# 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

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 qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| Cyprus | Hosts | 1st | Debut | Debut |
| France | Elite round Group 1 winners | 15th | 2023 (Runners-up) | Champions (2004, 2015, 2022) |
| Sweden | Elite round Group 2 winners | 6th | 2022 (Group stage) | Semi-finals (2013) |
| Italy | Elite round Group 3 winners | 12th | 2023 (Group stage) | Runners-up (2013, 2018, 2019) |
| Ukraine | Elite round Group 4 winners | 7th | 2017 (Group stage) | Group stage (2002, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2017) |
| Portugal | Elite round Group 5 winners | 11th | 2023 (Group stage) | Champions (2003, 2016) |
| Denmark | Elite round Group 6 winners | 7th | 2022 (Quarter-finals) | Semi-finals (2011) |
| Austria | Elite round Group 7 winners | 7th | 2019 (Group stage) | Third place (2003) |
| Poland | Elite round Group 8 winners | 5th | 2023 (Semi-finals) | Semi-finals (2012, 2023) |
| England | Elite round Group 1 runners-up | 16th | 2023 (Fifth place) | Champions (2010, 2014) |
| Wales | Elite round Group 2 runners-up | 2nd | 2023 (Group stage) | Group stage (2023) |
| Slovakia | Elite round Group 4 runners-up | 2nd | 2013 (Semi-finals) | Semi-finals (2013) |
| Croatia | Elite round Group 5 runners-up | 6th | 2023 (Group stage) | Fourth place (2005) |
| Serbia | Elite round Group 6 runners-up | 10th | 2023 (Quarter-finals) | Semi-finals (2022) |
| Spain | Elite round Group 7 runners-up | 16th | 2023 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2007, 2008, 2017) |
| Czech Republic | Elite round Group 8 runners-up | 7th | 2019 (Quarter-finals) | Runners-up (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 Stadium Capacity: 5,500 | AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis Capacity: 7,303 | Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium Capacity: 10,320 |
| LimassolAchnaParalimniLarnaca |||
| Achna | Limassol | Paralimni |
| Dasaki Stadium Capacity: 5,422 | Alphamega Stadium Capacity: 11,000 | Paralimni Stadium Capacity: 5,800 |

## Officials

A total of 12 Referees and 12 Assistant Referees were selected by UEFA for the tournament.
| Referee | Assistants |
| 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) |

## Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.
* Tie-breaking criteria for group play
* The 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 Yellow card: −1 point;Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;Direct red card: −3 points;
* UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Czech Republic | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Serbia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Ukraine | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Cyprus (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Austria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Denmark | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Croatia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | Wales | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Poland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Sweden | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Slovakia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 1 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Portugal | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | England | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 6 | |
| 4 | Spain | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 | |
* 1 2 3 Head-to-head points: Portugal 3, England 3, France 3. Head-to-head goal difference: Portugal +2, England +1, France −3.

## 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 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 29 May | 29 May | | | |
| Czech Republic | 1 (3) | | | |
| Czech Republic | 1 (3) | 2 June | 2 June | | |
| Denmark (p) | 1 (5) | 2 June | 2 June | |
| Denmark (p) | 1 (5) | Denmark | 0 | |
| 30 May | 30 May | | Denmark | 0 | |
| 30 May | 30 May | Italy | 1 | |
| Italy (p) | 1 (5) | Italy | 1 | |
| Italy (p) | 1 (5) | | | | 5 June | 5 June |
| England | 1 (4) | | | | 5 June | 5 June |
| England | 1 (4) | | | | Italy | 3 |
| 29 May | 29 May | | | | | Italy | 3 |
| 29 May | 29 May | | | | Portugal | 0 |
| Austria | 2 | | | | Portugal | 0 |
| Austria | 2 | 2 June | 2 June | | | |
| Serbia | 3 | 2 June | 2 June | | | |
| Serbia | 3 | Serbia | 2 | | | |
| 30 May | 30 May | | Serbia | 2 | | | |
| 30 May | 30 May | Portugal | 3 | |
| Portugal | 2 | Portugal | 3 | |
| Poland | 1 | | | |

### Final
## Goalscorers

There were 94 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.03 goals per match.
5 goals
* Rodrigo Mora
4 goals
* Francesco Camarda
* Oghenetejiri Adejenughure
* Ondřej Penxa
* Mikey Moore
* Michael Izunwanne
* Mihajlo Cvetković
3 goals
* Federico Coletta
* Ethan Nwaneri
2 goals
* Philipp Moizi
* Karel Belžík
* Josef Kolářík
* Chido Obi-Martin
* Enzo Molebe
* Mattia Liberali
* Afonso Patrão
* Gabriel Silva
* Vasilije Kostov
* Đorđe Ranković
* Fred Bozicevic
* Dmytro Bohdanov
1 goal
* Mauro Hämmerle
* Adrian Riegel
* Valentin Zabransky
* Patrice Čović
* Bruno Durdov
* Noa Mikić
* Petros Ioannou
* Jakub Kolísek
* Matěj Kvaček
* Lukáš Moudrý
* Marek Naskos
* Matyáš Nechvátal
* Lasse Abildgaard
* Sofus Johannesen
* Roberto Risnæs
* Baylee Dipepa
* Shumaira Mheuka
* Enzo Sternal
* Cristian Cama
* Mattia Mosconi
* Jakub Adkonis
* Stanisław Gieroba
* Oskar Pietuszewski
* Eduardo Felicíssimo
* João Trovisco
* Cardoso Varela
* Lazar Kostić
* Dušan Makević
* Viktor Stojanović
* Adrian Arnucio
* Daniel Yañez
* Genesis Antwi
* Kyrylo Dihtyar
* Cruz Allen
1 own goal
* Eduardo Felicíssimo (against Serbia)

## 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.
| Position | Player |
| Goalkeeper | Massimo Pessina |
| Defenders | Emanuel Benjamín |
| Defenders | Kacper Potulski |
| Defenders | Noah Markmann |
| Defenders | Cristian Cama |
| Midfielders | Rodrigo Mora |
| Midfielders | Vasilije Kostov |
| Midfielders | Mattia Liberali |
| Forwards | Geovany Quenda |
| Forwards | Chido Obi-Martin |
| Forwards | Francesco Camarda |