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:; 7 March – 18 May 2025
Teams	54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	138
Goals scored	528 (3.83 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lennart Karl; (7 goals)
	← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 26 March 2025.

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.

Format

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 2026/27 U19 EURO.

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying rounds, teams are 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]

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 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);
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 were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03):^[1]

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

Round 1

Draw

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.

Groups

Round 1 was played from October to November 2024.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	12	2	+10	9	Round 2 League A
2	Sweden	3	2	1	9	5	+4	6	Round 2 League A
3	Latvia	3	1	2	5	7	−2	3	Round 2 League B
4	Malta (H)	3	0	3	1	13	−12	0	Round 2 League B

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

24 October 2024

11:00

England	4–0	Malta
Ezenwata 12', 53' Dowman 68' Tyjon 90+4'	Report

Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 407

Referee: Florian Lata (Albania)

24 October 2024