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2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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The 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2025) was the 25th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (28th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe.
The tournament was hosted by Slovakia,[2] which previously hosted the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. It was the first 16-team tournament which was hosted in a single country.[3] England defeated Germany 3–2 in the final after extra time, thereby successfully defending their 2023 title and winning their fourth title overall.
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Host selection
UEFA Executive Committee chose Slovakia as a host on 25 January 2023.[2]
Preparations
In October 2023, UEFA officials came to Slovakia to further inspect their venues and were satisfied with them.[4]
Venues
The tournament took place in eight stadiums across seven of the eight Slovak regions, with the exception of Banská Bystrica Region. Trnava Region was the only Region to have multiple host cities, Trnava and Dunajská Streda.
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Qualification
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Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).
Final draw
The draw for the final tournament was held in Bratislava on 3 December 2024.[5]
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Match officials
Fourth officials
Bulat Sariyev
Ishmael Barbara
Igor Stojčevski
Michal Očenaš
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Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.[6] Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.[6]
Group stage
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The group winners and runners-up advanced to the knockout stage, which began with the quarter-finals.[7]
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
- Points obtained in all group matches;
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
- Disciplinary points
- Yellow card: −1 point;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
- Direct red card: −3 points;
- UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
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Knockout stage
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In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 21 June – Trnava | ||||||||||
 Spain | 1 | |||||||||
| 25 June – Bratislava | ||||||||||
 England | 3 | |||||||||
| England | 2 | |||||||||
| 21 June – Žilina | ||||||||||
 Netherlands | 1 | |||||||||
 Portugal | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 June – Bratislava | ||||||||||
| Netherlands | 1 | |||||||||
| England (a.e.t.) | 3 | |||||||||
| 22 June – Dunajská Streda | ||||||||||
 Germany | 2 | |||||||||
| Germany (a.e.t.) | 3 | |||||||||
| 25 June – Košice | ||||||||||
 Italy | 2 | |||||||||
| Germany | 3 | |||||||||
| 22 June – Prešov | ||||||||||
 France | 0 | |||||||||
 Denmark | 2 | |||||||||
| France | 3 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
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Goalscorers
There were 101 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.26 goals per match.
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Václav Sejk- Karel Spáčil
William Bøving- Oliver Sørensen
Elliot Anderson- Charlie Cresswell
- Omari Hutchinson
- James McAtee
- Alex Scott
Naatan Skyttä- Casper Terho
Matthis Abline- Thierno Barry
- Johann Lepenant
- Quentin Merlin
- Nathan Zézé
Giorgi Abuashvili- Vasilios Gordeziani
- Nodar Lominadze
- Saba Sazonov
Brajan Gruda- Ansgar Knauff
- Eric Martel
- Merlin Röhl
- Nicolò Tresoldi
Giuseppe Ambrosino- Tommaso Baldanzi
- Cesare Casadei
- Luca Koleosho
- Niccolò Pisilli
Thom van Bergen- Noah Ohio
Jakub Kałuziński- Ariel Mosór
Paulo Bernardo- Rodrigo Pinheiro
Ümit Akdağ- Louis Munteanu
- Samuel Kopásek
- Adam Obert
Roberto Fernández- Javi Guerra
- Mikel Jauregizar
- Mateo Joseph
- Marc Pubill
- Jesús Rodríguez
- César Tárrega
Vladyslav Vanat- Nazar Voloshyn
1 own goal
- Oliver Provstgaard (against Netherlands)
- Bright Arrey-Mbi (against Czech Republic)
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Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
- Player of the Tournament: Harvey Elliott[1]
- Top Scorer: Nick Woltemade[39] (6 goals)
Team of the tournament
After the tournament the Under-21 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observers.[40]
References
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