Group 3 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: England, Austria, Turkey, Kosovo, Albania, and Andorra. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 11 December 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, [1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.
The group was originally scheduled to be played in home-and-away round-robin format between 23 March 2019 and 13 October 2020. Under the original format, the group winners and the best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the play-offs. [2]
On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the qualifying group stage would be extended and end on 17 November 2020, while the play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in November 2020, would be cancelled. Instead, the group winners and the five best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) would qualify for the final tournament. [4] [5] [6]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
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| 1 | England | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 9 | +25 | 28 | Final tournament | — | 5–1 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | |
| 2 | Austria | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 18 | 1–2 | — | 1–5 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | ||
| 3 | Albania | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 21 | −5 | 14 | 0–3 | 0–4 | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | ||
| 4 | Turkey | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | −3 | 13 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 2–2 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 5 | Kosovo | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 9 | 0–6 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 6 | Andorra | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 24 | −14 | 5 | 3–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–4 | — |
Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Andorra | 2–2 | Albania |
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| Turkey | 2–2 | Albania |
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| Kosovo | 3–1 | Turkey |
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| England | 5–1 | Austria |
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| England | 2–1 | Turkey |
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| Turkey | 3–2 | Austria |
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There were 108 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.6 goals per match.
13 goals
7 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Enis Çokaj Omar Imeri Sherif Kallaku Leonardo Maloku Arbnor Mucolli Din Sula Indrit Tuci Giacomo Vrioni Albert Rosas Kelvin Arase Kevin Danso Patrick Schmidt Maximilian Wöber Jude Bellingham Josh Dasilva Tom Davies Conor Gallagher Ben Godfrey Curtis Jones James Justin Jamal Musiala Ryan Sessegnon Ben Wilmot Eris Abedini Blendi Baftiu Ardit Gashi Lirim Kastrati Lirim Mema Arbenit Xhemajli Berkay Özcan Doğukan Sinik İlker Yüksel Berat Özdemir 1 own goal
Hüseyin Türkmen (against England)