2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying round: 20 September – 31 October 2016 Elite round: 13 March – 2 April 2017 |
| Teams | 45 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 102 |
| Goals scored | 366 (3.59 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Joëlle Smits (10 goals)
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The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Czech Republic in the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.
A total of 45 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Malta who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to participate. Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.
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 and the best runner-up from the elite 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 13 November 2015, 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, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, 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 between 1 September and 31 October 2016.
Times up to 29 October 2016 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).
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