Group 1 of the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Czech Republic , Croatia , Greece , Moldova , Belarus and San Marino . 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 7 June 2017 and 15 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 ^ a b Head-to-head results: Greece 1–1 Croatia, Croatia 2–0 Greece.
Matches Times are CET /CEST ,[ note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
13 June 2017 (2017-06-13 )
20:30
31 August 2017 (2017-08-31 )
Attendance: 1,242
Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (
Latvia )
1 September 2017 (2017-09-01 )
4 September 2017 (2017-09-04 )
5 September 2017 (2017-09-05 )
18:00
5 October 2017 (2017-10-05 )
18:00
5 October 2017 (2017-10-05 )
9 October 2017 (2017-10-09 )
18:00
Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Mete Kalkavan (
Turkey )
10 October 2017 (2017-10-10 )
10 October 2017 (2017-10-10 )
20:30
8 November 2017 (2017-11-08 )
14:00
Attendance: 300
Referee: Georgi Vadachkoria (
Georgia )
11 November 2017 (2017-11-11 )
15:30
13 November 2017 (2017-11-13 )
14 November 2017 (2017-11-14 )
22 March 2018 (2018-03-22 )
Attendance: 500
Referee: Fyodor Zammit (
Malta )
23 March 2018 (2018-03-23 )
16:00
25 March 2018 (2018-03-25 )
18:00
27 March 2018 (2018-03-27 )
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Vilhjalmur Thorarinsson (
Iceland )
27 March 2018 (2018-03-27 )
16:30
5 September 2018 (2018-09-05 )
20:30
6 September 2018 (2018-09-06 )
Attendance: 1,100
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (
Georgia )
10 September 2018 (2018-09-10 )
10 September 2018 (2018-09-10 )
18:00
Attendance: 2,038
Referee: Christian Dingert (
Germany )
10 September 2018 (2018-09-10 )
11 October 2018 (2018-10-11 )
12 October 2018 (2018-10-12 )
18:00
15 October 2018 (2018-10-15 )
17:00
Attendance: 2,123
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (
Sweden )
15 October 2018 (2018-10-15 )
15 October 2018 (2018-10-15 )
18:30
Goalscorers There were 91 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.03 goals per match.
7 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