Group 5 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Serbia, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Estonia. 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 5 September 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 | Russia | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 4 | +18 | 23 | Final tournament | — | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2−0 | |
| 2 | Poland | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 20 | 1–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | ||
| 3 | Bulgaria | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 18 | 0–0 | 3−0 | — | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Serbia | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 12 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | — | 6−0 | 1–1 | ||
| 5 | Estonia | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 34 | −31 | 5 | 0–5 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 0–0 | — | 2–1 | ||
| 6 | Latvia | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 4 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — |
Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Russia | 2–2 | Poland |
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| Bulgaria | 0–1 | Serbia |
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| Serbia | 0–2 | Russia |
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| Russia | 2–0 | Bulgaria |
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There were 77 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.57 goals per match.
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Zdravko Dimitrov Ilian Iliev Lachezar Kotev Ertan Tombak Sten Reinkort Markus Soomets Ander Ott Valge Kristaps Liepa Kristers Lūsiņš Bartosz Białek Bartosz Bida Karol Fila Robert Gumny Kamil Jóźwiak Jakub Kamiński Jakub Piotr Kiwior Przemysław Płacheta Paweł Tomczyk Danil Glebov Nikita Kalugin Danil Krugovoy Daniil Lesovoy Aleksandr Lomovitskiy Nail Umyarov Daniil Utkin Roman Yevgenyev Ivan Ilić Erhan Mašović Veljko Nikolić Filip Stuparević Slobodan Tedić 1 own goal
Igor Diveyev (against Poland) Magnus Villota (against Russia)