2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Israel in the 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to participate. Apart from Israel as the host, the remaining 54 teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn of 2021, and Elite round, which took place in spring of 2022. Format. The qualifying competition would originally  consist of the following two rounds: The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04): Tiebreakers. 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 four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The  following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.03): To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results are considered. The same criteria as above are applied (Regulations Articles 15.02 and 15.03). Qualifying round. Draw. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020, 10:00 CET (), 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. Based on  the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Groups. The qualifying round is scheduled to be played by 16 November 2021. Times up to 27 March 2022 are CET (), thereafter times are CEST (), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses). Group 1. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 2. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 3. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> "All matches were abandoned by Azerbaijan. All opponents received a 3–0 win." Group 4. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>  Group 5. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 6. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 7. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 8. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 9. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 10. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 11. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 12. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Group 13. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Ranking of third-placed teams. To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account. Elite round. The draw for the elite  round will be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Draw. The draw for the elite round will be held in spring 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. The Netherlands and Spain, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the  same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group. Ranking of second-placed teams. To determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account. Qualified teams. The following 16 teams qualify for the final tournament. Goalscorers. In the qualifying round In the elite round In total, 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification The