The 2023 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship will be the 16th edition of the

UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship The UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship or simply UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, is a European championship football tournament, organized by UEFA, for national teams of women under age seventeen. The tournament was first played out ...

, the annual international youth

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championship organised by

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for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe.

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will host the tournament on May 14-26. It will be the first women's final tournament to be held in Estonia A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2006 eligible to participate.

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is the two-time defending champions.

Qualification

48 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Estonia also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams will qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in

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, Switzerland.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Venues

To be determined.

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals. ;Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02): #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #

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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 that subset of teams; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #

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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 (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); #Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking All times are local,

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Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,

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wull be used to decide the winner if necessary (no

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was played).

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Women's Under-17 Championship 2023

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