2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

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2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
2025 kvinnur U-17 dmeistaraheitið fótbólt
Tournament details
Host countryFaroe Islands
DatesTBD
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Attendance0
2024
2026

The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship will be the 16th 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. Faroe Islands will be hosting the tournament. [1] A total of eight teams will be playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2008 eligible to participate.

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In the 2024 final, Spain won their fifth title by defeating England 4–0.

This tournament will also act as UEFA's qualifier for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco, with top five teams qualifying as the UEFA representatives. [2]

Qualification

50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Faroe Islands also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts.

TeamMethod of qualificationAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg  Faroe Islands Hosts1stDebut

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

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco.

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 1
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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References

  1. "Estonia, Sweden, Faroe Islands to host Women's U17 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025". UEFA. 19 April 2021.
  2. "Morocco awarded multi-year hosting rights to FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup™". FIFA. 14 March 2024.