U21 Euro 2025 Predictions & Betting tips
U21 Euro 2025 presentation - Football
The European Under-21 Championship is an official UEFA European competition that has been in existence since 1978.
It is played every two years, and this year (2025) will be the 25th edition. It brings together the 16 best youth teams (under 21, only players born after 1 January 2002 can take part) in Europe, and will be played this year in Slovakia from 11 to 28 June.
This is always an interesting competition for your football predictions, especially in a slack period like June!
Our free prediction for the U21 Euro 2025
A very interesting tournament awaits us in June, with some very fine teams coming to Slovakia. Two nations stand out as favourites with the bookmakers, Germany and Spain, closely followed by a number of outsiders: England, France, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands and Italy.
All in all, the biggest European nations are there, just as they are for the adults. And as for the future winner, it remains rather complicated to decide between the nations mentioned above, given the abundance of young talent in each squad. France in particular will have to watch out, as they come into the tournament with a very strong squad on paper.
Coach Lee Carsley has called up Beadle (Brighton and Hove Albion), Livramento (Newcastle United), Quansah (Liverpool), Bellingham (Sunderland), Gray (Tottenham Hotspur), Elliott (Liverpool) and Nwaneri (Arsenal). There could also have been Branthwaite (Everton), Mainoo (Man United) or McAtee (Man City), but they are absent.
Even so, we give a very slight advantage to Spain, which still has some superb youth teams (Rafa Marin of Napoli, Gerard Martin, Pablo Torre and especially Fermin Lopez of Barcelona, Matías Fernández-Pardo of LOSC) and is also the most successful country in the competition (on a par with Italy), as well as to England, the reigning champions and 3-time winners. Our Euro U21 2025 prediction: victory for England or Spain!
U21 Euro 2025 prediction - odds for the title of champion
- Spain - 5.00
- Germany - 5.00
- England - 5.50
- France - 5.50
- Netherlands - 8.00
- Italy - 9.00
- Portugal - 11.00
- Denmark - 26.00
- Ukraine - 31.00
- Poland - 51.00
- Slovakia - 51.00
- Czech Republic - 67.00
- Georgia - 81.00
- Romania - 101.00
- Finland - 101.00
- Slovenia - 126.00
Odds taken from Bet365
Beginner Guide - how does the Champions U21 Euro work?
The 16 teams are divided into 4 groups of 4 nations, with a draw based on the hats. There's nothing unusual about the way this works compared with other competitions:
- The 16 teams are divided into 4 groups of 4
- Only the top two teams qualify for the quarter-finals
- The bottom two teams in each group are eliminated from the competition
Each country plays 3 matches in the group phase, and reaches the quarter-finals only by finishing in one of the top two places in the standings. Since the knockout phase starts directly with the quarter-finals, there is no repechage of the best third-placed teams.
The winners of the quarter-finals go on to compete in the semi-finals. The competition ends on 28 June with the grand final, which crowns the European U21 champion team. As with the adult Euro, there is no third-place play-off (as there is at the World Cup or Nations League, for example).
Here are the key dates:
- Group stage: 11 to 18 June
- Quarter-finals: 21 and 22 June
- Semi-finals: 25 June
- Final: 28 June 2025
You now have all the key information you need about how this U21 Euro 2025 tournament will be organised and run.
The groups for Euro U21 2025
The group phase of this U21 Euro 2025, which is being played during the first week of the tournament from 11 to 18 June, brings together the 16 qualifying countries, which are divided into 4 groups of 4:
- Group A: Slovakia - Spain - Italy - Romania
- Group B: Czech Republic - England - Germany - Slovenia
- Group C: Portugal - France - Poland - Georgia
- Group D: Finland - Netherlands - Ukraine - Denmark
Some superb fixtures await us in this first part of the competition, with clashes between Spain and Italy, England and Germany and France and Portugal, for example. Enough to place a few bets!
Our tips for correctly predicting matches and betting on the U21 Euro 2025
To get the most out of your U21 Euro predictions, there are a few things you need to know and do before you place your bets. Here are some tips from our football experts to help you maximise your chances of winning the European Under-21 Championship:
- Analyse the form of the countries
- Analyse the squads called up by the coaches
- Check the form of the major players
- Play only at odds that are worth the money
- Take advantage of bookmakers' welcome bonuses
Throughout the competition, keep these few tips in mind and apply them before every bet! If you want to stack the odds in your favour and maximise your potential winnings, it's very important to follow these instructions. Don't forget that magnificent welcome bonuses are waiting for you!
What not to do for your U21 Euro 2025 football predictions
In the same vein as what we've just told you, there are more than just good practices to apply. There are also some bad habits to put aside and avoid in order to place the most reliable bets during the 2025 edition of U21 Euro.
Here are the most common mistakes we have identified:
- Playing small odds throughout the tournament without in-depth analysis
- Not following the tournament and betting without watching results or matches
- Not analysing the squads called up by the coaches
- Not paying attention to potential injuries, suspensions or misfits
- Constantly betting on the favourite nation
- Not taking the competition statistics into account when placing your bets
- Bet without comparing the U21 Euro odds and miss out on the best potential winnings
If you put aside these bad habits, which are very common among punters, you will improve your chances of winning your bets on the 2025 European Under-21 Championship. Remember all this every time you move your finger to the ‘Bet’ button!
U21 Euro: statistics you need to know
Let's move on to another very important subject. In order to prepare your bets on U21 Euro 2025 in the best possible way, the tournament's statistics are obviously important.
Below are the figures for the last edition, played in 2023, and the 31 matches played from the group phase to the grand final:
- Average number of goals: 2.32 goals per match
- +0.5 goals: 90
- -0.5 goals: 10
- +1.5 goals: 68
- -1.5 goals: 32
- +2.5 goals: 42
- -2.5 goals: 58
- +3.5 goals: 19
- -3.5 goals: 81
- +4.5 goals: 10
- -4.5 goals: 90
- ‘Both teams to score: yes’: 45
- Average shots per game: 21.03
- Victory by a margin of 2 goals or more (handicap): 32.2% of duels
- Correct score 0-0: 9.7% of clashes
- Correct score 1-1: 9.7% of matches
- Most frequent score: 1-0 or 0-1 (22.6% of games)
- Quarters with the most goals: 31‘-45’ and 76‘-90’ (23%)
- Tens with the most goals: 81‘-90’ (18%)
As you can see, the U21 Euro is not exactly the ideal tournament for fans of goal-scoring matches and Over betting.
The average number of goals is relatively low, and the Under seems to be the type of bet to favour, like the ‘both teams to score: no’ bet. The latter was validated in more than half the matches!
Handicap wins also seem to be to be avoided, but a few exact scores (0-0, 1-1 or 1-0 and 0-1) will be worth a try. And when you consider the average odds on offer for exact scores, there are some good shots to be had!
In short: how to make the right predictions on U21 Euro matches?
Do you want to bet well during U21 Euro 2025 and maximise your chances of winning? It's not really that complicated, but you'll need to follow all the advice on this page.
Find out the key statistics for the tournament, follow our experts' analysis and advice for each match, compare the odds, follow the U21 Euro results... These are just some of the things you'll need to keep an eye on until 28 June!
Happy betting on U21 Euro 2025!
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