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. A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.

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 The timeline of host selection was as follows: 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.

Qualification

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.

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 4th 2018 (group stage) (2003, 2005, 2018) 14th 2019 (champions) (2011, 2012, 2018, 2019) 6th 2018 (group stage) (2011) 13th 2019 (group stage) (2009) 14th 2019 (semifinals) (2007, 2008, 2017) 13th 2019 (semifinals) (2004, 2015) 10th 2019 (runners-up) (2013, 2018, 2019) 8th2 2018 (group stage) (2002)3 9th 2019 (quarterfinals) (2003, 2016) 1 5th 2019 (group stage) (2013) 1 8th 2019 (sixth place) (2007, 2015, 2018) 1 6th 2017 (group stage) (2014) 1 8th 2017 (semifinals) (2005) 1 3rd 2012 (semifinals) (2012) 1 2nd 2015 (group stage) (2015) 1 2nd 2006 (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 The winner and runners-up of Group 6 were not known at the time of the draw.

Venues The tournament is hosted in five venues:

2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship venues NetanyaRishon LeZion Netanya Stadium Haberfeld Stadium Capacity: 13,610 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 The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:

Referees Henrik Nalbandyan Christian-Petru Ciochirca Dario Bel Willy Delajod Helgi Mikael Jónasson Igor Stojčevski Andrei Florin Chivulete Tom Owen

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 Juxhin Xhaja David Fuxman Snir Levi Jasmin Šabotić

Squads

Group stage The final tournament schedule was announced on 31 March 2022.

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

Tie-breaking criteria for group playThe 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 UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage The schedule for the knockout stage was released on 26 April 2022.

Bracket

Quarter-finals The quarter-finals took place on 25 May and 26 May.

Semi-finals The semi-finals took place on 29 May.

Final The final took place on 1 June.

Goalscorers

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