2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Year:	2020
Dates:	Qualifying round: Elite round: Cancelled (7–14 April 2020)^[1]
Num Teams:	46
Confederations:	1
Matches:	72
Goals:	378
Prevseason:	2019
Nextseason:	~~2021~~

The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that was originally to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Georgia in the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament,^[2] before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.^[1]

Apart from Georgia, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.^[3] Players born on or after 1 January 2001 were eligible to participate.

Format

The qualifying competition was planned to consist of two rounds:^[4]

Qualifying round: The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The twelve group winners, the twelve runners-up, and the four third-placed teams with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group would have advanced to the elite round.
Elite round (cancelled): The 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group would have been played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners would have qualified for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group was planned 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

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying round and planned elite round, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[4]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 15.01):^[4]

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

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 23 November 2018, 10:00 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-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 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, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Final tournament hosts
width=150	Team !
	0.333	—

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
width=150	Team !
	33.000	1
	27.944	2
	26.500	3
	21.722	4
	19.333	5
	18.167	6
	17.944	7
	16.278	8
	15.222	9
	15.167	10
	12.611	11
	12.333	12

Pot B
width=150	Team !
	11.667	13
	11.500	14
	11.167	15
	9.833	16
	9.667	17
	9.500	18
	9.167	19
	9.000	20
	8.833	21
	8.667	22
	8.000	23
	7.833	24

Pot C
width=190	Team !
	7.333	25
	7.000	26
	6.000	27
	5.667	28
	5.500	29
	5.333	30
	4.833	31
	4.667	32
	4.500	33
	4.000	34
	3.667	35
	3.000	36

Pot D
width=150	Team !
	2.333	37
	1.667	38
	1.333	39
	1.000	40
	1.000	41
	0.333	42
	0.333	43
	0.333	44
	0.333	45
	0.000	46
	0.000	47
	0.000	48

Groups

The qualifying round was provisionally scheduled between 27 August and 3 September, or 1 and 8 October 2019.

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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Group 9

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Group 10

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Group 11

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Group 12

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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 (cancelled)

Draw

The draw for the elite round was held on 29 November 2019, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[6]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying 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. 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.^[7]

Groups

The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 7–14 April 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.^[8] UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.^[9] ^[10]

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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Goalscorers

In the qualifying round,

External links

- Women's Under-19 Matches: 2020 Qualifying, UEFA.com

Notes and References

Web site: Women's Under-19 finals in Georgia cancelled. UEFA.com. 1 April 2020.
Web site: Scotland and Georgia to host Women's U19 finals. UEFA.com. 9 December 2016.
Web site: 2019/20 #WU19EURO qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 23 November 2018.
Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, 2019/20. UEFA.com.
Web site: 2019/20 UEFA European Women's Under-17 and Women's Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.
Web site: Women's Under-19 elite round draw made. UEFA.com. 29 November 2019.
Web site: 2019/20 UEFA European Women's Under-17 and Women's Under-19 Championships Elite round draws. UEFA.com.
Web site: Postponement of Youth tournaments. UEFA.com. 12 March 2020.
Web site: UEFA postpones all June national team matches. UEFA.com. 1 April 2020.
News: Updated UEFA competitions calendar . UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations . 17 June 2020 . 17 June 2020.