2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates
Qualifying round: 28 August – 9 October 2018 Elite round: Spring 2019
Teams
50(from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matchesplayed
72
Goals scored
360(5 per match)
Top scorer(s)
Sjoeke Nüsken (10 goals)
The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition is a women's under-19 football competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Scotland in the 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1]
Apart from Scotland, 50 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions are permitted per team in each match.[3]
Format
The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[4]
Qualifying round: Apart from Spain and France, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 48 teams are drawn into 12 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 12 group winners, the 12 runners-up, and the two 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 28 teams are drawn into seven 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 seven group winners qualify for the final tournament.
The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):[4]
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
In the qualifying round and elite round, 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[4]
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 for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.
To determine the two best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):[4]
Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.
Qualifying round
Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 24 November 2017, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5][6][7]
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (a four-year window was used instead of the previous three-year window):[8]
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.[2]
Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
Did not enter
Andorra
Gibraltar
Luxembourg
San Marino
Groups
The qualifying round must be played by 28 October 2018, and on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:[8][7]
27 August – 4 September 2018
1–9 October 2018
All times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
To determine the two best third-placed teams 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.
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
Elite round
Draw
The draw for the elite round will be held on 23 November 2018 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[9][10]
The teams are seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Spain and France, which received byes to the elite round, are 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 cannot be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams can be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots. (Y)Third-placed teams from qualifying round (may be drawn with teams from same qualifying round group). Notes:
1 2 3 Ranked by disciplinary points (Finland: 1 pt; Netherlands: 2 pts; Denmark: 2 pts) and coefficient (ranking for qualifying round draw: Netherlands: 3rd; Denmark: 11th).
Groups
The elite round is scheduled to be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:
1–9 April 2019
10–18 June 2019
Times up to 30 March 2019 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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