2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
U17-Europamästerskapet i fotboll för damer 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Dates	5–18 May
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (5th title)
Runners-up	England
Third place	Poland
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	55 (3.44 per match)
Attendance	8,897 (556 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alba Cerrato; (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Alba Cerrato
	← 2023 2025 →

The 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the 15th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Sweden hosted the tournament from 5 to 18 May. The matches were played in Malmö and Lund. Eight matches were played in Malmö IP, Malmö and eight matches were played in Klostergårdens IP, Lund.^[2]^[3] A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.

In the 2023 final, France won their first title by defeating Spain 3–2.

This tournament also acted as UEFA's qualifier for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic, with the winners, runners-up, and third-placed 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. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[4]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Sweden	Hosts	3rd	2023 (Group stage)	Runners-up (2013)
Portugal	Round 2 Group A2 winners	3rd	2019 (Semi-finals)	Semi-finals (2019)
Belgium	Round 2 Group A3 winners	2nd	2013 (Fourth place)	Fourth place (2013)
England	Round 2 Group A6 winners	9th	2023 (Semi-finals)	Third place (2016), Semi-finals (2023)
Norway	Round 2 Group A4 winners	6th	2022 (Group stage)	Fourth place (2009, 2016), Semi-finals (2017)
Poland	Round 2 Group A7 winners	4th	2023 (Group stage)	Champions (2013)
Spain	Round 2 Group A5 winners	13th	2023 (Runners-up)	Champions (2010, 2011, 2015, 2018)
France	Round 2 Group A1 winners	10th	2023 (Champions)	Champions (2023)

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).^[5]

Venues

The venues for the 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship were Malmö IP, located in Sweden's third biggest city Malmö and Klostergårdens IP, located in Lund.

Malmö Lund	Malmö	Lund
	Malmö IP	Klostergårdens IP
	Capacity: 7,600 (3,900 seated)	Capacity: 3,650 (500 seated)

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):^[5]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference 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;
Penalty shoot-out 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 (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	9	1	+8	9	Knockout stage
2	France	3	2	1	11	3	+8	6	Knockout stage
3	Norway	3	1	2	2	11	−9	3
4	Sweden (H)	3	0	3	3	10	−7	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

5 May 2024

13:00

England	3–0	Norway
Parkinson 6' Harbert 12' Brown 48'	Report

Klostergårdens IP, Lund

Attendance: 257^[6]

Referee: Fabienne Michel (Germany)

5 May 2024