The 2026 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification is the women's under-19 national football team competition that will determine the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.
San Marino will be making their debut in UEFA women's competition at any level. Two 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 host Bosnia and Herzegovina, 52 teams entered this qualification competition. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played in Autumn 2025, followed by a Round 2 played in Spring 2026. Players born on or after 1 January 2007 are eligible to participate.
Format
The qualifying competition consisted 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: 24 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 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]
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:
for teams in Round 1, position in 2024–25 Round 2 league rankings;
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:
for teams in Round 1, position in the coefficient rankings;
for teams in Round 2, position in the Round 1 league ranking.
Round 1
Draw
The draw for the Round 1 was held on 5 June 2025, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2]
The 52 entering teams were split into two Leagues (28 in League A, 24 in League B) according to their final ranking in the 2024–25 qualification (Regulations Article 13.01).[3] To determine this ranking, the following criteria was followed:
higher position in the following classification:
League A Round 2 group winners
League A Round 2 group runners-up
League A Round 2 third-placed teams
Teams promoted from League B
Teams relegated from League A
League B Round 2 runners-up
League B Round 2 third-placed teams
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.
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]
To determine the best runner-up, only the results of the runner-up teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.
Updated to match(es) played on 21 October 2025. Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient ranking.
Round 2
Draw
The draw for Round 2 will be made on 11 December 2025 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[6]
The 21 teams of Round 1 League A and the 7 teams of Round 2 League B (six group winners and the best runner-up) are drawn in seven groups of four teams.
Because League B has three groups with only 3 teams, only the points of the winners from each group in League B against the second and third-placed teams will be transferred to round 2. All group winners and the best runner-up are automatically seeded into pot D.[7]
The teams are seeded according to their results in the round 1 (Regulations Article 15.01).[8]
First match(es) will be played: 22 October 2025. Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) round 1 position; 2) points; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.
Teams entering League B
The six best fourth-placed teams in League A will be automatically seeded into Pot A. The seventh fourth-placed team in League A and the runners-up from League B are automatically seeded into Pot B, and the third and fourth-placed teams in League B are automatically seeded into pot C.
First match(es) will be played: 21 October 2025. Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) round 1 position; 2) points; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.
Goalscorers
In the qualifying round, there have been 17 goals scored in 3 matches, for an average of 5.67 goals per match(as of 22 October 2025).
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