2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship


The 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the 9th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual European international youth football championship contested by the women's under-17 national teams of UEFA member associations. Belarus, which were selected by UEFA on 20 March 2012, hosted the tournament between 4 and 16 May 2016.
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after [|1] January 1999 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.
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 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

The national teams from 47 UEFA member associations entered the competition, which was a record total, including Andorra who entered a UEFA women's competition for the first time. With Belarus automatically qualified as hosts, the other 46 teams contested a qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: the qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2015, and the elite round, which took place in spring 2016.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament:
TeamMethod of qualificationFinals appearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
—Debut
2015
2015
—Debut
2014
2015
2015
—Debut

Final draw

The final draw was held on 6 April 2016, 11:30 FET, at the Victoria Hotel in Minsk, Belarus. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Belarus were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

The tournament was hosted in five venues:

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.

Match officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.
;Referees
;Assistant referees
;Fourth officials
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 7 April 2016.
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.
;Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points. If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
  1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  2. Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 applied;
  5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  7. If only two teams have the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out.
  8. Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times were local, FET.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.
There was a third place match for this edition of the tournament as it was used as a qualifier for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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Third place match

Winner qualified for 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Final

Goalscorers

;5 goals
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;1 own goal
;Goalkeepers
;Defenders
;Midfielders
;Forwards
The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1