranking of second-placed teams

Only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group were taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team in six-team groups were not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team were counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The top-ranked team qualified directly for the final tournament, while the other teams entered the play-offs.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	E	Switzerland	8	5	2	1	14	6	+8	17	Final tournament
2	H	Ukraine	8	5	2	1	16	10	+6	17	Play-offs
3	I	Denmark	8	5	2	1	12	6	+6	17
4	A	Croatia	8	5	1	2	19	10	+9	16
5	G	Czech Republic	8	5	1	2	13	6	+7	16
6	C	Slovakia	8	5	0	3	18	10	+8	15
7	F	Republic of Ireland	8	5	0	3	13	9	+4	15
8	B	Israel	8	4	1	3	13	10	+3	13
9	D	Iceland	8	3	3	2	13	7	+6	12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) wins; 6) away wins; 7) disciplinary points; 8) coefficient ranking.

Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 21 June 2022 in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1]

Summary

The four play-off winners qualified for the final tournament.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Croatia	3–3 (5–4 p)	Denmark	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Slovakia	3–5	Ukraine	3–2	0–3
Republic of Ireland	1–1 (1–3 p)	Israel	1–1	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Iceland	1–2	Czech Republic	1–2	0–0

Matches

All times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

18:00

Croatia	2–1	Denmark
Vidović 9' Beljo 37'	Report	Tengstedt 59'

Stadion Aldo Drosina, Pula

Attendance: 4,225

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

18:00

Denmark	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Croatia
O'Riley 10' Frendrup 19'	Report	Matanović 84'
Penalties
Dyhr Grønbæk Jørgensen Kristensen Madsen Ross	4–5	Vušković Fruk Soldo Matanović Sučić Pašalić

Vejle Stadium, Vejle

Attendance: 4,063

Referee: Sebastian Gishamer (Austria)

3–3 on aggregate. Croatia won 5–4 on penalties and qualified for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

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23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

18:00

Slovakia	3–2	Ukraine
Suslov 10' Strelec 46', 53'	Report	Viunnyk 17' Kryskiv 49'

Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina

Attendance: 4,059

Referee: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

17:30

Ukraine	3–0	Slovakia
Sikan 48', 54', 66'	Report

Stadion Miejski, Bielsko-Biała (Poland)^[2]

Attendance: 2,535

Referee: Rohit Saggi (Norway)

Ukraine won 5–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

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23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

20:00 (19:00 IST)

Republic of Ireland	1–1	Israel
Ferguson 65'	Report	Gorno 45'

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Attendance: 6,786

Referee: Dario Bel (Croatia)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

19:15 (20:15 IST)

Israel	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Republic of Ireland
	Report
Penalties
Karzev Peretz Cohen Davida	3–1	Coventry Wright Ferguson Devoy

Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv

Attendance: 22,752

Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)

1–1 on aggregate. Israel won 3–1 on penalties and qualified for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

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23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

18:00 (16:00 UTC±0)

Iceland	1–2	Czech Republic
Magnússon 26' (pen.)	Report	Valenta 33' Sejk 70'

Víkingsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 725

Referee: Gergo Bogár (Hungary)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

18:00

Czech Republic	0–0	Iceland
	Report

Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České Budějovice

Attendance: 5,721

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

Czech Republic won 2–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

Goalscorers

There were 19 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 2.38 goals per match.

3 goals

• Danylo Sikan

2 goals

• David Strelec

1 goal

• Dion Drena Beljo
• Igor Matanović
• Gabriel Vidović
• Václav Sejk
• Matěj Valenta
• Morten Frendrup
• Matt O'Riley
• Casper Tengstedt
• Sævar Atli Magnússon
• Idan Gorno
• Evan Ferguson
• Tomáš Suslov
• Dmytro Kryskiv
• Bohdan Vyunnyk