2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

The 2018 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 Finland in the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.

Apart from Finland, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 1999 were eligible to participate.

Format
The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:
 * Qualifying round: Apart from Spain and Portugal, 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 13 group winners and the 13 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 mini-tournament was as follows (Regulations Article 19.04):

Tiebreakers
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):
 * 1) Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 2) Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 3) Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 4) 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;
 * 5) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 6) Goals scored in all group matches;
 * 7) Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are 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);
 * 8) Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
 * 9) UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
 * 10) Drawing of lots.

Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
 * 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)

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, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo could not be drawn in the same group.


 * Notes
 * Teams marked in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Groups
The qualifying round had to be played by 19 November 2017, and on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agreed to play on another date:
 * 28 August – 5 September 2017
 * 2–10 October 2017
 * 6–14 November 2017

Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).

Group 11
The France v Andorra match was completed with a 7–0 scoreline before a default victory was awarded.

Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Spain and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group.

Groups
The elite round had to be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agreed to play on another date:
 * 19–27 March 2018

Times up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).

Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.


 * 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

 * 9 goals


 * 🇳🇴 Erling Haaland


 * 8 goals


 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Mățan


 * 6 goals


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Eddie Nketiah
 * 🇩🇪 Kai Havertz
 * Anastasios Douvikas
 * 🇲🇰 Dimitar Mitrovski


 * 5 goals


 * Jens Odgaard
 * Jonas Wind
 * 🇩🇪 Manuel Wintzheimer
 * 🇭🇺 Zsombor Bévárdi
 * 🇮🇹 Gianluca Scamacca
 * Jack Aitchison
 * 🇹🇷 Muhayer Oktay


 * 4 goals


 * 🇱🇻 Marko Regža
 * Ferdi Kadioglu
 * Donyell Malen
 * 🇳🇴 Eman Markovic
 * 🇷🇴 Olimpiu Moruțan
 * 🇸🇪 Teddy Bergqvist


 * 3 goals


 * 🇦🇲 Vahan Bichakhchyan
 * 🇦🇹 Kelvin Arase
 * 🇧🇪 Mike Trésor
 * 🇨🇿 Antonín Růsek
 * 🇨🇿 Richard Sedláček
 * Andreas Poulsen
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mason Mount
 * 🇫🇷 Myziane Maolida
 * 🇩🇪 Jan-Niklas Beste
 * 🇩🇪 Arne Maier
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Pinamonti
 * 🇱🇻 Bogdans Samoilovs
 * 🇲🇰 Jani Atanasov
 * 🇲🇰 Bojan Kolevski
 * Gedson Fernandes
 * 🇮🇪 Jayson Molumby
 * 🇷🇴 Tudor Băluță
 * 🇷🇺 Ivan Ignatyev
 * 🇸🇮 Žan Celar
 * 🇪🇸 Abel Ruiz
 * Nedim Bajrami
 * 🇹🇷 Güven Yalçın


 * 2 goals


 * 🇦🇹 Christoph Baumgartner
 * 🇦🇹 Nicolas Meister
 * 🇦🇹 Anthony Schmid
 * 🇦🇿 Bahadur Haziyev
 * 🇧🇪 Thibaud Verlinden
 * Sandro Kulenović
 * 🇨🇿 Patrik Žitný
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Reiss Nelson
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jadon Sancho
 * 🇫🇷 Nabil Alioui
 * 🇫🇷 Moussa Diaby
 * 🇫🇷 Amine Gouiri
 * 🇫🇷 Lenny Pintor
 * 🇫🇷 Thody Elie Youan
 * 🇩🇪 Atakan Akkaynak
 * Dimitrios Emmanouilidis
 * 🇭🇺 Norbert Kundrák
 * 🇭🇺 Levente Lustyik
 * 🇭🇺 Alexander Torvund
 * 🇮🇹 Matteo Gabbia
 * 🇮🇹 Nicolò Zaniolo
 * 🇰🇿 Madi Zhakypbayev
 * Joël Piroe
 * 🇳🇴 Christian Borchgrevink
 * 🇳🇴 Leo Skiri Østigård
 * 🇵🇱 David Kopacz
 * 🇵🇱 Adrian Łyszczarz
 * João Filipe
 * 🇮🇪 Jonathan Afolabi
 * 🇮🇪 Lee O'Connor
 * 🇷🇴 Robert Moldoveanu
 * 🇷🇺 Daniil Utkin
 * Mikey Johnston
 * Glenn Middleton
 * 🇷🇸 Đorđe Jovanović
 * 🇷🇸 Strahinja Jovanović
 * 🇸🇮 Tomi Horvat
 * 🇸🇪 Adrian Edqvist
 * Andi Zeqiri
 * 🇺🇦 Olexiy Kashchuk
 * 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Safronov
 * 🇺🇦 Vladyslav Supriaha
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Liam Cullen


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇱 Klajdi Burba
 * 🇦🇩 Ricard Fernández
 * 🇦🇩 Albert Grau
 * 🇦🇲 Hovhannes Harutyunyan
 * 🇦🇲 Karen Melkonyan
 * 🇦🇹 Michael John Lema
 * 🇧🇾 Miroslav Khlebosolov
 * 🇧🇪 Francis Amuzu
 * 🇧🇪 Indy Boonen
 * 🇧🇪 Sebastiaan Bornauw
 * 🇧🇪 Milan Corryn
 * 🇧🇪 Hannes Delcroix
 * 🇧🇪 Sieben Dewaele
 * 🇧🇪 Daam Foulon
 * 🇧🇪 Loïs Openda
 * 🇧🇦 Amar Ćatić
 * 🇧🇦 Jasmin Čeliković
 * 🇧🇦 Jusuf Gazibegović
 * 🇧🇦 Benjamin Hadžić
 * 🇧🇦 Nedim Hadžić
 * 🇧🇦 Enio Zilić
 * 🇧🇬 Andrea Hristov
 * 🇧🇬 Stanislav Ivanov
 * 🇧🇬 Toni Ivanov
 * 🇧🇬 Kaloyan Krastev
 * Duje Javorčić
 * Darko Nejašmić
 * Dario Špikić
 * 🇨🇾 Panagiotis Louka
 * 🇨🇾 Jack Roles
 * 🇨🇿 Martin Graiciar
 * 🇨🇿 David Heidenreich
 * 🇨🇿 Ladislav Krejčí
 * 🇨🇿 Michal Sadílek
 * 🇨🇿 Jakub Šípek
 * Carl Holse
 * Kasper Poul Mølgaard Jørgensen
 * Mads Roerslev
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Brereton
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Elliot Embleton
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Hirst
 * 🇪🇪 Erik Sorga
 * 🇫🇴 Lukas Grenaa Giessing
 * 🇫🇷 Antoine Bernede
 * 🇫🇷 Michaël Cuisance
 * 🇫🇷 Rafik Guitane
 * 🇫🇷 Moussa Sylla
 * 🇫🇷 Dan-Axel Zagadou
 * Levan Kharabadze
 * Nika Ninua
 * 🇩🇪 Alfons Amade
 * 🇩🇪 Yari Otto
 * 🇩🇪 Sam Schreck
 * Christos Giousis
 * Alexandros Gkargkalatzidis
 * Dimitrios Ntalakouras
 * Marios Siampanis
 * 🇭🇺 Attila Mocsi
 * 🇭🇺 Szabolcs Schön
 * 🇭🇺 Levente Szabo
 * 🇮🇸 Kolbeinn Finnsson
 * 🇮🇸 Daníel Hafsteinsson
 * 🇮🇸 Kristofer Kristinsson
 * 🇮🇸 Stefan Alexander Ljubicic
 * 🇮🇱 Eylon Almog
 * 🇮🇱 Yarden Shua
 * 🇮🇹 Davide Bettella
 * 🇮🇹 Enrico Brignola
 * 🇮🇹 Christian Capone
 * 🇮🇹 Filippo Melegoni
 * 🇰🇿 Zhanali Pairuz
 * Gentrit Limani
 * Abit Salihu
 * 🇱🇻 Jānis Grīnbergs
 * 🇱🇻 Kristers Aldis Puriņš
 * 🇱🇻 Kristers Tobers
 * 🇱🇮 Noah Frick
 * 🇱🇺 Kevin D'Anzico
 * 🇱🇺 Yannick Schaus
 * 🇱🇺 Vincent Thill
 * 🇲🇰 Darko Churlinov
 * 🇲🇰 Eljif Elmas
 * 🇲🇰 Bojan Miovski
 * 🇲🇰 Filip Trajanovski
 * 🇲🇹 Andrea Borg
 * 🇲🇩 Denis Furtună
 * 🇲🇩 Vsevolod Nihaev
 * 🇲🇩 Ion Postica
 * 🇲🇪 Ilija Vukotić
 * Zakaria Aboukhlal
 * Tom van de Looi
 * Orkun Kökçü
 * Ché Nunnely
 * Danny Amos
 * Eoin Toal
 * 🇳🇴 Jens Petter Hauge
 * 🇳🇴 Simen Bolkan Nordli
 * 🇳🇴 Sebastian Pedersen
 * 🇳🇴 Tobias Svendsen
 * 🇳🇴 Hugo Vetlesen
 * 🇵🇱 Sebastian Bergier
 * 🇵🇱 Marco Drawz
 * 🇵🇱 Riccardo Grym
 * 🇵🇱 Jakub Moder
 * 🇵🇱 Aron Stasiak
 * 🇵🇱 Sebastian Walukiewicz
 * Pedro Correia
 * Thierry Correia
 * Mesaque Djú
 * José Gomes
 * Diogo Queirós
 * 🇮🇪 Aaron Connolly
 * 🇮🇪 Neil Farrugia
 * 🇮🇪 Michael Obafemi
 * 🇮🇪 Rowan Roache
 * 🇷🇴 Claudiu Micovschi
 * 🇷🇴 Andrei Sîntean
 * 🇷🇺 Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov
 * 🇷🇺 Nayair Tiknizyan
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitri Tsypchenko
 * Wallace Duffy
 * Fraser Hornby
 * Kerr McInroy
 * 🇷🇸 Luka Ilić
 * 🇷🇸 Dejan Joveljić
 * 🇷🇸 Igor Maksimović
 * 🇷🇸 Njegoš Petrović
 * 🇷🇸 Jug Stanojev
 * 🇷🇸 Aleksa Terzić
 * 🇸🇰 Adam Brenkus
 * 🇸🇰 Matej Grešák
 * 🇸🇰 Michal Kráľovič
 * 🇸🇰 Jozef Špyrka
 * 🇸🇰 Michal Tomič
 * 🇸🇰 Martin Vician
 * 🇸🇮 Adam Gnezda Čerin
 * 🇸🇮 Vanja Drkušič
 * 🇸🇮 David Zec
 * 🇪🇸 Jordi Mboula
 * 🇪🇸 Alejandro Pozo
 * 🇸🇪 Joseph Colley
 * 🇸🇪 Dejan Kulusekvski
 * 🇸🇪 Simon Marklund
 * 🇸🇪 Joel Mumbongo
 * 🇸🇪 Adil Titi
 * Mersim Asllani
 * Nishan Burkart
 * Serge Müller
 * Filip Ugrinic
 * 🇹🇷 Ufukcan Engin
 * 🇹🇷 Abdülkadir Ömür
 * 🇹🇷 Doğukan Sinik
 * 🇺🇦 Valeriy Bondar
 * 🇺🇦 Serhiy Buletsa
 * 🇺🇦 Viktor Korniienko
 * 🇺🇦 Vitalii Mykolenko
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 James Alexander Spruce
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Momodou Touray


 * 1 own goal


 * 🇦🇲 Albert Khachumyan (against Czech Republic)
 * 🇧🇾 Vladislav Malkevich (against Poland)
 * 🇫🇷 Mahamadou Dembélé (against Bosnia and Herzegovina)
 * 🇲🇩 Igor Chiperi (against Sweden)
 * 🇳🇴 Julian Faye Lund (against Ukraine)
 * 🇸🇲 Marco Frisoni (against Denmark)
 * Jamie Barjonas (against Germany)
 * 🇪🇸 Jorge Cuenca (against France)
 * 🇹🇷 Burak Kapacak (against Slovakia)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Joe Lewis (against Turkey)

Source: UEFA.com