2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2019
Dates:Qualifying round:

Elite round:
10–30 March 2019
Num Teams:46
Confederations:1
Prevseason:2018
Nextseason:2020

The 2019 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 Bulgaria in the 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.[1]

Apart from Bulgaria, 46 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions are permitted per team in each match.[3] Moreover, each match has a regular duration of 90 minutes, instead of 80 minutes in previous seasons.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[4]

The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):[4]

Group schedule
MatchdayMatches
Matchday 11 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 21 v 3, 2 v 4
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):[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, 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;
  5. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  6. Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 24 November 2017, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5] [6] [7]

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):[8]

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 !
4.000 —
Bye to elite round
width=150Team !
31.667 1
30.944 2
Teams entering qualifying round
Pot A
width=150Team !
22.667 3
21.500 4
18.944 5
16.833 6
15.722 7
15.278 8
14.889 9
14.111 10
13.222 11
12.444 12
12.167 13
Pot B
width=150Team !
12.000 14
11.667 15
11.167 16
10.500 17
10.167 18
9.667 19
9.667 20
9.667 21
8.500 22
8.333 23
7.000 24
Pot C
width=190Team !
6.333 25
5.833 26
5.500 27
5.167 28
4.833 29
4.667 30
3.833 31
3.667 32
3.333 33
3.000 34
1.333 35
Pot D
width=150Team !
1.333 36
1.000 37
1.000 38
1.000 39
0.333 40
0.333 41
0.333 42
0.333 43
0.000 44
0.000 45
— 46
Notes

Groups

The qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 28 October 2018.[8] [7]

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).

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 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 23 November 2018, 11:40 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[9] [10] [11]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[12] Germany and Spain, 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.

Groups

The elite round is scheduled to be played by early April 2019.

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

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 qualify for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Women's Under-17 Euro1
0 (debut)
6 (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
3 (2010, 2017, 2018)
9 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
10 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
1 (2014)
2 (2008, 2012)
1 (2014)

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

Goalscorers

In the qualifying round In the elite round In total,

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Women's U17s set for Bulgaria and Sweden. UEFA.com. 9 December 2016.
  2. Web site: 2018/19 Women's U17 EURO qualifying round draw pots. UEFA.com. 2 November 2017.
  3. Web site: Amendments to football’s Laws of the Game in various UEFA competitions. UEFA.com. 5 July 2018.
  4. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2018/19. UEFA.com. PDF.
  5. Web site: 2017/18 UEFA Women's calendar. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  6. Web site: 2018/19 Women's U17 EURO qualifying round draw. UEFA.com.
  7. Web site: 2018/19 Women's U17 EURO qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 24 November 2017.
  8. Web site: 2018/19 UEFA European Women’s Under-17 and Women’s Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.
  9. Web site: 2018/19 UEFA Women's calendar. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  10. Web site: Women's Under-17 elite round draw. UEFA.com.
  11. Web site: WU17 EURO elite round draw made. UEFA.com. 23 November 2018.
  12. Web site: 2018/19 UEFA European Women’s Under-17 and Women’s Under-19 Championships Elite round draws. UEFA.com.

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