2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

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The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:^[4]

• Qualifying round: Apart from England and Germany, 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 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

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):^[4]

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):^[4]

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

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The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 2017, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[5][6]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (a four-year window was used instead of the previous three-year window):^[7]

• 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2017 UEFA European Under-17 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. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.^[2]

Final tournament hosts Team Coeff Rank  Republic of Ireland 13.667 —

Bye to elite round Team Coeff Rank  England 27.667 1  Germany 25.333 2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A Team Coeff Rank  Spain 24.056 3  Netherlands 23.111 4  Portugal 21.389 5  France 20.611 6  Scotland 17.000 7  Italy 15.000 8  Russia 14.944 9  Belgium 14.833 10  Austria 14.167 11  Turkey 13.556 12  Serbia 13.333 13  Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.111 14  Czech Republic 11.778 15

Pot B Team Coeff Rank  Poland 11.667 16  Croatia 11.056 17  Sweden 10.889 18  Ukraine 10.722 19  Greece 10.722 20   Switzerland 10.667 21  Israel 9.000 22  Slovenia 8.444 23  Slovakia 8.333 24  Hungary 8.278 25  Norway 7.500 26  Wales 7.333 27  Denmark 7.222 28

Pot C Team Coeff Rank  Iceland 6.500 29  Georgia 6.333 30  Azerbaijan 6.333 31  Belarus 6.167 32  Romania 6.000 33  Cyprus 5.667 34  Finland 5.500 35  Bulgaria 5.333 36  Latvia 4.500 37  Faroe Islands 4.222 38  Northern Ireland 4.167 39  Montenegro 3.667 40  Armenia 3.000 41

Pot D Team Coeff Rank  Albania 3.000 42  Macedonia 3.000 43  Estonia 3.000 44  Malta 3.000 45  Lithuania 2.333 46  Moldova 2.000 47  Luxembourg 1.667 48  Kazakhstan 1.000 49  Liechtenstein 1.000 50  San Marino 0.333 51  Gibraltar 0.333 52  Andorra 0.000 53  Kosovo — 54

Notes

• Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

The qualifying round must be played by 20 November 2018.^[6]

Times up to 27 October 2018 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	22	5	+17	9	Elite round
2	Sweden (H)	3	2	0	1	11	6	+5	6
3	Montenegro	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
4	Liechtenstein	3	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ukraine	3	2	1	0	16	4	+12	7	Elite round
2	Iceland	3	1	2	0	11	3	+8	5
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina (H)	3	1	1	1	11	4	+7	4
4	Gibraltar	3	0	0	3	0	27	−27	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	7	Elite round
2	Slovenia (H)	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
3	Bulgaria	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Malta	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Elite round
2	Israel	3	2	0	1	10	4	+6	6
3	Macedonia (H)	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	0	3	0	16	−16	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kosovo	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6	Elite round
2	Scotland	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
3	Switzerland	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	4
4	Cyprus (H)	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark (H)	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9	Elite round
2	Russia	3	2	0	1	13	2	+11	6
3	Estonia	3	1	0	2	3	11	−8	3
4	Georgia	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Elite round
2	Poland (H)	3	2	0	1	10	7	+3	6
3	Finland	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Luxembourg	3	0	0	3	3	13	−10	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Elite round
2	Norway	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6
3	Albania (H)	3	1	0	2	2	9	−7	3
4	Azerbaijan	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary (H)	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7	Elite round
2	Romania	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	5
3	Serbia	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Lithuania	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovakia	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9	Elite round
2	Northern Ireland	3	1	1	1	7	2	+5	4
3	Turkey (H)	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
4	San Marino	3	0	0	3	0	20	−20	0

The Northern Ireland v Slovakia match, kick-off on 24 October, 13:00 TRT, was abandoned after 13 minutes due to adverse weather conditions, with the remainder of the game played on 25 October, 13:00 TRT. The Turkey v San Marino match, scheduled for kick-off on 24 October, 16:30 TRT, was also postponed due to adverse weather conditions, and rescheduled to 25 October, 15:00 TRT.^[8]

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal (H)	3	3	0	0	18	1	+17	9	Elite round
2	Belarus	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	4
3	Kazakhstan	3	1	0	2	2	12	−10	3
4	Wales	3	0	1	2	3	8	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Elite round
2	Greece	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
3	Latvia	3	0	2	1	3	8	−5	2
4	Moldova (H)	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	13	0	+13	9	Elite round
2	Croatia (H)	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
3	Andorra	3	1	0	2	3	10	−7	3
4	Armenia	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

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To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1	Elite round
2	9	Serbia	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1
3	5	Switzerland	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
4	10	Turkey	2	0	1	1	1	4	−3	1
5	12	Latvia	2	0	1	1	1	6	−5	1
6	7	Finland	2	0	0	2	2	4	−2	0
7	3	Bulgaria	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0
8	4	Macedonia	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0
9	8	Albania	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
10	1	Montenegro	2	0	0	2	0	8	−8	0
11	6	Estonia	2	0	0	2	2	11	−9	0
12	13	Andorra	2	0	0	2	0	10	−10	0
13	11	Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2	1	12	−11	0