UEFA U17 Championship

Euro U17 (UEFA European Under-17 Championship) - an annual UEFA national-team competition for under-17 players. Regulations: the competition is staged every year and consists of a qualifying competition and a final tournament, the final tournament is made up of a group stage, semi-finals and a final, and the host association is guaranteed a place in the final tournament while still taking part in the qualifying rounds. Qualifying is played as mini-tournaments of three or four teams hosted in one of the countries in the group, with each team playing each opponent once and earning 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a defeat, in round 1 teams are drawn into 14 groups and the group winners and runners-up advance to round 2 League A while the remaining teams enter round 2 League B, in round 2 League A consists of seven groups of four teams. The final tournament has 8 teams, drawn into two groups of four, each team plays three group matches, the top two in each group qualify for the semi-finals and the winners progress to the final. If teams are level on points in a mini-tournament or in the final tournament group stage, the tie-breakers are applied in order as head-to-head points, head-to-head goal difference, head-to-head goals scored, then overall goal difference, overall goals scored, disciplinary points, then overall ranking criteria as defined by the regulations, and if two teams are level on all these criteria and meet in their last group match, their positions may be decided by a penalty shoot-out provided no other team finishes level on points. The semi-finals and final are single-leg, and if there is no winner after normal time the winner is determined by a penalty shoot-out, the competition also serves as UEFA’s European qualifying competition for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.