The2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification was a men's under-19 nationalfootball team competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hostsRomania in the2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2006 are eligible to participate.
Russia was excluded from participating in the tournament due to theongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Romania, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in October–November 2024, followed by an elite round played in spring 2025.
The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:
Qualifying Round: Apart fromPortugal, which receives a bye to the elite round as the team with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 13 group winners, 13 runners-up, and the best third-placed team advanced to the elite round.
Elite Round: The 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners qualified for the final tournament.
In the qualifying 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):[1]
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 2 yellow cards in one match = 3 points)
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw
To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):[1]
Points
Goal difference
Goals scored
Disciplinary points (total 3 matches)
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw
Each group contains 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.
To determine the best third-placed team 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.
The draw for the elite round was held on 5 December 2024 at 11:00 CET at the UEFA headquarters inNyon, Switzerland.[4]
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.Portugal 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 team could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.[5]
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Netherlands(H)
Slovenia
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Germany
Hungary
Cyprus
Andorra(H)
England
Belgium
Bulgaria(H)
Lithuania
Turkey
Malta
Gibraltar
France
Wales
Scotland(H)
Liechtenstein
Czech Republic
Finland(H)
Switzerland
San Marino
Republic of Ireland
Iceland
Moldova(H)
Azerbaijan
Italy
Montenegro
Greece(H)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Norway
Georgia
Estonia
Sweden(H)
Austria
Spain
Kosovo(H)
Faroe Islands
Denmark
Israel
Northern Ireland
Albania(H)
Slovakia
Luxembourg(H)
Latvia
North Macedonia
Serbia
Croatia(H)
Belarus
Armenia
Portugal
