High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (Elite Round) was the second round of qualifications for the final tournament of UEFA U-19 Championship 2012. The 25 teams that advanced from the qualifying round plus three teams who received byes to the elite round were distributed into seven groups of four teams each, with each group played in a round-robin format, with one of the four teams hosting all six group matches. The seven group-winning teams qualified automatically for the final tournament in Estonia.