2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2018
Dates:Qualifying round:

Elite round:
7–28 March 2018
Num Teams:54
Confederations:1
Matches:126
Goals:343
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2019

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.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[3]

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

MatchdayMatches
Matchday 11 v 4, 3 v 2
Rest days (2 days)—
Matchday 21 v 3, 2 v 4
Rest days (2 days)—
Matchday 32 v 1, 4 v 3

Tiebreakers

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

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4] [5]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[6]

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
width=200Team !
12.167 —
+Bye to elite round
width=150Team !
14.667 1
11.167 2
+Teams entering qualifying round
+Pot A
width=200Team !
10.667 3
10.000 4
10.000 5
9.000 6
8.833 7
8.667 8
8.500 9
8.500 10
8.333 11
8.333 12
7.833 13
7.000 14
6.833 15
+Pot B
width=150Team !
6.500 16
6.333 17
6.167 18
6.167 19
5.500 20
5.500 21
5.333 22
5.167 23
5.000 24
5.000 25
4.833 26
4.833 27
4.833 28
+Pot C
width=150Team !
4.833 29
3.667 30
3.500 31
3.500 32
3.000 33
3.000 34
3.000 35
2.667 36
2.667 37
2.500 38
2.500 39
2.000 40
2.000 41
+Pot D
width=150Team !
1.667 42
1.500 43
1.500 44
1.333 45
1.333 46
1.333 47
1.000 48
0.333 49
0.333 50
0.000 51
0.000 52
0.000 53
— 54
Notes

Groups

The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2017.[3] [6]

Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

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Group 4

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Group 5

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Group 6

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Group 7

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Group 8

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Group 9

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Group 10

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Group 11

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Group 12

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Group 13

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Ranking of third-placed teams

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.

Elite round

Draw

The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[7] [8]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[9] Germany and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.[10]

Groups

The elite round must be played by the end of March 2018.[3] [8]

Times up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).

Group 1

----The Serbia v Ukraine match was completed with a score of 1–2 before a default victory was awarded to Serbia due to participation of disqualified Ukrainian players Mykola Yarosh and Roman Bodnia.[11] [12] ----

Group 2

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Group 3

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Group 4

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Group 5

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Group 6

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Group 7

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Group 8

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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Under-17 Euro1
only U-17 era (since 2002)
12 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
6 (20022, 20063, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017)
2 (2013, 2016)
3 (2008, 2015, 2017)
7 (2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014)
11 (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
2 (2016, 2017)
2 (2012, 2015)
1 (2017)
10 (2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
6 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016)
4 (2002, 2003, 2011, 2016)
7 (2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)
2 (2003, 2005)
11 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017)
5 (2006, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

2 As Yugoslavia

3 As Serbia and Montenegro

Goalscorers

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: U17 finals destined for Croatia and England. UEFA. 26 January 2015.
  2. Web site: Seedings for 2017/18 U17 qualifying round. UEFA. 24 November 2016.
  3. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, 2017/18. UEFA.com. PDF.
  4. Web site: 2017/18 U17 qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 13 December 2016.
  5. Web site: 2017/18 U17 qualifying round draw made. UEFA.com. 13 December 2016.
  6. Web site: 2017/18 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.
  7. Web site: Under-17 elite round draw. UEFA.com.
  8. Web site: Under-17 EURO elite round draw made. UEFA.com. 6 December 2017.
  9. Web site: 2017/18 U17 elite round seedings. UEFA.com.
  10. Web site: Under-17 EURO elite round draw seedings. UEFA.com. 15 November 2017.
  11. Web site: Disciplinary updates. UEFA.com.
  12. Web site: Ucrania se queda fuera de Europeo por alineación indebida. AS. 28 March 2018.

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