The 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the 15th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Sweden hosted the tournament from 5 to 18 May. The matches were played in Malmö and Lund. Eight matches were played in Malmö IP, Malmö and eight matches were played in Klostergårdens IP, Lund. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.
In the 2023 final, France won their first title by defeating Spain 3–2.
This tournament also acted as UEFA's qualifier for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic, with the winners, runners-up, and third-placed teams qualifying as the UEFA representatives.
Qualification
50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Sweden also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Team Method of qualificationAppearance Last appearance Previous best performance 2023 (Group stage) (2013) 2019 (Semi-finals) (2019) 2013 (Fourth place) (2013) 2023 (Semi-finals) (2016), (2023) 2022 (Group stage) (2009, 2016), (2017) 2023 (Group stage) (2013) 2023 (Runners-up) (2010, 2011, 2015, 2018) 2023 (Champions) (2023)
Squads
Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).
Venues The venues for the 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship were Malmö IP, located in Sweden's third biggest city Malmö and Klostergårdens IP, located in Lund.
Malmö Lund Malmö IP Klostergårdens IPCapacity: 7,600 (3,900 seated)Capacity: 3,650 (500 seated)
Group stage The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.
Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02): 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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were 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); Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).
Bracket
Semi-finals The winners qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The losers entered the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.
Third place play-off The winner qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
Final
Goalscorers
Awards The following awards were given after the tournament: Player of the Tournament: Alba Cerrato Top Scorer(s): Alba Cerrato (7 goals)
Team of the Tournament After the tournament, the Under-17 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.
PositionPlayerGoalkeeper Julia WoźniakDefenders Nelly Las Cecily Wellesley-Smith Amaya García Aiara AgirrezabalaMidfielders Weronika Araśniewicz Anaïs Ebayilin Ainoa GómezForwards Celia Segura Alba Cerrato Lola Brown
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.
Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1 5 (2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022) 2 (2008, 2016) 0 (debut) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
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