2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification

2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Round 1:; 23 September – 14 November 2021; Round 2:; 8 March – 13 April 2022
Teams	49 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	124
Goals scored	546 (4.4 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Valentina Mädl; Hanna Huizenga; (9 goals each)

The 2022 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.^[1]

49 teams, including hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina, entered the qualifying competition.^[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were 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 in 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. The winners of each mini-tournament in league B and the best runner-up will be promoted and the 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

In Round 1 and Round 2, 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 17.01 and 17.02):^[2]

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);
Position in the applicable ranking:
1. for teams in round 1, position in the coefficient rankings;
2. for teams in round 2, position in the round 1 league ranking.

To determine the five 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):^[2]

Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
Position in the applicable ranking:
1. for teams in round 1, position in the coefficient rankings;
2. 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, 13:30 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-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)
2018 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, Armenia and Azerbaijan would not be drawn in the same group.^[3]

The 28 first teams in the coefficient ranking qualified for League A. Teams 29–49 qualified for League B.

Teams entering League A^[4]

Pot 1
Team	Coeff	Rank
Germany TH	33.167	1
Spain	30.056	2
England	23.444	3
Netherlands	22.056	4
Norway	19.278	5
Denmark	15.389	6
Italy	15.056	7

Pot 2
Team	Coeff	Rank
France	14.278	8
Poland	13.722	9
Republic of Ireland	13.722	10
Austria	13.611	11
Finland	13.500	12
Czech Republic	12.389	13
Serbia	12.333	14

Pot 3
Team	Coeff	Rank
Portugal	12.333	15
Belgium	11.667	16
Iceland	11.000	17
Sweden	11.000	18
Hungary	10.500	19
Switzerland	10.000	20
Slovenia	9.667	21

Pot 4
Team	Coeff	Rank
Russia	8.667	22
Scotland	8.167	23
Greece	8.167	24
Bulgaria	6.000	25
Wales	5.833	26
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.833	27
Northern Ireland	5.500	28

Teams entering League B^[4]

Pot 5
Team	Coeff	Rank
Ukraine	5.500	29
Belarus	5.000	30
Turkey	4.833	31
Slovakia	4.333	32
Azerbaijan	3.500	33
Lithuania	3.333	34

Pot 6
Team	Coeff	Rank
Romania	3.167	35
Croatia	2.333	36
Georgia	1.667	37
Israel	1.667	38
Estonia	1.333	39
Montenegro	1.333	40

Pot 7
Team	Coeff	Rank
Faroe Islands	1.000	41
Latvia	1.000	42
Moldova	0.333	43
Kazakhstan	0.333	44
North Macedonia	0.333	45
Albania	0.000	46
Armenia	0.000	47
Kosovo	NC	48
Luxembourg	NC	49

League A

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

Group A1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Republic of Ireland	3	3	0	8	2	+6	9	Transfer to Round 2 (League A)
2	Norway (H)	3	2	1	10	3	+7	6
3	Hungary	3	1	2	3	7	−4	3
4	Bulgaria	3	0	3	0	9	−9	0	Relegated to Round 2 (League B)

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

9 October 2021