2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Majstrovstvá Európy vo futbale hráčov do 21 rokov 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Slovakia
Dates	11–28 June
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)

The 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2025) will be the 25th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (28th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe.

The tournament will be hosted by Slovakia. A total of 16 teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.

Host selection

UEFA Executive Committee chose Slovakia as a host in January 2023.

Venues

Bratislava	Trnava	Dunajská Streda	Košice
Národný futbalový štadión	Anton Malatinský Stadium	MOL Aréna	Košická futbalová aréna
Capacity: 22,500	Capacity: 18,200	Capacity: 12,700	Capacity: 12,555
Bratislava Trnava Dunajská Streda Trenčín Žilina Košice Prešov Nitra 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (Slovakia)
Žilina	Trenčín	Nitra	Prešov
Štadión pod Dubňom	Štadión Sihoť	Štadión pod Zoborom	Futbal Tatran Arena
Capacity: 10,897	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 7,480	Capacity: under construction

Qualification

Main article: 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Slovakia	Hosts	January 2023	3rd (9th incl. Czechoslovakia)	2017	Fourth place (2000)

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.

show Tie-breaking criteria for group play

The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage); Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point; Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; Direct red card: −3 points; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

All times are local CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovakia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	B4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	C4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	D4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Preparations

In October 2023, UEFA official came to Slovakia to further inspect their venues and were satisfied with them.