2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

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)
← 2024 2026 →

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	1st	Debut	–

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	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: Summer 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	B4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

External links

• Official website