The play-offs of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition involve the four runners-up with the best records among all nine groups in the qualifying group stage: Austria, Norway, Serbia, and Spain. The draw for the play-offs was held on 14 October 2016. [1]
The play-offs are played in home-and-away two-legged format. The two play-off winners qualify for the final tournament. [2]
To determine the four best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance to the play-offs, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team (for groups with six teams) are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking. [3]
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 6 | Spain | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | +13 | 17 | Play-offs |
2 | 2 | Serbia | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 17 | |
3 | 7 | Austria | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 12 | +8 | 16 | |
4 | 9 | Norway | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | +2 | 16 | |
5 | 4 | Israel | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 15 | |
6 | 8 | Netherlands | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 14 | |
7 | 3 | France | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 14 | |
8 | 1 | Belgium | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 12 | |
9 | 5 | Bulgaria | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 11 |
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Serbia | 2–1 | Norway | 2–0 | 0–1 |
Austria | 1–1 ( a) | Spain | 1–1 | 0–0 |
Serbia | 2–0 | Norway |
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Đurđević 6' Haraldseid 69' ( o.g.) |
Report |
Norway | 1–0 | Serbia |
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Elyounoussi 70' | Report |
Serbia qualified for the final tournament.
Austria | 1–1 | Spain |
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Castro 61' ( o.g.) | Report | Deulofeu 45+2' ( pen.) |
Spain | 0–0 | Austria |
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Report |
Spain qualified for the final tournament.