2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 9 October – 19 November 2024; Elite round:; 19 – 25 March 2025
Teams	53 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	78
Goals scored	236 (3.03 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Daniel Mikołajewski; (5 goals)
	← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 19 November 2024.

The 2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification is a men's under-19 national football team competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Romania in the 2025 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2006 are eligible to participate.

Russia was excluded from participating in the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, excluding hosts Romania, 53 teams entered this qualification competition, which consists of a qualifying round played in October–November 2024, followed by an elite round played in spring 2025.

Format

The qualifying competition will consist of the following two rounds:

Qualifying Round: Apart from Portugal, which receives 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 will be played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 13 group winners, 13 runners-up, and the best third-placed team will advance to the elite round.
Elite Round: The 28 teams will be 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 will qualify for the final tournament.

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying 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):^[1]

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 2 yellow cards in one match = 3 points)
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw

To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):^[1]

Points
Goal difference
Goals scored
Disciplinary points (total 3 matches)
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 3 May 2024, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:^[3]

2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)

Each group contains 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.

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Romania		—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Portugal	27.167	1

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Italy	26.778	2
France	23.167	3
England	20.056	4
Spain	19.939	5
Norway	17.833	6
Ukraine	15.056	7
Republic of Ireland	14.944	8
Israel	13.889	9
Czech Republic	13.722	10
Serbia	12.333	11
Turkey	11.778	12
Germany	11.667	13
Slovakia	11.167	14

Pot B
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Denmark	11.100	15
Greece	11.000	16
Poland	10.667	17
Belgium	10.233	18
Netherlands	10.000	19
Iceland	9.667	20
Austria	9.667	21
Hungary	9.500	22
Croatia	8.500	23
Scotland	8.500	24
Finland	8.167	25
Sweden	7.333	26
Latvia	7.000	27

Pot C
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Slovenia	6.617	28
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.167	29
Armenia	6.000	30
Switzerland	5.500	31
North Macedonia	5.333	32
Bulgaria	5.167	33
Georgia	4.833	34
Wales	4.667	35
Northern Ireland	4.500	36
Malta	4.333	37
Cyprus	3.833	38
Kosovo	3.500	39
Azerbaijan	3.500	40

Pot D
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Montenegro	3.333	41
Belarus	3.333	42
Luxembourg	2.667	43
Estonia	2.333	44
Moldova	1.667	45
Kazakhstan	1.667	46
Albania	1.333	47
Lithuania	0.667	48
Faroe Islands	0.333	49
Andorra	0.333	50
San Marino	0.000	51
Gibraltar	0.000	52
Liechtenstein	0.000	53

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands (H)	3	3	0	5	0	+5	9	Elite round
2	Slovenia	3	2	1	3	3	0	6	Elite round
3	Kazakhstan	3	1	2	3	5	−2	3
4	Ukraine	3	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

13 November 2024