2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
2024 Ευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα ποδοσφαίρου Κ-17; 2024 Avrupa 17 Yaş Altı Futbol Şampiyonası
Tournament details
Host country	Cyprus
Dates	20 May – 5 June
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	6 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (2nd title)
Runners-up	Portugal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	94 (3.03 per match)
Attendance	30,377 (980 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rodrigo Mora; (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Francesco Camarda[1]

The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2024) was the 21st UEFA European Under-17 Championship (40th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Cyprus hosted the tournament.[2] A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.

Germany were the title holders, having beaten France in a penalty shootout in the 2023 final, but were not able to defend their title after failing to qualify for the final tournament.

In the final, Italy defeated Portugal 3–0 to win their second title, winning their first-ever title at this age level and their just second title after the 1982 triumph.

Host selection

19 April 2021: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Montreux

For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2023 and 2024, Hungary and Cyprus were selected as hosts respectively.[2]

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Cyprus qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2023, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2024, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Cyprus	Hosts	1st	Debut
France	Elite round Group 1 winners	15th	2023 (Runners-up)	Champions (2004, 2015, 2022)
Sweden	Elite round Group 2 winners	6th	2022 (Group stage)	Semi-finals (2013)
Italy	Elite round Group 3 winners	12th	2023 (Group stage)	Runners-up (2013, 2018, 2019)
Ukraine	Elite round Group 4 winners	7th	2017 (Group stage)	Group stage (2002, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2017)
Portugal	Elite round Group 5 winners	11th	2023 (Group stage)	Champions (2003, 2016)
Denmark	Elite round Group 6 winners	7th	2022 (Quarter-finals)	Semi-finals (2011)
Austria	Elite round Group 7 winners	7th	2019 (Group stage)	Third place (2003)
Poland	Elite round Group 8 winners	5th	2023 (Semi-finals)	Semi-finals (2012, 2023)
England	Elite round Group 1 runners-up¹	16th	2023 (Fifth place)	Champions (2010, 2014)
Wales	Elite round Group 2 runners-up¹	2nd	2023 (Group stage)	Group stage (2023)
Slovakia	Elite round Group 4 runners-up¹	2nd	2013 (Semi-finals)	Semi-finals (2013)
Croatia	Elite round Group 5 runners-up¹	6th	2023 (Group stage)	Fourth place (2005)
Serbia	Elite round Group 6 runners-up¹	10th²	2023 (Quarter-finals)	Semi-finals (2022)
Spain	Elite round Group 7 runners-up¹	16th	2023 (Semi-finals)	Champions (2007, 2008, 2017)
Czech Republic	Elite round Group 8 runners-up¹	7th	2019 (Quarter-finals)	Runners-up (2006)

Notes: ¹ The best seven runners-up among all eight elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.; ² Two as Serbia and Montenegro and eight as Serbia

Venues

The tournament was hosted in 6 venues.[3]

Larnaca
Ammochostos Stadium Capacity: 5,500	AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis Capacity: 7,303	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium Capacity: 10,320

Limassol Achna Paralimni Larnaca
Achna	Limassol	Paralimni
Dasaki Stadium Capacity: 5,422	Alphamega Stadium Capacity: 11,000	Paralimni Stadium Capacity: 5,800

Match officials

The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:

The 12 referees for the final tournament:

Jasper Vergoote
Antoni Bandić
Radoslav Gidzjenov
Ante Čulina
Menelaos Antoniou
Jan Petřík
Jakob Alexander Sundberg
Mohammed Al-Emara
Pierre Gaillouste
David Fuxman
Miguel Bértolo Nogueira
Nenad Minaković

The 12 assistant-referees for the final tournament:

Martijn Tiesters
Stefan Tešanovic
Petar Velizarov Mitrev
Luka Pušic
Kyriakos Sokratous
Marek Podaný
Victor Skytte
Turkka Valjakka
Alexis Auger
Rostislav Talis
Nelson Filipe Vila Pereira
Nikola Borović

Squads

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage); Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point; Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; Direct red card: −3 points; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	3	0	12	4	+8	9	Knockout stage
2	Serbia	3	2	1	7	5	+2	6	Knockout stage
3	Ukraine	3	1	2	3	4	−1	3
4	Cyprus (H)	3	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

20 May 2024