2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Qualification

The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Slovakia in the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to participate.

Originally, the qualifying competition would use a new format with teams split into three different leagues with promotion and relegation, with the draw of the first round under the new format already held in December 2019. However, on 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the introduction of the new format had been postponed to the next edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and qualification for this edition would use the previous format involving two rounds only.

Apart from Slovakia, 53 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of a qualifying round that took place in autumn 2021, and an elite round that took place in spring 2022.

Format

The qualifying competition will consist of the following two rounds:
*Qualifying round: Apart from Portugal, which receives a bye to the elite round as the team with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams are drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 13 group winners, the 13 runners-up, and the third-placed team with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group advance to the elite round.
*Elite round: The 28 teams are drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners qualify for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):

Tiebreakers

In the qualifying round and elite round, 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 14.01 and 14.02):
#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);
#UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
#Drawing of lots.

To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):
#Points;
#Goal difference;
#Goals scored;
#Disciplinary points (total 3 matches);
#UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
#Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 3 December 2019, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
*2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
*2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
*2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
*2019 UEFA European 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: Spain and Gibraltar, Ukraine and Russia, Serbia and Kosovo, Russia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.

;Notes
*Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.

Groups

The qualifying round was originally scheduled to be played by 17 November 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round would be delayed to March 2021.

Times up to 27 March 2022 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

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Group 4

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Group 5

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Group 6

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Group 7

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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-placed team from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

Elite round

Draw

The draw for the elite round was held on 8 December 2021, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their positions and then results (i.e. group winners were seeded higher than second-placed teams, the best third-placed team was seeded at the bottom) in the qualifying round. Portugal, which received a bye to the elite round, was automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.

Groups

The elite round group stage is to be completed by played on 23, 26 and 29 March 2022, the exact dates and hosts for each group are to be confirmed.

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

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Group 4

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Group 5

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Group 6

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Group 7

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualify for the final tournament.

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¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

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² As Serbia and Montenegro

Goalscorers

In the qualifying round

In the elite round

In total, {{Goalscorers, goals=373, matches=117, ongoing=yes, lc=yes, updated=7 June 2022

, 5 goals=
*{{flagicon, ISL Orri Steinn Óskarsson
*{{flagicon, ITA Wilfried Gnonto

, 4 goals=
*{{flagicon, BEL Luca Oyen
*{{flagicon, CRO Matija Frigan
*{{flagicon, ENG Dane Scarlett
*{{flagicon, FRA Matthis Abline
*{{flagicon, ESP Nico Serrano
*{{flagicon, IRL Johnny Kenny
*{{flagicon, NOR Bryan Fiabema
*{{flagicon, POL Aleksander Buksa
*{{flagicon, SCO Alex Lowry
*{{flagicon, UKR Yehor Yarmolyuk

, 3 goals=
*{{flagicon, BEL Cisse Sandra
*{{flagicon, BIH Filip Čuić
*{{flagicon, BIH Aleksandar Kahvić
*{{flagicon, CRO Karlo Špeljak
*{{flagicon, ENG Carney Chukwuemeka
*{{flagicon, HUN Dániel Németh
*{{flagicon, HUN Dominik Sztojka
*{{flagicon, ISR Tai Abed
*{{flagicon, ISR Dor Turgeman
*{{flagicon, ITA Fabio Miretti
*{{flagicon, NED Fedde De Jong
*{{flagicon, NED Emanuel Emegha
*{{flagicon, NED Xavi Simons
*{{flagicon, POR Youssef Chermiti
*{{flagicon, ROM Andreas Chirițoiu
*{{flagicon, RUS Yaroslav Gladyshev
*{{flagicon, SRB Ognjen Ajdar
*{{flagicon, SWI Filipe de Carvalho

, 2 goals=
*{{flagicon, AUT Muharem Huskovic
*{{flagicon, AUT Adis Jasic
*{{flagicon, BLR Dmitriy Latykhov
*{{flagicon, BEL Johan Bakayoko
*{{flagicon, BEL Anthony Descotte
*{{flagicon, BEL Mario Stroeykens
*{{flagicon, BIH Admir Bristrić
*{{flagicon, BIH Matej Šakota
*{{flagicon, CRO Franjo Ivanović
*{{flagicon, CRO Luka Stojković
*{{flagicon, CZE Matěj Hadaš
*{{flagicon, CZE Filip Vecheta
*{{flagicon, CZE Patrik Vydra
*{{flagicon, DEN Jakob Breum
*{{flagicon, DEN Tochi Chukwuani
*{{flagicon, FIN Casper Terho
*{{flagicon, FRA Mohamed-Ali Cho
*{{flagicon, FRA Loum Tchaouna
*{{flagicon, FRA Alan Virginius
*{{flagicon, FRA Elye Wahi
*{{flagicon, GER Ben Bobzien
*{{flagicon, GER Anton Kade
*{{flagicon, IRL Sinclair Armstrong
*{{flagicon, ITA Giovanni Fabbian
*{{flagicon, ROM Ștefan Bodișteanu
*{{flagicon, ROM Rareș Ilie
*{{flagicon, ROM Alexandru Pantea
*{{flagicon, RUS Eduard Bagrintsev
*{{flagicon, RUS Sergei Pinyayev
*{{flagicon, ESP Pablo Torre
*{{flagicon, SWE Ahmed Qasem
*{{flagicon, SWI Bradley Fink
*{{flagicon, TUR Abdullah Şahindere
*{{flagicon, TUR Bartuğ Elmaz
*{{flagicon, TUR Metehan Altunbaş
*{{flagicon, TUR Tuğbey Akgün
*{{flagicon, UKR Denys Shostak
*{{flagicon, WAL Caleb Hughes

, 1 goal=
*{{flagicon, ALB Stiven Bibo
*{{flagicon, ALB Asan Mata
*{{flagicon, ALB Henrik Nerguti
*{{flagicon, ALB Paulo Pjeshka
*{{flagicon, ALB Cristian Shpendi
*{{flagicon, ARM Gor Arakelyan
*{{flagicon, ARM Spartak Hayrapetyan
*{{flagicon, ARM Hamlet Minasyan
*{{flagicon, ARM Artur Serobyan
*{{flagicon, AUT Lorenzo Coco
*{{flagicon, AUT Pascal Fallmann
*{{flagicon, AUT Benjamin Kanuric
*{{flagicon, AUT Nikolas Veratschnig
*{{flagicon, AUT Nico Wiesinger
*{{flagicon, AUT Philipp Wydra
*{{flagicon, AZE Mahmud Agayev
*{{flagicon, AZE Mehraj Bakhshali
*{{flagicon, AZE Mirmovsum Janiyev
*{{flagicon, BLR Kirill Zinovich
*{{flagicon, BEL Lynnt Audoor
*{{flagicon, BEL Tuur Rommens
*{{flagicon, BIH Eldar Mehmedović
*{{flagicon, CRO Ivan Cvijanović
*{{flagicon, CRO Mateo Lisica
*{{flagicon, CYP Constantinos Christou
*{{flagicon, CYP Constantinos Marneros
*{{flagicon, CZE Dalibor Večerka
*{{flagicon, DEN Mika Bierith
*{{flagicon, DEN Daniel Bisgaard Haarbo
*{{flagicon, DEN Marinus Larsen
*{{flagicon, DEN Christian Rasmussen
*{{flagicon, ENG Levi Colwill
*{{flagicon, ENG Alfie Devine
*{{flagicon, ENG Samuel Edozie
*{{flagicon, ENG Samuel Iling-Junior
*{{flagicon, ENG Jarell Quansah
*{{flagicon, FIN Luka Hyryläinen
*{{flagicon, FIN Topi Keskinen
*{{flagicon, FIN Jesse Nikki
*{{flagicon, FIN Henri Salomaa
*{{flagicon, FRA Souleymane Toure
*{{flagicon, FRO Áki Samuelsen
*{{flagicon, GER Emrehan Gedikli
*{{flagicon, GER Göktan Gürpüz
*{{flagicon, GER Mesut Kesik
*{{flagicon, GER Igor Matanović
*{{flagicon, GER Torben Rhein
*{{flagicon, GER Armindo Sieb
*{{flagicon, GEO Giorgi Abuashvili
*{{flagicon, GEO Tornike Dundua
*{{flagicon, GEO Giza Mamageishvili
*{{flagicon, GEO Otar Mamageishvili
*{{flagicon, GRE Georgios Koutsias
*{{flagicon, HUN Rajmund Horváth
*{{flagicon, HUN Ákos Szendrei
*{{flagicon, IRL James Abankwah
*{{flagicon, IRL Sean Roughan
*{{flagicon, ISL Hakon Arnar Haraldsson
*{{flagicon, ISL Hilmir Rafn Mikaelsson
*{{flagicon, ISR Shon Edri
*{{flagicon, ISR Oscar Gloukh
*{{flagicon, ISR Ahmad Ibrahim
*{{flagicon, ISR Noam Muche
*{{flagicon, ISR Omer Senior
*{{flagicon, ITA Cesare Casadei
*{{flagicon, ITA Tommaso Mancini
*{{flagicon, ITA Henoc Ngbesso
*{{flagicon, KAZ Galymshan Kenzhebek
*{{flagicon, KAZ Murojon Khalmatov
*{{flagicon, KAZ Egor Tkachenko
*{{flagicon, LVA Arturș Krancmanis
*{{flagicon, LVA Valerijș Lizunovs
*{{flagicon, LVA Oļġerts Raščevskis
*{{flagicon, LIT Gvidas Gineitis
*{{flagicon, LIT Armandas Kučys
*{{flagicon, LUX Leon Elshan
*{{flagicon, LUX David Jonathans
*{{flagicon, MDA Danila Forov
*{{flagicon, MDA Vladimir Fratea
*{{flagicon, MKD Behar Feta
*{{flagicon, MKD Martin Talakov
*{{flagicon, MLT Brooklyn Borg
*{{flagicon, MLT Nathan Cross
*{{flagicon, MNE Jovan Dašić
*{{flagicon, MNE Matija Krivokapić
*{{flagicon, NED Mylian Jimenez
*{{flagicon, NED Myron Van Brederode
*{{flagicon, NED Naci Ünüvar
*{{flagicon, NIR Oisin Conaty
*{{flagicon, NIR Ciaran McGuckin
*{{flagicon, NOR Kristian Arnstad
*{{flagicon, NOR Oscar Bobb
*{{flagicon, NOR Tobias Fjeld Gulliksen
*{{flagicon, NOR Odin Holm
*{{flagicon, NOR Seedy Jatta
*{{flagicon, NOR Christos Zafeiris
*{{flagicon, POL Adrian Bukowski
*{{flagicon, POL Daniel Hoyo-Kowalski
*{{flagicon, POL Piotr Starzynski
*{{flagicon, POR Matchoi Djaló
*{{flagicon, POR Nuno Félix
*{{flagicon, POR Joelson
*{{flagicon, POR Diego Moreira
*{{flagicon, POR António Silva
*{{flagicon, ROM Rareș Burnete
*{{flagicon, ROM Gabriel Dănuleasa
*{{flagicon, ROM Albert Hofman
*{{flagicon, ROM Eduard Rădăslăvescu
*{{flagicon, ROM Răzvan Tănasă
*{{flagicon, RUS Ivan Savitskiy
*{{flagicon, RUS Artem Sokolov
*{{flagicon, SCO Robert Apter
*{{flagicon, SCO Adam Brooks
*{{flagicon, SCO Luke Butterfield
*{{flagicon, SCO Liam Smith
*{{flagicon, SMR Mattia Cola
*{{flagicon, SRB Marko Lazetić
*{{flagicon, SRB Nikola Mituljikić
*{{flagicon, ESP Ilias Akhomach
*{{flagicon, ESP Ricard Artero
*{{flagicon, ESP Alejandro Jiménez
*{{flagicon, ESP Arnau Martinez
*{{flagicon, ESP Alberto Moleiro
*{{flagicon, ESP Miguel Rodriguez
*{{flagicon, SVN Žan Bunić
*{{flagicon, SVN Gašper Černe
*{{flagicon, SVN Nemanja Gavrić
*{{flagicon, SWE Yasin Abbas Ayari
*{{flagicon, SWE Markus Björkqvist
*{{flagicon, SWE Oscar Wilhelmsson
*{{flagicon, SWI Till Muhlethaler
*{{flagicon, SWI Mauricio Willimann
*{{flagicon, TUR Ahmetcan Kaplan
*{{flagicon, TUR Polat Abay
*{{flagicon, TUR Polat Yaldır
*{{flagicon, TUR Süleyman Cebeci
*{{flagicon, UKR Mykhaylo Khromey
*{{flagicon, UKR Ivan Losenko
*{{flagicon, UKR Navin Malysh
*{{flagicon, UKR Marko Sapuha
*{{flagicon, UKR Danylo Udod
*{{flagicon, WAL Luke Harris

, 1 own goal=
*{{flagicon, AND Alessio Montenegro Burgos (against Sweden)
*{{flagicon, ARM Narek Manukyan (against England)
*{{flagicon, AZE Suleyman Damadayev (against Belgium)
*{{flagicon, CYP Fotis Kotsonis (against the Netherlands)
*{{flagicon, IRL Sam Curtis (against Montenegro)
*{{flagicon, ROM Botond Gergely (against Turkey)
*{{flagicon, ESP Alberto Moleiro (against Belgium)
*{{flagicon, SVN Domen Zajšek (against Italy)

, source= UEFA.com

References

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External links

*{{Official website, https://www.uefa.com/under19/
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