[1] The national teams from a total of 45 UEFA member associations entered the qualifying competition.

If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.

In both draws, the teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from a separate pot, while being placed in their groups according to their seeding positions.

The draw for the play-offs was held on 10 June 2015, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

[7][8] There were no seedings, with the only restriction that the best third-placed team (Romania) could not be drawn against the runner-up from the same main round group (Kazakhstan).