The 2026 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship will be the 17th 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. Northern Ireland 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 2009 eligible to participate.
The defending champions are the Netherlands, having won their first title by defeating Norway 2–1 in the 2025 final, but are unable to defend their title as they did not qualify for this tournament.
50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Northern Ireland also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts.
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;
The two third-placed teams in each group will play a 90-minute play-off match followed by a penalty shoot-out to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time would be played), with the winning team qualifying for the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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Northern Ireland 
Germany 
England 
Finland 
France 
Norway 
Spain 
Poland 
