| Tourney Name: | UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Dates: | Qualifying round: Elite round: |
| Num Teams: | 54 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Matches: | 117 |
| Goals: | 353 |
| Top Scorer: | Leon Elshan Orri Óskarsson (6 goals each) |
| Nextseason: | 2024 |
The 2023 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 Malta in the 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2004 were eligible to participate.
Russia were originally scheduled to participate in the competition before being excluded due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, while Liechtenstein opted not to participate. This meant that the tournament featured 52 of the remaining 54 UEFA member association national teams. Qualification consisted of a qualifying round in autumn 2022 followed by an elite round in spring 2023.[2]
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):[3]
Group Schedule
| 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 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):
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 8 December 2021, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[5]
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, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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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 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[6]
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 (debut) | ||||
| 5 (2002, 2003, 2005, 2018, 2019) | ||||
| 11 (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) | ||||
| 8 (2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022) | ||||
| 12 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019) | ||||
| 6 (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015) | ||||
| 2 (2004, 2006) | ||||
| 0 (debut) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
In the qualifying round, In the elite round, In total,