2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
2023-es U17-es labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság
Tournament details
Host country	Hungary
Dates	17 May – 2 June
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	7 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (4th title)
Runners-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	105 (3.39 per match)
Attendance	27,854 (899 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Paris Brunner; Robert Ramsak; Marc Guiu; Lamine Yamal; (4 goals each)
Best player(s)	Paris Brunner
	← 2022 2024 →

The 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2023) was the 20th UEFA European Under-17 Championship (39th 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. Hungary hosted the tournament.^[2] 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

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 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 (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Hungary	Hosts	6th	2019 (Fifth place)	Fifth place (2019)
Serbia	Elite round Group 1 winners	9th²	2022 (Semi-finals)	Semi-finals (2022)
Wales	Elite round Group 2 winners	1st	Debut
Netherlands	Elite round Group 3 winners	15th	2022 (Runners-up)	Champions (2011, 2012, 2018, 2019)
Spain	Elite round Group 4 winners	15th	2022 (Quarter-finals)	Champions (2007, 2008, 2017)
Portugal	Elite round Group 5 winners	10th	2022 (Semi-finals)	Champions (2003, 2016)
Republic of Ireland	Elite round Group 6 winners	6th	2019 (Group stage)	Quarter-finals (2017, 2018)
Croatia	Elite round Group 7 winners	5th	2017 (Group stage)	Fourth place (2005)
France	Elite round Group 8 winners	14th	2022 (Champions)	Champions (2004, 2015, 2022)
Scotland	Elite round Group 2 runners-up¹	7th	2022 (Group stage)	Semi-finals (2014)
England	Elite round Group 3 runners-up¹	15th	2019 (Group stage)	Champions (2010, 2014)
Germany	Elite round Group 4 runners-up¹	14th	2022 (Quarter-finals)	Champions (2009)
Poland	Elite round Group 5 runners-up¹	4th	2022 (Group stage)	Semi-finals (2012)
Italy	Elite round Group 6 runners-up¹	11th	2022 (Quarter-finals)	Runners-up (2013, 2018, 2019)
Slovenia	Elite round Group 7 runners-up¹	4th	2018 (Group stage)	Group stage (2012, 2015, 2018)
Switzerland	Elite round Group 8 runners-up¹	9th	2018 (Group stage)	Champions (2002)

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 seven as Serbia

Final draw

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

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Seeding
1	—	Hungary (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Host (A1)

2	8	France	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9	Pot 1
3	5	Portugal	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9
4	6	Republic of Ireland	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7
5	4	Spain	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
6	3	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
7	7	Croatia	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
8	1	Serbia	3	2	0	1	9	2	+7	6

9	2	Wales	3	1	2	0	7	5	+2	5	A3

10	6	Italy	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7	Pot 2
11	4	Germany	3	2	0	1	12	5	+7	6
12	5	Poland	3	2	0	1	6	1	+5	6
13	3	England	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
14	8	Switzerland	3	1	1	1	7	5	+2	4
15	7	Slovenia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
16	2	Scotland	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	4

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
(H) Hosts

Venues

The tournament was hosted in 7 venues.^[4]

Debrecen	Balmazújváros	Budaörs
Nagyerdei Stadion	Városi Sportpálya	Árok utcai pálya
Capacity: 20,340	Capacity: 2,435	Capacity: 1,204
4 group games	4 group games, 1 quarter-final	3 group games, World Cup play-off

Balmazújváros Debrecen Telki Budaörs Budapest Felcsút		Budapest
		Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion
		Capacity: 5,322
		4 group games, 1 quarter-final, final

Telki	Debrecen	Felcsút
Telki Training Centre	DEAC Stadion	Pancho Aréna
Capacity: 1,000	Capacity: 1,500	Capacity: 3,816
2 group games, 1 quarter-final	4 group games, 1 quarter-final	3 group games, 2 semi-finals

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

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	Poland	3	2	1	10	7	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Republic of Ireland	3	2	1	8	7	+1	6	Knockout stage
3	Hungary (H)	3	1	2	8	9	−1	3
4	Wales	3	1	2	3	6	−3	3

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

17 May 2023

16:30

Poland	5–1	Republic of Ireland
Skoczylas 13', 49' Szala 44' Borys 54' Kądziołka 65'	Report	Orazi 5'

Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 412

Referee: Atilla Karaoglan (Turkey)

17 May 2023