2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship


The 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 20th UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Hungary hosted the tournament. A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after [|1] January 2006 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives.
France, having won the title in 2022, entered as the title holders, but would lose in the final to Germany, who won their fourth title.

Host selection

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

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Hungary qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2022, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2023, 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.
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Final draw

The final draw was made on 3 April 2023 at Ensana Thermal Margaret Island Health Spa Hotel, Budapest.

Venues

The tournament was hosted in 7 venues.

Match officials

The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:
Referees
Assistant referees
  • Nertil Bregasi
  • Andreu Vilanova
  • Elsad Abdullayev
  • Kyriakos Sokratous
  • Konstandinos Psarris
  • Adam Jeffrey
  • Bartosz Heinig
  • Milan Šutulović
  • Peter Bednar
  • David Gabrovec
  • Mehmet Tugral
  • Daniel Yng

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:
  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 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;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. 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 ;
  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

In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

Quarter-finals

Winners qualified for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup. The two best losing quarter-finalists entered the FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off.
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Ranking of losing quarter-finalists

To determine the two best losing quarter-finalists which entered the FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off, the losing quarter-finalists were ranked by the following criteria :
  1. Position in the group stage ;
  2. Results in the group stage ;
  3. Results in the quarter-finals ;
  4. Disciplinary points in the group stage and quarter-finals combined;
  5. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  6. Drawing of lots.

FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off

Winner qualified for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Semi-finals

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Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Team of the Tournament

After the tournament, the Under-17 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.
PositionPlayer
Goalkeeper Max Schmitt
Defenders Eric da Silva Moreira
Defenders Finn Jeltsch
Defenders Ishé Samuels-Smith
Defenders Nhoa Sangui
Midfielders Noah Darvich
Midfielders Fayssal Harchaoui
Midfielders Saïmon Bouabré
Forwards Lamine Yamal
Forwards Marc Guiu
Forwards Paris Brunner

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
2
10
10
7
4