2021 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2021 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

Ευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα ποδοσφαίρου Παίδων 2021 2021 Avrupa 17 Yaş Altı Futbol Şampiyonası
Tournament details
Host country	Cyprus
Dates	6–22 May 2021 (Later Cancelled)
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	TBC (in TBC host cities)
← 2020 2022 →

The 2021 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2021) would have been the 20th edition of the 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. Cyprus will host the tournament between 6–22 May 2021. A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate. However the tournament was cancelled by UEFA in December 2020 due to Coronavirus.

Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament would have acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the UEFA representatives.

The Netherlands were the two-time defending champions, having won the last two tournaments held in 2018 and 2019, with the 2020 edition cancelled also due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

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 (UEFA European Under-19 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, UEFA European Under-17 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship) 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 Ljubljana

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

Qualification

Main article: 2021 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Cyprus qualifying automatically, the original format would see the other 54 teams competing in the qualifying competition, which would consist of two rounds: Qualifying round, which would take place in autumn 2020, and Elite round, which would take place in spring 2021, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round would be delayed to March 2021, and the elite round would be abolished, with the 13 qualifying round group winners and the top two seeds by coefficient ranking, Netherlands and Spain (which originally would receive byes to the elite round) qualifying for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

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

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Cyprus	* !Hosts	1st	—	99 !Debut
Netherlands	*1 !1st seed by coefficient ranking	14th	2019 (champions)	01 !Champions (2011, 2012, 2018, 2019)
Spain	*2 !2nd seed by coefficient ranking	14th	2019 (semi-finals)	01 !Champions (2007, 2008, 2017)
TBD	01 !Qualifying round Group 1 winners
TBD	02 !Qualifying round Group 2 winners
TBD	03 !Qualifying round Group 3 winners
TBD	04 !Qualifying round Group 4 winners
TBD	05 !Qualifying round Group 5 winners
TBD	06 !Qualifying round Group 6 winners
TBD	07 !Qualifying round Group 7 winners
TBD	08 !Qualifying round Group 8 winners
TBD	09 !Qualifying round Group 9 winners
TBD	10 !Qualifying round Group 10 winners
TBD	11 !Qualifying round Group 11 winners
TBD	12 !Qualifying round Group 12 winners
TBD	13 !Qualifying round Group 13 winners

Venues

To be confirmed.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
TBD	02021-05-01-May 2021
TBD	02021-05-01-May 2021
TBD	02021-05-01-May 2021
TBD	02021-05-01-May 2021
TBD	02021-05-01-May 2021

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

External links

• Official website

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