The 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the second edition of UEFA's UEFA European Under-17 Championship. Portugal hosted the championship, during 7–17 May. The format of the competition changed, and only 8 teams entered the competition. Host Portugal defeated Spain in the final to win the competition for the fifth time.
For winning their semifinals, Portugal and Spain qualified for the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship, held in Finland, with England and Austria missing out.
Qualification
Qualification for the final tournament of the 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship consisted of two rounds: a Qualifying round and an Elite round. In the qualifying round, 44 national teams competed in 11 groups of four teams, with two best teams of each group advancing to the elite round. There, the 22 first-round qualifiers plus the teams who were given a bye (Spain, England, Russia, Finland, Poland and Hungary), were distributed in seven groups of four teams. The winner of each group qualified for the final tournament.
Qualified teams The following 8 teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).
Country Qualified as Previous appearances in tournament Group 1 winner Group 2 winner Group 3 winner 0 (debut) Group 4 winner 0 (debut) Group 5 winner Group 6 winner Group 7 winner 0 (debut)
Venues The final tournament was played in seven venues located in seven different cities, Viseu, Nelas, Chaves, Mangualde, Vila Real, Santa Comba Dão and Santa Marta de Penaguião. The Estádio do Fontelo was the largest stadium with a tournament capacity of 12,000 seats, and served as both the opening ceremony and the final venue.
The table below lists stadium capacity for the final tournament, which may not correspond to their effective maximum capacity. Viseu Chaves Estádio do Fontelo Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira Capacity: 12,000 Capacity: 12,000 Santa Comba Dão Nelas Estádio Municipal Doutor Orlando Mendes Estádio Municipal de Nelas Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 7,500 Vila Real Mangualde Santa Marta de Penaguião Complexo Desportivo Monte da Forca Estádio Municipal de Mangualde Municipal de Santa Marta de Penaguião Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 1,500 Capacity: 500
Squads
Each participating national association had to submit a final list of 18 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers). All players must have been born on or after 1 January 1986.
Match Officials A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.
Referees Damir Skomina Sergiy Berezka Veaceslav Banari Stefan Johannesson Novo Panic Kuddusi Müftüoglu
Assistant referees David Paul Todd Gianpietro Lucca Dimitrios Bozatzidis Ingmar Spiteri Roman Slysko Tomislav Petrovic Arie Brink Tihon Kalugin
Fourth officials Pedro Proenca Oliveira Alves Garcia Joaquim Paulo Paraty Da Silva
Group stage
Group A TeamsGPWDLGFGAGDPtsStatus33006249Advanced to the semifinals32013126310245−13300305−50
Group B TeamsGPWDLGFGAGDPtsStatus32107257Advanced to the semifinals3120431531114224300319−80
Knockout stage
Knockout map
Semifinals
Third Place Playoff
Final
GK12Mário Felgueiras RB2João Dias CB4Miguel Veloso (c)CB14Paulo RicardoLB3Tiago Gomes CM6Paulo MachadoCM17João CoimbraMO10Márcio Sousa RW7Vieirinha LW15João Pedro CF9Carlos SaleiroSubstitutions:GK1Pedro FreitasLB13Vítor VinhaCB5Tiago CostaMF8João Moutinho LW11Hélder Barbosa RW16Bruno Gama FW18Manuel Curto Manager:António Violante GK13Antonio AdánRB2Manuel Ruz CB5Sergio SánchezCB14César Arzo LB3Raúl LlorenteDM8Markel Bergara MF16José Cases MF11Jurado (c) MF10David Silva LW7SisiCF9David RodríguezSubstitutions:GK1Roberto JiménezDF4Marcos MartínDF17César Collado MF6Marcos TébarMF15Eneko UrienFW12Manu AlejandroFW18Xisco Nadal Manager:Juan Santisteban
Goalscorers
6 goals David Rodríguez 3 goals James Milner José Cases 2 goals
Mads Torry Dean Bowditch Arturo Lupoli Nicola Pozzi Manuel Curto Márcio Sousa Vieirinha Xisco Nadal
1 goal
Christian Fuchs Daniel Horvath Patrick Mayer Daniel Pirker Christoph Saurer Marko Stanković Michael Jakobsen Bo Storm Steven Taylor Lior Refaelov Bruno Gama João Pedro Paulo Machado Carlos Saleiro Jurado David Silva
References
External links UEFA.com RSSSF.com