Under-17 entries for Azerbaijan 2015/16
Sunday, November 2, 2014
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The draw for the 2015/16 qualifying round is made at 09.00CET on 3 December involving 52 of the 53 nations aiming to join hosts Azerbaijan in the 16-team finals.
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The draw for the 2015/16 qualifying round is made at 09.00CET on Wednesday 3 December, streamed live from Nyon on UEFA.com, with 52 hopefuls split into two pots.
A total of 15 nations will join hosts Azerbaijan in the second final tournament since the return to 16 teams for Bulgaria next May. But before that the entrants compete next autumn for 31 elite round places. Top seeds Germany have been given a bye to the elite round while the remaining entrants will be in one of two pots of 26 teams each according to their coefficient.
A total of 13 groups will be formed, each containing two teams from each of the seeding pots, with the hosts appointed after the draw. The top two in each group along with the five third-placed teams with the best record against the leading pair will join Germany in the elite round in spring 2016.
Seeding pots
Pot A: England, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, France, Serbia, Russia*, Switzerland, Italy, Spain*, Czech Republic, Scotland, Georgia, Sweden, Hungary, Ukraine*, Belgium, Iceland, Austria, Turkey, Croatia, Denmark, Republic of Ireland, Norway, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pot B: Greece, Bulgaria, Israel, Slovakia, Albania, Slovenia, Northern Ireland, Romania, Latvia, FYR Macedonia, Estonia, Finland, Wales, Lithuania, Armenia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Moldova, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar
* Based on previous decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee and UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine cannot be drawn in the same group. The same applies to Spain and Gibraltar.
Bye to elite round: Germany
Bye to final tournament: Azerbaijan (hosts)
