Group 7 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Portugal, Netherlands, Norway, Belarus, Cyprus, and Gibraltar. 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 20 March 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 | Netherlands | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 5 | +41 | 27[a] | Final tournament | — | 4–2 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 5–1 | 5–0 | |
2 | Portugal | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 9 | +20 | 27[a] | 2–1 | — | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | ||
3 | Norway | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 16 | −2 | 10 | 0–4 | 2–3 | — | Canc. | 2–1 | 6–0 | ||
4 | Belarus | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 21 | −6 | 8 | 0–7 | 0–2 | 1–1 | — | 1–2 | 10–0 | ||
5 | Cyprus | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 24 | −16 | 7 | 0–7 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
6 | Gibraltar | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 37 | −37 | 0 | 0–6 | 0–3 | Canc. | 0–2 | Canc. | — |
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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Norway | 2–1 | Cyprus |
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Netherlands | 5–1 | Cyprus |
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Netherlands | 4–2 | Portugal |
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Norway | 0–4 | Netherlands |
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Cyprus | 1–2 | Norway |
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Belarus | 0–7 | Netherlands |
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Netherlands | 2–0 | Norway |
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Netherlands | 5–0 | Gibraltar |
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Cyprus | 0–7 | Netherlands |
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Netherlands | 5–0 | Belarus |
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Portugal | 2–1 | Netherlands |
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There were 112 goals scored in 27 matches, for an average of 4.15 goals per match.
10 goals
8 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal