2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying round: 28 September – 28 October 2015 Elite round: 3–29 March 2016 |
| Teams | 46 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 102 |
| Goals scored | 449 (4.4 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Alessia Russo Georgia Stanway Lorena Navarro(9 goals each) |
The 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification' was a women's under-17 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the seven national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Belarus in the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.
A total of 46 national teams, with Andorra entering a UEFA women's competition for the first time, entered this qualifying competition, which was played in two rounds between September 2015 and March 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 best runner-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 19 November 2014, 08:40 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 one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, and two teams from Pot C. 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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