2024/25 Under-19 EURO qualifying round draw
Friday, May 3, 2024
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The draw has set the groups for the autumn to begin the road to Romania in summer 2025.
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The 2024/25 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying round draw took place on Friday 3 May in Nyon, setting the 13 autumn groups that will begin the road to the eight-team finals in Romania.
A total of 27 teams will advance from the qualifying round to the spring 2025 elite round, which will decide Romania's seven final tournament opponents. The finals are provisionally scheduled for 13 to 26 June.
Qualifying round draw
Group 1: Ukraine, Netherlands, Slovenia, Kazakhstan
Group 2: Germany, Hungary, Cyprus, Andorra
Group 3: England, Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania
Group 4: Türkiye, Poland, Malta, Gibraltar
Group 5: France, Scotland, Wales, Liechtenstein
Group 6: Czechia, Finland, Switzerland, San Marino
Group 7: Republic of Ireland, Iceland, Azerbaijan, Moldova
Group 8: Italy, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
Group 9: Norway, Sweden, Georgia, Estonia
Group 10: Spain, Austria, Kosovo, Faroe Islands
Group 11: Israel, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Albania
Group 12: Slovakia, Latvia, North Macedonia, Luxembourg
Group 13: Serbia, Croatia, Armenia, Belarus
Dates/hosts tbc
One team will be selected to host each group. All groups will be played as one-venue mini-tournaments. Unless all teams in a group agree to play on other dates, mini-tournaments must be played on one of the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates:
2–10 September
7–15 October
11–19 November
The top two teams in each group and the best third-placed team will join Portugal in the elite round in spring. The seven elite round group winners will join hosts Romania in the summer finals.
Draw procedure
In all, 52 of the 54 entrants are involved in the qualifying round. Hosts Romania will enter directly in the final tournament, while Portugal – who have the highest coefficient – will begin in the elite round.
The teams were split into four pots based on their coefficient ranking:
Pot A: Italy, France, England, Spain, Norway, Ukraine, Republic of Ireland, Israel, Czechia, Serbia, Türkiye, Germany, Slovakia
Pot B: Denmark, Greece, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Iceland, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Scotland, Finland, Sweden, Latvia
Pot C: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Wales, Northern Ireland, Malta, Cyprus, Kosovo, Azerbaijan
Pot D: Montenegro, Belarus, Luxembourg, Estonia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Albania, Lithuania, Faroe Islands, Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein
On the basis of decisions taken by the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Emergency Panel, valid at the time of the draw, the following countries could not be drawn into the same group: Spain and Gibraltar, Belarus and Ukraine, Kosovo and Serbia, and Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The teams in Pot A were drawn one after another and placed in the first position in Groups 1 to 13 in ascending order.
The teams in Pot B were drawn one after another and each one placed in the second position in Groups 1 to 13 in ascending order.
The teams in Pot C were drawn one after another and each one placed in the third position in Groups 1 to 13 in ascending order.
The teams in Pot D were drawn one after another and each one placed in the fourth position in Groups 1 to 13 in ascending order.
If clashes arose, the team drawn would have been moved to the next available group. The draw would have continued by first filling the slot left vacant. If clashes arose in the last three or four groups, the teams would have been allocated to groups appropriately.