2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying round: 22 September – 31 October 2015 Elite round: 11 March – 3 April 2016 |
| Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 126 |
| Goals scored | 343 (2.72 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 João Filipe (7 goals)
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The 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the 15 national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Azerbaijan in the 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.
A total of 53 national teams entered this qualifying competition, which was played in two rounds between September 2015 and April 2016. Players born on or after 1 January 1999 were eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.
The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of a mini-tournament, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
To determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round and the seven best runners-up from the elite round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied:
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 3 December 2014, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
Each group contained two teams from Pot A and two teams from Pot B. For political reasons, Spain and Gibraltar (due to the disputed status of Gibraltar), as well as Russia and Ukraine (due to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine), could not be drawn in the same group.
Times up to 24 October 2015 were CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times were CET (UTC+1).
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