2021 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2021
Dates:Qualifying round:
Cancelled (originally)[1]
Elite round:
Abolished
Play-offs:
Cancelled (originally March 2021)
Num Teams:48
Confederations:1
Prevseason:2020
Nextseason:2022

The 2021 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition is a women's under-17 football competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Faroe Islands in the 2021 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2004 were eligible to participate.[3]

Apart from the Faroe Islands, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which would have take place in autumn 2020, and Elite round, which would also have taken place in spring 2021.[4] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round was delayed to February 2021, and the elite round was abolished and replaced by play-offs, contested in March 2021 by the 12 qualifying round group winners and two best runners-up to determine the teams qualifying for the final tournament.[5] [6]

On 18 December 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that the tournament had been cancelled after consultation with all 55 member associations due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[7]

Format

The qualifying competition originally consisted of the following two rounds:

After the format change, the qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 29 November 2019, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[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. 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, Russia and Kosovo, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Final tournament hosts
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1.000
Teams entering qualifying round
Pot A
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33.167 1
30.056 2
23.444 3
22.056 4
19.278 5
15.389 6
15.056 7
14.278 8
13.722 9
13.722 10
13.611 11
13.500 12
Pot B
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12.389 13
12.333 14
12.333 15
11.667 16
11.000 17
11.000 18
10.500 19
10.000 20
9.667 21
8.667 22
8.167 23
8.167 24
Pot C
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6.000 25
5.833 26
5.833 27
5.500 28
5.500 29
5.000 30
4.833 31
4.333 32
3.500 33
3.333 34
3.167 35
2.333 36
Pot D
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1.667 37
1.667 38
1.333 39
1.333 40
1.000 41
1.000 42
0.333 43
0.333 44
0.333 45
0.000 46
0.000 47
48
Notes

Groups

The qualifying round was originally scheduled to be played by 8 November 2020, but some groups were later rescheduled to late November. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round was delayed to February 2021.

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

Group 1

Originally scheduled to be played between 8–14 October, later rescheduled to 10–16 November 2020.

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Group 2

Originally scheduled to be played between 3–9 September, later rescheduled to 2–8 November 2020.

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Group 3

Originally scheduled to be played between 2–8 November, later rescheduled to 16–22 November 2020.

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Group 4

Originally scheduled to be played between 3–9 October 2020.

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Group 5

Originally scheduled to be played between 2–8 October, later rescheduled to 31 October – 6 November 2020.

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Group 6

Originally scheduled to be played between 1–7 October, later rescheduled to 25–31 October 2020.

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Group 7

Originally scheduled to be played between 28 September – 4 October, later rescheduled to 15–21 November 2020.

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Group 8

Originally scheduled to be played between 10–16 October, later rescheduled to 21–27 October 2020.

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Group 9

Originally scheduled to be played between 7–13 October, later rescheduled to 1–7 November 2020.

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Group 10

Originally scheduled to be played between 14–20 October 2020.

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Group 11

Originally scheduled to be played between 21–27 October 2020.

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Group 12

Originally scheduled to be played between 8–14 October, later rescheduled to 8–14 November 2020.

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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the two best second-placed teams from the qualifying round which would have advanced to the play-offs, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group were to be taken into account.

Elite round

The draw for the elite round would originally be held on 8 December 2020 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, and the matches were originally scheduled to be played in spring 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the elite round was abolished and replaced by play-offs.

Play-offs

The 14 teams were to be drawn into seven ties. The seven winners would have qualified for the final tournament. The play-offs were scheduled to be played in March 2021.

Qualified teams

Times up to 27 March 2021 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Qualified teams

The following eight teams were to qualify for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Women's Under-17 Euro1
0 (debut)
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020/21 Women's U17 qualifying round guide. UEFA. 18 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Hosts picked for 2021 and 2022 WU17 EUROs. UEFA.com. 24 September 2019.
  3. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2020/21. UEFA. 13 July 2020.
  4. Web site: 2020/21 Women's U17 qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 12 November 2019.
  5. Web site: UEFA postpones youth national team competitions. UEFA.com. 13 August 2020.
  6. News: Updated UEFA competitions calendar . UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations . 17 June 2020 . 17 June 2020.
  7. Web site: 2020/21 Women's Under-17 EURO cancelled. UEFA.com. 18 December 2020.
  8. Web site: 2020/21 UEFA European Women's Under-17 and Women's Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.