Each of the 54 UEFA member associations could enter a regional amateur representative team which qualified through a national qualifying competition, or when applicable, their national amateur representative team.

[1] Teams were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they entered.

[48] The draw for the final tournament was held on 2 March 2017, 17:00 TRT (UTC+3), at the Turkish Football Federation headquarters in Istanbul.

[49][50] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four without any seeding, except that the hosts were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, teams from Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn into the same group.