The 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as 2018 UEFA Under-17 Euro) was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (36th 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. England, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament.

A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.

The Netherlands won their third title by beating Italy 4–1 on penalties in the final after a 2–2 draw. England were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Belgium in the quarter-finals.

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time), and with the hosts England qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.

Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

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

Team Method of qualificationAppearance Last appearance Previous best performance 13th 2017 (runners-up) (2010, 2014) 7th 2017 (group stage) (2002) 12th 2017 (champions) (2007, 2008, 2017) 3rd 2016 (quarter-finals) (2013) 6th 2016 (quarter-finals) (2007, 2015) 4th 2017 (quarter-finals) (2017) 8th 2014 (group stage) (2002) 7th 2016 (champions) (2003, 2016) 12th 2017 (quarter-finals) (2011, 2012) 8th 2017 (group stage) (2013) 3rd 2017 (group stage) (2016, 2017) 5th 2016 (group stage) (2011) 3rd 2015 (group stage) (2012, 2015) 3rd 2005 (group stage) (2003, 2005) 2nd 2017 (group stage) (2017) 11th 2017 (semi-finals) (2009) Notes

Final draw The final draw was held on 5 April 2018, 17:30 BST (UTC+1), at the St George's Park in Burton, England. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Hosts England were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round, with the seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.

Venues The tournament took place at six venues across the Midlands and South Yorkshire. England's opening match took place at the Proact Stadium in Chesterfield with the final taking place at the New York Stadium in Rotherham.

Rotherham Chesterfield Walsall New York Stadium Proact Stadium Bescot Stadium Capacity: 12,023 Capacity: 10,504 Capacity: 11,300 Burton Loughborough Pirelli Stadium St George's Park Loughborough University Stadium Capacity: 6,912 Capacity: 499 Capacity: 3,300

Match officials A total of 8 referees, 12 assistant referees and 4 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.

Referees Tihomir Pejin Zbynek Proske Juri Frischer Robert Harvey Vilhjálmur Alvar Thórarinsson Dennis Higler Horațiu Feșnic Halil Umut Meler

Assistant referees Robert Steinacher Rza Mammadov Georgi Doynov Dan Petur Pauli Højgaard Levan Todria Chasan Koula Péter Kóbor Yuriy Tikhonyuk Vytis Snarskis Vladislav Lifciu Douglas Potter Volodymyr Vysotskyi

Fourth officials Robert Hennessy Keith Kennedy Tim Marshall Bryn Markham-Jones

Squads

Each national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 40).

Group stage The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 10 April 2018.

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

Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02): 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 (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

All times are local, BST (UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers 4 goals

Yorbe Vertessen Edoardo Vergani

3 goals

Brian Brobbey Daishawn Redan Troy Parrott Felix Mambimbi

2 goals

Jamie Yayi Mpie Malik Memišević Tommy Doyle Leon Dajaku Manu Emmanuel Gyabuaa Alessio Riccardi Thomas Rekdal Álex Baena Eric García Fredrik Hammar

1 goal

Jérémy Doku Gabriel Lemoine Sekou Sidibe Nemanja Nikolić Nikolas Dyhr Andreas Kirkeby Xavier Amaechi Arvin Appiah Matty Daly Bobby Duncan Can Bozdogan Dan Lugassy Jean Freddi Greco Samuele Ricci Crysencio Summerville Jurriën Timber Liam van Gelderen Oscar Aga Leo Cornic Félix Correia Gonçalo Ramos Eduardo Ribeiro Bernardo Silva Adam Idah Miguel Gutiérrez Nils Mortimer Nabil Touaizi Benjamin Nygren Rasmus Wikström Tician Tushi

1 own goal

Stefan Rankić (playing against Belgium) Eric García (playing against Germany) Arnau Tenas (playing against Netherlands)

Team of the tournament The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (previously a squad of 18 players were selected):

Goalkeeper Luca Ashby-Hammond

Defenders Nicolò Armini Ismael Armenteros Harald Martin Hauso Liam van Gelderen

Defensive midfielders Wouter Burger Iván Morante

Attacking midfielders Xavier Amaechi Yorbe Vertessen Mohammed Ihattaren

Forward Alessio Riccardi

References

External links

UEFA Under-17 history: 2017/18 2017/18 final tournament: England, UEFA.com