2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship


The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 21st UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Cyprus hosted the tournament. 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

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 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.
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Venues

The tournament was hosted in 6 venues.

Officials

A total of 12 Referees and 12 Assistant Referees were selected by UEFA for the tournament.
RefereeAssistants
Finland

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

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Semi-finals

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Awards

The following awards were given after 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 Massimo Pessina
Defenders Emanuel Benjamín
Defenders Kacper Potulski
Defenders Noah Markmann
Defenders Cristian Cama
Midfielders Rodrigo Mora
Midfielders Vasilije Kostov
Midfielders Mattia Liberali
Forwards Geovany Quenda
Forwards Chido Obi
Forwards Francesco Camarda