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

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1  Italy7430163+1315Final tournament15 Oct '242–02–01–15 Sep '24
2  Republic of Ireland6411198+1113Play-offs2–211 Oct '2410 Sep '243–23–0
3  Norway6402216+151210 Sep '243–27–015 Oct '244–0
4  Latvia6213512−77[a]0–01–26 Sep '242–12–0
5  Turkey6213118+37[a]0–26 Sep '242–011 Oct '245–0
6  San Marino (E)7007035−3500–70–70–715 Oct '2410 Sep '24
Updated to match(es) played on 26 March 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated
Notes:

Matches

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'
ReportYıldız 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
  • Vapne 90+2'
Report
Attendance: 274
Referee: Oliver Reitala (Finland)
Turkey  5–0  San Marino
Report
Attendance: 472
Referee: Viktor Shimusik (Belarus)

Latvia  2–1  Turkey
  • Vapne 25'
  • Melnis 79'
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)

Italy  v  San Marino
Report
Latvia  v  Norway
Report
Turkey  v  Republic of Ireland
Report

San Marino  v  Turkey
Report
Norway  v  Italy
Report
Republic of Ireland  v  Latvia
Report

Turkey  v  Latvia
Report
Republic of Ireland  v  Norway
Report

San Marino  v  Latvia
Report
Norway  v  Turkey
Report
Italy  v  Republic of Ireland
Report

Goalscorers

There have been 72 goals scored in 199 matches, for an average of 0.362 goals per match (as of 26 March 2024).

5 goals

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  • Giacomo Benvenuti (against Republic of Ireland)
  • Giacomo Matteoni (against Republic of Ireland)

Notes

References