2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 1
# 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 1

Group 1 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Italy, Sweden, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Armenia, and Luxembourg. 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, 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 24 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.

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Italy | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 5 | +22 | 25 | Final tournament | — | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 6–0 | 5–0 |
| 2 | Iceland | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | +7 | 21 | Final tournament | 1–2 | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Republic of Ireland | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 8 | +7 | 19 | | 0–0 | 1–2 | — | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| 4 | Sweden | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 31 | 12 | +19 | 18 | | 3–0 | 5–0 | 1–3 | — | 10–0 | 4–0 |
| 5 | Armenia | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 33 | −29 | 3 | | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–3 | — | 2–0 |
| 6 | Luxembourg | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 29 | −26 | 3 | | 0–4 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | — |

* 1 2 Ranked on head-to-head goal difference: Armenia +1, Luxembourg −1.
* ↑ The Armenia v Iceland match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Iceland after being cancelled as Armenia could not travel to the match due to positive SARS-CoV-2 tests in the team.
* ↑ The Armenia v Sweden match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Sweden after being cancelled as Armenia could not travel to the match due to positive SARS-CoV-2 tests in the team.

## Matches

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

## Goalscorers

There were 93 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 3.32 goals per match.

6 goals

* Gianluca Scamacca
* Jesper Karlsson

5 goals

* Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen

4 goals

* Troy Parrott

3 goals

* Patrick Cutrone
* Moise Kean
* Riccardo Sottil
* Adam Idah
* Willum Þór Willumsson
* Emil Hansson

2 goals

* Ísak Ólafsson
* Jón Dagur Þorsteinsson
* Andrea Pinamonti
* Tommaso Pobega
* Giacomo Raspadori
* Zachary Elbouzedi
* Kenan Avdusinovic
* Paulos Abraham
* Pontus Almqvist
* Viktor Gyökeres
* Dejan Kulusevski
* Jake Larsson
* Mattias Svanberg

1 goal

* Artur Danielyan
* Hovhannes Harutyunyan
* Karen Melkonyan
* Rudik Mkrtchyan
* Jónatan Ingi Jónsson
* Ari Leifsson
* Brynjólfur Darri Willumsson
* Enrico Del Prato
* Manuel Locatelli
* Youssef Maleh
* Riccardo Marchizza
* Marco Tumminello
* Niccolò Zanellato
* Neil Farrugia
* Joshua Kayode
* Jamie Lennon
* Conor Masterson
* Lee O'Connor
* Valdimar Þór Ingimundarson
* Seid Korac
* Felix Beijmo
* August Erlingmark
* Gustav Henriksson
* Svante Ingelsson
* Amin Sarr
* Max Svensson

2 own goals

* Ari Leifsson (against Republic of Ireland and Sweden)
