European Football Championship 2021 / Spain

This article covers the Spanish national team at the Pan-European Football Championship 2021 . It is the eleventh participation for the Spanish team.

qualification

For the qualification , the Spanish team Sweden, Norway, Romania, the Faroe Islands and Malta were drawn.

Álvaro Morata

Rodrigo

Sergio Ramos

The best qualifying scorers in Spain

The Spaniards started the qualification under Luis Enrique , who took over the team after the 2018 World Cup. After the World Cup, long-time national players Andrés Iniesta , Gerard Piqué and David Silva had ended their national team careers and a rebuilding was necessary. In the first qualifying game, two newcomers and four players with a maximum of six international matches were used. After Luis Enrique was unable to look after the national team at the international matches in March 2019 for private reasons, the President of the Spanish Football Association , Luis Rubiales , announced on June 19, 2019 that Luis Enrique had made his position available. The previous assistant coach Robert Moreno , with whom he had previously worked at FC Barcelona B, AS Roma, Celta Vigo and FC Barcelona, ​​has been appointed as his successor . Other new players were also nominated under him. A total of 38 players were used in the qualification. No player was used in all ten games. Captain Sergio Ramos was the only constancy in the qualification, but only made nine appearances as he had to pause once after the third yellow card . He received this in his 168th international match, with which he beat the national record set by Iker Casillas and then increased to 170 games by the end of qualification. The second most appearances were goalkeepers Kepa , Rodri , Jesús Navas and Rodrigo with seven games . In addition to Ramos, Diego Llorente also had to take a break, but after a red card . For their first internationals Sergio Canales , Jaime Mata , Gerard Moreno , Unai Núñez , Dani Olmo , Fabián Ruiz , Pablo Sarabia and Pau Torresin came in the qualifying games.

The top scorers with four goals each were Álvaro Morata , Sergio Ramos and Rodrigo. Their first international goal was scored in the qualification by José Gayá (to the 4-1 final against the Faroe Islands), Gerard Moreno (to the 6-0 intermediate in the 7-0 against Malta), Mikel Oyarzabal (to the 3-0 final against Sweden) , Dani Olmo (on his debut three minutes after his substitution to 5-0 intermediate result in 7-0 against Malta), Fabián Ruiz (to 1-0 lead in 5-0 win against Romania), Pablo Sarabia (to 4 : 0 interim score in the 7-0 win against Malta) and Pau Torres (on his debut two minutes after being substituted on for the 3-0 interim score in the 7-0 win against Malta). A total of 14 players contributed to the 29 qualifying goals. In addition, the Spaniards benefited from two own goals.

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
03/23/2019	Valencia	Norway	2: 1 (1: 0)	Rodrigo (16.), Joshua King (65./Elfm.), Sergio Ramos (71./Elfm.)
March 26, 2019	Attard	Malta	2: 0 (1: 0)	Álvaro Morata (31st, 73rd)
07.06.2019	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	4: 1 (3: 1)	Sergio Ramos (6th), Jesús Navas (19th), Klæmint Olsen (30th), Teitur Gestsson (34th / own goal), José Gayá (71st)
06/10/2019	Madrid	Sweden	3: 0 (0: 0)	Sergio Ramos (64./Elfm.), Álvaro Morata (85./Elfm.), Mikel Oyarzabal (87.)
05.09.2019	Bucharest	Romania	2: 1 (1: 0)	Sergio Ramos (29th / Elf), Paco Alcácer (47th); Florin Andone (59 ')
09/08/2019	Gijón	Faroe Islands	4: 0 (1: 0)	Rodrigo (13th, 50th) Rodrigo, Paco Alcácer (90th, 90th + 3)
October 12, 2019	Oslo	Norway	1: 1 (0: 0)	Saúl (47th); Joshua King (90th + 4 / Penalty)
October 15, 2019	Solna	Sweden	1: 1 (0: 0)	Marcus Berg (50th), Rodrigo (90th + 2)
11/15/2019	Cadiz	Malta	7: 0 (2: 0)	Álvaro Morata (23.), Santi Cazorla (41.), Pau Torres (62.), Pablo Sarabia (63.), Dani Olmo (69.), Gerard Moreno (71.), Jesús Navas (85.)
11/18/2019	Madrid	Romania	5: 0 (4: 0)	Fabián Ruiz (8th), Gerard Moreno (33rd, 43rd), Adrian Rus (45th + 1 / own goal), Mikel Oyarzabal (90th + 2)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	10	8th	2	0	031: 500	+26	26th
2.	Sweden	10	6th	3	1	023: 900	+14	21st
3.	Norway	10	4th	5	1	019:110	+8	17th
4th	Romania	10	4th	2	4th	017:150	+2	14th
5.	Faroe Islands	10	1	0	9	004:300	−26	03
6th	Malta	10	1	0	9	003:270	−24	03

preparation

The preparation should start in March 2020 with a game in Madrid against Germany and three days later in Amsterdam with a game against the Netherlands . A game in Madrid against defending champions Portugal was also planned for June . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , all games have been canceled.

Finals

Spain had applied with the Estadio de San Mamés in Bilbao to host games and won three group games and a round of 16, so that at least two home games were certain. On December 7th 2017 it was decided that the other games of the group would take place in Dublin and since Ireland could not qualify directly for the finals, it was decided that Spain could play the third group game in Bilbao. At the draw on November 30th, the Spaniards Sweden and Poland as well as a team that still has to qualify in March 2020 were drawn. The Spaniards played against the Swedes in qualifying. Overall, the record is positive with seven wins, five draws and three defeats. The last defeat came in qualifying for the European Championship in 2008, in which the Spaniards then won the title. Against the Poles there were only two competitive games in the round of 16 of the qualification for the first EM , which were won 4-2 and 3-0. After that, there were only friendlies, of which Spain lost only one in November 1980 in Barcelona . This was followed by six wins and one draw.

If the Spanish team wins the group, they would - subject to the retention of the venues - play against the third in Group A, B, C or D in Glasgow , and in second place a day earlier in Copenhagen against the second in Group D, e.g. B. England, Croatia or the Czech Republic. If they were one of the top four group thirds, either the group B winner with Belgium in Bilbao or the group C winner with the Netherlands in Budapest would be opponents in the round of 16.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Sweden	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Poland	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Playoff winner way B	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 14, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Bilbao
Spain	-	Sweden	-: - (- :–)
June 19, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Bilbao
Spain	-	Poland	-: - (- :–)
June 23, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in Bilbao
Playoff winner way B	-	Spain	-: - (- :–)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luis Enrique resigned as Spain's national coach , kicker.de, June 19, 2019, accessed on August 30, 2019.
2. ↑ soccerway.com: Spain