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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

Draw

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Czech Republic	0–0	Iceland
	Report

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

References

1. "2023 Under-21 EURO qualifying latest: France, Netherlands, England, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium in finals". UEFA.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
2. "Decisions from today's extraordinary UEFA Executive Committee meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

External links

• Fixtures at UEFA.com

• 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
• UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs