2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round: 23 September – 16 November 2021[1] Elite round: Spring 2022
Teams	54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	123
Goals scored	427 (3.47 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dženan Pejčinović (8 goals)
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The 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Israel in the 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to participate.^[3]

Apart from Israel as the host, the remaining 54 teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn of 2021, and Elite round, which took place in spring of 2022.

Format[edit]

The qualifying competition would originally consist of the following two rounds:

• Qualifying round: Apart from Netherlands and Spain, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams are drawn into 13 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 13 group winners, the 13 runners-up, and the four third-placed teams with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group advance to the elite round.
• Elite round: The 32 teams are drawn into eight 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 eight group winners and the seven runners-up with the best record against all teams in their group qualify for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):^[3]

Group schedule

Matchday	Matches
Matchday 1	1 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 2	1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 3	2 v 1, 4 v 3

Tiebreakers[edit]

In the qualifying round and elite round, 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 14.01 and 14.02):^[3]

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. 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 are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03):^[3]

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 are considered. The same criteria as above are applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03).^[3]

Qualifying round[edit]

Draw[edit]

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[4]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[5][6]

• 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 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)

Each group contained 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: Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Final tournament hosts Team Coeff. Rank  Israel 11.167 —

Bye to elite round Team Coeff. Rank  Netherlands 28.556 1  Spain 27.444 2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A Team Coeff. Rank  England 23.056 3  Italy 22.667 4  Portugal 20.722 5  Germany 19.833 6  France 18.944 7  Belgium 18.556 8  Republic of Ireland 16.833 9  Sweden 15.278 10  Hungary 14.389 11  Austria 13.556 12  Serbia 13.278 13  Turkey 12.667 14  Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.333 15

Pot B Team Coeff. Rank  Scotland 12.000 16  Ukraine 11.889 17  Czech Republic 11.722 18   Switzerland 11.111 19  Denmark 11.000 20  Norway 10.722 21  Russia 10.667 22  Greece 10.222 23  Slovenia 10.111 24  Poland 10.000 25  Croatia 9.833 26  Slovakia 9.333 27  Iceland 8.167 28

Pot C Team Coeff. Rank  Finland 7.833 29  Cyprus 6.167 30  Belarus 5.500 31  Romania 5.333 32  Azerbaijan 5.333 33  North Macedonia 4.833 34  Montenegro 4.667 35  Wales 4.500 36  Georgia 4.333 37  Northern Ireland 4.167 38  Bulgaria 4.000 39  Latvia 3.000 40  Faroe Islands 2.889 41

Pot D Team Coeff. Rank  Lithuania 2.667 42  Albania 2.333 43  Estonia 2.333 44  Armenia 2.000 45  Kazakhstan 2.000 46  Kosovo 2.000 47  Andorra 1.333 48  Liechtenstein 1.000 49  Moldova 0.667 50  Luxembourg 0.667 51  San Marino 0.333 52  Malta 0.000 53  Gibraltar 0.000 54

Notes

• Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Groups[edit]

The qualifying round is scheduled to be played by 16 November 2021.

Times up to 27 March 2022 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey (Q)	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7[a]	Elite round
2	Denmark (Q)	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7[a]
3	Montenegro (E)	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
4	Malta (H, E)	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

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Group 2[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Elite round
2	Sweden	3	1	2	0	12	4	+8	5
3	Latvia (H)	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
4	Lithuania	3	0	0	3	1	16	−15	0

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Group 3[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Luxembourg	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Elite round
2	Belgium (H)	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	6
3	Norway	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
4	Azerbaijan	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

All matches were abandoned by Azerbaijan. All opponents received a 3–0 win.

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Group 4[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Estonia	3	2	0	1	3	4	−1	6	Elite round
2	Georgia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
3	Hungary (H)	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	4
4	Iceland	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

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Group 5[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of Ireland (H)	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7	Elite round
2	Poland	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
3	North Macedonia	3	1	1	1	6	2	+4	4
4	Andorra	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

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Group 6[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	3	0	0	18	1	+17	9	Elite round
2	Russia	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6
3	Romania (H)	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3
4	San Marino	3	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0

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Group 7[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	3	2	1	0	9	1	+8	7	Elite round
2	Finland (H)	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	5
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	1	1	1	7	3	+4	4
4	Gibraltar	3	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

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Group 8[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece (H)	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7	Elite round
2	France	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	4
3	Cyprus	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
4	Moldova	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1

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Group 9[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovenia	3	3	0	0	13	0	+13	9	Elite round
2	Kosovo	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6
3	Austria (H)	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	0	3	0	11	−11	0

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Group 10[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	3	3	0	0	8	0	+8	9	Elite round
2	Serbia (H)	3	2	0	1	12	2	+10	6
3	Croatia	3	1	0	2	3	2	+1	3
4	Liechtenstein	3	0	0	3	0	19	−19	0

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Group 11[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ukraine	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6	Elite round
2	Portugal (H)	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6
3	Wales	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	1	2	1	9	−8	1

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Group 12[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Elite round
2	Scotland	3	2	0	1	6	7	−1	6
3	Northern Ireland (H)	3	0	1	2	4	7	−3	1
4	Albania	3	0	1	2	4	10	−6	1

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Group 13[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	7	Elite round
2	Slovakia	3	1	2	0	7	2	+5	5
3	Belarus (H)	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	4
4	Armenia	3	0	0	3	0	14	−14	0

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