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.
A total of 47 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to participate.
The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:
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):
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):
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 November 2015, 09:55 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
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.
The qualifying round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:
All times are CEST (UTC+2).
The Serbia v Scotland match was not played as scheduled due to illness within the Scotland squad. The match was awarded by UEFA as a 3–0 win for Serbia due to Scotland's "refusal to play" the match.
The Croatia v Czech Republic match was completed with a 0–7 scoreline before a default victory was awarded.
To determine the ten best second-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.
The draw for the elite round was held on 11 November 2016, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. France, England and Germany, 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. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group.
The elite round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:
All times are CEST (UTC+2).
The Belgium v Russia match was completed with a 3–0 scoreline before a default victory was awarded.
To determine the best second-placed team from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.
The following eight teams qualify for the final tournament.
The following players scored four goals or more in the qualifying competition:
Source: UEFA.com
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