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)
Venue	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (7th title)
Runners-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	54 (3.6 per match)
Attendance	63,571 (4,238 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Samuele Inacio (5 goals)
Best player	Rafael Quintas
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The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (41st edition if the under-16 era is included), the annual international football competition contested by the men's under-17 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Albania was selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023 to host the final tournament, for the first time.^[1]

A total of eight teams competed in the final tournament (reduced from 16 in previous editions), with players born on or after 1 January 2008 eligible to participate.^[2] Unlike previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament qualification competition served as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, while the final tournament no longer served as the UEFA qualifiers, with the top 11 teams qualifying for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the UEFA representatives, while the final tournament had only eight teams competed.

Portugal won the competition for the 7th time (3rd in the under-17 era) after defeating France 3–0 in the final.

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	1st	Debut
Italy	League A Group A1 winners	13th	2024 (Champions)	Champions (2024)
Germany	League A Group A2 winners	15th	2023 (Champions)	Champions (2009, 2023)
France	League A Group A3 winners	16th	2024 (Group stage)	Champions (2004, 2015, 2022)
Portugal	League A Group A4 winners	12th	2024 (Runners-up)	Champions (2003, 2016)
Czech Republic	League A Group A5 winners	8th	2024 (Quarter-finals)	Runners-up (2006)
Belgium	League A Group A6 winners	9th	2022 (Group stage)	Semi-finals (2007, 2015, 2018)
England	League A Group A7 winners	17th	2024 (Quarter-finals)	Champions (2010, 2014)

The tournament will be hosted in 4 venues.^[3]

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

A total of 6 referees and 6 assistant referees were selected by UEFA for the tournament.^[4]

Referee	Assistants
Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)	Luka Pajić (Croatia)
Mikkel Redder (Denmark)	Martin Markus (Denmark)
Oliver Reitala (Finland)	Olli Jantunen (Finland)
Joey Kooij (Netherlands)	Dyon Fikkert (Netherlands)
Łukasz Kuźma (Poland)	Marek Arys (Poland)
Oleksiy Derevinskyi (Ukraine)	Oleksiy Myronov (Ukraine)
	Christopher Rae (Scotland)
	Guillaume Maire (Switzerland)

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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7	7	Knockout stage
2	Portugal	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
3	Germany	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
4	Albania (H)	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	8	4	+4	9	Knockout stage
2	Belgium	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	England	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
4	Czech Republic	3	0	0	3	4	9	−5	0

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In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).^[5][6]

	Semi-finals				Final
	29 May – Elbasan
	France	3
					1 June – Tirana
	Belgium	2
					France	0
	29 May – Tirana
					Portugal	3
	Italy	2 (3)
	Portugal (p)	2 (4)

There were 54 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.6 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

The following awards were given after the conclusion of the tournament:

• Player of the Tournament: Rafael Quintas^[7]
• Top Scorer: Samuele Inacio^[8]

After the tournament, the Under-17 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.^[9]

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Romário Cunha
Right Back	Daniel Banjaqui
Centre Back	Emmanuel Mbemba
Centre Back	Mauro Furtado
Left Back	Lucas Batbedat
Defensive Midfielder	Nathan De Cat
Defensive Midfielder	Rafael Quintas
Right Winger	Duarte Cunha
Attacking Midfielder	Samuele Inacio
Left Winger	Jesse Bisiwu
Centre Forward	Djylian N'Guessan

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