The 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the twelfth edition of

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European Under-17 Football Championship The UEFA European Under-17 Championship or simply UEFA Under-17 Championship, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-17 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain is the most successful team in this ...

since the re-organising of age group competitions in 2002.

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were hosts of the tournament with games taking place at four venues between 5–17 May. This competition also acted as a qualifier for the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, as 6 teams qualified. Players born after 1 January 1996 were eligible to participate in this competition. The

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were the titleholder, but failed to make it past the elite round qualification process, along with every team that played in the 2012 final round.

Venues

* Štadión pod Dubňom,

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(capacity 10,831) * Mestský Štadión,

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(5,156) *

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(5,050) * Štadión FC ViOn,

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(3,300)

Qualification

The final tournament of the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was preceded by two qualification stages: a qualifying round and an Elite round. During the rounds, 52 national teams competed to determine the seven teams that would progress to the finals. The first round was played from 24 September to 14 November 2012, with 28 of those advancing to the elite round. The elite rounds were played during March 2013.

Qualified countries

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

Squads

Match officials

;Referees *

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) * Nerijus Dunauskas (

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) *

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) * Anastasios Sidiropoulos (

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) * Ivaylo Stoyanov (

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) * Slavko Vinčić (

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) ;Assistant referees * Gregory Crotteux (

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) * Silver Kõiv (

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) * Dejan Kostadinov ( Macedonia) * Milan Minić (

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) * Birkir Sigurdarson (

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) * Richard Storey (

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) * Dmitri Zhuk (

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) * Sergei Vassyutin (

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) ;Fourth officials * Petr Kráľovič (

) * Vladimír Vnuk (

)

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

;2 goals * Elio Capradossi * Mario Pugliese * Martin Slaninka * Robin Kamber ;1 goal *

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* Daniel Ripic *

Nikola Zivotic Nikola Zivotic (born 26 January 1996) is an Austrian footballer who plays as a left winger for SV Lafnitz Sportverein Lafnitz (known as SV Licht-Loidl Lafnitz for sponsorship purposes) is an Football in Austria, Austrian association football club ...

Alen Halilović Alen Halilović (; born 18 June 1996) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Croatian SuperSport HNL club Rijeka. As the Prva HNL's youngest ever goalscorer (until May 2021) and the youngest ever debuta ...

* Robert Murić * Vittorio Parigini * Aleksei Gasilin *

Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov Dzhamaldin Abdukhalitovich Khodzhaniyazov (russian: Джамалдин Абдухалитович Ходжаниязов; tk, Jamaldin Abduhalitowiç Hojanyýazow; born 18 July 1996) is a Turkmen-Russian professional football player who plays ...

* Maksim Mayrovich *

Rifat Zhemaletdinov Rifat Maratovich Zhemaletdinov (russian: Рифат Маратович Жемалетдинов, tt-Cyrl, Рифат Марат улы Җамалетдинов; born 20 September 1996) is a Russian professional football player of Tatar origin w ...

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* Ali Suljić * Marco Trachsel * Viktor Tsygankov * Beka Vachiberadze

Broadcasting

Live coverage and highlights of the finals were broadcast by

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throughout Europe.

References

External links

Official website
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