2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2025
Num Teams:54
Confederations:1
Matches:78
Goals:333
Top Scorer: Thomas Campaniello
(6 goals)
Prevseason:2024
Nextseason:2026
Updated:19 November 2024

The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification is 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, 54 teams entered this qualification competition including also hosts Albania, as it was the first time in the championship's history that the hosts started from the qualifying round however being automatically qualified. 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:

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying rounds, 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[1]

  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 had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were 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 ranking for the qualifying round draw;
  10. Drawing of lots.

To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03):[1]

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

To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results were considered. The same criteria as above were applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03).[1]

Round 1

Draw

The draw for the Round 1 was held on 3 May 2024 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[3]

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=190Team !
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=150Team !
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=150Team !
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=150Team !
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

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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Round 2

Draw

The draw for Round 2 will be made at 11:45 CET on 5 December at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4]

The 28 teams of Round 1 (top 2 of each group) are drawn in seven groups of four teams.[5] The seven teams ranked fourth in the League A groups will be relegated to League B for round 1 of U19 EURO qualifying for the same age cohort (so teams relegated from League A in 2024/25 U17 EURO round 2 will begin 2026/27 U19 EURO round 1 in League B).

The teams are seeded according to their results in the round 1 (Regulations Article 15.01).[6]

Teams entering League A
2024/25 qualifying round results[7]
Pot 1
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
6 11 11
6 6 9
6 6 8
6 3 3
6 2 4
4 5 7
4 3 6
Pot 2
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
4 3 5
4 3 5
4 3 5
4 2 4
4 2 3
4 1 2
3 0 4
2024/25 qualifying round results
Pot 3
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
4 6 11
4 3 6
4 1 4
4 1 2
3 3 6
3 2 3
3 1 5
Pot 4
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
3 0 3
3 -1 4
3 -6 4
2 0 3
2 0 2
1 -2 3
1 -4 3
Teams entering League BThe third and fourth-placed teams in Round 1 will enter League B. The teams are seeded according to their results in the round 1 into five groups of four and two groups of three teams. The seven League B winners will be promoted to League A for round 1 of 2026/27 U19 EURO qualifying.
2024/25 qualifying round results[8]
Pot 1
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
4 2 5
1 -2 4
1 -3 1
1 -3 1
1 -3 0
1 -5 1
0 -3 3
Pot 2
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
0 -3 2
0 -3 0
0 -4 1
0 -5 3
0 -5 1
0 -8 1
0 -9 2
2024/25 qualifying round results[9]
Pot 3
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
3 -4 3
1 -5 5
1 -7 1
0 -8 3
0 -11 1
0 -11 0
0 -12 1
Pot 4
width=150Team !width=35 !width=8 !width=8 !width=8
0 -14 1
0 -14 0
0 -14 0
0 -19 0
0 -24 0

League A

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A1

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Group A2

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Group A3

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Group A4

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Group A5

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Group A6

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Group A7

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League B

Group B1

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Group B2

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Group B3

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Group B4

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Group B5

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Group B6

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Group B7

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Goalscorers

In the qualifying round,

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UEFA Documents . 2024-04-10. documents.uefa.com.
  2. Web site: 2024/25 Under-17 EURO round 1 draw. UEFA.
  3. Web site: 2024/25 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships. UEFA.
  4. Web site: 2024/25 Under-17 EURO round 2 draw. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  5. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  6. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship. UEFA.com. UEFA.
  7. Web site: ROUND 1 OVERALL RANKINGS 2024/25 UEFA UNDER-17 CHAMPIONSHIP. UEFA. 28 November 2024. 2 December 2024.
  8. Web site: ROUND 1 OVERALL RANKINGS 2024/25 UEFA UNDER-17 CHAMPIONSHIP. UEFA. 28 November 2024. 2 December 2024.
  9. Web site: ROUND 1 OVERALL RANKINGS 2024/25 UEFA UNDER-17 CHAMPIONSHIP. UEFA. 28 November 2024. 2 December 2024.

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