2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Year:	2025
Dates:	Qualifying round: Elite round: Spring 2025
Num Teams:	53
Confederations:	1
Nextseason:	2026

The 2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification will be a men's under-19 national football team competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Romania in the 2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2006 are eligible to participate.

Russia was excluded from participating in the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Romania, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in September–November 2024, followed by an elite round played in spring 2025.

Format

The qualifying competition will consist of the following two rounds:

Qualifying Round: Apart from Portugal, which receives a bye to the elite round as the team with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group will be played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 13 group winners, 13 runners-up, and the best third-placed team will advance to the elite round.
Elite Round: The 28 teams will be drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners will qualify for the final tournament.

Qualifying round

Draw

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

Each group contains 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
		—

Bye to elite round!Team!Coeff.!Rank
	27.167	1

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A!Team!Coeff.!Rank
	26.778	2
	23.167	3
	20.056	4
	19.939	5
	17.833	6
	15.056	7
	14.944	8
	13.889	9
	13.722	10
	12.333	11
	11.778	12
	11.667	13
	11.167	14

Pot B!Team!Coeff.!Rank
	11.100	15
	11.000	16
	10.667	17
	10.233	18
	10.000	19
	9.667	20
	9.667	21
	9.500	22
	8.500	23
	8.500	24
	8.167	25
	7.333	26
	7.000	27

Pot C!Team!Coeff.!Rank
	6.617	28
	6.167	29
	6.000	30
	5.500	31
	5.333	32
	5.167	33
	4.833	34
	4.667	35
	4.500	36
	4.333	37
	3.833	38
	3.500	39
	3.500	40

Pot D!Team!Coeff.!Rank
	3.333	41
	3.333	42
	2.667	43
	2.333	44
	1.667	45
	1.667	46
	1.333	47
	0.667	48
	0.333	49
	0.333	50
	0.000	51
	0.000	52
	0.000	53

2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification explained

Format

Qualifying round

Draw

Groups

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Group 11

Group 12

Group 13

Notes and References