European U21 Championship Qual | 09/04 14:00 | 1 | Georgia U21 vs Moldova U21 | - | View | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 09/08 14:00 | 1 | Netherlands U21 vs Georgia U21 | - | View | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 10/09 14:00 | 1 | Sweden U21 vs Georgia U21 | - | View | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 10/14 14:00 | 1 | Georgia U21 vs North Macedonia U21 | - | View |
European U21 Championship Qual | 03/26 13:00 | 1 | [6] Gibraltar U21 v Georgia U21 [2] | W | 0-2 | |
U21 International | 03/22 17:30 | - | Turkey U21 v Georgia U21 | L | 2-1 | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 11/16 12:00 | 1 | [5] North Macedonia U21 v Georgia U21 [3] | W | 0-1 | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 10/17 15:00 | 1 | [3] Georgia U21 v Sweden U21 [2] | D | 0-0 | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 10/12 14:00 | 1 | [2] Georgia U21 v Netherlands U21 [1] | L | 0-3 | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 09/12 16:00 | 1 | [4] Moldova U21 v Georgia U21 [3] | W | 0-1 | |
European U21 Championship Qual | 09/06 16:00 | 1 | [3] Georgia U21 v Gibraltar U21 [6] | W | 2-0 | |
European U21 Championship | 07/01 16:00 | 3 | [1] Georgia U21 v Israel U21 [2] | L | 3-4 | |
European U21 Championship | 06/27 16:00 | 3 | [3] Netherlands U21 v Georgia U21 [1] | D | 1-1 | |
European U21 Championship | 06/24 16:00 | 2 | [1] Georgia U21 v Belgium U21 [3] | D | 2-2 | |
European U21 Championship | 06/21 16:00 | 1 | Georgia U21 v Portugal U21 | W | 2-0 | |
U21 International | 06/15 16:00 | - | Georgia U21 v Cyprus U21 | W | 2-0 |
Total | Home | Away | |
---|---|---|---|
Matches played | 12 | 7 | 5 |
Wins | 6 | 3 | 3 |
Draws | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Losses | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Goals for | 14 | 8 | 6 |
Goals against | 8 | 5 | 3 |
Clean sheets | 8 | 5 | 3 |
Failed to score | 3 | 3 | 0 |
The Georgia national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Georgia and is controlled by the Georgian Football Federation. It is considered to be the feeder team for the senior Georgian national football team. The team competes in the European Under-21 Championship, held every two years.
The current team is for Georgian players aged under 21 at the start of the calendar year in which a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign begins, so some players can remain with the squad until the age of 23. As long as they are eligible, players can play for Georgia at any level, making it possible to play for the U21s, senior side, and again for the U21s. This has been the case for several senior team players like Jano Ananidze and Levan Kakubava.
Although the breakup of the Soviet Union occurred officially on 25 December 1991, the under-21 team continued as Soviet Union until the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. After that, Georgia and the other countries who split from the Soviet Union like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine became separate footballing entities.
Georgia held its first official game in a 1996 UEFA European U21 Championship qualification campaign against Moldova and achieved the best result in the next round by coming second in their group. Since the establishment of the Georgian under-21 side, it never reached a final tournament of the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, until the 2023 edition for which they automatically qualified as a co-host nation.
Despite the lowest rating points among the 2023 Championship teams, Georgia produced a main surprise on the tournament. They finished the group on top of the table and remained unbeaten after 120 minutes of a quarter-final clash with Israel as well, before eventually losing on penalties.
Georgia U21s do not have a permanent home ground and play in stadiums of Erovnuli Liga clubs across the country. The record attendance for their match was set on 1 July 2023 when Georgia played Israel in quarter-final of the European Championship in front of 44,338 spectators.