2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification

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

• Qualifying round: Apart from Spain and Germany, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 44 teams are drawn into 11 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 11 group winners, the 11 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 28 teams are drawn into seven 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 seven group winners 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 ranking for the qualifying round draw;
10. Drawing of lots.

To determine the four 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):^[4]

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

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The draw for the qualifying round was held on 23 November 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[5]

• 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2018 UEFA Women's 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. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.

Final tournament hosts Team Coeff. Rank  Sweden 11.500 —

Bye to elite round Team Coeff. Rank  Spain 32.056 1  Germany 31.167 2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A Team Coeff. Rank  England 22.889 3  Norway 21.000 4  Netherlands 17.667 5  France 17.278 6  Republic of Ireland 15.722 7   Switzerland 15.111 8  Italy 15.056 9  Finland 13.833 10  Czech Republic 12.889 11  Denmark 12.833 12  Poland 12.722 13

Pot B Team Coeff. Rank  Austria 11.833 14  Belgium 11.667 15  Serbia 11.500 16  Iceland 11.500 17  Hungary 10.000 18  Scotland 10.000 19  Russia 8.667 20  Slovenia 7.833 21  Portugal 7.000 22  Turkey 6.333 23  Greece 6.000 24

Pot C Team Coeff. Rank  Belarus 6.000 25  Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.833 26  Wales 5.167 27  Slovakia 5.000 28  Northern Ireland 4.833 29  Ukraine 4.500 30  Romania 4.000 31  Bulgaria 4.000 32  Lithuania 3.333 33  Azerbaijan 3.167 34  Israel 2.667 35

Pot D Team Coeff. Rank  Croatia 2.333 36  Montenegro 1.333 37  North Macedonia 1.333 38  Faroe Islands 1.000 39  Latvia 1.000 40  Malta 1.000 41  Estonia 0.333 42  Kazakhstan 0.333 43  Moldova 0.000 44  Georgia 0.000 45  Albania — 46

Notes

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

Did not enter

Andorra	Armenia	Cyprus	Gibraltar
Kosovo	Liechtenstein	Luxembourg	San Marino

The qualifying round is provisionally scheduled between 5 August and 27 October 2019.

Times up to 26 October 2019 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	England	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9	9	Elite round
2	Belgium	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	4
3	Croatia	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina (H)	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	3	3	0	0	22	0	+22	9	Elite round
2	Turkey	3	1	1	1	8	8	0	4
3	Romania	3	1	1	1	6	12	−6	4
4	Moldova (H)	3	0	0	3	2	18	−16	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	18	0	+18	9	Elite round
2	Iceland	3	2	0	1	11	4	+7	6
3	Malta	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1
4	Belarus (H)	3	0	1	2	2	20	−18	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria	3	3	0	0	18	1	+17	9	Elite round
2	Slovakia (H)	3	2	0	1	15	6	+9	6
3	Finland	3	1	0	2	6	9	−3	3
4	Estonia	3	0	0	3	3	26	−23	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	3	3	0	0	22	0	+22	9	Elite round
2	Slovenia	3	2	0	1	10	5	+5	6
3	Faroe Islands (H)	3	1	0	2	1	16	−15	3
4	Azerbaijan	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	12	3	+9	9	Elite round
2	Denmark (H)	3	1	1	1	14	4	+10	4
3	Wales	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
4	North Macedonia	3	0	0	3	0	17	−17	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of Ireland	3	3	0	0	21	0	+21	9	Elite round
2	Greece	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6
3	Lithuania (H)	3	1	0	2	2	10	−8	3
4	Albania	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Elite round
2	Serbia (H)	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
3	Ukraine	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2
4	Georgia	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary (H)	3	3	0	0	18	0	+18	9	Elite round
2	Poland	3	2	0	1	14	2	+12	6
3	Bulgaria	3	1	0	2	6	11	−5	3
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	0	3	0	25	−25	0

Note: Poland v Kazakhstan, originally to be played on 2 October 2019, 17:15 local time, was postponed to the next day.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Elite round
2	Scotland (H)	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Montenegro	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1
4	Northern Ireland	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	9	1	+8	7	Elite round
2	Portugal (H)	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7
3	Israel	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	3
4	Latvia	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	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	8	Ukraine	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	1	Elite round
2	6	Wales	2	0	1	1	0	3	−3	1
3	2	Romania	2	0	1	1	4	12	−8	1
4	1	Croatia	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0
5	11	Israel	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5	0
6	10	Montenegro	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0
7	4	Finland	2	0	0	2	1	8	−7	0
8	3	Malta	2	0	0	2	0	7	−7	0
9	7	Lithuania	2	0	0	2	0	9	−9	0
10	9	Bulgaria	2	0	0	2	1	11	−10	0
11	5	Faroe Islands	2	0	0	2	0	16	−16	0