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 hosted the tournament. A total of 16 teams played 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, but would lose in the final 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.

Qualification

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).

Team Method of qualificationAppearance Last appearance Previous best performance 6th 2019 (Fifth place) (2019) 9th2 2022 (Semi-finals) (2022) 1st Debut 15th 2022 (Runners-up) (2011, 2012, 2018, 2019) 15th 2022 (Quarter-finals) (2007, 2008, 2017) 10th 2022 (Semi-finals) (2003, 2016) 6th 2019 (Group stage) (2017, 2018) 5th 2017 (Group stage) (2005) 14th 2022 (Champions) (2004, 2015, 2022) 1 7th 2022 (Group stage) (2014) 1 15th 2019 (Group stage) (2010, 2014) 1 14th 2022 (Quarter-finals) (2009) 1 4th 2022 (Group stage) (2012) 1 11th 2022 (Quarter-finals) (2013, 2018, 2019) 1 4th 2018 (Group stage) (2012, 2015, 2018) 1 9th 2018 (Group stage) (2002) 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 seven as Serbia

Final draw The final draw was made on 3 April 2023 at Ensana Thermal Margaret Island Health Spa Hotel, Budapest.

Venues The tournament was hosted in 7 venues.

Debrecen Balmazújváros Budaörs Nagyerdei Stadion Városi Sportpálya Árok utcai pálya Capacity: 20,340 Capacity: 2,435 Capacity: 1,204 4 group games 4 group games, 1 quarter-final 3 group games, World Cup play-off Budapest Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion Capacity: 5,322 4 group games, 1 quarter-final, final Telki Debrecen Felcsút Telki Training Centre DEAC Stadion Pancho Aréna Capacity: 1,000 Capacity: 1,500 Capacity: 3,816 2 group games, 1 quarter-final 4 group games, 1 quarter-final 3 group games, 2 semi-finals

Match officials The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:

Referees Elchin Masiyev Jamie Robinson Damian Sylwestrzak Miloš Milanović Michal Očenáš David Šmajc Adam Ladebäck Atilla Karaoglan Lothar D'Hondt Radoslav Gidzhenov Oliver Reitala David Dickinson

Assistant referees Nertil Bregasi Andreu Vilanova Elsad Abdullayev Kyriakos Sokratous Konstandinos Psarris Adam Jeffrey Bartosz Heinig Milan Šutulović Peter Bednar David Gabrovec Mehmet Tugral Daniel Yng

Squads

Group stage

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

Tie-breaking criteria for group playThe ranking of teams in the group stage was 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 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 this 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 UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

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

Bracket

Quarter-finals Winners qualified for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup. The two best losing quarter-finalists entered the FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off.

Ranking of losing quarter-finalists 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; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off Winner qualified for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

Awards The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: Player of the Tournament: Paris Brunner Top Scorer: Robert Ramsak / Paris Brunner / Marc Guiu / Lamine Yamal (4 goals each)

Team of the Tournament After the tournament, the Under-17 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.

PositionPlayerGoalkeeper Max SchmittDefenders Eric da Silva Moreira Finn Jeltsch Ishé Samuels-Smith Nhoa SanguiMidfielders Noah Darvich Fayssal Harchaoui Saïmon BouabréForwards Lamine Yamal Marc Guiu Paris Brunner

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1 2 (1993, 1999) 10 (1985, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017) 10 (1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2019) 7 (1987, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019) 4 (2007, 2011, 2015, 2017) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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