Group C of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Spain, Russia, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Lithuania, and Malta. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland,[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.[2]
On 28 February 2022, FIFA and UEFA announced that Russia was suspended from all competitions.[3][4] On 2 May 2022, UEFA announced that Russia would no longer be allowed to take part in the competition, that their previous results were nullified, and that Group C would continue with five teams. Therefore, Spain qualified for the tournament with a game to spare.[5][6]
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
The table below includes 19 goals from 6 voided matches.[9]
There were 99 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 3.81 goals per match.
7 goals
6 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
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Alfie McCalmont
Ján Bernát Patrik Iľko Jakub Kadák
Hugo Guillamón Juan Miranda Fer Niño Rodri Manu Sánchez1 goal
Artūr Dolžnikov Deividas Dovydaitis Tomas Kalinauskas Titas Milašius Faustas Steponavičius Artemijus Tutyškinas Jake Engerer Marcus Grima Jamie Sixsmith Joseph Zammit Chris Conn-Clarke Ethan Galbraith Carl Johnston Paddy Lane Paul O'Neill Dale Taylor
Kirill Bozhenov Kirill Kravtsov Danila Prokhin Timur Suleymanov Filip Lichý Sebastian Nebyla Peter Pokorný Álex Baena Alejandro Francés Víctor Gómez Rodrigo Riquelme Beñat Turrientes1 own goal
Karolis Uzėla (against Russia) Christian Gauci (against Lithuania)