2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group A

Group A of the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Italy, Ireland, Norway, Turkey, Latvia, and San Marino. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 2 February 2023 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

Standings

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification            
1   Italy 10 6 4 0 27 4 +23 22 Final tournament 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 7–0
2   Norway 10 6 1 3 28 11 +17 19[a] Play-offs 0–3 3–2 5–1 7–0 4–0
3   Republic of Ireland 10 5 4 1 24 12 +12 19[a] 2–2 1–1 3–2 2–2 3–0
4   Turkey 10 4 1 5 21 15 +6 13 0–2 2–0 0–1 3–0 5–0
5   Latvia 10 3 2 5 10 18 −8 11 0–0 0–1 1–2 2–1 2–0
6   San Marino 10 0 0 10 1 51 −50 0 0–7 0–7 0–7 1–6 0–3
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Norway 4, Republic of Ireland 1.

Matches

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

Latvia  2–0  San Marino
  • Šits   38'
  • Melnis   86'
Report
Attendance: 300
Referee: Helgi Mikael Jónasson (Iceland)

San Marino  0–7  Norway
Report
Attendance: 284
Referee: Mervan Bejtullahu (Kosovo)
Latvia  0–0  Italy
Report
Attendance: 348
Referee: Snir Levy (Israel)
Republic of Ireland  3–2  Turkey
Moran   56'
Gilsenan   87' (pen.)
Emakhu   90+6'
Report Yıldız   22' (pen.)
Çanak   76'
Attendance: 3,754
Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)

Norway  7–0  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 580
Referee: Roman Jitari (Moldova)
Turkey  0–2  Italy
Report
Attendance: 2,358
Referee: Pierre Gaillouste (France)
Republic of Ireland  3–0  San Marino
Report
Attendance: 3,826
Referee: Antoine Paul Chiaramonti (Andorra)

Latvia  1–2  Republic of Ireland
Report
Attendance: 274
Referee: Oliver Reitala (Finland)
Turkey  5–0  San Marino
Report
Attendance: 472
Referee: Viktor Shimusik (Belarus)

Latvia  2–1  Turkey
Report
Attendance: 237
Referee: Tim Marshall (Northern Ireland)
Italy  2–0  Norway
Report
Attendance: 4,627

San Marino  0–7  Italy
Report
Attendance: 1,185
Referee: Joni Hyytiä (Finland)
Norway  3–2  Republic of Ireland
Report
Attendance: 566
Referee: Walter Altmann (Austria)

Turkey  2–0  Norway
Report
Attendance: 457
Referee: Denys Shurman (Ukraine)
Republic of Ireland  2–2  Italy
Report
Attendance: 6,157
Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Switzerland)

San Marino  0–7  Republic of Ireland
Report
Attendance: 213
Referee: Viktor Kopiievskyi (Ukraine)
Italy  2–0  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 4,315
Referee: Philip Farrugia (Malta)

Norway  4–0  San Marino
Report
Attendance: 510
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)
Italy  1–1  Turkey
Report
Attendance: 3,921
Referee: Cesar Soto Grado (Spain)

Latvia  0–1  Norway
Report
Attendance: 243
Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)
Italy  7–0  San Marino
Report
Attendance: 3,144
Referee: Marek Radina (Czech Republic)
Turkey  0–1  Republic of Ireland
Report
Attendance: 2,188
Referee: Amine Kourgheli (Belarus)

Republic of Ireland  2–2  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 953
Referee: Stefan Ebner (Austria)
Norway  0–3  Italy
Report
Attendance: 2,141
Referee: Gergő Bogár (Hungary)
San Marino  1–6  Turkey
Report
Attendance: 283
Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)

Turkey  3–0  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 2,453
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)
Republic of Ireland  1–1  Norway
Report
Attendance: 5,754
Referee: Javier Alberola Rojas (Spain)

San Marino  0–3  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 160
Referee: Martin Matoša (Slovenia)
Norway  5–1  Turkey
Report
Attendance: 1,146
Referee: Lothar D'hondt (Belgium)
Italy  1–1  Republic of Ireland
Report
Attendance: 1,730
Referee: Adam Ladebäck (Sweden)

Goalscorers

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There have been 111 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.7 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

2 own goals

Notes

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  1. ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 26 March and 29 October 2023 and between 31 March and 27 October 2024, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.

References

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  1. ^ "2025 Under-21 EURO qualifying draw: See the groups". UEFA.com.