The 2026 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship will be the 17th 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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will be hosting the tournament. A total of eight teams will be playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2009 eligible to participate. This tournament will also act as UEFA's qualifier for the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in

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, with top five teams qualifying as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Sweden also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts.

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

The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in

. :

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

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Women's Under-17 Championship 2026

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