2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Round 1:; 15 September – 25 October 2021; Round 2:; Late 2021
Teams	52 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	78
Goals scored	268 (3.44 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Maja Jelčić (7 goals)
	← 2021 → All statistics correct as of 19 October 2021.

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 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 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[]

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
	16.444	6
Denmark	16.333	7

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

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

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

Teams entering League B^[4]

Pot 5
Team	Coeff	Rank
	6.000	29
	4.333	30
	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
	2.667	36
Albania	2.333	37
	2.000	38
	2.000	39
Kosovo	1.667	40

Pot 7
Team	Coeff	Rank
	1.333	41
	1.000	42
	1.000	43
Moldova	1.000	44
	0.333	45
	0.333	46

Pot 8
Team	Coeff	Rank
	0.333	47
	0.000	48
	0.000	49
	0.000	50
	0.000	51
	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		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