2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 9

Group 9 of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of five teams: England, Switzerland, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kazakhstan. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 5 February 2015.[1]

The group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the runners-up advance to the play-offs if they are one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team).[2]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 8 6 2 0 20 3 +17 20 Final tournament — 6–1 3–1 3–0 5–0
2  Norway 8 5 1 2 12 10 +2 16 Play-offs 0–1 — 2–1 2–1 2–0
3   Switzerland 8 3 3 2 11 8 +3 12 1–1 1–1 — 3–0 3–1
4  Kazakhstan 8 1 1 6 3 14 −11 4 0–1 0–3 0–1 — 0–0
5  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 0 3 5 2 13 −11 3 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

Times are CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 29 March and 24 October 2015 and between 27 March and 29 October 2016, for other dates times are CET (UTC+1).

Norway 2–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elyounoussi  45'
Aursnes  88'		 Report
Attendance: 1,361
Referee: Anatolii Zhabchenko (Ukraine)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–2 Kazakhstan
Hajradinović  58' Report Tuliyev  27'
Aimbetov  43'
Attendance: 370
Referee: Vadims Direktorenko (Latvia)
Kazakhstan 0–1  Switzerland
Report Tarashaj  85' (pen.)
Referee: Nikola Popov (Bulgaria)
Norway 0–1 England
Report Ward-Prowse  45+1' (pen.)
Switzerland  3–1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tarashaj  12' (pen.), 76'
Tabaković  63'		 Report Ćerimagić  80'
Attendance: 1,565
Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)
Norway 2–1 Kazakhstan
Elyounoussi  14'
Sørloth  69'		 Report Zhalmukan  50'
Referee: Jovan Kaludjerović (Montenegro)
Switzerland  1–1 Norway
Tabaković  30' Report Trondsen  19'
Attendance: 1,536
Referee: Dominik Ouschan (Austria)
England 3–0 Kazakhstan
Loftus-Cheek  53'
Redmond  70'
Akpom  90+4'		 Report
Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–0 England
Report
Attendance: 400
Referee: Alexander Harkam (Austria)
England 3–1  Switzerland
Ward-Prowse  82' (pen.)
Watmore  85'
Akpom  90+1'		 Report Tarashaj  45'
Attendance: 12,003
Kazakhstan 0–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Report
Referee: Suren Baliyan (Armenia)
Switzerland  1–1 England
Kamberi  76' Report Akpom  47'
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–1 Norway
Report Elyounoussi  57'
Referee: Alexandros Aretopoulos (Greece)
Switzerland  3–0 Kazakhstan
Khelifi  28'
Angha  41'
Fernandes  63'		 Report
Attendance: 464
Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–0  Switzerland
Report
Referee: Michael Tykgaard (Denmark)
England 6–1 Norway
Rashford  29', 66', 72' (pen.)
Chalobah  38'
Loftus-Cheek  64'
Baker  86'		 Report Zahid  68'
Kazakhstan 0–1 England
Report Gray  6'
Norway 2–1  Switzerland
Zahid  44'
Elyounoussi  79'		 Report Fernandes  66'
Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)
England 5–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Swift  14'
Abraham  18', 68'
Onomah  49'
Watmore  62'		 Report
Kazakhstan 0–3 Norway
Report Ødegaard  53', 85'
Zahid  68'
Referee: Nenad Djokić (Serbia)

Goalscorers
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

References
  1. "2017 Under-21 qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. 5 February 2015.
  2. "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2015–17" (PDF). UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
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