The 2019/20 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round draw will be made at 09:00CET on 6 December in Nyon and will involve 52 of the 54 nations aiming to join hosts Estonia in the 16-team finals.
A total of 15 nations will compete with hosts Estonia in the final tournament in May 2020. Top seeds Spain and England have been given byes to the elite round while, for the draw, the remaining entrants will be divided into four pots of 13 teams each according to their coefficient.
In all, 13 groups will be formed, all containing one team from each of the seeding pots, with the respective hosts appointed after the draw and games to be played next autumn, by 19 November 2019. The top two in every group, along with the four third-placed sides with the best records against the leading pair, will follow Spain and England into the elite round in March 2020.
After that round, the eight group winners and seven runners-up with the best records against the teams first and third in their pool will join Estonia in that May’s finals.
Pot A: Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Serbia*, Scotland, Russia*, Bosnia and Herzegovina*
Pot B: Croatia, Israel, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine*, Norway, Czech Republic, Greece, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland
Pot C: Finland, Azerbaijan*, Georgia, Cyprus, Wales, Iceland, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Northern Ireland, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Faroe Islands
Pot D: Lithuania, Latvia, Albania, Armenia*, Luxembourg, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar, Malta, Kosovo*
*Based on previous decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee and UEFA Emergency Panel, these teams cannot be drawn together: Russia and Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Bye to elite round: Spain, England
Bye to final tournament: Estonia (hosts)
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