Group 8 of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Portugal, Switzerland, Romania, Wales, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Liechtenstein. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 26 January 2017, [1] [2] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking. [3]
The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format between 28 March 2017 and 16 October 2018. The group winners qualified directly for the final tournament, while the runners-up advanced to the play-offs if they were one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team). [4]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
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| 1 | Romania | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 4 | +15 | 24 | Final tournament | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | |
| 2 | Portugal | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 11 | +22 | 22 | Play-offs | 1–2 | — | 4–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 7–0 | |
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 11 | +13 | 18 | 1–3 | 3–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 6–0 | ||
| 4 | Wales | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 13 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–4 | — | 3–1 | 2–1 | ||
| 5 | Switzerland | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 18 | −7 | 10 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 1–0 | 0–3 | — | 3–0 | ||
| 6 | Liechtenstein | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 42 | −40 | 0 | 0–2 | 0–9 | 0–4 | 1–3 | 0–2 | — |
Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6–0 | Liechtenstein |
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| Switzerland | 1–0 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Liechtenstein | 0–2 | Romania |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–3 | Romania |
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| Switzerland | 0–3 | Wales |
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| Romania | 1–1 | Switzerland |
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| Liechtenstein | 1–3 | Wales |
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| Switzerland | 0–2 | Romania |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3–1 | Portugal |
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| Liechtenstein | 0–2 | Switzerland |
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| Portugal | 2–1 | Switzerland |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–0 | Wales |
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| Wales | 2–1 | Liechtenstein |
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| Switzerland | 3–0 | Liechtenstein |
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| Wales | 3–1 | Switzerland |
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There were 100 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.33 goals per match.
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6 goals
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1 goal
Almir Aganspahić Dženis Beganović Hamza Čataković Eldar Čivić Amir Hadžiahmetović Kerim Memija Besim Šerbečić Darko Todorović Aldin Turkes Lukas Graber Ridvan Kardesoglu João Filipe Gonçalo Guedes Rúben Neves Xadas Florinel Coman Alex Dobre Andrei Ivan Ulisses Garcia Nicolas Haas Dimitri Oberlin João de Oliveira Djibril Sow Andi Zeqiri David Brooks Joe Morrell Tyler Roberts Matthew Smith 1 own goal
Noah Graber (against Portugal) Dragoș Nedelcu (against Bosnia and Herzegovina)