2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification

2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Tournament details
DatesQualifying round:
28 September – 28 October 2015
Elite round:
3–29 March 2016
Teams46 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played102
Goals scored449 (4.4 per match)
Top scorer(s)England Alessia Russo
England Georgia Stanway
Spain Lorena Navarro
(9 goals each)
2015
2017

The 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification' was a women's under-17 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the seven national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Belarus in the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.[1]

A total of 46 national teams, with Andorra entering a UEFA women's competition for the first time, entered this qualifying competition, which was played in two rounds between September 2015 and March 2016.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 1999 were eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.

  1. ^ "England, Iceland, Belarus have Women's U17 honour". UEFA. 20 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Belarus the goal for record Women's U17 entry". UEFA. 19 November 2014.