2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Mistrzostwa Europy U-21 w Piłce Nożnej 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Poland
Dates	16–30 June 2017
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)

The 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship will be the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (24th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament will be hosted in Poland in mid-2017, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 26 January 2015 in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1] The tournament will take place from 16 to 30 June 2017.^[2] Players born on or after 1 January 1994 will be eligible for the tournament.

In March 2012, UEFA announced that the competition would take place in even numbered years from 2016 onwards.^[3] In September 2013, UEFA announced its intention to continue holding the final tournament in odd numbered years following a request from its member national football associations.^[4] On 24 January 2014, UEFA confirmed that the final tournament will be held in 2017 and that it will be expanded from 8 teams to 12.^[5]

Hosts

The hosts were announced at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 26 January 2015. In late April 2014 the Polish football association PZPN very strongly indicated the country has high chances to host the tournament. Bidding to welcome Europe's best youth teams was one of the reasons for Poland's withdrawal from the Euro 2020 race.^[6]

Qualification

Main article: 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

A total of 53 UEFA nations entered the competition (Gibraltar did not enter), and with the hosts Poland qualifying automatically, the other 52 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 11 spots in the final tournament.^[7] The qualifying competition, which will take place from March 2015 to November 2016, consists of two rounds:^[8]

Qualifying group stage: The 52 teams are drawn into nine groups – seven groups of six teams and two groups of five teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the four best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) advance to the play-offs.
Play-offs: The four teams are drawn into two ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last two qualified teams.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Poland	Hosts	01 !26 January 2015	06 !6th	1994	05 !Quarter-finals (1982, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994)

Final draw

The final draw will be held in late 2016 in Poland.^[9] The 12 teams will be drawn into three groups of four teams. The hosts Poland will be assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

On 14 July 2015, Polish Football Association proposed seven venues:^[10]

Opening match, semifinal, and Final	Group A	Group A	Group B
Warsaw	Gdynia	Bydgoszcz	Lublin
Polish Army Stadium	Stadion GOSiR	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium	Arena Lublin
Capacity: 31,103	Capacity: 15,139	Capacity: 20,247	Capacity: 15,500

Group B	Group C	Group C	Warsaw Kielce Tychy Gdynia Kraków Lublin Bydgoszcz
Kielce	Kraków	Tychy
Kielce City Stadium	Marshal Józef Piłsudski Stadium	Tychy City Stadium
Capacity: 15,500	Capacity: 15,016	Capacity: 15,300

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he can be replaced by another player.^[8]

Group stage

The group winners and the best runner-up advance to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:^[8]

Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
If only two teams have the same number of points, and they are tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out (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).
Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
Position in the UEFA under-21 national team coefficient ranking for the final draw.

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

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Poland (H)	Knockout stage
2	A2	Possible qualification based on ranking
3	A3
4	A4

First match(es) will be played on June 2017. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.

Poland v A2

June 2017

Poland	v	A2

A3 v A4

June 2017

A3	v	A4

Poland v A3

June 2017

Poland	v	A3

A2 v A4

June 2017

A2	v	A4

A4 v Poland

June 2017

A4	v	Poland

A2 v A3

June 2017

A2	v	A3

Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	B1	Knockout stage
2	B2	Possible qualification based on ranking
3	B3
4	B4

First match(es) will be played on June 2017. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

B1 v B2

June 2017

B1	v	B2

B3 v B4

June 2017

B3	v	B4

B1 v B3

June 2017

B1	v	B3

B2 v B4

June 2017

B2	v	B4

B4 v B1

June 2017

B4	v	B1

B2 v B3

June 2017

B2	v	B3

Group C

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	C1	Knockout stage
2	C2	Possible qualification based on ranking
3	C3
4	C4

First match(es) will be played on June 2017. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

C1 v C2

June 2017

C1	v	C2

C3 v C4

June 2017

C3	v	C4

C1 v C3

June 2017

C1	v	C3

C2 v C4

June 2017

C2	v	C4

C4 v C1

June 2017

C4	v	C1

C2 v C3

June 2017

C2	v	C3

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Qualification
1	A	Group A second place	Knockout stage
2	B	Group B second place
3	C	Group C second place

First match(es) will be played on June 2017. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient.^[8]

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.^[8]

On 2 May 2016, the UEFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.^[11]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final

	June –

	Winner Group A
					30 June –
	Runner-up Group B/C or Winner Group C
					Winner Semi-final 1
	June –
					Winner Semi-final 2
	Winner Group B

	Runner-up Group A or Winner Group C

Semi-finals

June 2017

Winner Group A	Semi-final 1	Runner-up Group B/C or Winner Group C

June 2017

Winner Group B	Semi-final 2	Runner-up Group A or Winner Group C

Final

30 June 2017

Winner Semi-final 1	v	Winner Semi-final 2

References

↑ "Poland to host 2017 Under-21 EUROs". UEFA.com. 26 January 2015.
↑ "Cardiff to host 2017 UEFA Champions League final". UEFA.org. 30 June 2015.
↑ "Czech Republic to host 2015 Under-21 finals". UEFA.com. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
↑ "Strategic points lead Dubrovnik talks". UEFA.com. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
↑ "U21 final tournament expanding to 12 teams". UEFA.com. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
↑ "Euro 2020: Croatia, Poland and Portugal also withdraw". StadiumDB.com.com. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
↑ "Seedings set for 2017 U21 qualifying draw". UEFA.com. 30 January 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2015–17" (PDF). UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
↑ "Final tournament draw". UEFA.com.
↑ "PZPN rekomenduje siedem miast na gospodarzy Euro U-21 w 2017". Sport.interia.pl. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
↑ "FIFA Executive Committee approves key priorities to restore trust in FIFA". UEFA. 2 May 2016.

External links

Official website
2017 finals: Poland, UEFA.com

UEFA European U-21 and U-23 Championship

Under-23 Championship

Without host	1970–1972 1972–1974 1974–1976

Under-21 Championship

Without host	1976–1978 1978–1980 1980–1982 1982–1984 1984–1986 1986–1988 1988–1990 1990–1992

With host	France 1994 Spain 1996 Romania 1998 Slovakia 2000 Switzerland 2002 Germany 2004 Portugal 2006 Netherlands 2007 Sweden 2009 Denmark 2011 Israel 2013 Czech Republic 2015 Poland 2017 TBA 2019

Qualification	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

Finals	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Squads	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

National under-21 football teams of Europe (UEFA)

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Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany USSR Yugoslavia

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