Group 3 of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Denmark , Poland , Finland , Georgia , Lithuania and Faroe Islands . The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 26 January 2017,[ 1] [ 2] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking .[ 3]
The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format between 8 June 2017 and 16 October 2018. The group winners qualified directly for the final tournament , while the runners-up advanced to the play-offs if they were one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team).[ 4]
Standings
Matches Times are CET /CEST ,[ note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
31 August 2017 (2017-08-31 )
1 September 2017 (2017-09-01 )
5 September 2017 (2017-09-05 )
18:00
5 September 2017 (2017-09-05 )
6 October 2017 (2017-10-06 )
18:00
6 October 2017 (2017-10-06 )
18:00
Referee: Nenad Djokić (
Serbia )
10 October 2017 (2017-10-10 )
10 October 2017 (2017-10-10 )
Referee: Stavros Mantalos (
Greece )
10 October 2017 (2017-10-10 )
Referee: Farrugia Cann Trustin (
Malta )
10 November 2017 (2017-11-10 )
10 November 2017 (2017-11-10 )
14 November 2017 (2017-11-14 )
14 November 2017 (2017-11-14 )
18:00
23 March 2018 (2018-03-23 )
Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (
Armenia )
23 March 2018 (2018-03-23 )
27 March 2018 (2018-03-27 )
Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (
Latvia )
27 March 2018 (2018-03-27 )
18:00
Referee: Bojan Nikolić (
Serbia )
7 September 2018 (2018-09-07 )
7 September 2018 (2018-09-07 )
18:00
7 September 2018 (2018-09-07 )
18:00
11 September 2018 (2018-09-11 )
11 September 2018 (2018-09-11 )
Referee: Timotheos Christofi (
Cyprus )
12 October 2018 (2018-10-12 )
12 October 2018 (2018-10-12 )
18:00
Referee: Mete Kalkavan (
Turkey )
12 October 2018 (2018-10-12 )
16 October 2018 (2018-10-16 )
18:00
Referee: Christopher Jaeger (
Austria )
16 October 2018 (2018-10-16 )
18:00
16 October 2018 (2018-10-16 )
Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (
Greece )
Goalscorers There were 93 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.
10 goals
8 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
Notes ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 26 March and 28 October 2017 and between 25 March and 27 October 2018, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
References ^ "2019 Under-21 qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. 26 January 2017. ^ "England face Netherlands, Scotland in 2019 U21 qualifying". UEFA.com. 26 January 2017. ^ "Under-21 coefficients: 2019 qualifying draw" (PDF) . UEFA.com. ^ "2017-19 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF) . UEFA.
External links Under-21 Standings: 2017–19 qualifying, UEFA.com