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The 2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-17 Euro 2022) was the 13th 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 an annual European championship football tournament, organized by UEFA, for national teams of women under age seventeen. The tournament was first play ...
, 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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hosted the tournament. A total of eight teams played in the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to participate. Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the
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. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the
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in
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as the UEFA representatives.
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were the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in
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, with the
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and
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editions cancelled due to the
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. In the final, defending champions, Germany won their eighth title by defeating
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2–2 (3–2 after penalties).


Host selection

The timeline of host selection was as follows: *11 January 2019: bidding procedure launched *28 February 2019: deadline to express interest *27 March 2019: Announcement by UEFA that declaration of interest were received from 17 member associations to host one of the UEFA national team youth final tournaments (
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,
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,
UEFA European Under-17 Championship The UEFA European Under-17 Championship, or simply the Euro Under-17, is an annual Association football, football competition contested by the men's under-17 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Spain national under-17 football team, ...
,
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship The UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship or simply UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, is an annual European championship football tournament, organized by UEFA, for national teams of women under age seventeen. The tournament was first play ...
) in 2021 and 2022 (although it was not specified which association were interested in which tournament) *28 June 2019: Submission of bid dossiers *24 September 2019: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in
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For the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina were selected as hosts respectively.


Qualification

The UEFA Executive Committee approved on 18 June 2020 a new qualifying format for the Women's Under-17 and Under-19 Championship starting from 2022. The qualifying competition will be played in two rounds, with teams divided into two leagues, and promotion and relegation between leagues after each round similar to the
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. A record total of 49 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 11 March 2021, 13:30
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), 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.


Final draw

The final draw was held on 5 April 2022, 18:00
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, at Hotel Hills in
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, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding, except that the hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina were assigned to position A1 in the draw.


Venues


Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 43.01).


Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals. ;Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams were ranked according to
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(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, CEST (
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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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was used to decide the winner if necessary (no
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was played).


Bracket


Semi-finals

The winners qualified for the
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. The losers entered the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.


Third place play-off

The winner qualified for the
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.


Final


Goalscorers


Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the
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. :
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Women's Under-17 Championship 2022
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