2026 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification

2026 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Round 1:; 24 September – 2 December 2024; Round 2:; Spring 2026
Teams	49 (from 1 confederation)
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Last updated September 05, 2025

The 2026 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification will be the women's under-17 national football team competition that determines the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Northern Ireland in the 2026 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.

Four 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 Northern Ireland, 49 teams entered this qualification competition. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from 24 September to 2 December 2025, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2026. Players born on or after 1 January 2009 are eligible to participate.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:

Round 1:
- League A: 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The teams finishing fourth will be relegated to Round 2 League B; the other teams will advance to Round 2 League A.
- League B: 21 teams were drawn into six groups. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The group winners and the best runner-up team will be promoted to Round 2 League A.

Round 2:
- League A: 28 teams will be drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group will qualify for the Final tournament. If Northern Ireland will be among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team will also qualify.
- League B: Teams in League B will compete for promotion to League A for the next season competition.

Tiebreakers

In Round 1 and Round 2, 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 17.01 and 17.02):^[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 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);
Position in the applicable ranking:
1. for teams in Round 1, position in 2024–25 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 are discarded. The following criteria are 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 16 June 2025, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2]

The teams were seeded according to their final group standings of the 2024–25 competition (Regulations Article 13.01).^[1]

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, Belarus and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group in League A.^[2]

To determine the 2024–25 Round 2 league rankings, 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 2024–25 Round 1 league rankings.

Teams entering League A^[3]

Pot 1
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Netherlands TH	1 (A1)
Poland	1 (A2)
France	1 (A3)
Norway	1 (A4)
Spain	1 (A5)
Austria	1 (A6)
Italy	1 (A7)

Pot 2
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Czech Republic	2 (A1)
Portugal	2 (A2)
Denmark	2 (A3)
Switzerland	2 (A4)
Belgium	2 (A5)
Scotland	2 (A6)
Finland	2 (A7)

Pot 3
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Germany	3 (A1)
Croatia	3 (A2)
Slovakia	3 (A3)
Hungary	3 (A4)
Ukraine	3 (A5)
England	3 (A6)
Serbia	3 (A7)

Pot 4
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Bulgaria	1 (B1)
North Macedonia	1 (B2)
Romania	1 (B3)
Republic of Ireland	1 (B4)
Montenegro	1 (B5)
Belarus	1 (B6)
Andorra	2 (B2)

Teams entering League B

Pot 1
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Sweden	4 (A)
Iceland	4 (A)
Greece	4 (A)
Wales	4 (A)
Turkey	4 (A)
Georgia	4 (A)

Pot 2
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Kosovo	4 (A)
Luxembourg	2 (B)
Lithuania	2 (B)
Slovenia	2 (B)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 (B)
Estonia	2 (B)

Pot 3
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Northern Ireland	3 (B)
Israel	3 (B)
Faroe Islands	3 (B)
Latvia	3 (B)
Moldova	3 (B)
Malta	3 (B)

Pot 4
Team	Pos.	Pts.	GD	GS
Azerbaijan	4 (B)
Kazakhstan	4 (B)
Albania	4 (B)

Did not enter
Team
Armenia
Cyprus
Gibraltar
Liechtenstein
San Marino

Banned
Team
Russia

League A

Group A1

Pos	Team	Promotion
1	Spain	Transfer to Round 2 (League A)
2	Portugal (H)
3	Hungary
4	Bulgaria	Relegated to Round 2 (League B)

First match(es) will be played: 26 November 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

26 November 2025

Spain	v	Bulgaria
	Report

26 November 2025

Hungary	v	Portugal
	Report

29 November 2025

Spain	v	Hungary
	Report

29 November 2025

Portugal	v	Bulgaria
	Report

2 December 2025

Portugal	v	Spain
	Report

2 December 2025

Bulgaria	v	Hungary
	Report

Group A2

Pos	Team	Promotion
1	France	Transfer to Round 2 (League A)
2	Belgium
3	Germany (H)
4	Republic of Ireland	Relegated to Round 2 (League B)

First match(es) will be played: 23 October 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

23 October 2025

France	v	Republic of Ireland
	Report

DFB-Campus, Frankfurt

23 October 2025

Germany	v	Belgium
	Report

DFB-Campus, Frankfurt

26 October 2025

France	v	Germany
	Report

DFB-Campus, Frankfurt

26 October 2025

Belgium	v	Republic of Ireland
	Report

DFB-Campus, Frankfurt

29 October 2025

Belgium	v	France
	Report

Sportpark Kelsterbach, Kelsterbach

29 October 2025

Republic of Ireland	v	Germany
	Report

DFB-Campus, Frankfurt

Group A3

Pos	Team	Promotion
1	Netherlands (H)	Transfer to Round 2 (League A)
2	Czech Republic
3	Slovakia
4	Andorra	Relegated to Round 2 (League B)

First match(es) will be played: 24 September 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

24 September 2025