2022 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification
Year:	2022
Num Teams:	33
Confederations:	1
Matches:	41
Goals:	250
Prevseason:	2019
Nextseason:	2023
Updated:	8 July 2022

The 2022 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualifying competition will be a men's under-19 futsal competition to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Spain in the 2022 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship final tournament.^[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.

Teams

Apart from Spain, a total of 33 (out of 54) UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying stage.^[2] They are seeded on the basis of the associations' results in the 2018/19 competition.^[3]

The 26 highest-ranked teams entered the main round, while the 7 lowest-ranked teams entered the preliminary round. The coefficient ranking was also used for seeding in the preliminary round and main round draws, where each team was assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw.

Final tournament hosts

width=210	Team !
	7.000	1

Teams entering Preliminary Round

Pot 1 (Hosts) width=150 Team ! 0.000 31 1 0.000 33 3 & 4

Pot 2 (seeding position 4 or 3) width=150 Team ! 0.000 32 0.000 34

Pot 3 (seeding position 2) width=150 Team ! 0.167 30

Pot 4 (seeding position 1) width=150 Team ! 1.000 28 0.667 29

Teams entering Main Round

Pot 1 (Hosts) width=150 Team ! 5.333 2 1 5.000 3 1 3.333 6 1 2.333 11 2 1.667 18 3 1.667 19 3 1.333 24 4

Pot 2 (seeding position 4) width=150 Team ! 1.417 23 1.000 25 1.000 26 1.000 27

Pot 3 (seeding position 3) width=150 Team ! 2.000 16 1.833 17 1.667 20 1.667 21 1.667 22

Pot 4 (seeding position 2) width=150 Team ! 2.333 9 2.333 10 2.333 12 2.000 13 2.000 14 2.000 15

Pot 5 (seeding position 1) width=150 Team ! 4.667 4 3.333 5 3.000 7 2.333 8

Format

In the preliminary round and main round, each group is played as a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts.

Tiebreakers

In the preliminary round and main 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):^[4]

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 for the qualifying round draw;

Preliminary round

The winners of each group advance to main round to join the 26 teams which receive byes to main round.

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

Group A

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Group B

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Main round

The winners of each group advance to the final tournament.

Times are CET/CEST, 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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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in Under-19 Futsal Euro^1
			1 (2019)
			1 (2019)
			0 (debut)
			0 (debut)
			0 (debut)
			1 (2019)
			1 (2019)
			1 (2019)

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Spain to host 2022 U19 Futsal EURO in Jaén. UEFA.com. 19 April 2021.
2. Web site: U19 Futsal EURO qualifying starts 1 November with preliminary round. UEFA.com. 20 September 2021.
3. Web site: Reference period for the calculation of the coefficient. UEFA.com. 20 September 2021.
4. Web site: Article 14 Equality of points – mini-tournaments. UEFA.com. 20 September 2021.