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.

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

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.

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.