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The 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2023) was the 20th UEFA European Under-17 Championship (39th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Hungary was hosting the tournament. A total of 16 teams are playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2006 eligible to participate.

Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives.

France, having won the title in 2022, entered as the title holders, reached the final match but lost to Germany, who won their fourth title.

Host selection
19 April 2021: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Montreux

For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2023 and 2024, Hungary and Cyprus were selected as hosts respectively.

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Hungary qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2022, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2023, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

Notes
1 The best seven runners-up among all eight elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.
2 Two as Serbia and Montenegro and seven as Serbia

Final draw

Venues
The tournament is hosted in 7 venues.

Match officials
The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:

Referees
Elchin Masiyev
Jamie Robinson
Damian Sylwestrzak
Miloš Milanović
Michal Očenáš
David Šmajc
Adam Ladebäck
Atilla Karaoglan
Lothar D'Hondt
Radoslav Gidzhenov
Oliver Reitala
David Dickinson

Assistant referees
Nertil Bregasi
Andreu Vilanova
Elsad Abdullayev
Kyriakos Sokratous
Konstandinos Psarris
Adam Jeffrey
Bartosz Heinig
Milan Šutulović
Peter Bednar
David Gabrovec
Mehmet Tugral
Daniel Yng

Squads

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.

The final draw was made on 3 April 2023.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).

Bracket

Quarter-finals
Winners qualified for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup. The two best losing quarter-finalists entered the FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off.

Ranking of losing quarter-finalists
To determine the two best losing quarter-finalists which entered the FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off, the losing quarter-finalists were ranked by the following criteria (Regulations Article 16.06):
Position in the group stage (i.e., group winners ahead of group runners-up);
Results in the group stage (i.e., points, goal difference, goals scored);
Results in the quarter-finals (i.e., points, goal difference, goals scored);
Disciplinary points in the group stage and quarter-finals combined;
UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
Drawing of lots.

FIFA U-17 World Cup play-off
Winner qualified for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.

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

References

External links

2023
Under-17 Championship
2023 Uefa European Under-17 Championship
2022–23 in Hungarian football
2023 in youth association football
UEFA
UEFA