2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 19 September – 31 October 2014 (qualifying round) 12–26 March 2015 (elite round) |
| Teams | 53 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 126 |
| Goals scored | 316 (2.51 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | (8 goals) |
The 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition played in 2014 and 2015 to determine the 15 teams joining Bulgaria, who qualified automatically as hosts, in the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament. A total of 53 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.
Each match lasted 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes.
The final tournament also acted as the UEFA qualifier for the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile, with six teams qualifying (the four semi-finalists and the two winners of play-off matches between the losing quarter-finalists).
The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:
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 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 28 November 2013 at 09:30 CET (UTC+1).
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, if Azerbaijan and Armenia (due to the disputed status of Nagorno-Karabakh), as well as Georgia and Russia (due to the disputed status of South Ossetia), were drawn in the same group, neither would host the mini-tournament. Moreover, Spain and Gibraltar could not be drawn in the same group due to the disputed status of Gibraltar.
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