The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 national football team competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Cyprus in the 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2007 were eligible to participate.
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2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification|
Dates | Qualifying round: 27 September – 21 November 2023 Elite round: 6 – 26 March 2024 |
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Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
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Matches played | 123 |
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Goals scored | 401 (3.26 per match) |
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Top scorer(s) | Adrian Arnucio (5 goals) |
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Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Cyprus, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in September–November 2023, followed by an elite round played in March 2024.
The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds:[2]
- Qualifying round: Apart from Netherlands, which received 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 a 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 five 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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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 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):[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 8 December 2022 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: Spain and Gibraltar, Belarus and Ukraine, Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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- Notes
- Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
Groups
The qualifying round was played in September, October, and November 2023.
Times up to 29 October 2023 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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Ranked on head-to-head points: Georgia: 3, Denmark: 0
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Gibraltar initially withdrew from the group on 7 October 2023, citing safety concerns in light of the October 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict.[6] All matches were subsequently postponed by UEFA later that day.[7] New dates and host nation (Wales) were announced later. Israel withdrew from qualification shortly before the re-arranged dates.
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Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the five 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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UEFARules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
Notes:
Ranked on disciplinary points: Malta: –3, Gibraltar: –4
Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 7 December 2023 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[5] The Netherlands, which received a bye 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. [8]
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Group 1
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Head to head points: Belgium 3, Finland 0.
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Head to head points: Poland 3, Czech Republic 0.
Head to head points: Bosnia and Herzegovina 3, Belarus 0.
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Ranking of second-placed teams
The seven best second-placed teams from the elite round qualified for the final tournament.[10]
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UEFARules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
In the qualifying round, there were 245 goals scored in 75 matches, for an average of 3.27 goals per match.
In the elite round, there were 156 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 3.25 goals per match.
In total, there were 401 goals scored in 123 matches, for an average of 3.26 goals per match.
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1 own goal
- Rinaldo Nela (against Czech Republic)
- Victor Gustafsen (against Georgia)
- Jósef Ólavsson (against England)
- Ilari Kangasniemi (against Ukraine)
- Helvijs Joksts (against Sweden)
- Krists Pļavinš (against Poland)
- Alfie Halliwell (against Belarus)
- Igor Bubanja (against Azerbaijan)
Source: UEFA
Official Statement Gibraltar Football Association. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2023.