2024/25 Under-17 EURO round 2 draw made

The 2024/25 UEFA European Under-17 Championship round 2 draw was the first of its kind under the new format, with 54 teams split into two-tiered leagues to be played in spring 2025.

The draw was made by Bjorn Vassallo, chairman of the UEFA Youth and Amateur Football Committee, and Yaël Thébault, part of the France team in the 2024 finals, who received the Respect Fair Play trophy on behalf of the squad.

U17 EURO round 2 draw: League B

Group B1: Romania, North Macedonia, Scotland, Liechtenstein

Group B2: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Armenia, San Marino

Group B3: Montenegro, Latvia, Estonia, Gibraltar

Group B4: Kosovo, Cyprus, Moldova, Andorra

Group B5: Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Malta, Faroe Islands

Group B6: Albania, Wales, Azerbaijan

Group B7: Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan

The seven League B winners will be promoted to League A for round 1 of 2026/27 U19 EURO qualifying.

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All 54 entrants, including final tournament hosts Albania, started in round 1, the results of which decided which 28 teams entered League A, with the remaining 26 nations going into League B. Albania will play in League B although their finals place as hosts is assured.

The round 2 groups will be played as one-venue mini-tournaments with hosts to be agreed after the draw and completed by 25 March for League A and Albania's League B group, and 30 June for the remaining League B groups.

Yaël Thébault (left) of the 2024 France team receives the Respect Fair Play trophy on behalf of his squad from Bjorn Vassallo, chairman of the UEFA Youth and Amateur Football CommitteeUEFA

How the draw worked

On completion of round 1, an overall ranking was established according to the criteria listed below. Because the groups in round 1 were different sizes, the results of matches against the fourth-placed team were not taken into account for the purposes of comparing the teams placed first, second and third in their respective group (article 15.01 of the competition regulations).

The following criteria were applied in the order given (article 15.03):
a. higher position in the group
b. higher number of points
c. superior goal difference
d. higher number of goals scored
e. lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received by players and team officials (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points)
f. higher position in the qualifying round coefficient rankings for round 1

Draw condition

The teams were allocated to groups in ascending order in such a way as to ensure that no teams from round 1 meet each other in round 2. When clashes arose, the team draw was moved to the next available group. The draw continued by first filling the slot left vacant. When clashes arose in the last three or four groups, the teams were allocated to groups appropriately

League A

The 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four, with each group containing one team from each seeding pot as follows:

Pot 1

Associations ranked 1 to 28

Italy, Portugal, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Czechia

The teams in Pot 1 were drawn one after another and placed in the first position in Groups A1 to A7.

Pot 2

Associations ranked 8 to 14

Switzerland, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Austria, Northern Ireland

The teams in Pot 2 were drawn one after another and placed in the second position in Groups A1 to A7.

Pot 3

Associations ranked 15 to 21

Germany, Iceland, Slovenia, Türkiye, Netherlands, Denmark, Ukraine

The teams in Pot 3 were drawn one after another and placed in the third position in one of the seven groups.

Pot 4

Associations ranked 22 to 28

Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Finland

The teams in Pot 4 were drawn one after another and placed in the fourth position in one of the seven groups.

League B

The teams were drawn into five groups of four teams and two groups of three teams.

Luxembourg (Pot 1) and Bulgaria (Pot 2) could not be drawn into three-team groups.

Groups 1 to 5 contained one team from each seeding pot, and Groups 6 and 7 one team from Pots 1 to 3, as follows:

Pot 1

Associations ranked 29 to 35

Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Luxembourg, Romania, Albania, Kosovo

The teams in Pot 1 were drawn one after another and placed in the first position in Groups B1 to B7.

Pot 2

Associations ranked 36 to 42

Cyprus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Wales, Latvia, North Macedonia, Belarus

The teams in Pot 2 were drawn one after another and placed in the second position in Groups B1 to B7.

Pot 3

Associations ranked 43 to 49

Scotland, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Armenia, Moldova, Malta

The teams in Pot 3 were drawn one after another and placed in the third position in one of the seven groups.

Pot 4

Associations ranked 50 to 54

Andorra, San Marino, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein

The teams in Pot 4 were drawn one after another and placed in the fourth position in one of the five four-team groups.