The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the 16th 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. Faroe Islands hosted the tournament. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2008 eligible to participate.
In the 2024 final, Spain won their fifth title by defeating England 4–0.
This tournament acted as a qualifier for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco from 17 October to 8 November. UEFA's five berths were taken by the four WU17 Euro semi-finalists and the winner of a play-off between the two teams finishing third in their groups.
Qualification
50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Faroe Islands also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts.
Team Method of qualificationAppearance Last appearance Previous best performance Debut 2024 (Fourth place) (2023) 2024 (Champions) (2010, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2024) 2018 (Group stage) (2014) 2024 (Third place) (2013) 2022 (Fourth place) (2019) 2024 (Group stage) (2009, 2016), (2017) 2019 (Group stage) (2014, 2019)
Venues Klaksvík Tórshavn Við Djúpumýru Tórsvøllur Capacity: 2500 Capacity: 6500
Squads
Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers.
Group stage The draw for the group stage was held on 26 March 2025 at 12:00 at the Philharmonic Hall in Varpið, Klaksvík. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and automatically qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The third-placed teams in both groups qualified for the play-off match, with the winner also qualifying for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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
Play-off match The winner qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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
Final
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco.
Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1 7 May 2025 0 (debut) 10 May 2025 0 (debut) 11 May 2025 3 (2008, 2012, 2022) 11 May 2025 1 (2014) 14 May 2025 6 (2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year.
Goalscorers
Awards The following awards were given after the tournament: Player of the Tournament: Ranneke Derks Top Scorer(s): Marie Preus (5 goals)
Team of the Tournament After the tournament, the Under-17 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.
PositionPlayerGoalkeeper Maren GroothoffDefenders Caterina Venturelli Silvia Cristóbal Mille Flø Kim RietveldMidfielders Rosalie Renfurm Rachele Giudici Tanté DiakitéForwards Liv Pennock Marie Preus Ranneke Derks
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