European Football Championship 2021 / Austria

This article covers the Austrian national team at the Pan-European Football Championship in 2021 . It is the third participation for the Austrian team.

qualification

For the qualification , the Austrian team was drawn into the group with Poland, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Israel and Latvia.

Marko Arnautović , top Austrian scorer in qualification

In total, national coach Franco Foda , who was the first German to take over the team after missing qualification for the 2018 World Cup in November 2017, deployed 30 players, of whom only Aleksandar Dragović played all ten games. Marcel Sabitzer and Valentino Lazaro each had nine missions , which were not used after qualifying in the last game. Their first international match was played by goalkeeper Alexander Schlager in the penultimate qualifier and Thomas Goiginger , goalkeeper Pavao Pervan and Reinhold Ranftl in the last qualifying match. Stefan Posch , on the other hand, had four more missions after his first appearance in the fourth qualifying game. Goalkeeper Cican Stankovic made his first international match in the fifth qualifying match and was subsequently in goal three times.

The top scorer with six goals was Marko Arnautović . Their first international goal was scored in qualification by Stefan Posch (to the 1-0 win in Slovenia), Stefan Lainer (to the 2-0 intermediate result in the 2-1 win against North Macedonia) and Konrad Laimer (to the 5-0 intermediate result in the 6 : 0 win against Latvia). A total of ten players contributed to the 17 qualifying goals. The Austrians also benefited from two own goals.

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
03/21/2019	Vienna	Poland	0: 1 (0: 0)	Krzysztof Piątek (69.)
March 24, 2019	Haifa	Israel	2: 4 (1: 2)	Marko Arnautović (8th, 75th); Eran Zahavi (34th, 45th, 55th), Munas Dabbur (66th)
07.06.2019	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee	Slovenia	1: 0 (0: 0)	Guido Burgstaller (74th)
06/10/2019	Skopje	North Macedonia	4: 1 (1: 1)	Martin Hinteregger (18th / own goal); Valentino Lazaro (39th), Marko Arnautović (62nd / Elfm., 82nd), Egzon Bejtulai (86th / Own goal)
06.09.2019	Wals-Siezenheim	Latvia	6: 0 (2: 0)	Marko Arnautović (7th, 53rd / Elfm.), Marcel Sabitzer (13th), Pāvels Šteinbors (76th / Own goal), Konrad Laimer (80th), Michael Gregoritsch (85th)
09.09.2019	Warsaw	Poland	0-0
10/10/2019	Vienna	Israel	3: 1 (1: 1)	Eran Zahavi (34.), Valentino Lazaro (41.), Martin Hinteregger (56.), Marcel Sabitzer (88.)
October 13, 2019	Ljubljana	Slovenia	1: 0 (1: 0)	Stefan Posch (21.)
11/16/2019	Vienna	North Macedonia	2: 1 (1: 0)	David Alaba (7th), Stefan Lainer (48th); Vlatko Stojanovski (90th + 3th)
November 19, 2019	Riga	Latvia	0: 1 (0: 0)	Mārcis Ošs (65.)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Poland	10	8th	1	1	018: 500	+13	25th
2.	Austria	10	6th	1	3	019: 900	+10	19th
3.	North Macedonia	10	4th	2	4th	012:130	−1	14th
4th	Slovenia	10	4th	2	4th	016:110	+5	14th
5.	Israel	10	3	2	5	016:180	−2	11
6th	Latvia	10	1	0	9	003:280	−25	03

preparation

The preparation should begin in March with two games, the team wanted to play against Turkey on the 27th, first in Wales and three days later in Vienna . The Austrians wanted to play against England in June and then against the Czech Republic in Prague . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , all games have been canceled.

Finals

At the draw on November 30th, Austria was drawn into the group with the Netherlands and Ukraine. Ukraine had been assigned to the group because, alongside Belgium, they were the only non-hosts in Pot 1 of the top six teams in the qualification and were not allowed in the group with Russia and a host from Pot 1. So only the group with host Netherlands remained. In addition, a team was drawn that still has to qualify in March 2020. The overall balance against the Netherlands is negative. In 19 games there were six wins, four draws and nine losses, with the last six games being lost. The last win against the Dutch came in May 1990 in preparation for the World Cup. There have only been two friendlies against Ukraine, the first in November 2011 was lost 2-1 in Ukraine, and in June 2012 Innsbruck won 3-2.

If the Austrian team wins the group , they would play against the third in Group D, E or F, subject to the retention of the venues in Budapest , and in second place one day earlier in London against the winner of Group A, e.g. B. Italy. If they were one of the four best group thirds, either the winner of Group F with Germany, world champions France or defending champions Portugal in Bucharest or the winner of Group E with Spain in Glasgow would be opponents in the round of 16.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Austria	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Playoff winner D / A 1	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 13, 2021 at 6 p.m. in Bucharest
Austria	-	Playoff winner D / A	-: - (- :–)
June 17, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Amsterdam
Netherlands	-	Austria	-: - (- :–)
June 21, 2021 at 6 p.m. in Bucharest
Ukraine	-	Austria	-: - (- :–)

References and footnotes

¹If route A is won by Iceland, Bulgaria or Hungary, the winner of route A goes to group F and the winner of route D to group C. If route A is won by Romania, Romania goes to group C and the winner of route D goes to group F. (See: Playoffs EM 2021 qualification )

1. ↑ sksturm.at: Franco Foda becomes the Austrian team boss
2. ↑ oefb.at: Dates
3. ↑ oefb.at: The ÖFB provides information on the latest developments at this point