18th UEFA U21 European Championship draw made

2/4/2009

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The draw for UEFA European U21 Champions qualifiers that will take place between 2009-2011 was made in the Danish city of Aarhus. Turkey U21 national team was paired together with Switzerland, Armenia, Republic of Ireland, Georgia and Estonia in Group 2.

The match schedule will be as follows according to the fixture meeting that was held after the draw.

Date	Home Team		Visiting Team
31.03.2009	Republic of Ireland	-	TURKEY
09.06.2009	Armenia	-	TURKEY
09.09.2009	Georgia	-	TURKEY
13.10.2009	TURKEY	-	Armenia
14.11.2009	TURKEY	-	Switzerland
18.11.2009	TURKEY	-	Estonia
23.05.2010	Estonia	-	TURKEY
26.05.2010	Switzerland	-	TURKEY
04.09.2010	TURKEY	-	Georgia
07.09.2010	TURKEY	-	Republic of Ireland

With Denmark automatically qualifying for the finals in June 2011 as hosts, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into ten groups, eight with five teams and two with six, Group stage matches will be played according to a standard, home-and-away, league system, kicking off on 28/29 March 2009 and concluding with the final matches in all ten groups on 7 September 2010.

Ten group winners and four best runners-up will advance into the play-offs. 7 play-off winners and hosts Denmark wil play the final.

GROUP 1	GROUP 2	GROUP 3	GROUP 4	GROUP 5
Russia	Turkey	Italy	Spain	Germany
Romania	Switzerland	Wales	Finland	Czech Republic
Moldova	Armenia	Hungary	Netherlands	Northern Ireland
Latvia	Republic of Ireland	B. Herzegovina	Poland	Iceland
Faroe Islands	Georgia	Luxembourg	Liechtenstein	San Marino
Andorra	Estonia
GROUP 6	GROUP 7	GROUP 8	GROUP 9	GROUP 10
Israel	Serbia	France	England	Austria
Sweden	Croatia	Ukraine	Portugal	Belarus
Bulgaria	Norway	Belgium	Greece	Scotland
Montenegro	Slovakia	Slovenia	F.Y.R. Macedonia	Albania
Kazakhstan	Greek Cypriot	Malta	Lithuania	Azerbaijan
	Administration of
	Southern Cyprus