Croatia national under-17 football team

The **Croatia national under-17 football team** represents Croatia in youth international football. They have been to the FIFA U-17 World Cup and the UEFA European Under-17 Championship.

## Competitive record

**Champions**  
 **Runners-up**  
 **Third place**  
 **Fourth place**  
Tournament played fully or partially on home soil

### UEFA European Under-17 Championship record

Until the 1997 tournament, players born on or after 1 August the year they turned 17 years were eligible to compete. Since the 1998 tournament, the date limit has been moved back to 1 January.
In 2001/2002 the competition was renamed the European Under-17 Championship, but the eligibility rules did not change.

|colspan=10 style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|UEFA European Under-17 Championship record|width=1% rowspan="75" style="background:#FFFFFF; color:white"||colspan=8 style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|Qualifications record||||||||||||
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|1982|colspan=9 rowspan=9|colspan=8 rowspan=11|||||||||||||||
|1984|||||||||||||||||
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|1986|||||||||||||||||
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|1991|||||||||||||||||
|1992|colspan=9 rowspan=2||||||||||||||||
|1993|||||||||||||||||
|1994|colspan=9 rowspan=2|4|1|2|1|7|6|1994|||||||||
|1995|2|1|0|1|3|1|1995||||||||||
|1996|Quarter-finals|8/16|4|2|0|2|4|8|Squad|3|3|0|0|7|0|1996|
|1997|colspan=9|2|1|1|0|2|1|1997|||||||||
|1998|Quarter-finals|7/16|4|1|1|2|3|4|Squad|3|2|1|0|9|1|1998|
|1999|Group stage|15/16|3|0|1|2|1|4|Squad|2|2|0|0|11|0|1999|
|2000|colspan=9|3|1|1|1|3|4|2023|||||||||
|2001|Third place|3/16|6|4|0|2|9|7|Squad|2|2|0|0|7|1|2000|
|2002|colspan=9 rowspan=3|3|2|1|0|8|3|2002|||||||||
|2003|6|4|0|2|14|7|2003||||||||||
|2004|3|1|1|1|3|4|2004||||||||||
|2005|Fourth place|4/8|5|2|1|2|13|11|Squad|6|4|1|1|20|8|2005|
|2006|colspan=9 rowspan=7|3|1|1|1|2|1|2006|||||||||
|2007|3|1|0|2|8|11|2007||||||||||
|2008|6|4|1|1|13|1|2008||||||||||
|2009|6|5|0|1|11|4|2009||||||||||
|2010|6|4|1|1|9|5|2010||||||||||
|2011|6|2|4|0|6|3|2011||||||||||
|2012|3|1|0|2|5|6|2012||||||||||
|2013|Group stage|5/8|3|1|2|0|2|1|Squad|6|5|1|0|15|8|2013|
|2014|colspan=9|3|1|0|2|1|3|2014|||||||||
|2015|Quarter-finals|7/16|5|3|2|0|5|1|Squad|6|5|1|0|18|2|2015|
|2016|colspan=9|6|2|1|3|11|11|2016|||||||||
|style="border: 3px solid red"|2017|Group stage|14/16|3|0|1|2|2|6|Squad|colspan=8|_ Qualified as hosts_|||||
|2018|colspan=9 rowspan=2|6|2|3|1|10|4|2018|||||||||
|2019|6|3|2|1|10|6|2019||||||||||
|2020|colspan=9|3|3|0|0|9|3|2020|||||||||
|2021|colspan=17||||||||||||||||
|2022|colspan=9|3|1|0|2|3|2|2022|||||||||
|2023|Group stage|12/16|3|0|1|2|2|4|Squad|6|3|2|1|6|5|2023|
|2024|Group stage|9/16|3|0|3|0|3|3||6|3|1|2|19|11|2024|
|2025|colspan=9 rowspan=3|colspan=6 rowspan=3|2025||||||||||||||
|2026||2026|||||||||||||||
|2027||2027|||||||||||||||

|style="background:#ff0000; color:white; " colspan=6|**Matches**|
| --- | --- |
|2–0 (Scheibbs, Austria; 29 April 1996)||
|2–5 (Santa Croce sull'Arno, Italy; 8 May 2005)||
|5–1 (Krems an der Donau, Austria; 6 May 1996)||

### FIFA U-17 World Cup record

|colspan=10 style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|FIFA U-17 World Cup record|width="1" rowspan=28 style="background:#FFFFFF; color:white"||colspan=7 rowspan=2 style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|Qualifications record||||||
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|1985|colspan=9 rowspan=4|colspan=7 rowspan=5|||||||||
||1987||||||||||
||1989||||||||||
||1991||||||||||
||1993|colspan=9|||||||||
||1995|colspan=9 rowspan=3|_UEFA European Under-17 Championship_|1995|||||||
||1997||1997||||||||
||1999||1999||||||||
|2001|Group stage|10/16|3|1|0|2|3|8|Squad|2001|
||2003|colspan=9 rowspan=5|2003||||||||
||2005|2005|||||||||
||2007|2007|||||||||
||2009|2009|||||||||
||2011|2011|||||||||
|2013|Group stage|17/24|3|1|0|2|3|5|Squad|2013|
|2015|Quarter-finals|7/24|5|2|2|1|7|5|Squad|2015|
|2017|colspan=9 rowspan=3|2017|||||||||
|2019|2019||||||||||
|2023|2023||||||||||
|2025|colspan=9|_to be determined_|2025||||||||

|style="background:#ff0000; color:white; " colspan=6|**Matches**|
| --- | --- |
|1–2 (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; 13 September 2001)||
|2–0 (Concepción, Chile; 29 October 2015)||
|0–4 (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; 19 September 2001)||

### Other

|style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|Year|style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|Round|style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "|Position|width="20" style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "||width="20" style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "||width="20" style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "||width="20" style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "||width="20" style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "||width="20" style="background:#ff0000; color:white; "||
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|2001 Telki Cup|Third|3rd|4|1|3|0|7|4||||||||||
|2002 Telki Cup|Champions|1st|4|3|1|0|10|3||||||||||
|2003 Telki Cup|Group stage|5th|3|1|0|2|3|5||||||||||
|2004 Telki Cup|Group stage|6th|3|1|1|1|4|3||||||||||
|2005 Telki Cup|Runners-up|2nd|4|2|2|0|7|4||||||||||
|2006 Telki Cup|Sixth|6th|3|0|1|2|1|7||||||||||
|2007 Telki Cup|Champions|1st|3|3|0|0|3|0||||||||||
|2008 Telki Cup|Runners-up|2nd|3|2|1|0|6|2||||||||||
|2009 Telki Cup|Seventh|7th|3|1|1|1|6|4||||||||||
|2010 Telki Cup|Sixth|6th|3|1|0|2|4|4||||||||||
|2011 Telki Cup|Semi-finals|4th|3|2|1|0|4|3||||||||||
|2012 Telki Cup|Runners-up|2nd|3|1|1|1|6|4||||||||||
|2013 Telki Cup|Third|3rd|3|2|0|1|4|3||||||||||
|2015 Telki Cup|Runners-up|2nd|3|2|0|1|2|4||||||||||
|2017 Telki Cup|Champions|1st|3|1|2|0|6|3||||||||||
|2018 Telki Cup|Champions|1st|3|3|0|0|8|1||||||||||
|2019 Telki Cup|Champions|1st|3|3|0|0|14|5||||||||||
|2022 Telki Cup|Runners-up|2nd|3|1|2|0|10|5||||||||||
|2023 Telki Cup|Champions|1st|3|3|0|0|8|2||||||||||

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Croatia U17
- **nickname**: (The Young Blazers)
- **badge size**: 175px
- **association**: Croatian Football Federation (HNS)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Marijan Budimir
- **most caps**: Milan Badelj (28)
- **top scorer**: Nikola Kalinić (15)
- **fifa trigramme**: CRO
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- **first game**: 1–0
(Donji Miholjac, Croatia; 26 April 1993)
- **largest win**: 11–0
(Donji Tavankut, Serbia; 29 September 2004)
- **largest loss**: 0–5
(Tallinn, Estonia; 25 October 2006) 0–5
(Pula, Croatia; 28 September 2016)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Under-17 Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 10
- **regional cup first**: 1996 UEFA European Under-16 Championship, 1996
- **regional cup best**: Third place (2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship, 2001)
- **2ndregional name**: FIFA U-17 World Cup, World Cup
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 3
- **2ndregional cup first**: 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2001
- **2ndregional cup best**: Quarter-finals (2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, 2015)