2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification

2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 19 September – 28 October 2018; Elite round:; 10–30 March 2019
Teams	46 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	108
Goals scored	407 (3.77 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nikita Tromp (12 goals)
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Last updated November 21, 2023

The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Bulgaria in the 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.^[1]

Apart from Bulgaria, 46 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions are permitted per team in each match.^[3] Moreover, each match has a regular duration of 90 minutes, instead of 80 minutes in previous seasons.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:^[4]

Qualifying round: Apart from Germany and Spain, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 44 teams are drawn into 11 groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 11 group winners, the 11 runners-up, and the four third-placed teams with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group advance to the elite round.
Elite round: The 28 teams are drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners qualify for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):^[4]

Group schedule
Matchday	Matches
Matchday 1	1 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 2	1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 3	2 v 1, 4 v 3

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[4]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):^[4]

Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 24 November 2017, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[5]^[6]^[7]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (a four-year window was used instead of the previous three-year window):^[8]

2014 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)

Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn in the same group.^[2]

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff	Rank
Bulgaria	4.000	—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff	Rank
Germany	31.667	1
Spain	30.944	2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff	Rank
England	22.667	3
Norway	21.500	4
France	18.944	5
Italy	16.833	6
Republic of Ireland	15.722	7
Switzerland	15.278	8
Netherlands	14.889	9
Austria	14.111	10
Czech Republic	13.222	11
Scotland	12.444	12
Belgium	12.167	13

Pot B
Team	Coeff	Rank
Denmark	12.000	14
Sweden	11.667	15
Iceland	11.167	16
Finland	10.500	17
Poland	10.167	18
Hungary	9.667	19
Russia	9.667	20
Serbia	9.667	21
Greece	8.500	22
Portugal	8.333	23
Belarus	7.000	24

Pot C
Team	Coeff	Rank
Slovenia	6.333	25
Northern Ireland	5.833	26
Turkey	5.500	27
Wales	5.167	28
Romania	4.833	29
Slovakia	4.667	30
Ukraine	3.833	31
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.667	32
Croatia	3.333	33
Azerbaijan	3.000	34
Latvia	1.333	35

Pot D
Team	Coeff	Rank
Macedonia	1.333	36
Faroe Islands	1.000	37
Montenegro	1.000	38
Israel	1.000	39
Estonia	0.333	40
Kazakhstan	0.333	41
Lithuania	0.333	42
Moldova	0.333	43
Georgia	0.000	44
Andorra	0.000	45
Albania	—	46

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter
Armenia	Cyprus	Gibraltar	Kosovo
Liechtenstein	Luxembourg	Malta	San Marino

Groups

The qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 28 October 2018.^[8]^[7]

Times up to 27 October 2018 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark (H)	3	3	0	14	1	+13	9	Elite round
2	Czech Republic	3	2	1	7	4	+3	6	Elite round
3	Ukraine	3	1	2	4	7	−3	3
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	3	3	16	−13	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

15 October 2018