The 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the second edition of

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UEFA European Under-17 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 ...

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hosted the championship, during 7–17 May. The format of the competition changed, and only 8 teams entered the competition. Host

defeated

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in the final to win the competition for the fifth time. For winning their semifinals,

and

qualified for the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship, held in Finland, with

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and

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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).''

Venues

The final tournament was played in seven venues located in seven different cities,

Viseu Viseu () is a city and municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal and the capital of the district of the same name, with a population of 100,000 inhabitants, and center of the Viseu Dão Lafões intermunipical community, with 267,633 inhabi ...

Nelas Nelas () is a municipality located in the Centro Region of continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 14,037, in an area of 125.71 km². History Settlement of the territory of Nelas dates back to the settlement by Neolithic and Stone a ...

, Chaves,

Mangualde Mangualde () is a municipality in the subregion of Dão-Lafões (historical Beira Interior), central region of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 19,880, in an area of 219.26 km2. History The region of Mangualde has been a crossroads of ma ...

Vila Real Vila Real () is the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, in the North region. It is also the seat of the Douro intermunicipal community and of the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro historical province. The Vila Real municipality cover ...

Santa Comba Dão Santa Comba Dão () is a city and a municipality in the Viseu District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 11,597, in an area of 111.95 km2. The city proper has a population of 3,300. The present mayor is Leonel Gouveia, elected in 2013 ...

and

Santa Marta de Penaguião Santa Marta de Penaguião ( or ) is a Portuguese municipality in the district of Vila Real, in the northern region of Douro. The population in 2011 was 7,356, in an area of 69.28 km2. History The history of Santa Marta de Penaguião is affir ...

. 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.

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 *

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* 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

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Knockout map

Semifinals

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Third Place Playoff

Final

Goalscorers

;6 goals * David Rodríguez ;3 goals *

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* José Cases ;2 goals * Mads Torry *

Dean Bowditch Dean Peter Bowditch (born 15 June 1986) is an English former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder or Forward (association football), forward. He made over 200 appearances for Milton Keynes Dons F.C., Milton K ...

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* Nicola Pozzi *

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* Márcio Sousa *

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* Xisco Nadal ;1 goal *

Christian Fuchs Christian Fuchs (; born 7 April 1986) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a left back. He began his senior career as a teenager at Wiener Neustadt before signing his first professional contract at 17 with SV Mattersburg ...

* Daniel Horvath * Patrick Mayer * Daniel Pirker *

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Marko Stanković Marko Stanković (; born 17 February 1986) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He also represented the Austria national team on one occasion in 2008. Club career Born in Krems, Austria, Marko Sta ...

Michael Jakobsen Michael Jakobsen (born 2 January 1986) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defender for National Premier Leagues South Australia club Adelaide Olympic. He was named 2002 Danish ''Under-17 Player of the Year'', and has played fi ...

Bo Storm Bo Storm (born 3 February 1987 in Nordborg) is a retired Danish footballer, who currently is the assistant manager of Danish 1st Division club FC Roskilde. Career He has played several games for the Danish youth national teams (U-16, U-17, U-18 ...

* Steven Taylor *

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Bruno Gama Bruno Alexandre Vilela Gama (born 15 November 1987) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Cypriot club AEK Larnaca FC. He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 129 matches and 11 goals over seven seasons, mainly rep ...

* João Pedro *

Paulo Machado Paulo Ricardo Ribeiro de Jesus Machado (born 31 March 1986) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. Formed at Porto, he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 103 matches and eight goals over five seasons, ...

* Carlos Saleiro * Jurado *

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References

External links

UEFA.com

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UEFA European Under-17 Championship International association football competitions hosted by Portugal

May 2003 sports events in Europe 2003 in youth association football