2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification

2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification
Tournament details
Dates	22 January – 30 March 2019
Teams	34 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	54
Goals scored	339 (6.28 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Qendrim Bakija; Mamas Loizou; (7 goals each)

The 2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 futsal competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Latvia in the 2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship final tournament.[1] Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to participate.

Teams

Apart from Latvia, a total of 34 (out of 54) UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying stage.[2] They are seeded according to the coefficient ranking of their men's senior national teams, calculated based on the following:[3][4]

UEFA Futsal Euro 2016 final tournament and qualifying competition
2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition
UEFA Futsal Euro 2018 final tournament and qualifying competition

The 26 highest-ranked teams entered the main round, while the 8 lowest-ranked teams entered the preliminary round. The coefficient ranking was also used for seeding in the preliminary round and main round draws, where each team was assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw. One team was pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round (the hosts of Group B to be confirmed by 9 November 2018) and seven teams were pre-selected as hosts for the main round.

The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 1 November 2018, 14:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5] The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

In the preliminary round, the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4. First, the team which was pre-selected as hosts was drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group (Group A) as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining seven teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.
In the main round, the 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four, containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4. First, the seven teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 21 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions (including the two preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, which were allocated to seeding position 4). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn into the same group. Moreover, should Kosovo advance from the preliminary round and qualify for a main round group with either Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina, they would be swapped with the team in seeding position 4 of the next possible main round group.

Final tournament hosts
Team	Coeff	Rank
Latvia	1.222	24

Participating teams for 2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification

Teams entering main round
Team	Coeff	Rank	Seed
Russia (H)	10.171	1	1
Spain	10.022	2
Portugal	9.633	3
Kazakhstan	9.000	4
Ukraine	8.389	5
Azerbaijan	7.822	6
Italy	7.444	7
Serbia	6.833	8	2
Slovenia (H)	6.500	9
Croatia (H)	4.278	10
Hungary	4.111	11
Czech Republic	3.611	12
Romania	3.500	13
Poland	3.389	14
France	2.944	15	3
Slovakia	2.944	16
Belarus	2.889	17
Netherlands	2.278	18
Bosnia and Herzegovina (H)	2.222	19
Belgium	2.111	20
Georgia (H)	2.056	21
North Macedonia (H)	2.000	22	4
Finland (H)	1.694	23
Turkey	1.222	25
Moldova	0.833	26
England	0.833	27

Teams entering preliminary round
Team	Coeff	Rank	Seed
Sweden	0.778	29	1
Montenegro	0.722	30	1
Kosovo	0.667	33	2
Greece	0.500	37	2
Lithuania (H)	0.389	40	3
Cyprus	0.389	41	3
Andorra	0.222	43	4
San Marino	0.000	47	4

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
(H): Teams pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and the main round

Format

In the preliminary round and main round, each group is played as a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts.

Tiebreakers

In the preliminary round and main 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):[3]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Schedule for UEFA U-19 Futsal Euro 2019 qualifying
Round	Draw	Dates
Preliminary round	1 November 2018	21–26 January 2019
Main round	1 November 2018	26–31 March 2019

In the preliminary round and main round, the schedule of each group is as follows, with one rest day between matchdays 2 and 3 for four-team groups, and no rest days for three-team groups (Regulations Articles 21.04, 21.05 and 21.06):[3]

Note: For scheduling, the hosts are considered as Team 1, while the visiting teams are considered as Team 2, Team 3, and Team 4 according to their seeding positions.

Group schedule
Matchday	Matches (4 teams)	Matches (3 teams)
Matchday 1	2 v 4, 1 v 3	1 v 3
Matchday 2	3 v 2, 1 v 4	3 v 2
Matchday 3	4 v 3, 2 v 1	2 v 1

Preliminary round

The winners of each group advance to main round to join the 26 teams which receive byes to main round.

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	3	2	1	0	11	7	+4	7	Main round
2	Andorra	3	2	0	1	10	6	+4	6
3	Lithuania (H)	3	1	0	2	5	10	−5	3
4	Montenegro	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualifying tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

22 January 2019

14:30 (15:30 EET)

Montenegro	2–3	Andorra
Vukovic 22:12 Gacevic 22:38	Report	Rodrigues 10:48 Massana 18:32 Blat 37:23

Jonava Sports Arena, Jonava

Referee: Christos Christou (Cyprus), Vladan Radulović (Serbia)

22 January 2019

17:30 (18:30 EET)

Lithuania	3–6	Greece
Samsonik 6:00 Gudaitis 36:42 Venckus 37:01	Report	Gegaj 11:31 Hatzifotiou 22:47 Liosis 30:12, 34:57, 36:03 Gousis 39:05

Jonava Sports Arena, Jonava

Referee: Trayan Enchev (Bulgaria), Valentin Ciuplea (Wales)

23 January 2019

14:30 (15:30 EET)

Greece	1–1	Montenegro
Gousis 36:57	Report	Drašković 15:20

Jonava Sports Arena, Jonava

Referee: Valentin Ciuplea (Wales), Christos Christou (Cyprus)

23 January 2019

17:30 (18:30 EET)

Lithuania	0–4	Andorra
	Report	Vallverdú 12:02, 19:41 Blat 31:16 Pons 38:15

Jonava Sports Arena, Jonava

Referee: Vladan Radulović (Serbia), Trayan Enchev (Bulgaria)

25 January 2019

14:30 (15:30 EET)

Andorra	3–4	Greece
Segura 15:48 (2pen.) Vallverdú 25:06, 32:11	Report	Albino 6:24 (o.g.) Gegaj 7:47, 29:01, 30:23

Jonava Sports Arena, Jonava

Referee: Trayan Enchev (Bulgaria), Vladan Radulović (Serbia)

25 January 2019

17:30 (18:30 EET)

Montenegro	0–2	Lithuania
	Report	Srėbalius 18:57 Kudirka 24:52

Jonava Sports Arena, Jonava

Referee: Christos Christou (Cyprus), Valentin Ciuplea (Wales)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cyprus	3	3	0	23	4	+19	9	Main round
2	Sweden	3	2	1	13	7	+6	6
3	Kosovo	3	1	2	15	17	−2	3
4	San Marino (H)	3	0	3	2	25	−23	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualifying tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

22 January 2019