| 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]
The qualifying competition originally consisted of the following two rounds:
After the format change, the qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:
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.
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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).
Originally scheduled to be played between 8–14 October, later rescheduled to 10–16 November 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 3–9 September, later rescheduled to 2–8 November 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 2–8 November, later rescheduled to 16–22 November 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 3–9 October 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 2–8 October, later rescheduled to 31 October – 6 November 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 1–7 October, later rescheduled to 25–31 October 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 28 September – 4 October, later rescheduled to 15–21 November 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 10–16 October, later rescheduled to 21–27 October 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 7–13 October, later rescheduled to 1–7 November 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 14–20 October 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 21–27 October 2020.
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Originally scheduled to be played between 8–14 October, later rescheduled to 8–14 November 2020.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
The following eight teams were to qualify for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Women's Under-17 Euro1 |
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| 0 (debut) | ||||
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.