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2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

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2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round: 23 September – 16 November 2021^[1] Elite round: Spring 2022
Teams	54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	123
Goals scored	427 (3.47 per match)
Top scorer	Dženan Pejčinović (8 goals)
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International football competition

The2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hostsIsrael in the2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to participate.^[3]

Apart from Israel as the host, the remaining 54 teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of two rounds:Qualifying round, which took place in autumn of 2021, andElite round, which took place in spring of 2022.

Format

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The qualifying competition would originally consist of the following two rounds:

Qualifying round: Apart fromNetherlands andSpain, 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):^[3]

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

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In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according topoints (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):^[3]

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 Articles 15.01 and 15.03):^[3]

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

To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results are considered. The same criteria as above are applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03).^[3]

Qualifying round

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Draw

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The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020, 10:00CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters inNyon, Switzerland.^[4]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[5]^[6]

2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament andqualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament andqualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament andqualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament andqualifying 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: Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Israel	11.167	—

Bye toelite round
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Netherlands	28.556	1
Spain	27.444	2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff.	Rank
England	23.056	3
Italy	22.667	4
Portugal	20.722	5
Germany	19.833	6
France	18.944	7
Belgium	18.556	8
Republic of Ireland	16.833	9
Sweden	15.278	10
Hungary	14.389	11
Austria	13.556	12
Serbia	13.278	13
Turkey	12.667	14
Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.333	15

Pot B
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Scotland	12.000	16
Ukraine	11.889	17
Czech Republic	11.722	18
Switzerland	11.111	19
Denmark	11.000	20
Norway	10.722	21
Russia	10.667	22
Greece	10.222	23
Slovenia	10.111	24
Poland	10.000	25
Croatia	9.833	26
Slovakia	9.333	27
Iceland	8.167	28

Pot C
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Finland	7.833	29
Cyprus	6.167	30
Belarus	5.500	31
Romania	5.333	32
Azerbaijan	5.333	33
North Macedonia	4.833	34
Montenegro	4.667	35
Wales	4.500	36
Georgia	4.333	37
Northern Ireland	4.167	38
Bulgaria	4.000	39
Latvia	3.000	40
Faroe Islands	2.889	41

Pot D
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Lithuania	2.667	42
Albania	2.333	43
Estonia	2.333	44
Armenia	2.000	45
Kazakhstan	2.000	46
Kosovo	2.000	47
Andorra	1.333	48
Liechtenstein	1.000	49
Moldova	0.667	50
Luxembourg	0.667	51
San Marino	0.333	52
Malta	0.000	53
Gibraltar	0.000	54

Notes

Teams marked inbold have qualified for the final tournament.

Groups

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The qualifying round is scheduled to be played by 16 November 2021.

Times up to 27 March 2022 areCET (UTC+1), thereafter times areCEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7^[a]	Elite round
2	Denmark	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7^[a]	Elite round
3	Montenegro	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
4	Malta(H)	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification:Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^^a ^bTurkey ahead of Denmark on penalty shoot-out

6 October 2021 (2021-10-06)