2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying round:; 10 October – 20 November 2018; Elite round:; 20–26 March 2019
Teams	54 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	120
Goals scored	370 (3.08 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Loïs Openda; Valentin Mihăilă; Aljoša Matko; (6 goals each)
	← 2018 2020; 2021; 2022 →

The 2019 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 Armenia in the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.^[1]

Apart from Armenia, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions were permitted per team in each match.^[3]

Format[edit]

The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:^[4]

Qualifying round: Apart from Portugal and Germany, which received byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into 13 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 thirteen group winners and the thirteen runners-up advanced to the elite round.
Elite round: The 28 teams were drawn into seven 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 seven group winners qualified for the final tournament.

The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 19.04):^[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 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 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 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 for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

Qualifying round[edit]

Draw[edit]

The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 2017, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[5]^[6]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (a four-year window was used instead of the previous three-year window):^[7]

2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
2015 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round)
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)

Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.^[2]

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff	Rank
Armenia	2.333	—

Bye to elite round
Team	Coeff	Rank
Portugal	24.722	1
Germany	22.778	2

Teams entering qualifying round

Pot A
Team	Coeff	Rank
England	21.889	3
Austria	19.000	4
France	18.556	5
Netherlands	17.667	6
Spain	16.500	7
Ukraine	14.833	8
Czech Republic	14.833	9
Serbia	14.667	10
Russia	14.611	11
Italy	14.222	12
Greece	12.500	13
Sweden	12.111	14
Georgia	11.833	15

Pot B
Team	Coeff	Rank
Croatia	11.778	16
Israel	11.333	17
Belgium	11.167	18
Turkey	11.000	19
Bulgaria	10.556	20
Slovakia	9.833	21
Republic of Ireland	9.000	22
Hungary	9.000	23
Scotland	8.833	24
Switzerland	8.500	25
Denmark	8.500	26
Poland	8.167	27
Montenegro	8.000	28

Pot C
Team	Coeff	Rank
Norway	7.667	29
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.833	30
Wales	6.333	31
Slovenia	6.167	32
Romania	5.333	33
Cyprus	5.167	34
Lithuania	4.667	35
Finland	4.667	36
Northern Ireland	4.000	37
Iceland	4.000	38
Azerbaijan	4.000	39
Belarus	3.333	40
Macedonia	3.333	41

Pot D
Team	Coeff	Rank
Latvia	3.000	42
Albania	2.667	43
Luxembourg	2.667	44
Estonia	2.667	45
Malta	2.333	46
Andorra	1.333	47
Faroe Islands	1.333	48
Moldova	1.000	49
Liechtenstein	0.333	50
Gibraltar	0.333	51
Kazakhstan	0.333	52
San Marino	0.000	53
Kosovo	—	54

Notes

Teams marked in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Groups[edit]

The qualifying round was required to be completed by 20 November 2018.^[6]

Times up to 27 October 2018 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), 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	Israel	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7	Elite round
2	Azerbaijan	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6	Elite round
3	Georgia (H)	3	1	1	1	9	3	+6	4
4	Liechtenstein	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

14 November 2018

11:00 (14:00 GET)

Azerbaijan	1–4	Israel
Gasimov 82'	Report	Kanaan 9' Masarwa 28' Arad 56', 64'

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium-2, Tbilisi

Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)

14 November 2018

14:00 (17:00 GET)

Georgia	7–0	Liechtenstein
Davitashvili 18' Guliashvili 23', 49', 51' Kvaratskhelia 52' Babunadze 63' Ivaniadze 80'	Report

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Switzerland)

17 November 2018

11:00 (14:00 GET)

Israel	2–1	Liechtenstein
Abada 10' Karzev 83'	Report	Unterrainer 55'

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium-2, Tbilisi

Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Switzerland)

17 November 2018

14:00 (17:00 GET)

Georgia	1–2	Azerbaijan
Kharabadze 45+1'	Report	Bayramov 66' Mardanov 70'

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

20 November 2018

14:00 (17:00 GET)

Israel	1–1	Georgia
Karzev 42' (pen.)	Report	Davitashvili 17'

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

20 November 2018

14:00 (17:00 GET)

Liechtenstein	0–3	Azerbaijan
	Report	Mahmudov 14' Guliyev 64', 69'

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium-2, Tbilisi

Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)

Group 2[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Elite round
2	Denmark	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	4	Elite round
3	Finland	3	0	2	1	0	3	−3	2
4	Estonia (H)	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

10 October 2018

14:00 (15:00 EEST)

Italy	3–0	Estonia
Raspadori 11', 87' Portanova 25'	Report

Rakvere Linnastaadion, Rakvere

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

10 October 2018

14:00 (15:00 EEST)

Finland	0–0	Denmark
	Report

Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn

Referee: Nikola Popov (Bulgaria)

13 October 2018

14:00 (15:00 EEST)

Italy	3–0	Finland
Kytilä 4' (o.g.) Riccardi 24' Bettella 80' (pen.)	Report

Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn

Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

13 October 2018

14:00 (15:00 EEST)

Denmark	3–0	Estonia
Madsen 48' (pen.) Jensen 78' Kaastrup 87'	Report

Rakvere Linnastaadion, Rakvere

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

16 October 2018

14:00 (15:00 EEST)

Denmark	0–1	Italy
	Report	Corbo 9'

Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn

Referee: Nikola Popov (Bulgaria)

16 October 2018

14:00 (15:00 EEST)

Estonia	0–0	Finland
	Report

Rakvere Linnastaadion, Rakvere

Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

Group 3[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic (H)	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7	Elite round
2	Croatia	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5	Elite round
3	Macedonia	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
4	Luxembourg	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

14 November 2018