The 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying round was the first round of the qualification for the
2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
The 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 13th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship since its reclassification from an under-18 event in 2002, and the 63rd since the tournament was created in 1948. Hungary was chosen to ho ...
final tournament.
A total of 52 participating teams were divided into 13 groups of 4 teams, with one of the teams hosting all six group matches in a
single round-robin format. The 13 group winners, 13 group runners-up and the best third-placed team secured qualification for the
elite round
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Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
qualified as hosts, while
Spain
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received a bye to the elite round as the side with the highest competition coefficient. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 5 December 2012 in
Nyon
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.
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UEFA.com Matches were played from 6 September to 19 November 2013.
Seeding
A total of 52 participating teams were divided in two draw pots, based on the UEFA Under-19 coefficient ranking. Before the draw, UEFA confirmed that, for political reasons,
Armenia
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and
Azerbaijan
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would not host the mini-tournament if they were drawn in the same group, due to the dispute concerning the territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh
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; the same rule applied for
Georgia
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and
Russia
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, due to the dispute regarding the territory of
South Ossetia
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. The UEFA Executive Committee admitted Gibraltar as a provisional member of UEFA on 1 October 2012. A decision on the admission of the Gibraltar Football Association as a full member of UEFA was taken by the XXXVII Ordinary
UEFA Congress
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in London in May 2013.
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Tiebreakers
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.
# Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question
# Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question
# Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question
# If, after applying criteria 1) to 3) to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 3) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5) and 6) will apply
# Results of all group matches:
## Superior
goal difference
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## Higher number of goals scored
# Drawing of lots
Additionally, if two teams which have the same number of points and the same number of goals scored and conceded play their last group match against each other and are still equal at the end of that match, their final rankings are determined by the
penalty shoot-out
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and not by the criteria listed above. This procedure is applicable only if a ranking of the teams is required to determine the group winner or the runners-up and the third-placed team.
Groups
The hosts of the thirteen mini-tournament groups are indicated below in ''italics''.
All times are
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CET
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UTC+01:00) starting from 27 October 2013.
Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Group 4
France, the reigning youth world champions having won the
2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup
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, failed to advance from this stage, thus also missed out on qualification to the 2015 World Cup.
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Group 5
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Group 6
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Group 7
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Group 8
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Group 9
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Group 10
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Group 11
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Group 12
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Group 13
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Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the best third-ranked team from the qualifying round, only the results of the third-placed team against the winners and runners-up in each group are taken into account.
References
External links
UEFA.com
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Qualifying round
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