The 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2023) was the 20th UEFA European Under-17 Championship (39th 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. Hungary was hosting the tournament.[2] A total of 16 teams are playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2006 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives.
France, having won the title in 2022, entered as the title holders, reached the final match but lost to Germany, who won their fourth title.
Host selection
19 April 2021: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Montreux
For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2023 and 2024, Hungary and Cyprus were selected as hosts respectively.[2]
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Hungary qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2022, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2023, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).
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;
To determine the two best losing quarter-finalists which entered the FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off, the losing quarter-finalists were ranked by the following criteria (Regulations Article 16.06):
Position in the group stage (i.e., group winners ahead of group runners-up);
Results in the group stage (i.e., points, goal difference, goals scored);
Results in the quarter-finals (i.e., points, goal difference, goals scored);
Disciplinary points in the group stage and quarter-finals combined;
Germany (4th title)
France
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