The 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-21 football competition to determine the 14 teams that would be joining the automatically qualified co-hosts Albania and Serbia in the 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament.
51 UEFA member national teams will enter the qualifying competition.
Two teams are not taking part in this tournament: Russia was suspended on 28 February 2022 by FIFA and UEFA from all competitions due to its invasion of Ukraine,[1][2] while the Liechtenstein team has been temporarily dissolved based on a decision announced on 5 October 2022.
[3] The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds: In the qualifying group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 14.01):[4] To determine the best runner-up from the qualifying group stage, the results against the teams in sixth place are discarded.
As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.