2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Year:2025
Num Teams:49
Confederations:1
Matches:69
Goals:283
Top Scorer: Filippa Sjöström
(8 goals)
Prevseason:2024
Nextseason:2026
Updated:20 November 2024

The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification is a women's under-17 national football team competition that will determine the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Faroe Islands in the 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.

Four national teams decided not to participate in the event and Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, including hosts Faroe Islands, 49 teams entered this qualification competition. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from 1 October to 20 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 Round 1 and Round 2, 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 17.01 and 17.02):[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 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. Position in the applicable ranking:
    1. for teams in Round 1, position in 2023–24 Round 2 league rankings;
    2. for teams in Round 2, position in the Round 1 league ranking.

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

  1. Points;
  2. Goal difference;
  3. Goals scored;
  4. Disciplinary points;
  5. Position in the applicable ranking:
    1. for teams in Round 1, position in the coefficient rankings;
    2. for teams in Round 2, position in the Round 1 league ranking.

Round 1

Draw

The draw for the Round 1 was held on 7 June 2024, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2]

The teams were seeded according to their final group standings of the 2023–24 competition (Regulations Article 13.01).[3]

Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Belarus and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group in League A as well as Armenia and Azerbaijan in League B.

To determine the 2023–24 Round 2 league rankings, the following criteria was followed:

  1. higher position in the following classification:
    1. League A Round 2 group winners
    2. League A Round 2 group runners-up
    3. League A Round 2 third-placed teams
    4. Teams promoted from League B
    5. Teams relegated from League A
    6. League B Round 2 runners-up
    7. League B Round 2 third-placed teams
    8. League B Round 2 fourth-placed teams
  2. higher number of points in all mini-tournament matches;
  3. superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
  4. higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
  5. lower disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  6. higher position in the 2023–24 Round 1 league rankings.
Teams entering League A

League A

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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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the best runner-up, only the results of the runner-up teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

Round 2

Draw

The draw for Round 2 will be made on 6 December 2024 at 09:00 CET at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[4]

The 21 teams of Round 1 League A and the 7 teams of Round 2 League B (six group winners and the best runner-up) are drawn in seven groups of four teams.

Because League B has three groups with only 3 teams, only the points of the winners from each group in League B against the second and third-placed teams will be transferred to round 2. All group winners and the best runner-up are automatically seeded into pot D.[5]

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

Teams entering League A
Teams entering League BThe seven fourth-placed teams in League A will be automatically seeded into Pot A. The runners-up from League B are automatically seeded into Pot B, and the third and fourth-placed teams in League B are automatically seeded into pot C.

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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Goalscorers

In the qualifying round,

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2024/25. UEFA. 1 July 2024.
  2. Web site: 2024/25 UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship round 1 draw. UEFA.
  3. Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2024/25. UEFA. 1 July 2024.
  4. Web site: UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship round 1 report. 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.

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