The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification is a men's under-17 national football team competition that will determine the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Cyprus in the 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2007 were eligible to participate.
Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Cyprus, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in September–November 2023, followed by an elite round played in March 2024.
The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:
The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):
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):
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):
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).
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 8 December 2022 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. 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.
The qualifying round will be played in September, October, and November 2023.
Times up to 29 October 2023 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Gibraltar initially withdrew from the group on 7 October 2023, citing safety concerns in light of the October 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict. All matches were subsequently postponed by UEFA later that day. New dates and host nation (Wales) were announced later. Israel withdrew from qualification shortly before the re-arranged dates.
To determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advanced 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.
The draw for the elite round was held on 7 December 2023 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. The Netherlands which received a bye to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contains 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.
The seven best second-placed teams from the elite round qualified for the final tournament.
In the qualifying round there were 245 goals scored in 75 matches, for an average of 3.27 goals per match.
In the elite round there have been 9 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 2.25 goals per match (as of 9 March 2024).
In total, there have been 254 goals scored in 79 matches, for an average of 3.22 goals per match (as of 9 March 2024).
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Source: UEFA
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