The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2024) was the 21st UEFA European Under-17 Championship (40th 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. Cyprus hosted the tournament. A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.

Germany were the title holders, having beaten France in a penalty shootout in the 2023 final, but were not able to defend their title after failing to qualify for the final tournament.

In the final, Italy defeated Portugal 3–0 to win their second title, winning their first-ever title at this age level and their just second title after the 1982 triumph.

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 Cyprus qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2023, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2024, 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 1st Debut 2023 (Runners-up) (2004, 2015, 2022) 2022 (Group stage) (2013) 2023 (Group stage) (2013, 2018, 2019) 2017 (Group stage) (2002, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2017) 2023 (Group stage) (2003, 2016) 2022 (Quarter-finals) (2011) 2019 (Group stage) (2003) 2023 (Semi-finals) (2012, 2023) 1 2023 (Fifth place) (2010, 2014) 1 2023 (Group stage) (2023) 1 2013 (Semi-finals) (2013) 1 2023 (Group stage) (2005) 1 2023 (Quarter-finals) (2022) 1 2023 (Semi-finals) (2007, 2008, 2017) 1 2019 (Quarter-finals) (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 eight as Serbia

Venues The tournament was hosted in 6 venues. Larnaca Ammochostos StadiumCapacity: 5,500 AEK Arena – Georgios KarapatakisCapacity: 7,303 Antonis Papadopoulos StadiumCapacity: 10,320 Achna Limassol Paralimni Dasaki StadiumCapacity: 5,422 Alphamega StadiumCapacity: 11,000 Paralimni StadiumCapacity: 5,800

Officials A total of 12 Referees and 12 Assistant Referees were selected by UEFA for the tournament.

RefereeAssistants Mohammed Al-Emara (Finland) Alexis Auger (France) Menelaos Antoniou (Cyprus) Nikola Borović (Serbia) Antoni Bandić (Bosnia) Petar Velizarov Mitrev (Bulgaria) Ante Čulina (Croatia) Nelson Filipe Vila Pereira (Portugal) David Fuxman (Israel) Marek Podaný (Czechia) Pierre Gaillouste (France) Luka Pušic (Croatia) Radoslav Gidzhenov (Bulgaria) Victor Skytte (Denmark) Nenad Minaković (Serbia) Kyriakos Sokratous (Cyprus) Miguel Bértolo Nogueira (Portugal) Rostislav Talis (Israel) Jan Petřík (Czechia) Stefan Tešanovic (Bosnia) Jakob Alexander Sundberg (Denmark) Martijn Tiesters (Belgium) Jasper Vergoote (Belgium) Turkka Valjakka (Finland)

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

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

Awards The following awards were given after the conclusion of the tournament: Player of the Tournament: Francesco Camarda Top Scorer: Rodrigo Mora

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

PositionPlayerGoalkeeper Massimo PessinaDefenders Emanuel Benjamín Kacper Potulski Noah Markmann Cristian CamaMidfielders Rodrigo Mora Vasilije Kostov Mattia LiberaliForwards Geovany Quenda Chido Obi Francesco Camarda

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