2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

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2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2025 UEFA Kampionati Evropian U-17
Tournament details
Host country	Albania
Dates	19 May – 1 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (41st 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. Albania, which were selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023, will host the tournament.

A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2008 eligible to participate.

The tournament and its qualification will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top 11 teams will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

Main article: 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

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	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Albania	* !Hosts	1 !1st	Debut
Italy	1 !League A Group A1 winners	13 !13th	2024 (Champions)	01 !Champions (2024)
Germany	2 !League A Group A2 winners	15 !15th	2023 (Champions)	01 !Champions (2009, 2023)
France	3 !League A Group A3 winners	16 !16th	2024 (Group stage)	01 !Champions (2004, 2015, 2022)
Portugal	4 !League A Group A4 winners	12 !12th	2024 (Runners-up)	01 !Champions (2003, 2016)
Czech Republic	5 !League A Group A5 winners	8 !8th	2024 (Quarter-finals)	02 !Runners-up (2006)
Belgium	6 !League A Group A6 winners	9 !9th	2022 (Group stage)	05 !Semi-finals (2007, 2015, 2018)
England	7 !League A Group A7 winners	17 !17th	2024 (Quarter-finals)	01 !Champions (2010, 2014)

Venues

The tournament will be hosted in 4 venues.

Durrës	Elbasan
Niko Dovana Stadium Capacity: 12,040	Elbasan Arena Capacity: 12,800
Rrogozhinë	Tirana
Egnatia Arena Capacity: 4,000	Arena Kombëtare Capacity: 22,500

Group stage

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

Tie-breaking criteria for group play

The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; 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 are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage); Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point; Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; Direct red card: −3 points; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

All times are local CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Albania (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 19 May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host

19 May 2025 (2025-05-19) 18:00	Albania	v	Portugal	Arena Kombëtare, Tirana
		Report

19 May 2025 (2025-05-19) 20:30	Germany	v	France	Elbasan Arena, Elbasan
		Report

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22 May 2025 (2025-05-22) 18:00	Albania	v	Germany	Elbasan Arena, Elbasan
		Report

22 May 2025 (2025-05-22) 20:30	France	v	Portugal	Arena Kombëtare, Tirana
		Report

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25 May 2025 (2025-05-25) 20:30	France	v	Albania	Elbasan Arena, Elbasan
		Report

25 May 2025 (2025-05-25) 20:30	Portugal	v	Germany	Arena Kombëtare, Tirana
		Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 20 May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

20 May 2025 (2025-05-20) 18:00	England	v	Belgium	Egnatia Arena, Rrogozhinë
		Report

20 May 2025 (2025-05-20) 20:30	Italy	v	Czech Republic	Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës
		Report

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23 May 2025 (2025-05-23) 18:00	Belgium	v	Czech Republic	Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës
		Report

23 May 2025 (2025-05-23) 20:30	Italy	v	England	Egnatia Arena, Rrogozhinë
		Report

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26 May 2025 (2025-05-26) 20:30	Belgium	v	Italy	Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës
		Report

26 May 2025 (2025-05-26) 20:30	Czech Republic	v	England	Egnatia Arena, Rrogozhinë
		Report

Knockout stage

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

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	29 May – Tirana or Elbasan
	A1
					1 June – Tirana
	B2
					Winner SF1
	29 May – Tirana or Elbasan
					Winner SF2
	B1
	A2

Semi-finals

29 May 2025	Winner group A	v	Runner-up Group B

29 May 2025	Winner group B	v	Runner-up Group A

Final

1 June 2025	Winner SF1	v	Winner SF2	Arena Kombëtare, Tirana

External links

• Official website

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