2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs

The play-offs of the 2019 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.

Ranking of second-placed teams

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 are not included. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	3	Poland	8	6	2	0	19	6	+13	20	Play-offs
2	1	Greece	8	6	1	1	17	5	+12	19
3	7	Austria	8	5	1	2	17	7	+10	16
4	8	Portugal	8	5	1	2	17	11	+6	16
5	6	Sweden	8	4	2	2	12	8	+4	14
6	2	Northern Ireland	8	4	2	2	9	8	+1	14
7	4	Netherlands	8	3	3	2	12	6	+6	12
8	9	Slovenia	8	3	3	2	10	10	0	12
9	5	Norway	8	3	2	3	11	11	0	11

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.

Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 19 October 2018, 13:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1] The four teams were drawn into two ties of home-and-away two-legged format.