2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying round: 18 September – 18 November 2015 Elite round: 23–30 March 2016 |
| Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 120 |
| Goals scored | 352 (2.93 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Ivan Šaponjić (6 goals)
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The 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification was a men's under-19 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the seven national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Germany in the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.
A total of 53 national teams entered this qualifying competition, which was played in two rounds between September 2015 and March 2016. Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to participate.
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 best third-placed team from the qualifying 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, 09:50 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, Armenia and Azerbaijan (due to the disputed status of Nagorno-Karabakh), 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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