2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship


The 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was originally to be held as the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Estonia, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, were originally to host the tournament. A total of 16 teams were originally to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 21 May – 6 June 2020. After initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.
The Netherlands were the two-time defending champions.

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Estonia qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era.
TeamMethod of qualificationAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
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Final draw

The final draw was originally to be held on 8 April 2020 in Tallinn, Estonia. The 16 teams would be drawn into four groups of four teams. The hosts Estonia would be assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams would be seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round. The seven best elite round group winners would be placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams would be placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.

Venues

The tournament were originally to be held in eight venues.
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players.

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-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 ranking 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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Group C


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Group D


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Knockout stage

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

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final