2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
U17-Europamästerskapet i fotboll för damer 2024
Tournament details
Host countrySweden
Dates5–18 May
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored38 (3.17 per match)
Attendance1,956 (163 per match)
Top scorer(s)France Rachael Adedini
Spain Alba Cerrato
(4 goals each)
2023
2025
All statistics correct as of 12 May 2024.
International football competition

The 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship is the 15th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Sweden is hosting the tournament from 5 to 18 May. The matches are played in Malmö and Lund. Eight matches are played in Malmö IP, Malmö and eight matches are played in Klostergårdens IP, Lund.[1][2] A total of eight teams are playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.

In the 2023 final, France won their first title by defeating Spain 3–2.

This tournament also acts as UEFA's qualifier for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic, with the winner, runner-up and third placed teams qualifying as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Sweden also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[3]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Method of qualification Appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 Sweden Hosts 3rd 2023 (Group stage) Runners-up (2013)
 Portugal Round 2 Group A2 winners 3rd 2019 (Semi-finals) Semi-finals (2019)
 Belgium Round 2 Group A3 winners 2nd 2013 (Fourth place) Fourth place (2013)
 England Round 2 Group A6 winners 9th 2023 (Semi-finals) Third place (2016), Semi-finals (2023)
 Norway Round 2 Group A4 winners 6th 2022 (Group stage) Fourth place (2009, 2016), Semi-finals (2017)
 Poland Round 2 Group A7 winners 4th 2023 (Group stage) Champions (2013)
 Spain Round 2 Group A5 winners 13th 2023 (Runners-up) Champions (2010, 2011, 2015, 2018)
 France Round 2 Group A1 winners 10th 2023 (Champions) Champions (2023)

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).[4]

Venues

The venues for the 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship are Malmö IP, located in Sweden's third biggest city Malmö and Klostergårdens IP, located in Lund.

Malmö Lund
Malmö IP Klostergårdens IP
Capacity: 7,600 (3,900 seated) Capacity: 3,650 (500 seated)

Group stage

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

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02):[4]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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 that subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. 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);
  8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 9 Knockout stage
2  France 3 2 0 1 11 3 +8 6
3  Norway 3 1 0 2 2 11 −9 3
4  Sweden (H) 3 0 0 3 3 10 −7 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
England 3–0 Norway
  • Parkinson 6'
  • Harbert 12'
  • Brown 48'
Report
Attendance: 257
Referee: Fabienne Michel (Germany)
Sweden 2–3 France
  • Schröder 78'
  • Bartholdson 86'
Report
  • Ebayilin 18'
  • Rouquet 53'
  • Adedini 89'
Attendance: 1,279
Referee: Martina Molinaro (Italy)

Norway 0–8 France
Report
  • Gay 24'
  • Bironien 26', 35'
  • Chabod 37'
  • Adedini 77', 88', 90+2'
  • Tene 87'
Sweden 1–5 England
  • Schröder 6'
Report
  • Oboavwoduo 5'
  • Junaid 20'
  • Fisher 26', 29', 35'
Referee: Michaela Pachtová (Czech Republic)

Norway 2–0 Sweden
  • Broman 42' (o.g.)
  • Ulstein 82'
Report
Referee: Lotta Vuorio (Finland)
France 0–1 England
Report
  • Brown 81'
Referee: Miriama Bočková (Slovakia)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 3 3 0 0 9 0 +9 9 Knockout stage
2  Poland 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 4
3  Portugal 3 1 1 1 2 4 −2 4
4  Belgium 3 0 0 3 0 7 −7 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Poland 1–0 Belgium
  • Związek 31'
Report
Attendance: 207
Referee: Miriama Bočková (Slovakia)
Spain 3–0 Portugal
  • Segura 69'
  • Cerrato 77', 82' (pen.)
Report
Attendance: 213
Referee: Deborah Anex (Switzerland)

Belgium 0–1 Portugal
Report
  • Mélanie Florentino 90+3'
Referee: Lotta Vuorio (Finland)
Spain 1–0 Poland
  • Gómez 87'
Report
Referee: Oxana Cruc (Moldova)

Belgium 0–5 Spain
Report
  • Cerrato 69', 79'
  • Gómez 84'
  • Calo 87'
  • Segura 90+4'
Referee: Fabienne Michel (Germany)
Portugal 1–1 Poland
  • Joana Valente 49'
Report
  • Araśniewicz 13'
Referee: Michaela Pachtová (Czech Republic)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[4]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
15 May
 
 
 England
 
18 May
 
 Poland
 
 
 
15 May
 
 
 
 Spain
 
 
 France
 
Third place
 
 
18 May
 
 
 
 
 
 

Semi-finals

The winners qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The losers enter the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.

Spain v France
Report

England v Poland
Report
Referee: Deborah Anex (Switzerland)

Third place play-off

The winner qualifies for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Runner-up Semi-final 1vRunner-up Semi-final 2

Final

Winner Semi-final 1vWinner Semi-final 2

Goalscorers

There have been 38 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.17 goals per match (as of 12 May 2024).

4 goals

  • France Rachael Adedini
  • Spain Alba Cerrato

3 goals

  • England Isabella Fisher

2 goals

  • England Lola Brown
  • France Mymithye Bironien
  • Spain Ainoa Gómez
  • Spain Celia Segura
  • Sweden Felicia Schröder

1 goal

  • England Laila Harbert
  • England Omotara Junaid
  • England Jane Oboavwoduo
  • England Erica Parkinson
  • France Célia Chabod
  • France Anaïs Ebayilin
  • France Lina Gay
  • France Justine Rouquet
  • France Djenna-Léna Tene
  • Norway Elle Ulstein
  • Poland Weronika Araśniewicz
  • Poland Oliwia Związek
  • Portugal Mélanie Florentino
  • Portugal Joana Valente
  • Spain Lua Calo
  • Sweden Fabienne Bartholdson

1 own goal

  • Sweden Alice Broman (against Norway)

Source: UEFA

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1
15 May 2024
15 May 2024
18 May 2024
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. ^ "Sverige arrangerar F17-EM 2024". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
  2. ^ "2023 Women's U17 EURO finals: Estonia". UEFA. 24 August 2022.
  3. ^ "2022/23 Women's Under-17 EURO round 1 draw made". UEFA.com. 31 May 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship". UEFA.com.

External links

  • UEFA's Website with more information
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