UEFA European Under-17 Championship

UEFA European Under-17 Championship

Founded	1982
Region	Europe (UEFA)
Number of teams	53 (qualification rounds) 8/16 (final tournament)
Current champions	France (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Spain (8 titles)
2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

The UEFA European Under-17 Championship is an annual European association football competition contested by the men's under-17 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Established in 1982, the competition was organised as an under-16 event until 2001, when it was changed to its current age category. In odd years, it serves as the European qualifying tournament for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

The current competition format consists of three stages: a qualifying round, an elite round and a final tournament. The first stage takes place in autumn of the previous year, while the elite round is played in spring. The winners of each elite round group join the host team in the final tournament, played in May.

Spain is the most successful team in this competition, having won eight titles and finished in the podium sixteen times. The current champions are France, who defeated Germany in the 2015 tournament final.

Tournaments

UEFA European Under-16 Championship

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1982 Details	Italy	Italy	1 – 0	West Germany	Yugoslavia	0 – 0 (4–2) ps	Finland
1984 Details	West Germany	West Germany	2 – 0	Soviet Union	England	1 – 0	Yugoslavia
1985 Details	Hungary	Soviet Union	4 – 0	Greece	Spain	1 – 0	East Germany
1986 Details	Greece	Spain	2 – 1	Italy	Soviet Union	1 – 1 (9–8) ps	East Germany
1987 Details	France	Italy Title not awarded[1]	(1 – 0) 0 – 3[2]	Soviet Union	France	3 – 0	Turkey
1988 Details	Spain	Spain	0 – 0 (4–2) ps	Portugal	East Germany	0 – 0 (5–4) ps	West Germany
1989 Details	Denmark	Portugal	4 – 1	East Germany	France	3 – 2	Spain
1990 Details	East Germany	Czechoslovakia	3 – 2 aet	Yugoslavia	Poland	3 – 2	Portugal
1991 Details	Switzerland	Spain	2 – 0	Germany	Greece	1 – 1 (5–4) ps	France
1992 Details	Cyprus	Germany	2 – 1	Spain	Italy	1 – 0	Portugal
1993 Details	Turkey	Poland	1 – 0	Italy	Czechoslovakia	2 – 1	France
1994 Details	Republic of Ireland	Turkey	1 – 0	Denmark	Ukraine	2 – 0	Austria
1995 Details	Belgium	Portugal	2 – 0	Spain	Germany	2 – 1 aet	France
1996 Details	Austria	Portugal	1 – 0	France	Israel	3 – 2	Greece
1997 Details	Germany	Spain	0 – 0 (5–4) ps	Austria	Germany	3 – 1	Switzerland
1998 Details	Scotland	Republic of Ireland	2 – 1	Italy	Spain	2 – 1	Portugal
1999 Details	Czech Republic	Spain	4 – 1	Poland	Germany	2 – 1	Czech Republic
2000 Details	Israel	Portugal	2 – 1 asdet	Czech Republic	Netherlands	5 – 0	Greece
2001 Details	England	Spain	1 – 0	France	Croatia	4 – 1	England

Format

Year of tournament	Format	Number of teams
1982–1984	Semi-finals, third place playoff and final	4
1985–1992	Four groups of four teams, semi-finals, third place playoff and final	16
1993–2001	Four groups of four teams, quarter-finals, semi-finals, third place playoff and final

UEFA European Under-17 Championship

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
2002 Details	Denmark	Switzerland	0 – 0 (4–2) ps	France	England	4 – 1	Spain
2003 Details	Portugal	Portugal	2 – 1	Spain	Austria	1 – 0	England
2004 Details	France	France	2 – 1	Spain	Portugal	4 – 4 (3–2) ps	England
2005 Details	Italy	Turkey	2 – 0	Netherlands	Italy	2 – 1 aet	Croatia
2006 Details	Luxembourg	Russia	2 – 2 (5–3) ps	Czech Republic	Spain	1 – 1 (3–2) ps	Germany
Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists ^(1)
		Winner	Score	Runner-up
2007 Details	Belgium	Spain	1 – 0	England	Belgium and  France
2008 Details	Turkey	Spain	4 – 0	France	Netherlands and  Turkey
2009 Details	Germany	Germany	2 – 1 aet	Netherlands	Italy and   Switzerland
2010 Details	Liechtenstein	England	2 – 1	Spain	France and  Turkey
2011 Details	Serbia	Netherlands	5 – 2	Germany	Denmark and  England
2012 Details	Slovenia	Netherlands	1 – 1 (5–4) ps	Germany	Georgia and  Poland
2013 Details	Slovakia	Russia	0 – 0 (5–4) ps	Italy	Slovakia and  Sweden
2014 Details	Malta[3]	England	1 – 1 (4–1) ps	Netherlands	Portugal and  Scotland
2015 Details	Bulgaria[3]	France	4 – 1	Germany	Belgium and  Russia
2016 Details	Azerbaijan[3]
2017 Details	Croatia
2018 Details	England

¹No third place match has been played since 2007; losing semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

• Key:
  • aet – after extra time
  • asdet – after sudden death extra time
  • ps – after penalty shoot-out

Format

Year of tournament	Format	Number of teams
2002	Four groups of four teams, quarter-finals, semi-finals, third place playoff and final	16
2003–2006	Two groups of four teams, semi-finals, third place playoff and final	8
2007–2014	Two groups of four teams, semi-finals and final
2015–present	Four groups of four teams, quarter-finals, playoffs between quarter-final losers (in odd years only, for qualifying to FIFA U-17 World Cup), semi-finals, and final	16

Winners

Country	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place^(1)	Fourth-place^(1)	Semi-finalists^(1)
Spain	8 (1986, 1988, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008)	5 (1990, 1995, 2003, 2004, 2010)	3 (1985, 1998, 2006)	2 (1989, 2002)
Portugal	5 (1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003)	1 (1988)	1 (2004)	3 (1990, 1992, 1998)	1 (2014)
Germany^(2)	3 (1984, 1992, 2009)	6 (1982, 1989, 1991, 2011, 2012, 2015)	4 (1988, 1995, 1997, 1999)	4 (1985, 1986, 1988, 2006)
Russia^(3)	3 (1985, 2006, 2013)	2 (1984, 1987)	1 (1986)		1 (2015)
France	2 (2004, 2015)	4 (1996, 2001, 2002, 2008)	2 (1987, 1989)	3 (1991, 1993, 1995)	2 (2007, 2010)
Netherlands	2 (2011, 2012)	3 (2005, 2009, 2014)	1 (2000)		1 (2008)
England	2 (2010, 2014)	1 (2007)	2 (1984, 2002)	3 (2001, 2003, 2004)	1 (2011)
Turkey	2 (1994, 2005)			1 (1987)	2 (2008, 2010)
Italy[1]	1 (1982)	4 (1986, 1993, 1998, 2013)	2 (1992, 2005)		1 (2009)
Czech Republic^(4)	1 (1990)	2 (2000, 2006)	1 (1993)	1 (1999)
Poland	1 (1993)	1 (1999)	1 (1990)		1 (2012)
Switzerland	1 (2002)			1 (1997)	1 (2009)
Republic of Ireland	1 (1998)
Greece		1 (1985)	1 (1991)	2 (1996, 2000)
Austria		1 (1997)	1 (2003)	1 (1994)
Yugoslavia		1 (1990)	1 (1982)	1 (1984)
Denmark		1 (1994)			1 (2011)
Croatia			1 (2001)	1 (2005)
Israel			1 (1996)
Ukraine			1 (1994)
Finland				1 (1982)
Belgium					2 (2007, 2015)
Georgia					1 (2012)
Scotland					1 (2014)
Slovakia					1 (2013)
Sweden					1 (2013)

¹ There was no match to determine 3rd place after the 2006 tournament.

² Including  West Germany and  East Germany.

³ Including  Soviet Union.

⁴ Including  Czechoslovakia.

Golden Player Award

UEFA Under-17 former logo

Since the 2002 edition, the Golden Player Award has been given to the most valuable player of the tournament.^[4]

Tournament	Golden Player
2002 Denmark	Wayne Rooney
2003 Portugal	Miguel Veloso
2004 France	Cesc Fàbregas
2005 Italy	Nuri Şahin
2006 Luxembourg	Toni Kroos
2007 Belgium	Bojan Krkić
2008 Turkey	Danijel Aleksić
2009 Germany	Mario Götze
2010 Liechtenstein	Connor Wickham
2011 Serbia	Kyle Ebecilio
2012 Slovenia	Max Meyer
2013 Slovakia	Anton Mitryushkin
2014 Malta	Steven Bergwijn
2015 Bulgaria	Odsonne Edouard

See also

• UEFA European Championship
• UEFA European Under-21 Championship
• UEFA European Under-19 Championship

References

1. It was then ruled that Roberto Secci had not been eligible to play in the competition, and UEFA decided that the title of Under-16 champions would not be awarded this year.
   "Italy success overruled". uefa.com. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
2. "UEFA Under17 Championship 2008 Technical Report" (pdf). Retrieved 2009-03-19.
3. "Malta, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan picked for U17s". UEFA. 2012-03-20.
4. Cradle of the stars

External links

• UEFA.com