2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Round 1:; 26 November – 3 December 2024; Round 2:; 18 February – 8 April 2025
Teams	51 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	150
Goals scored	541 (3.61 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Anastasiya Kavaliova ; (8 goals)
	← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 8 April 2025.

Last updated October 18, 2025

The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification was an under-19 women's national football team competition that determined the seven teams that would join the automatically qualified host team Poland in the 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.

Three national teams decided not to participate in the event and Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, including hosts Poland, 51 teams entered this qualifying competition. The Round 1 of the qualification was played from 26 November to 3 December 2024, while the Round 2 was played from 18 February to 8 April 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2006 were eligible to participate.

Format

The qualification consisted of two rounds, both with teams playing in two tiered leagues. Each round league consisted of several groups, which were played as single-round-robin mini-tournaments, with one team from each group selected as the host after the draw.

Round 1:
- League A: 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four. The top three teams from each group were transferred to Round 2 League A; teams that finished fourth were relegated to Round 2 League B.
- League B: 23 teams were drawn into six groups of three or four. The group winners and the best runner-up team were promoted to Round 2 League A; the other teams were transferred to Round 2 League B.
Round 2:
- League A: 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four. The group winners qualified for the final tournament. Since Poland, as the host of the final tournament, won one of these groups, the best runner-up team also qualified. Teams that finished fourth were relegated to Round 1 League B for the next season.
- League B: 23 teams were drawn into six groups of three or four. The group winners and the best runner-up team were promoted to Round 1 League A for the next season.

Tiebreakers

In Round 1 and Round 2, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 19.01 and 19.02):^[1]

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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings were 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);
Position in the applicable ranking:
1. for teams in Round 1, position in 2023–24 Round 2 league rankings;
2. for teams in Round 2, position in the Round 1 league ranking.

To determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 15.01):^[1]

Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
Position in the applicable ranking:
1. for teams in Round 1, position in the coefficient rankings;
2. for teams in Round 2, position in the Round 1 league ranking.

Round 1

Draw

The draw for the Round 1 was held on 7 June 2024, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2]

The 51 entering teams were split into two Leagues (28 in League A, 23 in League B) according to their final ranking in the 2023–24 qualification (Regulations Article 13.01).^[3] To determine this ranking, the following criteria was followed:

higher position in the following classification:
1. League A Round 2 group winners
2. League A Round 2 group runners-up
3. League A Round 2 third-placed teams
4. Teams promoted from League B
5. Teams relegated from League A
6. League B Round 2 runners-up
7. League B Round 2 third-placed teams
8. League B Round 2 fourth-placed teams
higher number of points in all mini-tournament matches;
superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
lower disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
higher position in the 2023–24 Round 1 league rankings.

Within each League, the teams were allocated to four drawing pots (seven teams per pot in League A, six teams in Pots 1 to 3 and five teams in Pot 4 in League B). Teams in the same pot would be drawn into different groups, with League A consisting of seven groups of four teams, and League B consisting of five groups of four and one group of three teams.

As decided by the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn into the same group: Serbia and Kosovo (League A), Armenia and Azerbaijan (League B).^[4]

Teams entering League A

Pot 1
(2024 Round 2 Group Winners)
Team
Spain
Republic of Ireland
England
France
Serbia
Netherlands
Germany

Pot 2
(2024 Round 2 Group runners-up)
Team
Denmark
Austria
Portugal
Norway
Belgium
Poland
Sweden

Pot 3
(2024 Round 2 3rd-placed teams)
Team
Greece
Iceland
Italy
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Finland
Hungary

Pot 4
(Teams promoted from League B)
Team
North Macedonia
Scotland
Kosovo
Bulgaria
Northern Ireland
Turkey
Faroe Islands

Teams entering League B

Pot 1
(Teams relegated from League A)
Team
Slovenia
Croatia
Switzerland
Ukraine
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Romania

Pot 2
Team
Wales
Albania
Israel
Latvia
Estonia
Armenia

Pot 3
Team
Lithuania
Cyprus
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Kazakhstan
Moldova
Liechtenstein
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Malta

Did not enter
Team
Andorra
Gibraltar
San Marino

Banned
Team
Russia

League A

Group A1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Transfer or relegation
1	Germany (H)	3	3	0	13	1	+12	9	Transferred to Round 2 League A
2	Denmark	3	2	1	5	5	0	6
3	Greece	3	1	2	2	5	−3	3
4	Kosovo	3	0	3	0	9	−9	0	Relegated to Round 2 League B

Source: www.sofascore.com
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

27 November 2024