2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship


The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the 11th 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. Lithuania, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament.
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 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 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay as the UEFA representatives.
Spain won their fourth title by beating defending champions Germany 2–0 in the final.

Qualification

A total of 46 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Lithuania qualifying automatically, the other 45 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
TeamMethod of qualificationAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
1st—
3rd2017 ,
1st—
9th2017
3rd2016
6th2017
2nd2013
10th2017

Final draw

The final draw was held on 6 April 2018, 10:00 EEST, at the Kaunas State Musical Theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Lithuania were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

In January 2015 Lithuanian Football Federation announced plans to host championships in Kaunas, Alytus, Marijampolė and Jonava, although Central stadium of Jonava had to improve the conditions in stadium. In early 2018 it was announced that competition would be held in three cities: Alytus, Marijampolė and Šiauliai.

MarijampolėAlytusŠiauliai
Sūduva StadiumAlytus StadiumSavivaldybė Stadium
Capacity: 6,500Capacity: 3,748Capacity: 4,000

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
Each national team submitted a squad of 20 players.

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 12 April 2018.
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.
;Tiebreakers
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
  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 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. 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 ;
  8. Disciplinary points ;
  9. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  10. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, EEST.

Group A


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Group B


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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Losers enter the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.
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FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off

Winner qualifies for 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Final

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

The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup[|1]
5
3
0

Goalscorers

Note: Goals scored in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off are included in this list, but are not counted by UEFA for statistical purposes.
;9 goals
;6 goals
;4 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;1 own goal
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament :
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;Defenders
;Midfielders
;Forwards