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]),[1] competes in the biennial UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the Spain under-21 team was formed. Spain has a strong 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.
Competitive record
UEFA European Under-21 Championship Record
Year
Round
GP
W
D*
L
GS
GA
1978
Qualifying Stage
4
2
0
2
5
8
1980
Qualifying Stage
4
1
2
1
4
2
1982
Quarter-Finals
6
5
0
1
14
5
1984
Runners-up
10
5
2
3
11
11
1986
Champions
10
7
1
2
18
9
1988
Quarter-Finals
8
4
2
2
10
4
1990
Quarter-Finals
6
4
0
2
5
4
1992
Qualifying Stage
7
3
2
2
6
5
1994
Third Place
12
9
2
1
21
9
1996
Runners-up
14
10
3
1
34
14
1998
Champions
11
10
1
0
21
6
2000
Third Place
14
11
3
0
31
7
2002
Qualification Playoffs
10
6
1
3
15
9
2004
Qualification Playoffs
10
6
2
2
17
5
2006
Qualifying Stage
10
6
2
2
37
8
2007
Qualification Playoffs
4
2
1
1
8
4
2009
Group Stage
13
10
1
2
27
7
2011
Champions
15
12
2
1
31
8
2013
Champions
15
14
1
0
47
5
2015
Qualification Playoffs
10
7
2
1
25
8
2017
Runners-up
15
11
2
2
43
12
2019
Champions
15
13
0
2
45
16
2021
Semifinals
15
12
2
1
27
3
2023
Qualified
Total
15/23
238
170
34
34
502
169
*Denotes draws including knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
Gold background color indicates first-place finish. Silver background color indicates second-place finish. Bronze background color indicates third-place finish.
Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
Individual awards
Spanish players have won individual awards at UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Tiebreakers Notes:
On 28 February 2022, FIFA and UEFA suspended Russian national teams from all competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[2] On 2 May 2022, UEFA declared all of their results to be null and void.[3]
Players
The following players were called up for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Northern Ireland and Malta, from 3 to 7 June 2022.[4]
Caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2022, after the match against Malta.
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