2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Round 1:; 15 September – 26 October 2021; Round 2:; 5 April – 16 May 2022
Teams	52 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	122
Goals scored	428 (3.51 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Maja Jelčić (7 goals)

The 2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition is a women's under-19 football competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts the Czech Republic in the 2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1]

A record 52 teams, including hosts the Czech Republic, entered the qualifying competition.[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to participate.

Format

From this season, UEFA implemented a new format for the women's U17 and U19 Euros, based on a league-style qualifying format.

The teams are divided into two leagues: League A and League B. In this first season of the new system, the teams were divided using coefficient rankings.

Each league will play two rounds:

Round 1: In each league, groups of 4 teams will play mini-tournaments in a single round-robin format. The six winners of each mini-tournament in league B and the best runner-up will be promoted and the seven last-placed teams in league A mini-tournaments will be relegated.

Round 2: The seven winners of League A will qualify for the final tournament. The six winners of mini-tournaments in league B and the best runner-up will be promoted and the last-placed teams in league A will be relegated for Round 1 of the next edition of the tournament.

Tiebreakers

For rounds 1 and 2, 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):[2]

higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
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;
Higher position in the applicable ranking:

for teams in round 1, position in the coefficient rankings;
for teams in round 2, position in the round 1 league ranking.

Round 1

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 11 March 2021, 15:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[3]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following :[1]

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)
2018 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 and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.[3]

The 28 first teams in the coefficient ranking qualified for League A. Teams 29–52 qualified for League B.

Teams entering League A[4]

Pot 1
Team	Coeff	Rank
Spain	32.000	1
France	29.278	2
Germany	27.556	3
Netherlands	24.889	4
Norway	19.778	5
Switzerland	16.444	6
Denmark	16.333	7

Pot 2
Team	Coeff	Rank
England	16.167	8
Italy	15.222	9
Finland	12.833	10
Scotland	12.778	11
Belgium	12.722	12
Czech Republic	12.000	13
Sweden	12.000	14

Pot 3
Team	Coeff	Rank
Republic of Ireland	11.667	15
Austria	11.667	16
Poland	10.167	17
Hungary	10.000	18
Iceland	9.333	19
Portugal	9.167	20
Russia	9.000	21

Pot 4
Team	Coeff	Rank
Serbia	9.000	22
Slovakia	8.833	23
Slovenia	8.667	24
Northern Ireland	7.667	25
Turkey	7.500	26
Ukraine	6.500	27
Azerbaijan	6.333	28

Teams entering League B[4]

Pot 5
Team	Coeff	Rank
Greece	6.000	29
Belarus	4.333	30
Wales	4.167	31
Israel	3.500	32
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.333	33
Croatia	3.333	34

Pot 6
Team	Coeff	Rank
Romania	3.000	35
Bulgaria	2.667	36
Albania	2.333	37
Montenegro	2.000	38
Faroe Islands	2.000	39
Kosovo	1.667	40

Pot 7
Team	Coeff	Rank
Latvia	1.333	41
Lithuania	1.000	42
North Macedonia	1.000	43
Moldova	1.000	44
Georgia	0.333	45
Estonia	0.333	46

Pot 8
Team	Coeff	Rank
Malta	0.333	47
Cyprus	0.000	48
Kazakhstan	0.000	49
Armenia	0.000	50
Liechtenstein	0.000	51
Andorra	NC	52

League A

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

Group A1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Austria	3	3	0	0	3	0	+3	9	Transfer to Round 2 (League A)
2	Netherlands (H)	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6
3	Ukraine	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
4	Scotland	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1	Relegated to Round 2 (League B)

First match(es) will be played on 20 October 2021. Source: UEFA
(H) Host

20 October 2021