2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round: 5 October – 22 November 2022 Elite round: 7 – 28 March 2023
Teams	53 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	123
Goals scored	448 (3.64 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Matviy Ponomarenko (8 goals)
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The 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Hungary in the 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.^[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2006 were eligible to participate.

Apart from Hungary as the host, the remaining 53 teams entered the qualifying competition, where the format consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in October and November 2022, and Elite round, which took place in March 2023.

The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:^[2]

• Qualifying round: Apart from Netherlands and Spain, which received byes to the elite round as the teams 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, the 13 runners-up, and the four third-placed teams with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group advanced to the elite round.
• Elite round: The 32 teams were drawn into eight 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 eight group winners and the seven runners-up with the best record against all teams in their group qualified for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):

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

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):^[2]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. 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);
8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
10. 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):^[2]

1. Points;
2. Goal difference;
3. Goals scored;
4. Disciplinary points (total 3 matches);
5. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
6. 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).^[2]

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 17 December 2021 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[4][5]

• 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
• 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)

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  Hungary 14.389 —

Bye to elite 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  Austria 13.556 11  Serbia 13.278 12  Turkey 12.667 13  Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.333 14  Scotland 12.000 15

Pot B Team Coeff. Rank  Ukraine 11.889 16  Czech Republic 11.722 17  Israel 11.167 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 in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

The qualifying round was played in October and November 2022.

Times up to 30 October 2022 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal (H)	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9	Elite round
2	Slovenia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
3	Kazakhstan	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	4
4	Faroe Islands	3	0	0	3	0	8	−8	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ukraine	3	2	1	0	13	3	+10	7	Elite round
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina (H)	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
3	Azerbaijan	3	1	0	2	10	6	+4	3
4	Liechtenstein	3	0	0	3	0	17	−17	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7	Elite round
2	Israel	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
3	Georgia (H)	3	1	0	2	6	9	−3	3
4	Lithuania	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	11	2	+9	7	Elite round
2	Scotland	3	2	0	1	10	5	+5	6
3	Northern Ireland	3	1	1	1	3	5	−2	4
4	Malta (H)	3	0	0	3	1	13	−12	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Montenegro	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Elite round
2	Poland (H)	3	2	0	1	10	5	+5	6
3	Austria	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Andorra	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	3	3	0	0	10	3	+7	9	Elite round
2	Denmark	3	2	0	1	13	3	+10	6
3	Romania (H)	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	3
4	Estonia	3	0	0	3	3	16	−13	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Wales	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5	Elite round
2	Croatia (H)	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4[a]
3	Albania	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4[a]
4	Sweden	3	0	2	1	6	8	−2	2

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	11	2	+9	9	Elite round
2	Finland	3	1	1	1	3	6	−3	4
3	Greece	3	1	0	2	6	4	+2	3
4	Kosovo (H)	3	0	1	2	3	11	−8	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9	Elite round
2	Iceland	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
3	Luxembourg	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	3
4	North Macedonia (H)	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway (H)	3	2	1	0	12	1	+11	7	Elite round
2	Republic of Ireland	3	1	2	0	7	3	+4	5
3	Belarus	3	1	1	1	7	8	−1	4
4	Armenia	3	0	0	3	2	16	−14	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	2	2	0	0	15	1	+14	6	Elite round
2	Cyprus (H)	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
3	Gibraltar	2	0	0	2	0	14	−14	0
4	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Banned due to the invasion of Ukraine[6]

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	2	0	1	6	1	+5	6	Elite round
2	Latvia	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Slovakia	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Moldova (H)	3	0	1	2	3	8	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	3	2	1	0	12	3	+9	7	Elite round
2	Turkey	3	2	1	0	11	6	+5	7
3	Bulgaria (H)	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3
4	San Marino	3	0	0	3	1	16	−15	0

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