2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
The 2018 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 Switzerland in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.
Apart from Switzerland, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to participate.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:- Qualifying round: The 48 teams are drawn into 12 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 12 group winners, the 12 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 mini-tournament is as follows :
| Matchday | Matches |
| Matchday [|1] | 1 v 4, 3 v 2 |
| Rest days | — |
| Matchday 2 | 1 v 3, 2 v 4 |
| Rest days | — |
| Matchday 3 | 2 v 1, 4 v 3 |
Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :- 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 ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
- 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 11 November 2016, 10:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
- 2014 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
- 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
- 2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
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