2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:	2025
Dates:	Round 1: 9 October – 19 November 2024 Round 2: Spring 2025
Num Teams:	54
Confederations:	1
Prevseason:	2024
Nextseason:	2026

The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification will be a men's under-17 national football team competition that will determine the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Albania in the 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.

Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, including hosts Albania, 54 teams entered this qualification competition. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from October to November 2024, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2008 are eligible to participate.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:

Round 1: 54 teams were drawn into 14 groups. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The top two teams from each group advance to the Round 2 League A; the other teams will play in the Round 2 League B.
Round 2:
- League A: 28 teams will be drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group will qualify for the Final tournament. If Albania will be among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team will also qualify.
- League B: Teams in League B will compete for promotion to League A for qualifying round 1 of the 2026/27 U19 EURO.

Round 1

Draw

The draw for the Round 1 was held on 3 May 2024 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[2]

2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)

Each group contains one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and 12 groups contain 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.

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
width=190	Team !
	28.000	1
	25.389	2
	25.111	3
	23.667	4
	20.833	5
	20.278	6
	18.444	7
	17.456	8
	16.944	9
	16.000	10
	14.333	11
	14.000	12
	13.944	13
	13.778	14

Pot B
width=150	Team !
	12.333	15
	12.167	16
	12.056	17
	11.556	18
	11.000	19
	10.889	20
	10.278	21
	10.222	22
	10.167	23
	9.667	24
	9.389	25
	9.000	26
	8.333	27
	7.889	28

Pot C
width=150	Team !
	7.667	29
	6.667	30
	6.444	31
	6.000	32
	5.833	33
	5.556	34
	5.433	35
	5.000	36
	4.833	37
	4.833	38
	4.583	39
	4.333	40
	4.333	41
	4.167	42

Pot D
width=150	Team !
	3.333	43
	2.667	44
	2.000	45
	1.667	46
	1.333	47
	1.000	48
	0.000	49
	0.000	50
	0.000	51
	0.000	52
	0.000	53
	0.000	54

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Groups

The Round 1 will be played from October to November 2024.

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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Group 14

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Notes and References

Web site: 2024/25 Under-17 EURO round 1 draw. UEFA.
Web site: 2024/25 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships. UEFA.