2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

Qualification

Main article: 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round

Qualification for the final tournament of the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship consisted of two rounds: a qualifying round and an elite round. In the qualifying round, 53 national teams competed in 13 groups of four teams, with each group winner and runner-up, plus the best third-placed team, advancing to the elite round. There, the 27 first-round qualifiers plus Germany, who was given a bye, were distributed in seven groups of four teams. The winner of each group qualified for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

:1 Only counted appearances for under-17 era (bold indicates champion for that year, while italic indicates hosts)

Final draw

The draw for the group stage of the final tournament was held on 9 April 2014 at Saint James Cavalier in Valletta. It was conducted by UEFA's Youth and Amateur Football Committee chairman Jim Boyce, along with Fr. Hilary Tagliaferro and former Maltese international David Carabott. The host team, Malta, was automatically assigned as team one in group A, while the remaining teams were drawn successively in the order B1, A2, B2, A3, B3, A4 and B4.

Venues

Squads

Match officials

;Referees

• MNE Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)
• AUT Alexander Harkam (Austria)
• SWE Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)
• LVA Aleksandrs Anufrijevs (Latvia)
• BEL Jonathan Lardot (Belgium)
• AZE Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan) ;Assistant referees
• HUN István Albert (Hungary)
• LTU Audrius Jagintavičius (Lithuania)
• NOR Dag-Roger Nebben (Norway)
• ARM Mesrop Ghazaryan (Armenia)
• ISR David Elias Biton (Israel)
• UKR Oleksandr Korniyko (Ukraine)
• SVN Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia)
• GEO David Chigogidze (Georgia) ;Fourth officials
• MLT Clayton Pisani (Malta)
• MLT Alan Mario Sant (Malta)

Group stage

Fixtures and match schedule were confirmed by UEFA on 15 April 2014.

;Tie-breaking If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 4 to 7 apply. |Superior goal difference in all group matches; |Higher number of goals scored in all group matches; |Respect Fair play ranking of the teams in question (final tournament); |Drawing of lots. If only two teams are tied (according to criteria 1–7) after having met in the last match of the group stage, their ranking is determined by a penalty shoot-out.

All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Group A

Nouri Ould-Chikh Aktay

Armstrong

Kenny Armstrong

Friggieri Bergwijn

Aktay

van der Moot

Group B

Mata

Sheppard Hardie

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).

Bracket

|18 May – Attard||5||0 |18 May – Attard||0||2 |21 May – Attard||1 (1)|**** |1 (4)}}

Semi-finals

Roberts

Nouri Bergwijn Owobowale Van der Moot

Final

Schuurman Verdonk Moore Cooke Kenny

Team of the Tournament

;Goalkeepers

• Netherlands Yanick van Osch
• Switzerland Gregor Kobel ;Defenders
• England Jonjoe Kenny
• England Tafari Moore
• England Joe Gomez
• Netherlands Calvin Verdonk
• Portugal Ferro
• Germany Lukas Boeder ;Midfielders
• England Ryan Ledson
• Scotland Aidan Nesbitt
• Netherlands Jari Schuurman
• Portugal Rúben Neves
• Portugal Renato Sanches
• Switzerland Dimitri Oberlin ;Forwards
• Netherlands Steven Bergwijn
• Turkey Enes Ünal
• England Patrick Roberts
• Portugal Alexandre Silva

Goalscorers

;4 goals

• Dominic Solanke
• Jari Schuurman

;3 goals

• Patrick Roberts
• Calvin Verdonk
• Steven Bergwijn
• Fatih Aktay

;2 goals

• Adam Armstrong
• Abdelhak Nouri
• Dani van der Moot
• Luís Mata
• Enes Ünal

;1 goal

• Jonjoe Kenny
• Benjamin Henrichs
• Aidan Friggieri
• Joseph Mbong
• Bilal Ould-Chikh
• Segun Owobowale
• Pedro Rodrigues
• Renato Sanches
• Ryan Hardie
• Jake Sheppard
• Craig Wighton
• Scott Wright
• Boris Babic
• Dimitri Oberlin
• Hayrullah Alici

References

References

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