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.
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2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification|
Dates | Qualifying round: 5 October – 22 November 2022 Elite round: 7 – 28 March 2023 |
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Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
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Matches played | 123 |
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Goals scored | 448 (3.64 per match) |
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Top scorer(s) | Matviy Ponomarenko (8 goals) |
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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):
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Group schedule
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1 v 4, 3 v 2 |
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1 v 3, 2 v 4 |
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2 v 1, 4 v 3 |
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Tiebreakers
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]
- 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 were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03):[2]
- 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).[2]
Draw
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]
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.
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- Notes
- Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
Groups
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).
Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Group 4
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Group 5
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Group 6
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Group 7
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Ranked on head-to-head: Croatia 1–0 Albania.
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Group 8
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Group 9
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Group 10
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Group 11
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Group 12
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Group 13
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Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advanced to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group were taken into account.
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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
Notes:
Ranked by disciplinary points (Austria: 4 pts; Bulgaria: 6 pts).
Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 8 December 2022 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[13]
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[5] The Netherlands and Spain, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained 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 teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.
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Groups
Group 1
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Ranked on head-to-head: Belarus 1–2 Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Ranked on head-to-head: Norway 0–1 Slovenia.
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Ranking of second-placed teams
The seven best second-placed teams from the elite round qualified for the final tournament.[20]
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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.
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Hungary | Hosts | 19 April 2021[1] | 5 (2002, 2003, 2006, 2017, 2019) |
Serbia | Elite round Group 1 winners | 28 March 2023 | 8 (20022, 20063, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022) |
Wales | Elite round Group 2 winners | 28 March 2023 | 0 (debut) |
Netherlands | Elite round Group 3 winners | 28 March 2023 | 14 (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) |
Spain | Elite round Group 4 winners | 28 March 2023 | 14 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) |
Portugal | Elite round Group 5 winners | 28 March 2023 | 9 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022) |
Republic of Ireland | Elite round Group 6 winners | 13 March 2023 | 5 (2008, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019) |
Croatia | Elite round Group 7 winners | 28 March 2023 | 4 (2005, 2013, 2015, 2017) |
France | Elite round Group 8 winners | 28 March 2023 | 13 (2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022) |
Italy | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 25 March 2023 | 10 (2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) |
Germany | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 28 March 2023 | 13 (2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) |
Poland | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 28 March 2023 | 3 (2002, 2012, 2022) |
England | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 28 March 2023 | 14 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) |
Switzerland | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 28 March 2023 | 8 (2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2018) |
Slovenia | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 28 March 2023 | 3 (2012, 2015, 2018) |
Scotland | Elite round among best 7 runners-up | 28 March 2023 | 6 (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022) |
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
In the qualifying round, there were 297 goals scored in 75 matches, for an average of 3.96 goals per match.
In the elite round, there were 151 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 3.15 goals per match.
In total, there were 448 goals scored in 123 matches, for an average of 3.64 goals per match.
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- Gor Vanoyan (against Norway)
- Emil Leveälahti (against Italy)
- Gabriel Ramaj (against Republic of Ireland)
- Mitchel Frame (against Wales)
- Dyaln Lawlor (against Sweden)
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"Latvia vs. Slovakia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 19 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
"Germany vs. Moldova" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 19 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
"Slovakia vs. Moldova" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
"Germany vs. Latvia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
"Moldova vs. Latvia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
"Slovakia vs. Germany" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
"France vs. Albania" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 22 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
"France vs. Latvia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 25 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
"Albania vs. Latvia" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2023.