2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2020
Dates:Qualifying round:

Elite round:
Cancelled[1]
Num Teams:54
Confederations:1
Matches:78
Goals:289
Top Scorer: Matthis Abline
Szymon Włodarczyk
Updated:19 November 2019
Prevseason:2019
Nextseason:2021

The 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that was originally to determine the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Estonia in the 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament,[2] before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Apart from Estonia, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[3] Players born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to participate.

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 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. To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results are considered. 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 (total 3 matches);
  5. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
  6. Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 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]

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, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Russia and Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Final tournament hosts
width=190Team !
2.333 —
Bye to elite round
width=150Team !
25.889 1
25.000 2
Teams entering qualifying round
Pot A
width=190Team !
24.167 3
23.778 4
20.611 5
19.667 6
19.111 7
18.222 8
17.167 9
14.333 10
14.000 11
13.778 12
13.222 13
13.111 14
13.000 15
Pot B
width=150Team !
12.556 16
11.333 17
11.111 18
10.889 19
10.833 20
10.833 21
10.722 22
10.722 23
10.611 24
10.556 25
10.111 26
9.333 27
9.167 28
Pot C
width=150Team !
7.833 29
7.000 30
6.833 31
6.833 32
6.500 33
6.333 34
6.167 35
5.333 36
5.000 37
4.167 38
3.833 39
3.667 40
3.222 41
Pot D
width=150Team !
2.667 42
2.667 43
2.333 44
2.000 45
1.667 46
1.667 47
1.000 48
1.000 49
0.333 50
0.333 51
0.333 52
0.000 53
0.000 54
Notes

Groups

The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 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).

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 3 December 2019, 12:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[6]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[7] Spain and England, 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. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.

Groups

The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 25 and 31 March 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.[9] [10]

Times up to 28 March 2020 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), 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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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, all results are taken into account (Regulations Article 15.02).[4] This is different from the elite round of previous qualifying tournaments where the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualify for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Under-17 Euro1
only U-17 era (since 2002)
0 (debut)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)
TBD (or)

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

Goalscorers

In the qualifying round,

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: U17 finals in Estonia cancelled. UEFA.com. 18 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Ireland, Estonia given U17 honours for 2019, 2020. UEFA. 9 December 2016.
  3. Web site: 2019/20 U17 qualifying round draw. UEFA. 6 December 2018.
  4. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, 2019/20. UEFA.com.
  5. Web site: 2019/20 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.
  6. Web site: 2019/20 U17 elite round draw: Tuesday. UEFA.com. 3 December 2019.
  7. Web site: 2020 U17 elite round coefficients. UEFA.com.
  8. Web site: Postponement of Youth tournaments. UEFA.com. 12 March 2020.
  9. Web site: UEFA postpones all June national team matches. UEFA.com. 1 April 2020.
  10. News: Updated UEFA competitions calendar . UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations . 17 June 2020 . 17 June 2020.

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