2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
Craobhchomórtais Sacair na hEorpa faoi 17 mbliana 2019
Tournament details
Host country	Republic of Ireland
Dates	3–19 May
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	7 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (4th title)
Runners-up	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	104 (3.25 per match)
Attendance	47,456 (1,483 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Adil Aouchiche ; (9 goals)
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Last updated June 23, 2024

The 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2019) was the 18th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (37th 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. The Republic of Ireland, which was selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, hosted the tournament.^[1]

A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2002 eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions were permitted per team in each match.^[2] Moreover, each match has a regular duration of 90 minutes, instead of 80 minutes in previous seasons.

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 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as the UEFA representatives.

In the final, defending champions Netherlands defeated Italy 4–2 to win their fourth title.^[3]

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Republic of Ireland qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.^[4] The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2018, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2019.^[5]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.^[6]

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Republic of Ireland	Hosts	5th	2018 (quarter-finals)	Quarter-finals (2017, 2018)
Italy	Elite round Group 1 winners	9th	2018 (runners-up)	Runners-up (2013, 2018)
Austria	Elite round Group 1 runners-up^{[^]}	6th	2016 (quarter-finals)	Third place (2003)
Netherlands	Elite round Group 2 winners	13th	2018 (champions)	Champions (2011, 2012, 2018)
Czech Republic	Elite round Group 2 runners-up^{[^]}	6th	2015 (group stage)	Runners-up (2006)
England	Elite round Group 3 winners	14th	2018 (semi-finals)	Champions (2010, 2014)
Iceland	Elite round Group 4 winners	3rd	2012 (group stage)	Group stage (2007, 2012)
Germany	Elite round Group 4 runners-up^{[^]}	12th	2018 (group stage)	Champions (2009)
Spain	Elite round Group 5 winners	13th	2018 (quarter-finals)	Champions (2007, 2008, 2017)
Greece	Elite round Group 5 runners-up^{[^]}	3rd	2015 (group stage)	Group stage (2010, 2015)
Portugal	Elite round Group 6 winners	8th	2018 (group stage)	Champions (2003, 2016)
Russia	Elite round Group 6 runners-up^{[^]}	4th	2015 (semi-finals)	Champions (2006, 2013)
Belgium	Elite round Group 7 winners	7th	2018 (semi-finals)	Semi-finals (2007, 2015, 2018)
Hungary	Elite round Group 7 runners-up^{[^]}	5th	2017 (sixth place)	Quarter-finals (2017)
France	Elite round Group 8 winners	12th	2017 (fifth place)	Champions (2004, 2015)
Sweden	Elite round Group 8 runners-up^{[^]}	4th	2018 (quarter-finals)	Semi-finals (2013)

Notes

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The best seven runners-up among all eight elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.

Final draw

The final draw was held on 4 April 2019, 18:30 IST (UTC+1), at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.^[7] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The hosts Republic of Ireland were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round. The seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) were placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) were placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.

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

2	2	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	12	2	+10	9	Pot 1
3	1	Italy	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9
4	7	Belgium	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9
5	8	France	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9
6	6	Portugal	3	3	0	0	6	2	+4	9
7	5	Spain	3	3	0	0	4	0	+4	9
8	4	Iceland	3	2	1	0	9	5	+4	7
9	3	England	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7	Pot 2

10	6	Russia	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6	Pot 2
11	5	Greece	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6
12	2	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6
13	7	Hungary	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
14	4	Germany	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
15	1	Austria	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
16	8	Sweden	3	1	1	1	2	3	−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 seven venues:

Dublin	Dublin (see below) Longford Waterford Bray 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (Ireland)	Longford
Tallaght Stadium		City Calling Stadium
Capacity: 8,183		Capacity: 3,578
4 group matches, 1 quarter-final, 1 semi-final, final		4 group matches

Waterford	Tallaght Stadium Tolka Park UCD Bowl Whitehall Stadium 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (Dublin)	Bray
Waterford Regional Sports Centre		Carlisle Grounds
Capacity: 2,978		Capacity: 2,122
4 group matches		2 group matches, 1 quarter-final

Dublin
Tolka Park	UCD Bowl	Whitehall Stadium
Capacity: 3,707	Capacity: 3,000	Capacity: 2,500
2 group matches, 1 quarter-final, FIFA Play-Off	4 group matches, 1 quarter-final, 1 semi-final	4 group matches

Match officials

A total of 8 referees, 12 assistant referees and 4 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.^[6]

Referees

Jørgen Daugbjerg Burchardt
Manfredas Lukjančukas
Trustin Farrugia Cann
Espen Eskås
Krzysztof Jakubik
Donald Robertson
Rade Obrenović
Mykola Balakin

Assistant referees

Ilir Tartaraj
Yauheni Ramanau
Deniz Sokolov
Jan Hermansen
Riku Vihreävuori
Gylfi Mar Sigurdsson
Fatlum Berisha
Sergey Vassyutin
Raimonds Tatriks
Joaquim Da Silva
Frantisek Ferenc
Lewiss Ross Edwards

Fourth officials

Kaarlo Oskari Hämäläinen
Petri Viljanen
Paul McLaughlin
Iwan Arwel Griffith

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 38).^[5]

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was announced on 11 April 2019.^[8]

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):^[5]

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 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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
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 (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

All times are local, IST (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5	Knockout stage
2	Czech Republic	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5	Knockout stage
3	Republic of Ireland (H)	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
4	Greece	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

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

3 May 2019

12:00

Czech Republic	1–1	Belgium
De Wolf 53' (o.g.)	Report	Baeten 90+5'

Tolka Park, Dublin

Attendance: 714

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

3 May 2019