The Israel national under-17 football team represents

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

at the under-17 youth level, and is controlled by the

Israel Football Association The Israel Football Association (IFA; he, ההתאחדות לכדורגל בישראל, ''HaHit'aḥdut leKaduregel beIsrael'', literally "The Association of Football in Israel") is the governing body of football in Israel. It organizes a varie ...

. The team is for Israeli players aged 17 or under at the start of a two-year

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 ...

cycle, so players can be up to 17 years old.

Competition history

Although the

became a member of

UEFA Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...

as late as 1994, Israel U-16s took part in several European youth championships since the late 1980s, beginning with the 1987 European U-16 tournament, for which they qualified but failed to progress past the group stage after a defeat to Turkey U16s and draws against Denmark and Greece. The team managed to qualify for six other European U-16 championships (including five consecutive appearances between 1996 and 2000) before UEFA's realignment of youth levels in 2001. Since then, Israel U17s only qualified twice for the final tournament, in 2003 and 2005. Their best result in the under-16 era came in the 1996 European U-16 Championship where they won third place, beating Greece in a third-place play-off match.

European Championship

Under-16 format

Under-17 format

Past squads

;UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads: * 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad * 2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad

Current squad

* The following players were called up for the 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification matches. * Match dates: 25-31 October 2022 * Opposition: , and *Caps and goals correct as of: 26 September 2022, after the match against

References

External links

* of the Israel Football Federation {{UEFA under-17 teams European national under-17 association football teams F Youth football in Israel