2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying round: 4 October – 15 November 2016 Elite round: 22–28 March 2017 |
| Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 120 |
| Goals scored | 359 (2.99 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Lassi Lappalainen Birk Risa Nathan Broadhead(5 goals each) |
The 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Georgia in the 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.
A total of 53 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to participate.
The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of a mini-tournament, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):
To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 3 December 2015, 10:00 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, 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.
The qualifying round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:
Times up to 29 October 2016 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).
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