2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

The 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2025) was 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 was hosted by Slovakia,^[2] which previously hosted the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. It was the first 16-team tournament which was hosted in a single country.^[3] England defeated Germany 3–2 in the final after extra time, thereby successfully defending their 2023 title and winning their fourth title overall.

•  Slovakia

UEFA Executive Committee chose Slovakia as a host on 25 January 2023.^[2]

In October 2023, UEFA officials came to Slovakia to further inspect their venues and were satisfied with them.^[4]

The tournament took place in eight stadiums across seven of the eight Slovak regions, with the exception of Banská Bystrica Region. Trnava Region was the only Region to have multiple host cities, Trnava and Dunajská Streda.

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

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

The draw for the final tournament was held in Bratislava on 3 December 2024.^[5]

Fourth officials

• Bulat Sariyev
• Ishmael Barbara
• Igor Stojčevski
• Michal Očenaš

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.^[6] Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.^[6]

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the knockout stage, which began with the quarter-finals.^[7]

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:

1. Points obtained in all group matches;
2. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
9. Disciplinary points
   • Yellow card: −1 point;
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
   • Direct red card: −3 points;
10. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
11. Drawing of lots.

In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.

There were 101 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.26 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

• Player of the Tournament: Harvey Elliott^[1]
• Top Scorer: Nick Woltemade^[39] (6 goals)

After the tournament the Under-21 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observers.^[40]

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