2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

The 2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-17 Euro 2022) was the 13th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted the tournament.[1] A total of eight teams played in the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to participate.

2022 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
UEFA Europsko prvenstvo za žene do 17 godina 2022
The official emblem
Tournament details
Host countryBosnia and Herzegovina
Dates3–15 May
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Germany (8th title)
Runners-up Spain
Third place France
Fourth place Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored49 (3.06 per match)
Attendance6,720 (420 per match)
Top scorer(s)Denmark Alma Aagaard
Germany Mara Alber
Netherlands Fieke Kroese
Spain Carla Camacho
(3 goals each)
2023

Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India as the UEFA representatives.

Germany were the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 editions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. In the final, defending champions, Germany won their eighth title by defeating Spain 2–2 (3–2 after penalties).

Host selection

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The timeline of host selection was as follows:[2]

For the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, the Faroe Islands and Bosnia and Herzegovina were selected as hosts respectively.[1]

Qualification

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The UEFA Executive Committee approved on 18 June 2020 a new qualifying format for the Women's Under-17 and Under-19 Championship starting from 2022.[3] The qualifying competition will be played in two rounds, with teams divided into two leagues, and promotion and relegation between leagues after each round similar to the UEFA Nations League.[4]

A record total of 49 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams will qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 11 March 2021, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5]

Qualified teams

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The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in Under-17 Euro1
only U-17 era (since 2008)
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Hosts 24 September 2019[1] 0 (debut)
  Denmark Round 2 Group A4 winners 16 March 2022 3 (2008, 2012, 2019)
  Netherlands Round 2 Group A7 winners 22 March 2022 4 (2010, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  Germany Round 2 Group A5 winners 29 March 2022 11 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  Finland Round 2 Group A1 winners 29 March 2022 1 (2018)
  France Round 2 Group A6 winners 30 March 2022 7 (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017)
  Norway Round 2 Group A3 winners 30 March 2022 4 (2009, 2015, 2016, 2017)
  Spain Round 2 Group A2 winners 13 April 2022 10 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Final draw

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The final draw was held on 5 April 2022, 18:00 CET, at Hotel Hills in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[6] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding, except that the hosts Bosnia and Herzegovina were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

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Sarajevo Zenica Široki Brijeg Mostar
Stadion Grbavica Bosnian FA Training Centre Stadion Pecara Gradski Stadium Mostar
Capacity: 13,146 Capacity: 1,500 Capacity: 7,000 Capacity: 9,000

Squads

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Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 43.01).[7]

Group stage

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

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02):[7]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
  8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Germany 3 3 0 0 6 0 +6 9 Knockout stage
2   Netherlands 3 1 1 1 9 3 +6 4
3   Denmark 3 1 1 1 7 3 +4 4
4   Bosnia and Herzegovina (H) 3 0 0 3 0 16 −16 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Denmark  0–2  Germany
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Réka Molnar (Hungary)
Bosnia and Herzegovina  0–8  Netherlands
Report
Attendance: 1,237
Referee: Lovisa Johansson (Sweden)

Bosnia and Herzegovina  0–6  Denmark
Report
Attendance: 600
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)
Germany  2–0  Netherlands
Report
Attendance: 481
Referee: Teresa Oliveira (Portugal)

Germany  2–0  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Report
Attendance: 258
Referee: Gamze Durmuş (Turkey)
Netherlands  1–1  Denmark
Report
Attendance: 230
Referee: Michalina Diakow (Poland)

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Spain 3 3 0 0 11 0 +11 9 Knockout stage
2   France 3 2 0 1 3 3 0 6
3   Finland 3 1 0 2 2 7 −5 3
4   Norway 3 0 0 3 1 7 −6 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
France  2–0  Finland
Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Michalina Diakow (Poland)
Norway  0–4  Spain
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)

Spain  4–0  Finland
Report
Attendance: 253
Referee: Lovisa Johansson (Sweden)
France  1–0  Norway
Report
Attendance: 360
Referee: Gamze Durmuş (Turkey)

Spain  3–0  France
Report
Attendance: 275
Referee: Réka Molnar (Hungary)
Finland  2–1  Norway
Report
Attendance: 150
Referee: Teresa Oliveira (Portugal)

Knockout stage

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In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[7]

Bracket

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
12 May – Zenica
 
 
  Germany1
 
15 May – Sarajevo
 
  France0
 
  Germany (p)2 (3)
 
12 May – Sarajevo
 
  Spain2 (2)
 
  Spain3
 
 
  Netherlands0
 
Third place play-off
 
 
15 May – Zenica
 
 
  France2
 
 
  Netherlands0

Semi-finals

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The winners qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The losers entered the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.

Germany  1–0  France
Report
Attendance: 170
Referee: Michalina Diakow (Poland)
Spain  3–0  Netherlands
Report
Attendance: 468
Referee: Lovisa Johansson (Sweden)

Third place play-off

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The winner qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

France  2–0  Netherlands
Report
Attendance: 221
Referee: Réka Molnar (Hungary)

Final

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Germany  2–2  Spain
Report
Penalties
3–2
Attendance: 1,517
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)

Goalscorers

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There were 49 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.06 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: UEFA

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

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The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup1
  Germany 12 May 2022 6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  Spain 12 May 2022 4 (2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  France 15 May 2022 2 (2008, 2012)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Hosts picked for 2021 and 2022 WU17 EUROs". UEFA.com. 24 September 2019.
  2. ^ "17 member associations interested in hosting UEFA youth national team final tournaments in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 27 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Temporary emergency measures for Financial Fair Play". UEFA.com. 18 June 2019.
  4. ^ "New format for Women's U17 and Women's U19 EUROs". UEFA.com. 18 June 2020.
  5. ^ "2021/22 Women's U17 Round 1 draw live on Thursday". UEFA.com. 5 March 2021.
  6. ^ "2022 Women's U17 finals draw: Tuesday". UEFA.com.
  7. ^ a b c "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship". UEFA.com.
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