Group A of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Croatia, Austria, Norway, Finland, Azerbaijan, and Estonia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00 CET (), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.
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Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).