The qualifying draw for the first UEFA European Under-19 Futsal Championship, streamed live at 14:00CET on Thursday from Nyon, will consist of two rounds.
- Hosts Latvia receive a bye to the finals
- Of the 34 qualifying entrants, the 26 with the highest UEFA futsal national-team coefficients receive a bye to the main round and the other eight enter in the preliminary round.
Preliminary round (21–26 January)
- Two groups of four will be formed: the two group winners progress to the main round, which will be drawn in the same ceremony.
- Lithuania will host one of the mini-tournaments, the other will be confirmed by 9 November following the draw.
- Teams will be split into four seeding tiers of two teams each based on their coefficients.
- Lithuania will be placed in the third position in Group A (according to their coefficients) from Pot 1. The teams will then be drawn by seeding tier.
Pot 1 (hosts)
Lithuania (seeding position 3, will be placed in Group A)
Pot 2 (seeding position 4)
Andorra
San Marino
Pot 3 (seeding position 3)
Cyprus (will be placed in Group B)
Pot 4 (seeding position 2)
Kosovo
Greece
Pot 5 (seeding position 1)
Sweden
Montenegro
Main round (26–31 March)
- Seven groups of four will be formed: the seven group winners join hosts Latvia in the finals from 8 to 14 September in Riga.
- Teams will be split into four seeding tiers according to their coefficients (with the two preliminary round winners included in the fourth tier).
- Russia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, FYR Macedonia and Finland have been selected as mini-tournament hosts and will be drawn first from Pot 6, to be placed in each group according to their seeding position.
- The remaining teams will be drawn by seeding tier.
- Based on decisions taken by the UEFA Executive Committee, these teams cannot be drawn into the same group: Russia/Ukraine, Kosovo/Serbia and Kosovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- In order to avoid a prohibited clash in the main round, should Ukraine be drawn into the group hosted by Russia, they will be moved to the next available slot.
- Should Kosovo win their preliminary round group and qualify for a main round group with a team they cannot play, they will be swapped with the next available team in position 4 following the order of the groups.
Pot 6 (hosts)
Russia (seeding position 1)
Slovenia (seeding position 2)
Croatia (seeding position 2)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (seeding position 3)
Georgia (seeding position 3)
FYR Macedonia (seeding position 4)
Finland (seeding position 4)
Pot 7 (seeding position 4)
Turkey
Moldova
England
Preliminary round winner Group A
Preliminary round winner Group B
Pot 8 (seeding position 3)
France
Slovakia
Belarus
Netherlands
Belgium
Pot 9 (seeding position 2)
Serbia
Hungary
Czech Republic
Romania
Poland
Pot 10 (seeding position 1)
Spain
Portugal
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Azerbaijan
Italy
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