| Tourney Name: | UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Dates: | Qualifying round: 6 October – 16 November 2021 Elite round: 23 March – 7 June 2022 |
| Num Teams: | 54 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Matches: | 117 |
| Goals: | 373 |
| Top Scorer: | Orri Steinn Óskarsson Wilfried Gnonto (5 goals each) |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Slovakia in the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to participate.
Originally, the qualifying competition would use a new format with teams split into three different leagues with promotion and relegation, with the draw of the first round under the new format already held in December 2019. However, on 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the introduction of the new format had been postponed to the next edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and qualification for this edition would use the previous format involving two rounds only.[2]
Apart from Slovakia, 53 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of a qualifying round that took place in autumn 2021, and an elite round that took place in spring and summer 2022.[3]
The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:
The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):[4]
| 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 |
In the qualifying round and 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]
To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):[4]
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 3 December 2019, 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] [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: Spain and Gibraltar, Ukraine and Russia, Serbia and Kosovo, Russia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
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The qualifying round was originally scheduled to be played by 17 November 2020. 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 would be delayed to March 2021.[7]
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).
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To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round which advanced to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group were taken into account.
The draw for the elite round was held on 8 December 2021, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8]
The teams were seeded according to their positions and then results (i.e. group winners were seeded higher than second-placed teams, the best third-placed team was seeded at the bottom) in the qualifying round.[6] Portugal, which received a bye to the elite round, was 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.
The elite round group stage was completed on 23, 26 and 29 March 2022, and 1, 4 and 7 June 2022.[9]
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The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Under-19 Euro1 only U-19 era (since 2002) |
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| 1 (2002) | ||||
| 1 (2011) | ||||
| 7 (2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2019) | ||||
| 1 (2014) | ||||
| 11 (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) | ||||
| 10 (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018) | ||||
| 7 (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016) | ||||
| 7 (20052, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
In the qualifying round, In the elite round, In total,