2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
אליפות אירופה עד גיל 17 של אופ"א 2022
Tournament details
Host country	Israel
Dates	16 May – 1 June
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (3rd title)
Runners-up	Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	101 (3.26 per match)
Attendance	23,834 (769 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jovan Milošević (5 goals)
	← 2019; 2020; 2021 2023 →

The 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2022) was the 19th UEFA European Under-17 Championship (38th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Israel was hosting the tournament.^[1] A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.^{[citation needed]}

Netherlands, having won the title in 2018 and 2019, were the two-times title holders, since the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the title was not awarded.

Host selection[edit]

The timeline of host selection was as follows:^[2]

11 January 2019: bidding procedure launched
28 February 2019: deadline to express interest
27 March 2019: Announcement by UEFA that declaration of interest were received from 17 member associations to host one of the UEFA national team youth final tournaments (UEFA European Under-19 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, UEFA European Under-17 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship) in 2021 and 2022 (although it was not specified which association were interested in which tournament)
28 June 2019: Submission of bid dossiers
24 September 2019: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Ljubljana

For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Cyprus and Israel were selected as hosts respectively.^[1]

Qualification[edit]

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Israel qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams will compete in the qualifying competition, which will consist of two rounds: Qualifying round, which will take place in autumn 2021, and Elite round, which will take place in spring 2022, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]^[4]

Qualified teams[edit]

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Israel	Hosts	4th	2018 (group stage)	Group stage (2003, 2005, 2018)
Netherlands	Elite round Group 1 winners	14th	2019 (champions)	Champions (2011, 2012, 2018, 2019)
Denmark	Elite round Group 2 winners	6th	2018 (group stage)	Semifinals (2011)
Germany	Elite round Group 3 winners	13th	2019 (group stage)	Champions (2009)
Spain	Elite round Group 4 winners	14th	2019 (semifinals)	Champions (2007, 2008, 2017)
France	Elite round Group 5 winners	13th	2019 (semifinals)	Champions (2004, 2015)
Italy	Elite round Group 6 winners	10th	2019 (runners-up)	Runners-up (2013, 2018, 2019)
Serbia	Elite round Group 7 winners	8th²	2018 (group stage)	Quarterfinals (2002)³
Portugal	Elite round Group 8 winners	9th	2019 (quarterfinals)	Champions (2003, 2016)
Sweden	Elite round Group 2 runners-up¹	5th	2019 (group stage)	Semifinals (2013)
Belgium	Elite round Group 4 runners-up¹	8th	2019 (sixth place)	Semifinals (2007, 2015, 2018)
Scotland	Elite round Group 3 runners-up¹	6th	2017 (group stage)	Semifinals (2014)
Turkey	Elite round Group 7 runners-up¹	8th	2017 (semifinals)	Champions (2005)
Poland	Elite round Group 6 runners-up¹	3rd	2012 (semifinals)	Semifinals (2012)
Bulgaria	Elite round Group 8 runners-up¹	2nd	2015 (group stage)	Group stage (2015)
Luxembourg	Elite round Group 5 runners-up¹	2nd	2006 (group stage)	Group stage (2006)

Notes: ¹ The best seven runners-up among all eight elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.; ² Two as Serbia and Montenegro and six as Serbia; ³ As Serbia and Montenegro

Final draw[edit]

The winner and runners-up of Group 6 were not known at the time of the draw.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Seeding
1	—	Israel (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Host (A1)

2	8	Portugal	2	2	0	0	11	2	+9	6	Pot 1
3	3	Germany	2	2	0	0	7	0	+7	6
4	5	France	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6
5	4	Spain	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6
6	2	Denmark	2	1	1	0	7	2	+5	4
7	1	Netherlands	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2	4
8	7	Serbia	2	1	1	0	5	4	+1	4

9	6	Italy	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3	6	A3

10	2	Sweden	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4	Pot 2
11	4	Belgium	2	1	0	1	6	1	+5	3
12	3	Scotland	2	1	0	1	6	5	+1	3
13	7	Turkey	2	1	0	1	6	6	0	3
14	6	Poland	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
15	8	Bulgaria	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
16	5	Luxembourg	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
(H) Hosts

Venues[edit]

The tournament is hosted in five venues:

2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship venues
Netanya	Netanya Rishon LeZion Ness Ziona Lod Ramat Gan	Rishon LeZion
Netanya Stadium		Haberfeld Stadium
Capacity: 13,567		Capacity: 6,000
2 quarter-finals, 2 semi-finals & final		1 quarter-final & 6 group matches

Ness Ziona	Lod	Ramat Gan
Ness Ziona Stadium	Lod Municipal Stadium	Ramat Gan Stadium
Capacity: 3,025	Capacity: 3,300	Capacity: 13,370

1 quarter-final & 6 group matches	6 group matches	6 group matches

Match officials[edit]

The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:

Referees

Assistant referees

Khachatur Hovhannisyan
Maximilian Weiß
Miroslav Maksimov
Luka Pušić
Matěj Vlček
Sander Saga
Erwan Finjean
Gylfi Már Sigurðsson
Daniel Vasilevski
Isaak Elias Skjeseth Bashevkin
Alexandru Cerei
Johnathon Bryant

Fourth officials

Squads[edit]

Group stage[edit]

The final tournament schedule was announced on 31 March 2022.^[5]

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-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.

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	3	0	9	2	+7	9	Knockout stage
2	Italy	3	2	1	4	3	+1	6	Knockout stage
3	Israel (H)	3	1	2	3	4	−1	3
4	Luxembourg	3	0	3	0	7	−7	0

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

16 May 2022

17:30

Italy	2–3	Germany
Bruno 44' Bolzan 48'	Report	Bischof 24' Wanner 27' Pejčinović 56'

Ness Ziona Stadium, Ness Ziona

Attendance: 483

Referee: Willy Delajod (France)

16 May 2022