2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

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DatesQualifying round:
27 September – 1 November 2017
Elite round:
7–28 March 2018
Teams54 (from 1 confederation)
Matchesplayed126
Goals scored343 (2.72 per match)
2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
DatesQualifying round:
27 September – 1 November 2017
Elite round:
7–28 March 2018
Teams54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played126
Goals scored343 (2.72 per match)
Top scorerRepublic of Ireland Adam Idah (8 goals)
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The 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts England in the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.[1]

Apart from England, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time).[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to participate. Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.

Tiebreakers

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[3]

  • Qualifying round: Apart from Germany and Portugal, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams are drawn into 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, the 13 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 32 teams are drawn into eight 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 eight group winners and the seven runners-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualify for the final tournament.

The schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):[3]

Matchday Matches
Matchday 1 1 v 4, 3 v 2
Rest days (2 days) —
Matchday 2 1 v 3, 2 v 4
Rest days (2 days) —
Matchday 3 2 v 1, 4 v 3

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):[3]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. 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);
  8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  10. Drawing of lots.

To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round and the seven best runners-up from the elite round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01, 15.02 and 15.03):[3]

  1. Points;
  2. Goal difference;
  3. Goals scored;
  4. Disciplinary points;
  5. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  6. Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round

Elite round

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in Under-17 Euro1
only U-17 era (since 2002)
 EnglandHosts26 January 2015[1]12 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
 SerbiaElite round Group 1 winners27 March 20186 (20022, 20063, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017)
 SwedenElite round Group 2 winners15 March 20182 (2013, 2016)
 Republic of IrelandElite round Group 3 winners24 March 20183 (2008, 2015, 2017)
  SwitzerlandElite round Group 4 winners18 March 20187 (2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014)
 NetherlandsElite round Group 5 winners13 March 201811 (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
 Bosnia and HerzegovinaElite round Group 6 winners27 March 20182 (2016, 2017)
 SloveniaElite round Group 7 winners28 March 20182 (2012, 2015)
 NorwayElite round Group 8 winners27 March 20181 (2017)
 GermanyElite round best seven runners-up27 March 201810 (2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
 PortugalElite round best seven runners-up18 March 20186 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016)
 DenmarkElite round best seven runners-up27 March 20184 (2002, 2003, 2011, 2016)
 ItalyElite round best seven runners-up15 March 20187 (2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)
 IsraelElite round best seven runners-up28 March 20182 (2003, 2005)
 SpainElite round best seven runners-up27 March 201811 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017)
 BelgiumElite round best seven runners-up27 March 20185 (2006, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

Source: UEFA.com[14]

Notes

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