The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Bulgaria in the 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.

Apart from Bulgaria, 46 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2002 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions are permitted per team in each match. Moreover, each match has a regular duration of 90 minutes, instead of 80 minutes in previous seasons.

Format The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round: Apart from Germany and Spain, which receive byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 44 teams are drawn into 11 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 11 group winners, the 11 runners-up, and the four 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):

+Group scheduleMatchdayMatchesMatchday 11 v 4, 3 v 2Matchday 21 v 3, 2 v 4Matchday 32 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): 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 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 are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01): 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, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

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): 2014 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round) 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round) 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round) 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 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 would not be drawn in the same group.

+Final tournament hosts Team 4.000 —+Bye to elite round Team 31.667 1 30.944 2 +Teams entering qualifying round+Pot A Team 22.667 3 21.500 4 18.944 5 16.833 6 15.722 7 15.278 8 14.889 9 14.111 10 13.222 11 12.444 12 12.167 13+Pot B Team 12.000 14 11.667 15 11.167 16 10.500 17 10.167 18 9.667 19 9.667 20 9.667 21 8.500 22 8.333 23 7.000 24+Pot C Team 6.333 25 5.833 26 5.500 27 5.167 28 4.833 29 4.667 30 3.833 31 3.667 32 3.333 33 3.000 34 1.333 35+Pot D Team 1.333 36 1.000 37 1.000 38 1.000 39 0.333 40 0.333 41 0.333 42 0.333 43 0.000 44 0.000 45 — 46 Notes Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

+Did not enter

Groups The qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 28 October 2018.

Times up to 27 October 2018 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Group 11

Ranking of third-placed teams To determine the four 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.

Elite round Draw The draw for the elite round was held on 23 November 2018, 11:40 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Germany 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.

Groups The elite round was played in early April 2019.

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Qualified teams The following eight teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in Women's Under-17 Euro1 0 (debut) 6 (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) 3 (2010, 2017, 2018) 9 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) 10 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) 1 (2014) 2 (2008, 2012) 1 (2014) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers In the qualifying round In the elite round In total,

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