The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification will be a women's under-19 national football team competition that will determine the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Poland in the 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.
Three national teams decided not to participate in the event and Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, including hosts Poland, 51 teams entered this qualification competition. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from 26 November to 3 December 2024, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2006 are eligible to participate.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:
Round 1:
League A: 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The teams finishing fourth will be relegated to Round 2 League B; the other teams will advance to Round 2 League A.
League B: 23 teams were drawn into six groups. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The group winners and the best runner-up team will be promoted to Round 2 League A.
Round 2:
League A: 28 teams will be drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group will qualify for the Final tournament. If Poland will be among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team will also qualify.
League B: Teams in League B will compete for promotion to League A for the next season competition.
Tiebreakers
In Round 1 and Round 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 applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 19.01 and 19.02):[1]
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;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have 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 have 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);
Position in the applicable ranking:
for teams in Round 1, position in 2023–24 Round 2 league rankings;
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 were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 15.01):[1]
Points;
Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Disciplinary points;
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 Round 1 was held on 7 June 2024, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2]
The 51 entering teams were split into two Leagues (28 in League A, 23 in League B) according to their final ranking in the 2023–24 qualification (Regulations Article 13.01).[3]
To determine this ranking, the following criteria was followed:
higher position in the following classification:
League A Round 2 group winners
League A Round 2 group runners-up
League A Round 2 third-placed teams
Teams promoted from League B
Teams relegated from League A
League B Round 2 runners-up
League B Round 2 third-placed teams
League B Round 2 fourth-placed teams
higher number of points in all mini-tournament matches;
superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
lower disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
higher position in the 2023–24 Round 1 league rankings.
Within each League, the teams were allocated to four drawing pots (seven teams per pot in League A, six teams in Pots 1 to 3 and five teams in Pot 4 in League B).
Teams in the same pot would be drawn into different groups, with League A consisting of seven groups of four teams, and League B consisting of five groups of four and one group of three teams.
As decided by the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn into the same group: Serbia and Kosovo (League A), Armenia and Azerbaijan (League B).[4]
To determine the best runner-up, only the results of the runner-up teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient ranking.
Round 2
Draw
The draw for Round 2 was made on 6 December 2024 at 10:30 CET at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5]
The teams were seeded according to their results in Round 1 (Regulations Article 15.01).[6]
Because Round 1 League B had one group with only 3 teams, results against fourth-placed teams were disregarded for the ranking of teams that finished third or better in their group in Round 1 League B.
Teams entering League A
The 21 teams of Round 1 League A (top 3 teams in each group) and the 7 teams of Round 1 League B (six group winners and the best runner-up) were drawn into seven groups of four teams. The Round 1 League A group winners were automatically seeded into Pot 1, the second- and third-placed into Pots 2 and 3, respectively. The Round 1 League B teams were automatically seeded into Pot 4.
^ abRanked on disciplinary points: Wales: –3, Belarus: –5.
Teams entering League B
The seven fourth-placed teams in Round 1 League A were automatically seeded into Pot 1. The runners-up from Round 1 League B were automatically seeded into Pot 2, and the third- and fourth-placed teams from Round 1 League B were automatically seeded into Pots 3 and 4, respectively.
