2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2018
Dates:Qualifying round:

Elite round:
8–31 March 2018
Num Teams:45
Confederations:1
Matches:108
Goals:441
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2019

The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Lithuania in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.[1]

Apart from Lithuania, 45 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[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]

Initially the elite round would consist of 24 teams, drawn into six groups of four teams, with the six group winners and the runner-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualifying for the final tournament. After the qualifying round draw was held, UEFA decided to expand the elite round from 24 to 28 teams, allowing four more third-placed teams to advance to the elite round.

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 five 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):[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 11 November 2016, 09:10 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4] [5] [6]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[7]

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 would not be drawn in the same group.[2]

+Final tournament hosts
width=150Team !
0.333 —
+Bye to elite round
width=150Team !
16.667 1
+Teams entering qualifying round
+Pot A
width=150Team !
16.000 2
12.667 3
10.000 4
9.833 5
9.167 6
9.000 7
8.500 8
8.167 9
7.833 10
7.667 11
7.667 12
+Pot B
width=150Team !
7.333 13
7.167 14
7.167 15
7.000 16
6.500 17
6.167 18
5.833 19
5.667 20
5.333 21
4.833 22
4.833 23
+Pot C
width=150Team !
4.000 24
4.000 25
3.833 26
3.333 27
3.167 28
3.000 29
3.000 30
2.833 31
2.333 32
2.000 33
2.000 34
+Pot D
width=190Team !
1.667 35
1.333 36
1.000 37
1.000 38
1.000 39
0.333 40
0.333 41
0.333 42
0.000 43
0.000 44
— 45
Notes

Groups

The qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 29 October 2017.[3] [7]

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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Ranking of third-placed teams

To determine the five 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 24 November 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8] [9] [10]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[11] Germany, which received a bye 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.[12]

Groups

The elite round must be played between 1 February and 1 April 2018.[3] [9]

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

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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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Women's Under-17 Euro1
0 (debut)
2 (2010, 2017)
0 (debut)
8 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
2 (2014, 2016)
5 (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
1 (2013)
9 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

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

Goalscorers

15 goals
10 goals
8 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Women's U17s set for Czech Republic, Lithuania. UEFA.com. 26 January 2015.
  2. Web site: Qualifying round seedings for 2017/18 WU17 EURO. UEFA. 3 November 2016.
  3. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2017/18. UEFA.com. PDF.
  4. Web site: 2016/17 UEFA Women's calendar. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  5. Web site: 2017/18 WU17 EURO qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 11 November 2016.
  6. Web site: 2017/18 WU17 EURO qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 11 November 2016.
  7. Web site: 2017/18 UEFA European Women’s Under-17 and Women’s Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.
  8. Web site: 2017/18 UEFA Women's calendar. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  9. Web site: Women's Under-17 elite round draw. UEFA.com.
  10. Web site: Women's Under-17 EURO elite round draw. UEFA.com. 24 November 2017.
  11. Web site: 2017/18 UEFA European Women’s Under-17 and Women’s Under-19 Championships Elite round draws. UEFA.com.
  12. Web site: WU17 EURO elite round draw seedings. UEFA.com. 3 November 2017.

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