2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8
# 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8

Group 8 of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of five teams: Netherlands, Slovakia, Turkey, Belarus, and Cyprus. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 5 February 2015.

The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format. 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).

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Slovakia | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | +15 | 19 | Final tournament | — | 4–2 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 14 | | 1–3 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 |
| 3 | Turkey | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 11 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 0–1 |
| 4 | Belarus | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 8 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | — | 2–2 |
| 5 | Cyprus | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 19 | −15 | 4 | | 0–3 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | — |

## Matches

Times are CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 29 March and 24 October 2015 and between 27 March and 29 October 2016, for other dates times are CET (UTC+1).

## Goalscorers

### 6 goals

* Vincent Janssen

### 5 goals

* Adam Zreľák

### 4 goals

* Martin Chrien

### 3 goals

* Pavel Savitski
* Jaroslav Mihalík
* Albert Rusnák

### 2 goals

* Riechedly Bazoer
* Steven Bergwijn
* Matúš Bero
* Pavol Šafranko

### 1 goal

* Vladislav Klimovich
* Gleb Rassadkin
* Yevgeniy Yablonskiy
* Yaroslav Yarotsky
* Minas Antoniou
* Nicholas Ioannou
* Fanos Katelaris
* Andreas Makris
* Donny van de Beek
* Jean-Paul Boëtius
* Anwar El Ghazi
* Hans Hateboer
* Derrick Luckassen
* Stanislav Lobotka
* Milan Škriniar
* Kaan Ayhan
* Bilal Başaçıkoğlu
* Oğulcan Çağlayan
* Kenan Karaman
* Cenk Şahin

### 1 own goal

* Stefanos Mouhtaris (against Turkey)
* Matúš Hruška (against Turkey)
