The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 national football team competition that determined the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Albania in the 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.

Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, 54 teams entered this qualification competition including hosts Albania; this was the first time in the championship's history that the hosts took part in qualifying round despite being automatically qualified. The qualification consisted of a Round 1 played from October to November 2024, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2008 were eligible to participate.

Format The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds: Round 1: 54 teams were drawn into 14 groups. Each group was played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The top two teams from each group advance to Round 2 of League A; the other teams played in Round 2 of League B. Round 2: League A: 28 teams were drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group qualified for the final tournament. If Albania was among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team would also qualify. League B: Teams in League B competed for promotion to League A for qualifying Round 1 of the 2026/27 under-19 Euro.

In addition, the qualification also acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, with Round 1 being the first round and Round 2 League A being the final round of World Cup qualifying. The winners of each group in Round 2 League A, along with the four best second-placed teams, qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Tiebreakers In the qualifying rounds, 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): 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 ranking for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03): Points; Goal difference; Goals scored; Disciplinary points (total 3 matches); UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results were considered. The same criteria as above were applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03).

Round 1 Draw The draw for the Round 1 was held on 3 May 2024 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following: 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round) 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round) 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition (qualifying round and elite round) 2023 UEFA European Under-17 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 12 groups contain 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, Belarus and Ukraine, Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

+Teams entering qualifying round+Pot A Team 28.000 1 25.389 2 25.111 3 23.667 4 20.833 5 20.278 6 18.444 7 17.456 8 16.944 9 16.000 10 14.333 11 14.000 12 13.944 13 13.778 14+Pot B Team 12.333 15 12.167 16 12.056 17 11.556 18 11.000 19 10.889 20 10.278 21 10.222 22 10.167 23 9.667 24 9.389 25 9.000 26 8.333 27 7.889 28+Pot C Team 7.667 29 6.667 30 6.444 31 6.000 32 5.833 33 5.556 34 5.433 35 5.000 36 4.833 37 4.833 38 4.583 39 4.333 40 4.333 41 4.167 42+Pot D Team 3.333 43 2.667 44 2.000 45 1.667 46 1.333 47 1.000 48 0.000 49 0.000 50 0.000 51 0.000 52 0.000 53 0.000 54 Notes Teams marked in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Groups Round 1 was played from October to November 2024.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Group 11

Group 12

Group 13

Group 14

Round 2 Draw The draw for Round 2 was made at 11:45 CET on 5 December at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The 28 teams of Round 1 (top 2 of each group) were drawn in seven groups of four teams. The seven teams ranked fourth in the League A groups were relegated to League B for Round 1 of U19 EURO qualifying for the same age cohort (so teams relegated from League A in 2024/25 under-17 Euro Round 2 began 2026/27 under-19 Euro Round 1 in League B).

The teams were seeded according to their results in Round 1 (Regulations Article 15.01).

Teams entering League A

+2024/25 qualifying round results+Pot 1 Team 6 11 11 6 6 9 6 6 8 6 3 3 6 2 4 4 5 7 4 3 6 +Pot 2 Team 4 3 5 4 3 5 4 3 5 4 2 4 4 2 3 4 1 2 3 0 4

+2024/25 qualifying round results+Pot 3 Team 4 6 11 4 3 6 4 1 4 4 1 2 3 3 6 3 2 3 3 1 5 +Pot 4 Team 3 0 3 3 -1 4 3 -6 4 2 0 3 2 0 2 1 -2 3 1 -4 3

Teams entering League B The third and fourth-placed teams in Round 1 entered League B. The teams were seeded according to their results in Round 1 into five groups of four and two groups of three teams. The seven League B winners were promoted to League A for Round 1 of 2026/27 U19 EURO qualifying.

+2024/25 qualifying round results+Pot 1 Team 4 2 5 1 -2 4 1 -3 1 1 -3 1 1 -3 0 1 -5 1 0 -3 3 +Pot 2 Team 0 -3 2 0 -3 0 0 -4 1 0 -5 3 0 -5 1 0 -8 1 0 -9 2

+2024/25 qualifying round results+Pot 3 Team 3 -4 3 1 -5 5 1 -7 1 0 -8 3 0 -11 1 0 -11 0 0 -12 1 +Pot 4 Team 0 -14 1 0 -14 0 0 -14 0 0 -19 0 0 -24 0

League A Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A1

Group A2

Group A3

Group A4

Group A5

Group A6

Group A7

Ranking of second-placed teams

League B Group B1

Group B2

Group B3

Group B4

Group B5

Group B6

Group B7

Goalscorers In the qualifying round,

In the elite round,

In total,

Notes

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