2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Dates	Round 1: 9 October – 19 November 2024 Round 2: Spring 2025
Teams	54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	27
Goals scored	116 (4.3 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lennart Karl (5 goals)
← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 15 October 2024.

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

Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, 54 teams entered this qualification competition including also hosts Albania, as it was the first time in the championship's history that the hosts started from the qualifying round however being automatically qualified. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from October to November 2024, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2008 are eligible to participate.

The qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:

• Round 1: 54 teams were drawn into 14 groups. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The top two teams from each group advance to the Round 2 League A; the other teams will play in the Round 2 League B.
• Round 2:
  • League A: 28 teams will be drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group will qualify for the Final tournament. If Albania will be among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team will also qualify.
  • League B: Teams in League B will compete for promotion to League A for qualifying round 1 of the 2025/26 U19 EURO.

In the qualifying round and elite round, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[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 had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were 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 were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03):^[1]

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 were considered. The same criteria as above were applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03).^[1]

The draw for the Round 1 was held on 3 May 2024 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[3]

• 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)
• 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)

Each group contains one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and 12 groups contain 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: Spain and Gibraltar, Belarus and Ukraine, Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A Team Coeff. Rank  Netherlands 28.000 1  France 25.389 2  Italy 25.111 3  Spain 23.667 4  Germany 20.833 5  Portugal 20.278 6  Belgium 18.444 7  England 17.456 8  Serbia 16.944 9  Republic of Ireland 16.000 10  Poland 14.333 11  Denmark 14.000 12  Hungary 13.944 13   Switzerland 13.778 14

Pot B Team Coeff. Rank  Sweden 12.333 15  Slovenia 12.167 16  Czech Republic 12.056 17  Norway 11.556 18  Israel 11.000 19  Scotland 10.889 20  Turkey 10.278 21  Bosnia and Herzegovina 10.222 22  Ukraine 10.167 23  Croatia 9.667 24  Greece 9.389 25  Iceland 9.000 26  Slovakia 8.333 27  Austria 7.889 28

Pot C Team Coeff. Rank  Finland 7.667 29  Belarus 6.667 30  Wales 6.444 31  Romania 6.000 32  Georgia 5.833 33  Bulgaria 5.556 34  Cyprus 5.433 35  Latvia 5.000 36  Northern Ireland 4.833 37  Montenegro 4.833 38  Luxembourg 4.583 39  Kosovo 4.333 40  Albania 4.333 41  North Macedonia 4.167 42

Pot D Team Coeff. Rank  Estonia 3.333 43  Kazakhstan 2.667 44  Azerbaijan 2.000 45  Andorra 1.667 46  Lithuania 1.333 47  Moldova 1.000 48  Faroe Islands 0.000 49  Malta 0.000 50  Armenia 0.000 51  San Marino 0.000 52  Liechtenstein 0.000 53  Gibraltar 0.000 54

Notes

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

The Round 1 will be played from October to November 2024.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Malta (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland	3	2	1	0	13	2	+11	7	Round 2 League A
2	Slovenia (H)	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
3	Georgia	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3	Round 2 League B
4	Armenia	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	2	1	0	11	2	+9	7	Round 2 League A
2	Netherlands	3	2	0	1	12	3	+9	6
3	Albania (H)	3	1	1	1	2	6	−4	4	Round 2 League B
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	0	3	0	14	−14	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium (H)	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	9	Round 2 League A
2	Ukraine	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
3	Kosovo	3	0	1	2	7	10	−3	1	Round 2 League B
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	1	2	5	10	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Romania (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	14	3	+11	7	Round 2 League A
2	Germany (H)	3	2	1	0	15	5	+10	7
3	Belarus	3	1	0	2	5	12	−7	3	Round 2 League B
4	Andorra	3	0	0	3	1	15	−14	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Scotland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Northern Ireland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Wales	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	San Marino (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Moldova (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Cyprus (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Gibraltar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Iceland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	North Macedonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B
4	Estonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League A
2	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bulgaria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Round 2 League B

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4	Round 2 League A
2	Denmark (H)	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2	3
3	Luxembourg	2	0	1	1	1	4	−3	1	Round 2 League B

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In the qualifying round, there have been 116 goals scored in 27 matches, for an average of 4.3 goals per match (as of 15 October 2024).

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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