2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship


The 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 19th UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Israel was hosting the tournament. A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after [|1] January 2005 eligible to participate.
Netherlands, having won the title in 2018 and 2019, were the two-times title holders, since the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the title was not awarded.

Host selection

The timeline of host selection was as follows:
  • 11 January 2019: bidding procedure launched
  • 28 February 2019: deadline to express interest
  • 27 March 2019: Announcement by UEFA that declaration of interest were received from 17 member associations to host one of the UEFA national team youth final tournaments in 2021 and 2022
  • 28 June 2019: Submission of bid dossiers
  • 24 September 2019: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Ljubljana
For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Cyprus and Israel were selected as hosts respectively.

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Israel qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams will compete in the qualifying competition, which will consist of two rounds: Qualifying round, which will take place in autumn 2021, and Elite round, which will take place in spring 2022, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era.
TeamMethod of qualificationAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
4th2018
14th2019
6th2018
13th2019 '
14th2019 '
13th2019 '
10th2019
8th22018 3
9th2019 '
15th2019
18th2019
16th2017
18th2017
13rd2012
12nd2015
12nd2006

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Final draw

The winner and runners-up of Group 6 were not known at the time of the draw.

Venues

The tournament is hosted in five venues:

Match officials

The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:
Referees
  • Henrik Nalbandyan
  • Christian-Petru Ciochirca
  • Dario Bel
  • Willy Delajod
  • Helgi Mikael Jónasson
  • Igor Stojčevski
  • Andrei Florin Chivulete
  • Tom Owen
Assistant referees
Fourth officials
  • Juxhin Xhaja
  • David Fuxman
  • Snir Levi
  • Jasmin Šabotić

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was announced on 31 March 2022.
The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.
Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:
  1. Points obtained in all group matches;
  2. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above ;
  9. Disciplinary points
  10. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  11. Drawing of lots.

Group A


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Group B


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Group C


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Group D


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Knockout stage

The schedule for the knockout stage was released on 26 April 2022.

Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals took place on 25 May and 26 May.

Semi-finals

The semi-finals took place on 29 May.

Final

The final took place on 1 June.