2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2022
Dates:Qualifying round:
[1]
Elite round:
Spring 2022
Num Teams:54
Confederations:1
Matches:123
Goals:427
Top Scorer: Dženan Pejčinović (8 goals)
Prevseason:2021
Nextseason:2023

The 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Israel in the 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to participate.[3]

Apart from Israel as the host, the remaining 54 teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn of 2021, and Elite round, which took place in spring of 2022.

Format

The qualifying competition would originally consist of the following two rounds:

The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):[3]

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):[3]

  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. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03):[3]

  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.

To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results are considered. The same criteria as above are applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03).[3]

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020, 10:00 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:[5] [6]

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: Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Final tournament hosts
width=190Team !
11.167 —
Bye to elite round
width=150Team !
28.556 1
27.444 2
Teams entering qualifying round
Pot A
width=190Team !
23.056 3
22.667 4
20.722 5
19.833 6
18.944 7
18.556 8
16.833 9
15.278 10
14.389 11
13.556 12
13.278 13
12.667 14
12.333 15
Pot B
width=150Team !
12.000 16
11.889 17
11.722 18
11.111 19
11.000 20
10.722 21
10.667 22
10.222 23
10.111 24
10.000 25
9.833 26
9.333 27
8.167 28
Pot C
width=150Team !
7.833 29
6.167 30
5.500 31
5.333 32
5.333 33
4.833 34
4.667 35
4.500 36
4.333 37
4.167 38
4.000 39
3.000 40
2.889 41
Pot D
width=150Team !
2.667 42
2.333 43
2.333 44
2.000 45
2.000 46
2.000 47
1.333 48
1.000 49
0.667 50
0.667 51
0.333 52
0.000 53
0.000 54
Notes

Groups

The qualifying round is scheduled to be played by 16 November 2021.

Times up to 27 March 2022 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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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

The draw for the elite round will be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Draw

The draw for the elite round will be held in spring 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[6] The Netherlands 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

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, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

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)
3 (2003, 2005, 2018)
13 (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
5 (2002, 2003, 2011, 2016, 2018)
12 (2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
13 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
12 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019)
9 (2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
7 (20022, 20063, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018)
8 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019)
4 (2013, 2016, 2018, 2019)
7 (2006, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
5 (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
7 (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2017)
1 (2015)
1 (2006)
2 (2002, 2012)

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

2 As Yugoslavia

3 As Serbia and Montenegro

Goalscorers

In the qualifying round

In the elite round

In total,

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020/21 U17 qualifying round guide. UEFA. 18 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Cyprus, Israel to host U17 EURO in 2021, 2022. UEFA. 24 September 2019.
  3. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, 2020/21. UEFA. 13 July 2020.
  4. Web site: 2021/22 U17 qualifying round draw. UEFA.com. 9 December 2020.
  5. Web site: 2020/21 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws. UEFA.com.
  6. Web site: 2020/21 U17 EURO qualifying round draw coefficients. UEFA.com.

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