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2021 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates
Qualifying round: March 2021 Elite round: Abolished Play-offs: May 2021
The 2021 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-19 football competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Romania in the 2021 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.
Apart from Romania, 53 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format would consist of two rounds: Qualifying round, which would take place in autumn 2020, and Elite round, which would take place in spring 2021. 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, and the elite round would be abolished and replaced by play-offs, with the 13 qualifying round group winners joining the top seed by coefficient ranking, Portugal (which originally would receive a bye to the elite round), in the play-offs in May 2021 to determine the teams qualifying for the final tournament.
The qualifying competition would originally consist of the following two rounds:
Qualifying round: Apart from Portugal, which receive a bye to the elite round as the teams 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.
After the format change, the qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:
Qualifying round: The draw remains the same as before. The 13 group winners and Portugal, which originally received a bye to the elite round, advance to the play-offs.
Play-offs: The 14 teams are drawn into seven ties. The seven winners qualify for the final tournament.
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.
Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
Did not enter
Liechtenstein
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 2021 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group 1[]
Originally scheduled to be played between 11–17 November 2020.
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The draw for the elite round would originally be held on 9 December 2020 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, and the matches were originally scheduled to be played in spring 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the elite round would be abolished and replaced by play-offs.
Play-offs[]
The 14 teams are drawn into seven ties. The seven winners qualify for the final tournament. The play-offs are scheduled to be played in May 2021.
Liechtenstein
Kosovo
Slovakia
Montenegro
Israel
Gibraltar
Sweden
Luxembourg
Scotland
Albania
Denmark
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Estonia
Poland
Moldova
Greece
Andorra
Hungary
Malta
Slovenia
San Marino
Serbia
Lithuania
Bulgaria
Faroe Islands
Belgium
Portugal
Romania