Group A of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Croatia, Austria, Norway, Finland, Azerbaijan, and Estonia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, [1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking. [2]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
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| 1 | Norway | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 11 | +15 | 24 | Final tournament | — | 3–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | |
| 2 | Croatia | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 10 | +15 | 22 | Play-offs | 3–2 | — | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| 3 | Finland | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 19 | 0–2 | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Austria | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 13 | +9 | 16 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–3 | — | 6–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 5 | Azerbaijan | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 24 | −12 | 7 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 0–3 | — | 3–0 | ||
| 6 | Estonia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 32 | −32 | 0 | 0–5 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 0–5 | — |
Times are CET/CEST, [note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Croatia | 2–0 | Azerbaijan |
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| Austria | 6–0 | Azerbaijan |
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| Croatia | 3–2 | Norway |
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| Azerbaijan | 1–5 | Croatia |
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| Azerbaijan | 0–3 | Austria |
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| Azerbaijan | 1–2 | Norway |
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| Azerbaijan | 3–0 | Estonia |
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| Estonia | 0–5 | Azerbaijan |
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| Finland | 3–0 | Azerbaijan |
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| Norway | 2–1 | Azerbaijan |
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There were 103 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.43 goals per match.
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Yusuf Demir Leo Greiml Alexander Prass Nicolas Seiwald Rüfar Abdullazada Ildar Alekperov Abdulakh Khaibulaev Ceyhun Nuriyev Bartol Franjić Lukas Kačavenda Marin Ljubičić Antonio Marin Jurica Pršir Nikola Soldo Gabriel Vidović Terry Ablade Daniel Håkans Anthony Olusanya Agon Sadiku Anssi Suhonen Julius Tauriainen Tobias Christensen Jesper Daland Håkon Evjen Fredrik Oppegard Osame Sahraoui Sebastian Sebulonsen 1 own goal
Arsen Agcabayov (against Finland) Mattias Sapp (against Finland) Viljami Sinisalo (against Azerbaijan)