The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification will be a women's under-17 national football team competition that will determine the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Faroe Islands in the 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.
Five national teams decided not to participate in the event and Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, including hosts Faroe Islands, 49 teams entered this qualification competition. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from 1 October to 20 November 2024, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2008 are eligible to participate.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:
Round 1:
League A: 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The teams finishing fourth will be relegated to Round 2 League B; the other teams will advance to Round 2 League A.
League B: 21 teams were drawn into six groups. Each group will be played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The group winners and the best runner-up team will be promoted to Round 2 League A.
Round 2:
League A: 28 teams will be drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group will qualify for the Final tournament. If Faroe Islands will be among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team will also qualify.
League B: Teams in League B will compete for promotion to League A for the next season competition.
Round 1
Draw
The draw for the Round 1 was held on 7 June 2024, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[1]
The teams were seeded according to their final group standings of the 2023–24 competition (Regulations Article 13.01).[2]
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, Belarus and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group in League A as well as Armenia and Azerbaijan in League B.[1]
To determine the 2023–24 Round 2 league rankings, the following criteria was followed:
higher position in the following classification:
League A Round 2 group winners
League A Round 2 group runners-up
League A Round 2 third-placed teams
Teams promoted from League B
Teams relegated from League A
League B Round 2 runners-up
League B Round 2 third-placed teams
League B Round 2 fourth-placed teams
higher number of points in all mini-tournament matches;
superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
lower disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
higher position in the 2023–24 Round 1 league rankings.
