The 2018 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 England in the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.

The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01, 15.02 and 15.03):[3] The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

[10] Germany and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A.

The Serbia v Ukraine match was completed with a score of 1–2 before a default victory was awarded to Serbia due to participation of disqualified Ukrainian players Mykola Yarosh and Roman Bodnia.