2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

The 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that was originally to determine the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Estonia in the 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament,^[2] before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

Apart from Estonia, all 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 England, 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):^[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]

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. To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results are considered. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01, 15.02 and 15.03):^[4]

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.

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 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 European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 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)

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: Russia and Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Final tournament hosts Team Coeff. Rank  Estonia 2.333 —

Bye to elite round Team Coeff. Rank  Spain 25.889 1  England 25.000 2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A Team Coeff. Rank  Germany 24.167 3  Netherlands 23.778 4  France 20.611 5  Italy 19.667 6  Belgium 19.111 7  Portugal 18.222 8  Republic of Ireland 17.167 9  Austria 14.333 10  Sweden 14.000 11  Serbia 13.778 12  Scotland 13.222 13  Russia 13.111 14  Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.000 15

Pot B Team Coeff. Rank  Croatia 12.556 16  Israel 11.333 17  Hungary 11.111 18  Slovenia 10.889 19  Poland 10.833 20  Turkey 10.833 21  Ukraine 10.722 22  Norway 10.722 23  Czech Republic 10.611 24  Greece 10.556 25   Switzerland 10.111 26  Denmark 9.333 27  Slovakia 9.167 28

Pot C Team Coeff. Rank  Finland 7.833 29  Azerbaijan 7.000 30  Georgia 6.833 31  Cyprus 6.833 32  Wales 6.500 33  Iceland 6.333 34  Belarus 6.167 35  Bulgaria 5.333 36  Romania 5.000 37  Northern Ireland 4.167 38  North Macedonia 3.833 39  Montenegro 3.667 40  Faroe Islands 3.222 41

Pot D Team Coeff. Rank  Lithuania 2.667 42  Latvia 2.667 43  Albania 2.333 44  Armenia 2.000 45  Luxembourg 1.667 46  Moldova 1.667 47  Kazakhstan 1.000 48  Liechtenstein 1.000 49  Andorra 0.333 50  San Marino 0.333 51  Gibraltar 0.333 52  Malta 0.000 53  Kosovo 0.000 54

Notes

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

Groups

The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 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	Belgium	3	2	1	0	17	3	+14	7	Elite round
2	Poland (H)	3	2	1	0	16	4	+12	7
3	North Macedonia	3	1	0	2	7	6	+1	3
4	Liechtenstein	3	0	0	3	0	27	−27	0

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Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9	Elite round
2	Turkey	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Northern Ireland	3	1	0	2	7	6	+1	3
4	Luxembourg (H)	3	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

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Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of Ireland (H)	3	3	0	0	13	3	+10	9	Elite round
2	Montenegro	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3[a]
3	Israel	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3[a]
4	Andorra	3	1	0	2	1	8	−7	3[a]

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Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	3	3	0	0	17	3	+14	9	Elite round
2	Sweden (H)	3	2	0	1	7	7	0	6
3	Lithuania	3	1	0	2	7	11	−4	3
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

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Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9	Elite round
2	Slovakia	3	2	0	1	12	3	+9	6
3	Cyprus (H)	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	Gibraltar	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

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Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	1	2	0	3	0	+3	5	Elite round
2	Serbia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4[a]
3	Belarus (H)	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4[a]
4	Latvia	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3

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Group 7

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9	Elite round
2	Scotland (H)	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
3	Armenia	3	1	0	2	1	6	−5	3
4	Iceland	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0

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Group 8

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

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Group 9

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece (H)	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	9	Elite round
2	Germany	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6
3	Kazakhstan	3	1	0	2	3	10	−7	3
4	Azerbaijan	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Group 10

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	2	0	1	9	2	+7	6[a]	Elite round
2	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	9	2	+7	6[a]
3	Romania (H)	3	2	0	1	7	1	+6	6[a]
4	San Marino	3	0	0	3	0	20	−20	0

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Group 11

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Finland (H)	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	Elite round
2	Czech Republic	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	5
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3
4	Moldova	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1

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Group 12

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands (H)	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7	Elite round
2	Wales	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
3	Slovenia	3	1	0	2	2	2	0	3
4	Kosovo	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

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Group 13

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9	Elite round
2	Norway (H)	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6
3	Bulgaria	3	1	0	2	6	6	0	3
4	Malta	3	0	0	3	0	18	−18	0

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Ranking of third-placed teams

To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	10	Romania	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3	Elite round
2	3	Israel	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3
3	6	Belarus	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
4	8	Georgia	2	0	1	1	0	2	−2	1
5	12	Slovenia	2	0	0	2	0	2	−2	0
6	1	North Macedonia	2	0	0	2	3	6	−3	0
7	11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	0	0	2	2	6	−4	0[a]
8	13	Bulgaria	2	0	0	2	2	6	−4	0[a]
9	5	Cyprus	2	0	0	2	0	5	−5	0
10	2	Northern Ireland	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0[b]
11	7	Armenia	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0[b]
12	4	Lithuania	2	0	0	2	3	10	−7	0
13	9	Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2	1	10	−9	0

Elite round

Draw

The draw for the elite round was held on 3 December 2019, 12:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[6]

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.^[7] Spain and England, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Seeding
1	—	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Pot A
2	—	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	4	Denmark	3	3	0	0	17	3	+14	9
4	5	France	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9[a]
5	2	Italy	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9[a]
6	9	Greece	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	9
7	3	Republic of Ireland	3	3	0	0	13	3	+10	9
8	13	Austria	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9
9	7	Croatia	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9	Pot B
10	1	Belgium	3	2	1	0	17	3	+14	7
11	1	Poland	3	2	1	0	16	4	+12	7
12	11	Finland	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
13	8	Ukraine	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7
14	12	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
15	5	Slovakia	3	2	0	1	12	3	+9	6
16	13	Norway	3	2	0	1	10	2	+8	6
17	10	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	9	2	+7	6[b]	Pot C
18	10	Russia	3	2	0	1	9	2	+7	6[b]
19	10	Romania (Y)	3	2	0	1	7	1	+6	6
20	9	Germany	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6
21	2	Turkey	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
22	12	Wales	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
23	7	Scotland	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
24	4	Sweden	3	2	0	1	7	7	0	6
25	8	Portugal	3	1	2	0	4	0	+4	5	Pot D
26	11	Czech Republic	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	5
27	6	Hungary	3	1	2	0	3	0	+3	5
28	6	Serbia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
29	6	Belarus (Y)	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
30	3	Montenegro	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
31	3	Israel (Y)	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
32	8	Georgia (Y)	3	0	2	1	0	2	−2	2

Groups

The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 25 and 31 March 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[8] UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.^[9][10]

Times up to 28 March 2020 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), 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	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Turkey (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Poland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Wales	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Israel (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Scotland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Belgium (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Georgia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 7

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Russia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group 8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament if among seven best runners-up
3	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Hungary (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, all results are taken into account (Regulations Article 15.02).^[4] This is different from the elite round of previous qualifying tournaments where the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	1	Group 1 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	2	Group 2 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	3	Group 3 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	4	Group 4 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	5	Group 5 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	6	Group 6 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	7	Group 7 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	8	Group 8 second place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Under-17 Euro1 only U-17 era (since 2002)
Estonia	Hosts	9 December 2016[2]	0 (debut)
TBD	Elite round Group 1 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 2 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 3 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 4 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 5 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 6 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 7 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round Group 8 winners	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)
TBD	Elite round best seven runners-up	31 March 2020 (or 28 March 2020)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

In the qualifying round, there were 289 goals scored in 78 matches, for an average of 3.71 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References

External links

• Official website
• Under-17 Matches: 2020 Qualifying, UEFA.com