Group 3 of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: England, Austria, Turkey, Kosovo, Albania, and Andorra. 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,[1] 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 23 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.[2]
On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] 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.[4][5][6]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | England
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10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 9 | +25 | 28 | Final tournament | — | 5–1 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | |
| 2 | Austria
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10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 18 | 1–2 | — | 1–5 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | ||
| 3 | Albania
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10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 21 | −5 | 14 | 0–3 | 0–4 | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | ||
| 4 | Turkey
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10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 18 | −3 | 13 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 2–2 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 5 | Kosovo
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10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 9 | 0–6 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 6 | Andorra
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10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 24 | −14 | 5 | 3–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–4 | — |
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Albania | 1–2 | Turkey |
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Report |
 78' |
Attendance: 1,900
Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)
| Andorra | 2–2 | Albania |
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Report |
86' |
Attendance: 578
Referee: Kári Jóannesarson Á Høvdanum (Faroe Islands)
| Andorra | 0–4 | Kosovo |
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| Report |
30' 32' 45' |
Attendance: 207
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)
| Turkey | 2–2 | Albania |
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85' |
Report |
90+5' |
Attendance: 2,100
Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)
| Kosovo | 3–1 | Turkey |
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72' 90' |
Report |
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Attendance: 2,875
Referee: Ivar Orri Kristjansson (Iceland)
| Andorra | 1–3 | Austria |
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76' (pen.) |
Attendance: 278
Referee: Alexandru Tean (Moldova)
| Turkey | 2–3 | England |
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51' |
Report |
75' |
Attendance: 14,955
Referee: Luis Godinho (Portugal)
| Albania | 0–4 | Austria |
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| Report |
9', 73' 72' |
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Petri Viljanen (Finland)
| England | 2–0 | Kosovo |
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Report |
Attendance: 15,258
Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Sweden)
| Austria | 3–0 | Turkey |
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32' 65' |
Report |
Attendance: 1,076
Referee: Kirill Levnikov (Russia)
| Albania | 2–1 | Kosovo |
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81' |
Report |
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Attendance: 845
Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero (Spain)
| England | 5–1 | Austria |
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28', 39', 79' |
Report |
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Attendance: 11,772
Referee: Michael Fabbri (Italy)
| Austria | 4–0 | Kosovo |
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20', 69' 74' (pen.) |
Report |
Attendance: 3015
Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)
| Albania | 0–3 | England |
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| Report |
43' 90+3' |
Attendance: 1,050
Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Switzerland)
| Andorra | 2–0 | Turkey |
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86' (pen.) |
Report |
Attendance: 237
Referee: Dragan Petrovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
| Austria | 1–5 | Albania |
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| Report |
27' 65', 88' 90' |
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Rob Jenkins (Wales)
| Kosovo | 0–6 | England |
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| Report |
67' 83' 86' |
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)
| Turkey | 1–0 | Andorra |
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Report |
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)
| Albania | 3–1 | Andorra |
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86' 90+5' |
Report |
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Jasmin Sabotic (Luxembourg)
| Austria | 1–2 | England |
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50' |
Attendance: 0[note 2]
Referee: Fran Jović (Croatia)
| Andorra | 3–3 | England |
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90+1' |
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69' 82' |
Attendance: 0
Referee: David Fuxman (Israel)
| Kosovo | 0–1 | Austria |
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Attendance: 20
Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)
| Kosovo | 1–0 | Andorra |
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Jamie Robert Robinson (Northern Ireland)
| England | 2–1 | Turkey |
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88' |
Report |
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Attendance: 0
Referee: Willy Delajod (France)
| Turkey | 3–2 | Austria |
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90' |
Attendance: 88
Referee: Novak Simović (Serbia)
| Kosovo | 0–1 | Albania |
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| Report |
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Attendance: 50
Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)
| England | 3–1 | Andorra |
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49' 65' (pen.) |
Report |
Attendance: 0
Referee: Sigurd Kringstad (Norway)
| Turkey | 3–0 | Kosovo |
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32' (pen.) 64' |
Report |
Attendance: 106
Referee: Aleksei Matyunin (Russia)
| Austria | 4–0 | Andorra |
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11' 90+5' (pen.) |
Report |
Attendance: 0
Referee: Manfredas Lukjancukas (Lithuania)
| England | 5–0 | Albania |
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26' 36' 52', 86' |
Report |
Attendance: 0
Referee: Alain Bieri (Switzerland)
There were 108 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.6 goals per match.
13 goals
7 goals
4 goals
Hannes Wolf Sandi Lovrić Callum Hudson-Odoi3 goals
Nicolas Meister Marko Raguž Phil Foden Reiss Nelson Mirlind Daku2 goals
Ernest Muçi Adolf Selmani Shaqir Tafa Christian García Christoph Baumgartner Marco Friedl Marco Grüll Mert Müldür Güven Yalçın1 goal
Omar Imeri Sherif Kallaku Leonardo Maloku Arbnor Mucolli Din Sula Indrit Tuci Giacomo Vrioni Albert Rosas Kelvin Arase Kevin Danso Patrick Schmidt Maximilian Wöber Jude Bellingham Josh Dasilva Tom Davies Conor Gallagher Ben Godfrey Curtis Jones James Justin Jamal Musiala Ryan Sessegnon Ben Wilmot Eris Abedini Blendi Baftiu Ardit Gashi Lirim Kastrati Lirim Mema Arbenit Xhemajli Berkay Özcan Doğukan Sinik İlker Yüksel Berat Özdemir1 own goal
Hüseyin Türkmen (against England)
