2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

For the women's tournament, see 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship.

2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2025 UEFA Kampionati Evropian U-17
Tournament details
Host country	Albania
Dates	19 May – 1 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (7th title)
Runners-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	54 (3.6 per match)
Attendance	63,571 (4,238 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Samuele Inacio (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Rafael Quintas
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The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (41st edition if the under-16 era is included), the annual international football competition contested by the men's under-17 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Albania was selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023 to host the final tournament, for the first time. ^[1]

Promotion for the tournament in Tirana

A total of eight teams competed in the final tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2008 eligible to participate. ^[2] Unlike previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament qualification competition served as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, while the final tournament no longer served as the UEFA qualifiers, with the top 11 teams qualifying for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the UEFA representatives, while the final tournament had only eight teams competed.

Portugal won the competition for the 7th time (3rd in the under-17 era) after defeating France 3–0 in the final.

Qualification

Main article: 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

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	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Albania	Hosts	1st	Debut
Italy	League A Group A1 winners	13th	2024 (Champions)	Champions (2024)
Germany	League A Group A2 winners	15th	2023 (Champions)	Champions (2009, 2023)
France	League A Group A3 winners	16th	2024 (Group stage)	Champions (2004, 2015, 2022)
Portugal	League A Group A4 winners	12th	2024 (Runners-up)	Champions (2003, 2016)
Czech Republic	League A Group A5 winners	8th	2024 (Quarter-finals)	Runners-up (2006)
Belgium	League A Group A6 winners	9th	2022 (Group stage)	Semi-finals (2007, 2015, 2018)
England	League A Group A7 winners	17th	2024 (Quarter-finals)	Champions (2010, 2014)

Venues

The tournament will be hosted in 4 venues. ^[3]

Durrës	Elbasan
Niko Dovana Stadium Capacity: 12,040	Elbasan Arena Capacity: 12,800
Durrës Elbasan Rrogozhinë Tirana
Rrogozhinë	Tirana
Egnatia Arena Capacity: 4,000	Arena Kombëtare Capacity: 22,500

Officials

A total of 6 referees and 6 assistant referees were selected by UEFA for the tournament. ^[4]

Referee	Assistants
Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)	Luka Pajić (Croatia)
Mikkel Redder (Denmark)	Martin Markus (Denmark)
Oliver Reitala (Finland)	Olli Jantunen (Finland)
Joey Kooij (Netherlands)	Dyon Fikkert (Netherlands)
Łukasz Kuźma (Poland)	Marek Arys (Poland)
Oleksiy Derevinskyi (Ukraine)	Oleksiy Myronov (Ukraine)
	Christopher Rae (Scotland)
	Guillaume Maire (Switzerland)

Squads

Main article: 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads

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: 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 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 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.

All times are local CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7	7	Knockout stage
2	Portugal	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
3	Germany	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
4	Albania (H)	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

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

19 May 2025 (2025-05-19)

18:00

Albania	0−4	Portugal
	Report	Quintas 36' Mide 68' (pen.) Cabral 82' Soares 90+2'

Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

Attendance: 8,662

Referee: Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)

19 May 2025 (2025-05-19)

20:30

Germany	0−3	France
	Report	Azizi 1' N'Guessan 12' Batola 78'

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 4,400

Referee: Joey Kooij (Netherlands)

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22 May 2025 (2025-05-22)

18:00

Albania	0–4	Germany
	Report	Mensah 7' Staff 20' Mike 66' Oteng-Mensah 85' (pen.)

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 8,330

Referee: Kamal Umudlu (Azerbaijan)

22 May 2025 (2025-05-22)

20:30

France	0−0	Portugal
	Report

Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

Attendance: 3,013

Referee: Lukasz Kuzma (Poland)

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25 May 2025 (2025-05-25)

20:30

France	4–0	Albania
Malonga 33' Coulibaly 51' N'Guessan 66', 79'	Report

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 4,400

Referee: Oleksiy Derevinskyi (Ukraine)

25 May 2025 (2025-05-25)

20:30

Portugal	2–1	Germany
Chelmik 76' Banjaqui 89'	Report	Isbruch 72'

Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

Attendance: 2,723

Referee: Mikkel Redder (Denmark)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	8	4	+4	9	Knockout stage
2	Belgium	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	England	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
4	Czech Republic	3	0	0	3	4	9	−5	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

20 May 2025 (2025-05-20)

18:00

England	1–1	Belgium
Rodriguez 12'	Report	Fernandez 49'

Egnatia Arena, Rrogozhinë

Attendance: 1,688

Referee: Lukasz Kuzma (Poland)

20 May 2025 (2025-05-20)

20:30

Italy	2–1	Czech Republic
Inacio 38' Arena 42'	Report	Srb 53'

Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës

Attendance: 4,445

Referee: Oleksii Derevinskyi (Ukraine)

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23 May 2025 (2025-05-23)

18:00

Belgium	3–1	Czech Republic
Camara 24', 42' Gielen 45'	Report	Čížek 65'

Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës

Attendance: 2,950

Referee: Mikkel Redder (Denmark)

23 May 2025 (2025-05-23)

20:30

Italy	4–2	England
Inacio 10' (pen.) De Paoli 37' Campaniello 67' Luongo 77'	Report	Rodriguez 23', 49'

Egnatia Arena, Rrogozhinë

Attendance: 3,074

Referee: Joey Kooij (Netherlands)

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26 May 2025 (2025-05-26)

20:30

Belgium	1–2	Italy
De Wannemacker 13'	Report	Inacio 62', 79' (pen.)

Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës

Attendance: 3,900

Referee: Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)

26 May 2025 (2025-05-26)

20:30

Czech Republic	2–4	England
Palaščák 59' Sochůrek 89'	Report	Dowman 6' Rodríguez 15' Howell 36' Gray 40'

Egnatia Arena, Rrogozhinë

Attendance: 1,513

Referee: Florian Lata (Albania)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played). ^{[5] [6]}

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	29 May – Elbasan
	France	3
					1 June – Tirana
	Belgium	2
					France	0
	29 May – Tirana
					Portugal	3
	Italy	2 (3)
	Portugal (p)	2 (4)

Semi-finals

29 May 2025

18:00

France	3–2	Belgium
A. Camara 42' Matondo 50' N'Guessan 54'	Report	N. Fernandez 45+2' (pen.) Wins 79'

Elbasan Arena, Elbasan

Attendance: 2,030

Referee: Mikkel Redder (Denmark)

29 May 2025

20:30

Italy	2−2	Portugal
Inacio 20' Baralla 59'	Report	Stevan 28' Soares 67'
Penalties
Comotto Prisco Giani Inacio Maccaroni Iddrisa	3–4	Soares Pereira Neves Mide Dbouk Chelmik

Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Joey Kooij (Netherlands)

Final

1 June 2025

20:30

France	0–3	Portugal
	Report	Cabral 30' D. Cunha 38' Neves 60'

Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

Attendance: 10,243

Referee: Oleksii Derevinskyi (Ukraine)

Goalscorers

There were 54 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.6 goals per match.

5 goals

• Samuele Inacio

4 goals

• Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez
• Djylian N'Guessan

2 goals

• Ali Camara
• Noah Fernandez
• Anísio Cabral
• Tomás Soares

1 goal

• August De Wannemacker
• Wout Gielen
• Axl Wins
• Kryštof Čížek
• Martin Palaščák
• Hugo Sochůrek
• Matouš Srb
• Max Dowman
• Harry Gray
• Harry Howell
• Ilyas Azizi
• Christ Batola
• Abdoulaye Camara
• Djibril Coulibaly
• Hermann Malonga
• Rudy Matondo
• Lasse Isbruch
• Jeremiah Mensah
• Wisdom Mike
• Kenziah Oteng-Mensah
• Alexander Staff
• Antonio Arena
• Alessio Baralla
• Thomas Campaniello
• Cristiano De Paoli
• Andrea Luongo
• Daniel Banjaqui
• Martim Chelmik
• Duarte Cunha
• Stevan Manuel
• Mateus Mide
• Gil Neves
• Rafael Quintas

Awards

The following awards were given after the conclusion of the tournament:

• Player of the Tournament: Rafael Quintas ^[7]
• Top Scorer: Samuele Inacio ^[8]

Team of the Tournament

After the tournament, the Under-17 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel. ^[9]

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Romário Cunha
Right Back	Daniel Banjaqui
Centre Back	Emmanuel Mbemba
Centre Back	Mauro Furtado
Left Back	Lucas Batbedat
Defensive Midfielder	Nathan De Cat
Defensive Midfielder	Rafael Quintas
Right Winger	Duarte Cunha
Attacking Midfielder	Samuele Inacio
Left Winger	Jesse Bisiwu
Centre Forward	Djylian N'Guessan

References

1. "Albania, Estonia, Latvia to host U17 EURO in 2025, 2026, 2027". UEFA. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
2. New U17 Euro format from 2024/25, UEFA.com
3. "2024 U17 EURO finals in Cyprus: Tournament information". UEFA . Retrieved 4 March 2024.
4. "UEFA zyrtarizon arbitrat kryesorë për Europianin U-17 "Shqipëri 2025"". Albanian Football Federation. 16 May 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
5. "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship". UEFA. 16 April 2025.
6. "2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship: All the fixtures". UEFA. 1 April 2025.
7. "Rafael Quintas named 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship Player of the Tournament". UEFA . 1 June 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
8. "2025 Under-17 EURO top scorer: Inacio finishes out in front". UEFA . 30 May 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
9. "2025 U17 EURO Team of the Tournament". UEFA . 3 June 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025.

External links

• Official website