2023 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification
Year:	2023
Num Teams:	35
Confederations:	1
Matches:	54
Goals:	349
Top Scorer:	Blend Krasniqi (10 goals)
Prevseason:	2022
Nextseason:	2025
Updated:	26 March 2023

The 2023 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 Croatia in the 2023 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship final tournament.^[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible to participate.

Teams

Apart from Croatia, a total of 35 (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 and 2021/22 competitions.^[3]

The 25 highest-ranked teams entered the main round, while the 10 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.

Teams entering Preliminary Round

Pot 1 (Hosts) width=150 Team ! 1.500 28 1 0.333 31 2 0.000 33 3 & 4

Pot 2 (seeding position 4 or 3) width=150 Team ! 0.000 32 0.000 34 0.000 35

Pot 3 (seeding position 2) width=150 Team ! 0.333 29 0.333 30

Pot 4 (seeding position 1) width=150 Team ! 1.967 26 1.667 27

Teams entering Main Round

Pot 1 (Hosts) width=150 Team ! 11.000 2 1 4.000 15 3 3.667 17 3 2.667 21 3

Pot 2 (seeding position 4) width=150 Team ! 2.500 22 2.000 23 2.000 24 2.000 25 Winners preliminary round Group A Winners preliminary round Group B Winners preliminary round Group C

Pot 3 (seeding position 3) width=150 Team ! 4.000 16 3.083 18 3.000 19 2.667 20

Pot 4 (seeding position 2) width=150 Team ! 4.467 8 4.333 9 4.333 10 4.333 11 4.333 12 4.333 13 4.000 14

Pot 5 (seeding position 1) width=150 Team ! 13.667 1 9.000 3 8.167 4 5.167 5 5.000 6 4.667 7

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 27 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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Group C

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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
			2 (2019, 2022)
			0 (debut)
			2 (2019, 2022)
			2 (2019, 2022)
			0 (debut)
			1 (2022)
			2 (2019, 2022)
			1 (2022)

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

Top goalscorers

• Preliminary round:
• Main round:

Rank	Player			Total
1	Blend Krasniqi	4	6	10
2	Daniil Astafyeu	—	6	6
	Alen Ruis	—	6
	Mamady Kouyate	—	6
	Diogo Silva	—	6
6	Roman Bažkov	5	—	5
	Szymon Licznerski	—	5

Notes and References

1. Web site: Croatia to host 2023 U19 Futsal EURO in Poreč. UEFA.com. 20 September 2022.
2. Web site: Under-19 Futsal EURO 2023 preliminary and main round draws. UEFA.com. 3 November 2022.
3. Web site: Reference period for the calculation of the coefficient. UEFA.com. 16 August 2022.
4. Web site: Article 14 Equality of points – mini-tournaments. UEFA.com. 20 September 2021.