The 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the twelfth edition of UEFA's European Under-17 Football Championship since the re-organising of age group competitions in 2002. Slovakia were hosts of the tournament with games taking place at four venues between 5–17 May.
This competition also acted as a qualifier for the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, as 6 teams qualified.
Players born after 1 January 1996 were eligible to participate in this competition. The Netherlands were the titleholder, but failed to make it past the elite round qualification process, along with every team that played in the 2012 final round.
Venues
Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina (capacity 10,831) Mestský Štadión, Dubnica nad Váhom (5,156) Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra (5,050) Štadión FC ViOn, Zlaté Moravce (3,300)
Qualification
The final tournament of the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was preceded by two qualification stages: a qualifying round and an Elite round. During the rounds, 52 national teams competed to determine the seven teams that would progress to the finals.
The first round was played from 24 September to 14 November 2012, with 28 of those advancing to the elite round. The elite rounds were played during March 2013.
Qualified countries Country Qualified as Previous appearances in tournament1only U-17 era (since 2002) Hosts 0 (debut) Winner of Group 1 1 (2005) Winner of Group 2 2 (2003, 2004) Winner of Group 3 0 (debut) Winner of Group 4 3 (2002, 2004, 2007) Winner of Group 5 5 (2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010) Winner of Group 6 1 (2006) Winner of Group 7 3 (2003, 2005, 2009) 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
Squads
Match officials
Referees Neil Doyle (Republic of Ireland) Nerijus Dunauskas (Lithuania) Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands) Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece) Ivaylo Stoyanov (Bulgaria) Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
Assistant referees Gregory Crotteux (Belgium) Silver Kõiv (Estonia) Dejan Kostadinov (Macedonia) Milan Minić (Serbia) Birkir Sigurdarson (Iceland) Richard Storey (Northern Ireland) Dmitri Zhuk (Belarus) Sergei Vassyutin (Kazakhstan)
Fourth officials Petr Kráľovič (Slovakia) Vladimír Vnuk (Slovakia)
Group stage Key to colours in group tablesAdvance to semifinals and qualify to 2013 FIFA U-17 World CupQualify to 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Goalscorers 2 goals
Elio Capradossi Mario Pugliese Martin Slaninka Robin Kamber
1 goal
Dominik Baumgartner Daniel Ripic Nikola Zivotic Alen Halilović Robert Murić Vittorio Parigini Aleksei Gasilin Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov Maksim Mayrovich Rifat Zhemaletdinov Atila Varga Gustav Engvall Ali Suljić Marco Trachsel Viktor Tsygankov Beka Vachiberadze
Broadcasting Live coverage and highlights of the finals were broadcast by Eurosport throughout Europe.
References
External links Official website