title: 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8
text: # 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8
  
  Group 8 of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of five teams: Netherlands, Slovakia, Turkey, Belarus, and Cyprus. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 5 February 2015.
  
  The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format. The group winners qualified directly for the final tournament, while the runners-up advanced to the play-offs if they were one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team).
  
  ## Standings
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Slovakia | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | +15 | 19 | Final tournament | — | 4–2 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
  | 2 | Netherlands | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 14 | | 1–3 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 |
  | 3 | Turkey | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 11 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 0–1 |
  | 4 | Belarus | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 8 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | — | 2–2 |
  | 5 | Cyprus | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 19 | −15 | 4 | | 0–3 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | — |
  
  ## Matches
  
  Times are CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 29 March and 24 October 2015 and between 27 March and 29 October 2016, for other dates times are CET (UTC+1).
  
  ## Goalscorers
  
  ### 6 goals
  
  * Vincent Janssen
  
  ### 5 goals
  
  * Adam Zreľák
  
  ### 4 goals
  
  * Martin Chrien
  
  ### 3 goals
  
  * Pavel Savitski
  * Jaroslav Mihalík
  * Albert Rusnák
  
  ### 2 goals
  
  * Riechedly Bazoer
  * Steven Bergwijn
  * Matúš Bero
  * Pavol Šafranko
  
  ### 1 goal
  
  * Vladislav Klimovich
  * Gleb Rassadkin
  * Yevgeniy Yablonskiy
  * Yaroslav Yarotsky
  * Minas Antoniou
  * Nicholas Ioannou
  * Fanos Katelaris
  * Andreas Makris
  * Donny van de Beek
  * Jean-Paul Boëtius
  * Anwar El Ghazi
  * Hans Hateboer
  * Derrick Luckassen
  * Stanislav Lobotka
  * Milan Škriniar
  * Kaan Ayhan
  * Bilal Başaçıkoğlu
  * Oğulcan Çağlayan
  * Kenan Karaman
  * Cenk Şahin
  
  ### 1 own goal
  
  * Stefanos Mouhtaris (against Turkey)
  * Matúš Hruška (against Turkey)
  