Tourney Name: | UEFA European Under-21 Championship |
Year: | 2025 |
Other Titles: | Majstrovstvá Európy vo futbale hráčov do 21 rokov 2025 |
Country: | Slovakia |
Dates: | 11–28 June |
Num Teams: | 16 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Venues: | 8 |
Cities: | 8 |
Prevseason: | 2023 |
Nextseason: | 2027 |
The 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2025) will be the 25th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (28th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe.
The tournament will be hosted by Slovakia.[1] A total of 16 teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.
UEFA Executive Committee chose Slovakia as a host in January 2023.[1]
Bratislava | Trnava | Dunajská Streda | Košice | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Národný futbalový štadión | Anton Malatinský Stadium | MOL Aréna | Košická futbalová aréna | |
Capacity: 22,500 | Capacity: 18,200 | Capacity: 12,700 | Capacity: 12,555 | |
Žilina | Trenčín | Nitra | Prešov | |
Štadión pod Dubňom | Štadión Sihoť | Štadión pod Zoborom | ||
Capacity: 10,897 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 7,480 | Capacity: under construction | |
See main article: 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).
Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | data-sort-type="number" | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January 2023 | 3rd | (2000) | ||||
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.
In October 2023, UEFA official came to Slovakia to further inspect their venues and were satisfied with them.[2]