UEFA Sub17 European Championship 2021

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The UEFA Sub17 European Championship 2021 was the 20th edition of this tournament organized by UEFA (39th edition if also included the Sub-16 era). Cyprus was to host the tournament between 6 and 22 May 2021.

Like previous editions held in odd years, the tournament acts as a UEFA classification for the Sub- 17 World Cup. The five best teams of the tournament will be classified for the 2021 Sub- 17 World Cup in Peru as representatives of UEFA. is the defending bicampoon, having won the last two tournaments held in 2018 and 2019, with the 2020 edition cancelled due to the COVID- 19 pandemic in Europe.
UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that, after consultation with the 55 member federations, the classification round would be held in March 2021 and the elite round would not be held, accessing the 13 group winners of the classification round along with the first two of the coefficient ranking, Holland and Spain (which would originally be released from the elite round), in addition to the host, to the final round of the tournament.

On 18 December 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that the tournament had been cancelled after consulting with the 55 member federations due to the current COVID- 19 pandemic in Europe.

Selection of headquarters

The schedule for the selection of the host was as follows:

11 January 2019: initiation of the tender procedure
28 February 2019: deadline for expressing interest
27 March 2019: UEFA announcement that the declaration of interest of 17 member federations was received to host one of the final youth tournaments of the UEFA national selections (UEFA's European Championship Sub- 19, UEFA's European Women's Championship Sub- 19, UEFA's European Championship Sub- 17, UEFA's European Women's Championship Sub- 17) in 2021 and 2022 (although it was not specified which federation was interested in which tournament)
28 June 2019: Submission of tender files
24 September 2019: Selection of successful host federations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Ljubljana

For the final tournaments of the UEFA Sub-17 European Championship of 2021 and 2022, Cyprus and Israel were selected as hosts respectively.

Classification

The 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the host automatically classifying themselves, the original format would have seen the other 54 teams competing in the classification competition, which would have consisted of two rounds: the classification round, which would have taken place in autumn 2020 and the Elite round, which would also have taken place in the spring of 2021, to determine the remaining 15 places in the final tournament.

However, due to the COVID19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that, after consulting with the 55 miemb federations