2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Year:2024
Dates:Qualifying round:

Elite round:
Num Teams:53
Confederations:1
Matches:78
Goals:212
Attendance:7174
Top Scorer: Simone Pafundi
Dženan Pejčinović
Matviy Ponomarenko
(5 goals)
Updated:21 November 2023
Nextseason:2025

The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification is a men's under-19 national football team competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Northern Ireland in the 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1] [2] Players born on or after 1 January 2005 are eligible to participate.

Russia was excluded from participating in the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Northern Ireland, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in October–November 2023, followed by an elite round played in March 2024.[3]

Format

The qualifying competition will 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):[4]

Group Schedule

!Matchday!Matches
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 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):[5]

  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 2 yellow cards in one match = 3 points)
  9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw

To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):

  1. Points
  2. Goal difference
  3. Goals scored
  4. Disciplinary points (total 3 matches)
  5. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 8 December 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[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, Belarus and Ukraine, Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina

Final tournament hosts!Team!Coeff.!Rank
3.667—
Bye to elite round!Team!Coeff.!Rank
26.0561
Teams entering qualifying round
Pot A!Team!Coeff.!Rank
25.2222
22.0003
21.4444
16.8895
16.6896
15.0567
14.9448
14.5569
14.11110
14.05611
13.83312
12.44413
11.83314
Pot B!Team!Coeff.!Rank
11.33315
11.33316
11.16717
10.66718
10.33319
10.27820
9.50021
9.50022
9.00023
8.93324
8.83325
8.83326
8.50027
Pot C!Team!Coeff.!Rank
8.50028
8.05629
6.00030
5.83331
5.66732
5.33333
5.33334
5.33335
5.33336
4.50037
4.33338
4.33339
3.16740
Pot D!Team!Coeff.!Rank
2.33341
2.33342
2.33343
1.66744
1.66745
1.33346
1.33347
0.33348
0.33349
0.33350
0.00051
0.00052
0.00053
Notes

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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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 best third-placed team 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

Draw

The draw for the elite round was held in 7 December 2023 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Portugal which received a bye to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contains 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 team could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.[7]

2023/24 qualifying round results[8]
Pot A
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
Seeded – – – –
6 6 6 3.000
6 5 5 3.000
6 4 5 3.000
6 3 5 3.000
6 3 4 3.000
6 2 3 3.000
Pot B
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
4 6 6 2.000
4 2 6 2.000
4 1 3 2.000
4 1 2 2.000
4 1 2 2.000
4 1 1 2.000
3 0 4 1.500
2023/24 qualifying round results
Pot C
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
4 4 5 2.000
4 2 2 2.000
3 0 3 1.500
3 0 2 1.500
3 0 2 1.500
3 -2 2 1.500
3 -2 1 1.500
Pot D
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
2 0 1 1.000
2 0 1 1.000
1 -1 2 0.500
1 -1 0 0.500
1 -3 1 0.500
0 -3 2 0.000
3 0 2 1.500

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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Goalscorers

In the qualifying round,

Notes and References

  1. News: 19 July 2023 . 2024 U19 EURO finals in Northern Ireland: Tournament information . 17 September 2023 . UEFA.com .
  2. News: UEFA.com . 19 April 2021 . Malta, Northern Ireland and Romania to stage U19 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025 . 7 September 2022 . UEFA.com.
  3. News: 2023/24 Under-19 EURO qualifying round groups Under-19 . 17 September 2023 . UEFA.com.
  4. Web site: UEFA Documents . 2022-09-07 . UEFA Under-19 Regulations.
  5. Web site: UEFA Documents . 2022-09-08 . documents.uefa.com.
  6. Web site: Draw Procedures . UEFA.com.
  7. Web site: 2023/24 Under-19 EURO qualifying round groups. UEFA. 20 July 2023. 1 October 2023.
  8. Web site: UEFA Under-19 National Team Coefficients – Calculation for the 2023/24 elite round. UEFA. 7 December 2023. 9 December 2023.

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