2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 8 September – 25 October 2016; Elite round:; 4 April – 12 June 2017
Teams	45 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	101
Goals scored	438 (4.34 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lucía García (11 goals)
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The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Northern Ireland in the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.^[1]

A total of 47 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to participate.

Format edit

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:^[3]

Qualifying round: Apart from France, England and Germany, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 44 teams are drawn into 11 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 11 group winners and the 10 runners-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group advance to the elite round.
Elite round: The 24 teams are drawn into six 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 six group winners and the runner-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualify for the final tournament.

Tiebreakers edit

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of a mini-tournament, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[3]

Higher number of points obtained in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the mini-tournament matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
Superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
If only two teams have the same number of points, and they are tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the mini-tournament, their rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out (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).
Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the mini-tournament matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
Higher position in the coefficient ranking list used for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

To determine the ten best runners-up from the qualifying round and the best runner-up from the elite round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):^[3]

Higher number of points;
Superior goal difference;
Higher number of goals scored;
Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
Higher position in the coefficient ranking list used for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round edit

Draw edit

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 November 2015, 09:55 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[4]^[5]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[6]

2013 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2014 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)

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, Armenia and Azerbaijan (due to the disputed status of Nagorno-Karabakh), as well as Russia and Ukraine (due to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine), could not be drawn in the same group.^[2]

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff	Rank
Northern Ireland	4.667	—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff	Rank
France	14.000	1
England	14.000	2
Germany	13.667	3

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff	Rank
Spain	12.000	4
Sweden	11.500	5
Norway	10.000	6
Denmark	9.833	7
Belgium	9.333	8
Netherlands	9.167	9
Finland	9.167	10
Scotland	8.833	11
Switzerland	8.000	12
Republic of Ireland	7.833	13
Russia	7.000	14

Pot B
Team	Coeff	Rank
Italy	6.500	15
Portugal	6.333	16
Czech Republic	6.167	17
Austria	6.000	18
Iceland	5.833	19
Serbia	5.167	20
Ukraine	4.833	21
Romania	4.333	22
Slovenia	4.167	23
Turkey	4.000	24
Hungary	4.000	25

Pot C
Team	Coeff	Rank
Poland	3.833	26
Croatia	3.833	27
Wales	3.667	28
Greece	3.667	29
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.333	30
Slovakia	2.333	31
Moldova	2.000	32
Belarus	1.833	33
Cyprus	1.667	34
Faroe Islands	1.333	35
Azerbaijan	1.333	36

Pot D
Team	Coeff	Rank
Macedonia	1.333	37
Estonia	1.000	38
Bulgaria	1.000	39
Israel	0.000	40
Kazakhstan	0.000	41
Latvia	0.000	42
Lithuania	0.000	43
Montenegro	0.000	44
Georgia	0.000	45
Albania	0.000	46
Armenia	—	47

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter
Andorra
Gibraltar
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malta
San Marino

Groups edit

The qualifying round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:^[3]

12–20 September 2016
17–25 October 2016

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Group 1 edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland (H)	3	3	0	8	0	+8	9	Elite round
2	Norway	3	2	1	15	2	+13	6	Elite round
3	Romania	3	1	2	7	9	−2	3
4	Armenia	3	0	3	0	19	−19	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

15 September 2016