Spain national under-21 football team
Date Competition Location Opponent Result Scorers
1 September 2017 Friendly Toledo , Spain Italy 3-0 Merino 23 ' , Mayoral 45+1 ' , Meré 81 '
5 September 2017 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Tallinn , Estonia Estonia 1-0 Soler 65 '
10 October 2017 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Poprad , Slovakia Slovakia 4-1 Merino 26 ' , Oyarzabal 49 ' , Rodri 56 ' , Ceballos 69 '
9 November 2017 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Murcia , Spain Iceland 1-0 Fabián 36 '
14 November 2017 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Cartagena , Spain Slovakia 5-1 Ceballos 38 ' , 55 ' , 61 ' , Córdoba 53 ' , Mayoral 86 '
22 March 2018 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Portadown , Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 5-3 Oyarzabal 15 ' , 44 ' , Mayoral 47 ' , 75 ' , 84 '
27 March 2018 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Ponferrada , Spain Estonia 3-1 Fabián 8 ' , Mayoral 37 ' , 51 '
6 September 2018 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Córdoba , Spain Albania 3-0 Oyarzabal 5 ' , Mayoral 56 ' , Mir 90+2 '
11 September 2018 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Albacete , Spain Northern Ireland 1-2 Rafa Mir 90+2 '
11 October 2018 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Tirana , Albania Albania 1-0 Rafa Mir 84 '
16 October 2018 2019 UEFA U-21 qualification Reykjavík , Iceland Iceland 7-2 Oyarzabal 24 ' ( pen . ) , Rafa Mir 25 ' , 40 ' , Gunnarsson 45+2 ' ( o.g . ) , Carlos Soler 54 ' Mayoral 87 ' , Fabián 90 '
14 November 2018 Friendly Logroño , Spain Denmark 4-1 Mayoral 25 ' , 32 ' , 55 ' , Meré 45 '
19 November 2018 Friendly Caen , France France 1-1 Oyarzabal 10 ' ( pen . )
21 March 2019 Friendly Granada , Spain Romania 1-0 Merino 67 '
25 March 2019 Friendly Algeciras , Spain Austria 3-0 Soler 53 ' , 61 ' , Roca 81 '
16 June 2019 2019 UEFA U-21 group stage Bologna , Italy Italy 1-3 Ceballos 9 '
19 June 2019 2019 UEFA U-21 group stage Reggio Emilia , Italy Belgium 2-1 Olmo 7 ' , Fornals 89 '
22 June 2019 2019 UEFA U-21 group stage Bologna , Italy Poland 5-0 Fornals 17 ' , Oyarzabal 35 ' , Fabián 39 ' , Ceballos 71 ' , Mayoral 90 '
27 June 2019 2019 UEFA U-21 semifinals Reggio Emilia , Italy France 4-1 Roca 28 ' , Oyarzabal 45+5 ' ( pen . ) , Olmo 47 ' , Mayoral 66 '
30 June 2019 2019 UEFA U-21 Final Udine , Italy Germany 2-1 Fabián 7 ' , Olmo 69 '
Recent results
The Spain national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Spain and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The team, nicknamed La Rojita (The Little Red [One]), competes in the biennial UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the Spanish under-21 team was formed. Spain has a fantastic record (competition winners five times and runners-up twice); having consecutively won the 2011 and 2013 Championships. They hold the joint record with Italy for the most wins of the competition. Since the under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, technically it is an U-23 competition. For this reason, Spain's brief record in the preceding U-23 competitions is also shown, though in actuality, Spain played only three competitive U-23 matches. The first was in the under-23 Challenge, which they lost, while the next two were in a two-team qualification group for the 1972 competition (facing the Soviet Union team, they lost 2-1 at home then drew 1-1 away and failed to qualify. Spain did not enter a team in the other two U-23 competitions, but have been ever present in under-21 competitions). Spain's youth development programs has been challenging the South American dominance in the FIFA U-17 World Championship and the FIFA U-20 World Cup. In fact, 20 of the Spanish 23-man squad that won the Euro 2008 came through the ranks of the youth teams; most of them had won titles at the youth level as well.