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:; 3–9 April 2019
Teams	50 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	114
Goals scored	508 (4.46 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sjoeke Nüsken (12 goals)

The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that determined 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 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions are permitted per team in each match.[3]

Format

The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:[4]

Qualifying round: Apart from Spain and France, which received byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 48 teams were drawn into 12 groups of four teams. Each group played a single round-robin, with 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 advanced to the elite round.
Elite round: 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group played a single round-robin, with one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners qualified for the final tournament.

Tiebreakers

For 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 to be applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[4]

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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 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 were discarded. The following criteria were 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]

2014 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 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. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.[2]

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff	Rank
Scotland	16.111	—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff	Rank
Spain	31.833	1
France	26.000	2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff	Rank
Netherlands	24.833	3
Germany	21.833	4
Sweden	20.111	5
Norway	19.000	6
England	16.167	7
Switzerland	15.444	8
Belgium	14.167	9
Republic of Ireland	13.889	10
Denmark	13.833	11
Finland	12.667	12
Italy	12.444	13
Russia	11.000	14

Pot B
Team	Coeff	Rank
Austria	11.000	15
Czech Republic	10.333	16
Portugal	10.167	17
Poland	8.667	18
Northern Ireland	8.000	19
Serbia	8.167	20
Iceland	7.833	21
Turkey	7.167	22
Ukraine	7.000	23
Hungary	6.833	24
Slovenia	6.667	25
Slovakia	6.667	26

Pot C
Team	Coeff	Rank
Romania	6.333	27
Belarus	5.667	28
Croatia	5.333	29
Azerbaijan	5.000	30
Greece	5.000	31
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.333	32
Israel	4.000	33
Wales	2.667	34
Moldova	2.667	35
Faroe Islands	2.333	36
Montenegro	1.333	37
Estonia	1.333	38

Pot D
Team	Coeff	Rank
Macedonia	1.333	39
Bulgaria	1.000	40
Albania	1.000	41
Cyprus	0.667	42
Malta	0.667	43
Georgia	0.000	44
Lithuania	0.000	45
Kazakhstan	0.000	46
Latvia	0.000	47
Armenia	0.000	48
Liechtenstein	—	49
Kosovo	—	50

Notes

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

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	0	21	0	+21	9	Elite round
2	Slovakia	3	2	0	1	12	5	+7	6	Elite round
3	Malta	3	0	1	2	1	15	−14	1
4	Croatia (H)	3	0	1	2	0	14	−14	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.

1 October 2018