2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 1–8 October 2019; Elite round:; Cancelled (7–14 April 2020)
Teams	46 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	72
Goals scored	378 (5.25 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nikita Tromp; (8 goals)
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The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that was originally to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Georgia in the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament,^[2] before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.^[1]

Apart from Georgia, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.^[3] Players born on or after 1 January 2001 were eligible to participate.

Format edit

The qualifying competition was planned to consist of two rounds:^[4]

Qualifying round: The 48 teams were drawn into twelve groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The twelve group winners, the twelve runners-up, and the four third-placed teams with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group would have advanced to the elite round.
Elite round (cancelled): The 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group would have been played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners would have qualified for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group was planned as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):^[4]

Group schedule
Matchday	Matches
Matchday 1	1 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 2	1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 3	2 v 1, 4 v 3

Tiebreakers edit

In the qualifying round and planned elite round, 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 applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[4]

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 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;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were 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 ranking 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 were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 15.01):^[4]

Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points (total 3 matches);
UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round edit

Draw edit

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 23 November 2018, 10:00 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:^[5]

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. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Georgia	0.333	—

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Spain	33.000	1
France	27.944	2
Germany	26.500	3
Netherlands	21.722	4
Norway	19.333	5
Denmark	18.167	6
Sweden	17.944	7
Switzerland	16.278	8
Italy	15.222	9
England	15.167	10
Scotland	12.611	11
Finland	12.333	12

Pot B
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Belgium	11.667	13
Czech Republic	11.500	14
Austria	11.167	15
Russia	9.833	16
Portugal	9.667	17
Republic of Ireland	9.500	18
Serbia	9.167	19
Poland	9.000	20
Hungary	8.833	21
Iceland	8.667	22
Northern Ireland	8.000	23
Slovakia	7.833	24

Pot C
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Turkey	7.333	25
Slovenia	7.000	26
Ukraine	6.000	27
Azerbaijan	5.667	28
Israel	5.500	29
Greece	5.333	30
Romania	4.833	31
Belarus	4.667	32
Wales	4.500	33
Croatia	4.000	34
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.667	35
Faroe Islands	3.000	36

Pot D
Team	Coeff.	Rank
Moldova	2.333	37
Montenegro	1.667	38
Albania	1.333	39
Latvia	1.000	40
Bulgaria	1.000	41
Estonia	0.333	42
North Macedonia	0.333	43
Cyprus	0.333	44
Kosovo	0.333	45
Lithuania	0.000	46
Kazakhstan	0.000	47
Armenia	0.000	48

Did not enter
Andorra	Gibraltar	Luxembourg
Liechtenstein	Malta	San Marino

Groups edit

The qualifying round was provisionally scheduled between 27 August and 3 September, or 1 and 8 October 2019.

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

Group 1 edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	23	0	+23	9	Elite round
2	Slovakia	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
3	Romania	3	1	1	1	4	8	−4	4
4	North Macedonia (H)	3	0	0	3	0	19	−19	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

1 October 2019