2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 11 October – 21 November 2023; Elite round:; 20 – 26 March 2024
Teams	53 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	120
Goals scored	338 (2.82 per match)
Attendance	7,174 (60 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dženan Pejčinović ; (8 goals)
	← 2023 2025 → All statistics correct as of 26 March 2024.

Last updated December 05, 2024

The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification is a men's under-19 national football team competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Northern Ireland in the 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.^[1]^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2005 are eligible to participate.

Russia was excluded from participating in the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Northern Ireland, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in October–November 2023, followed by an elite round played in March 2024.^[3]

Format

The qualifying competition will consist of the following two rounds:

Qualifying Round: Apart from Portugal, which receives a bye to the elite round as the team with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams are drawn in 13 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 13 group winners, 13 runners-up, and the third placed team 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 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):^[5]

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 2 yellow cards in one match = 3 points)
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw

To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):^[5]

Points
Goal difference
Goals scored
Disciplinary points (total 3 matches)
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 8 December 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[6]

2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2022 UEFA European Under-19 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. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Spain and Gibraltar, Belarus and Ukraine, Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Northern Ireland	3.667	—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Portugal	26.056	1

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff.	Rank
England	25.222	2
France	22.000	3
Italy	21.444	4
Czech Republic	16.889	5
Spain	16.689	6
Ukraine	15.056	7
Republic of Ireland	14.944	8
Netherlands	14.556	9
Norway	14.111	10
Israel	14.056	11
Germany	13.833	12
Turkey	12.444	13
Serbia	11.833	14

Pot B
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Austria	11.333	15
Slovakia	11.333	16
Romania	11.167	17
Hungary	10.667	18
Belgium	10.333	19
Sweden	10.278	20
Scotland	9.500	21
Croatia	9.500	22
Greece	9.000	23
Denmark	8.933	24
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.833	25
Georgia	8.833	26
Poland	8.500	27

Pot C
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Finland	8.500	28
Bulgaria	8.056	29
Iceland	6.000	30
Switzerland	5.833	31
Armenia	5.667	32
Cyprus	5.333	33
Wales	5.333	34
Latvia	5.333	35
Slovenia	5.333	36
Azerbaijan	4.500	37
Belarus	4.333	38
North Macedonia	4.333	39
Kosovo	3.167	40

Pot D
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Albania	2.333	41
Montenegro	2.333	42
Malta	2.333	43
Moldova	1.667	44
Kazakhstan	1.667	45
Faroe Islands	1.333	46
Andorra	1.333	47
Lithuania	0.333	48
Estonia	0.333	49
Luxembourg	0.333	50
San Marino	0.000	51
Gibraltar	0.000	52
Liechtenstein	0.000	53

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Elite round
2	France (H)	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6	Elite round
3	Iceland	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	4
4	Estonia	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

15 November 2023

15:00

Iceland	1–1	Denmark
Fjeldsted 44'	Report	Andreasen 7' (pen.)

Stade Marcel Garcin, Orléans

Attendance: 112

Referee: Daniel Schlager (Germany)

15 November 2023