2026 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2026 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
Jalgpalli alla 17-aastaste Euroopa meistrivõistlused 2026
Tournament details
Host country	Estonia
Dates	Summer 2026
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2026 UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be the 23rd edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (42nd 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. Estonia, which were selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023, will host the tournament.^[1]

A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2009 eligible to participate.^[2]

The tournament and its qualification will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top teams will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the UEFA representatives.

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
Estonia	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.

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Estonia (H)	Knockout stage
2	A2	Knockout stage
3	A3
4	A4

First match(es) will be played: Summer 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	B1	Knockout stage
2	B2	Knockout stage
3	B3
4	B4

First match(es) will be played: Summer 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

References

^ "Albania, Estonia, Latvia to host U17 EURO in 2025, 2026, 2027". UEFA. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ New U17 Euro format from 2024/25, UEFA.com

External links

Official website

UEFA European U-16 and U-17 Championship

Under-16 era, 1982–2001
Tournaments	Italy 1982 West Germany 1984 Hungary 1985 Greece 1986 France 1987 Spain 1988 Denmark 1989 East Germany 1990 Switzerland 1991 Cyprus 1992 Turkey 1993 Republic of Ireland 1994 Belgium 1995 Austria 1996 Germany 1997 Scotland 1998 Czech Republic 1999 Israel 2000 England 2001
Qualification	1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Squads	1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Under-17 era, 2002–present
Tournaments	Denmark 2002 Portugal 2003 France 2004 Italy 2005 Luxembourg 2006 Belgium 2007 Turkey 2008 Germany 2009 Liechtenstein 2010 Serbia 2011 Slovenia 2012 Slovakia 2013 Malta 2014 Bulgaria 2015 Azerbaijan 2016 Croatia 2017 England 2018 Republic of Ireland 2019 ~~Estonia 2020~~ ~~Cyprus 2021~~ Israel 2022 Hungary 2023 Cyprus 2024 Albania 2025 Estonia 2026 Latvia 2027
Qualification	2002 2003 2004 (First, Second) 2005 (First, Elite) 2006 (First, Elite) 2007 (First, Elite) 2008 (First, Elite) 2009 (First, Elite) 2010 (First, Elite) 2011 (First, Elite) 2012 (First, Elite) 2013 (First, Elite) 2014 (First, Elite) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 ~~2021~~ 2022 2023 2024 2025
Squads	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

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