2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying round: 22 September – 29 October 2017 Elite round: Spring 2018 |
| Teams | 45 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 33 |
| Goals scored | 172 (5.21 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Claudia Pina (8 goals)
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The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition is a women's under-17 football competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Lithuania in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.
A total of 45 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2001 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 schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking 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 11 November 2016, 09:10 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 would not be drawn in the same group.
The qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 29 October 2017.
Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).
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