2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification

2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 10 September – 28 October 2019; Elite round:; Cancelled[1]
Teams	46 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	66
Goals scored	318 (4.82 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Emőke Pápai; Karoline Nagelhus Hernes; (7 goals each)

The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that was originally to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Sweden in the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament,[2] before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Apart from Sweden, 46 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[3] Players born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to participate.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[4]

Qualifying round: Apart from Spain 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, the 11 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 28 teams are 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 qualify for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):[4]

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

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):[4]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
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);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
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 Article 15.01):[4]

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

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 23 November 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[3]

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

2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2018 UEFA Women's 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, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Sweden	11.500	—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Spain	32.056	1
Germany	31.167	2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff.	Rank
England	22.889	3
Norway	21.000	4
Netherlands	17.667	5
France	17.278	6
Republic of Ireland	15.722	7
Switzerland	15.111	8
Italy	15.056	9
Finland	13.833	10
Czech Republic	12.889	11
Denmark	12.833	12
Poland	12.722	13

Pot B
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Austria	11.833	14
Belgium	11.667	15
Serbia	11.500	16
Iceland	11.500	17
Hungary	10.000	18
Scotland	10.000	19
Russia	8.667	20
Slovenia	7.833	21
Portugal	7.000	22
Turkey	6.333	23
Greece	6.000	24

Pot C
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Belarus	6.000	25
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.833	26
Wales	5.167	27
Slovakia	5.000	28
Northern Ireland	4.833	29
Ukraine	4.500	30
Romania	4.000	31
Bulgaria	4.000	32
Lithuania	3.333	33
Azerbaijan	3.167	34
Israel	2.667	35

Pot D
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Croatia	2.333	36
Montenegro	1.333	37
North Macedonia	1.333	38
Faroe Islands	1.000	39
Latvia	1.000	40
Malta	1.000	41
Estonia	0.333	42
Kazakhstan	0.333	43
Moldova	0.000	44
Georgia	0.000	45
Albania	—	46

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter
Andorra	Armenia	Cyprus	Gibraltar
Kosovo	Liechtenstein	Luxembourg	San Marino

Groups

The qualifying round is provisionally scheduled between 5 August and 27 October 2019.

Times up to 26 October 2019 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9	9	Elite round
2	Belgium	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	4
3	Croatia	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina (H)	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.

21 October 2019