2017/18 WU19 EURO qualifying round draw
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
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Fourty-eight hopefuls begin their bids to join hosts Switzerland in the fnal tournament.
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Group 1 (12–18 September): Germany, Iceland*, Montenegro, Kosovo
Group 2 (18–24 October): England, Slovenia, Wales, Kazakhstan*
Group 3 (8–14 September): Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Lithuania*
Group 4 (25–31 October): Spain, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Albania*
Group 5 (16–22 October): Norway, Portugal*, Northern Ireland, Cyprus
Group 6 (18–24 October): Netherlands*, Republic of Ireland, Estonia, Latvia
Group 7 (16–22 October): France, Italy, Moldova*, Faroe Islands
Group 8 (17–23 October): Belgium, Austria*, Croatia, FYR Macedonia
Group 9 (18–24 October): Sweden, Czech Republic, Belarus, Bulgaria*
Group 10 (18–24 October): Scotland, Turkey, Hungary*, Armenia
Group 11 (12–18 September): Finland*, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel
Group 12 (dates tbc): Russia, Poland, Greece, Georgia*
*Hosts
Bye to final tournament: Switzerland (hosts)
10:00CET, 11 November, Nyon
Draw procedure & seeding pots
Pot A: Spain, France, Germany, England, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Belgium, Denmark, Russia*, Finland
Pot B: Austria, Republic of Ireland, Italy. Czech Republic, Portugal, Iceland, Poland, Romania, Serbia*, Ukraine*, Turkey, Slovenia
Pot C: Croatia, Northern Ireland, Hungary, Azerbaijan*, Greece, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina*, Moldova, Slovakia, Wales, Montenegro, Estonia
Pot D: Faroe Islands, FYR Macedonia, Cyprus, Israel, Albania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Armenia*, Kosovo*
*Based on previous decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee and UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams cannot be drawn together: Russia & Ukraine, Azerbaijan & Armenia, Serbia & Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina & Kosovo
Bye to final tournament: Switzerland (hosts)
Who is involved?
• Hosts Switzerland qualify directly for the final tournament in summer 2017.
• The remaining 48 entrants start in the qualifying round where they will be split into 12 groups of four.
• Kosovo are entering their first competitive women's national-team tournament.
The draw
• There are four seeding pots according to the coefficient ranking list, with the 12 countries with the highest ranking in Pot A, the next 12 in Pot B, and so on.
• Each group will have one team from each pot, with hosts then appointed to stage the mini-tournaments, provisionally scheduled between 11 and 29 September, or 16 and 24 October 2017.
Road to Switzerland
• The top two teams in each group go into the elite round, provisionally in spring 2018.
• Seven teams will eventually qualify for the finals to join Switzerland.