2026 UEFA European Under-17 Championship


The 2026 UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be the 23rd edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Estonia, which were selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023, will host the tournament.
A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2009 eligible to participate.
The tournament and its qualification will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top teams will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
''Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era.''

Venues

The tournament will be hosted in 4 venues.

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-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.