2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

Qualification

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification

All 54 UEFA nations entered the competition and with the hosts Bulgaria qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2014 and Elite round, which took place in spring 2015.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

;Notes

Final draw

The final draw was held in Pomorie, Bulgaria on 2 April 2015, 14:00 EEST (UTC+3). The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. There were no seeding except that the hosts Bulgaria were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

The competition was played at four venues in four host cities: Beroe Stadium (in Stara Zagora), Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium (in Sliven), Lazur Stadium (in Burgas), and Arena Sozopol (in Sozopol).

Squads

Main article: 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads

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

Match officials

A total of 9 referees, 12 assistant referees and 4 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament. ;Referees

• ROU Marius Avram
• SRB Danilo Grujić
• SUI Adrien Jaccottet
• DEN Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen
• BEL Erik Lambrechts
• MDA Dumitru Muntean
• POL Paweł Raczkowski
• ISR Roi Reinshreiber
• MLT Alan Mario Sant ;Assistant referees
• ARM Erik Arevshatyan
• ALB Rejdi Avdo
• SWE Mehmet Culum
• AZE Namik Huseynov
• WAL Gareth Jones
• EST Sten Klaasen
• FIN Ville Koskiniemi
• BLR Aleh Maslianka
• POR Nuno Pereira
• LAT Romans Platonovs
• LTU Dovydas Sužiedėlis
• SVK Erik Weiss ;Fourth officials
• BUL Georgi Kabakov
• BUL Tsvetan Krastev
• BUL Nikola Popov
• BUL Ivaylo Stoyanov

Group stage

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals. Tiebreaker ;Tiebreakers 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 had 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 (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage).
8. Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

All times were local, EEST (UTC+3).

Group A

Blečić

Villalba

Group B

Schmidt

Van Vaerenbergh

Karakas Sağlam

Group C

Pavlidis Denisov Édouard Boutobba Doucouré

Pletnyov

Group D

Mazzocchi

Knockout stage

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

Bracket

|15 May – Burgas||1 (3)| (p)|1 (5) |16 May – Stara Zagora||3||0 |15 May – Stara Zagora| (p)|0 (4)||0 (2) |16 May – Burgas||0||1 |19 May – Burgas||1 (1)| (p)|1 (2) |19 May – Stara Zagora||1||0 |22 May – Burgas||4||1 |19 May – Sozopol||1||0 |19 May – Sliven||0 (3)| (p)|0 (5)

Quarter-finals

Winners qualified for 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Losers played in FIFA U-17 World Cup play-offs.

Brekalo Lovren Sosa Van Vaerenbergh Daneels Ademoglu Azzaoui

Janelt Passlack Özcan Olmo Aleñá Rodríguez

Ikoné

FIFA U-17 World Cup play-offs

Winners qualified for 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Olmo Villalba Martín Ugbo Willock Oxford Suliman

Semi-finals

Van Vaerenbergh Daneels Ademoglu Azzaoui Cognat Pelican Zidane Édouard

Final

Gül

Goalscorers

;8 goals

• FRA Odsonne Édouard

;3 goals

• Ismail Azzaoui
• Jonathan Ikoné
• Felix Passlack

;2 goals

• Dennis Van Vaerenbergh
• Tonislav Yordanov
• Marcus Edwards
• Erdinc Karakas
• Vangelis Pavlidis
• Yegor Denisov
• Dmitri Pletnyov

;1 goal

• Oliver Filip
• Sandi Lovrić
• Rubin Seigers
• Matko Babić
• Adrian Blečić
• Davor Lovren
• Karlo Majić
• Nikola Moro
• Ondřej Lingr
• Bilal Boutobba
• Mamadou Doucouré
• Jordan Rambaud
• Johannes Eggestein
• Görkem Sağlam
• Niklas Schmidt
• Janni Serra
• Kostas Kirtzialidis
• Patrick Cutrone
• Simone Lo Faso
• Simone Mazzocchi
• Reda Boultam
• Aleksei Tatayev
• Carles Aleñá
• Francisco José Villalba
• José Luis Zalazar

;Own goal

• Gökhan Gül (playing against France)
• Federico Giraudo (playing against the Netherlands)
• Timothy Fosu-Mensah (playing against England)

Source: UEFA

Team of the tournament

;Goalkeepers

• Jens Teunckens
• Constantin Frommann ;Defenders
• Alec Georgen
• Borna Sosa
• Marc Cucurella
• Wout Faes
• Dayot Upamecano ;Midfielders
• Carles Aleñá
• Josip Brekalo
• Timothé Cognat
• Georgi Makhatadze
• Nikola Moro
• Marcus Edwards ;Forwards
• Felix Passlack
• Odsonne Édouard
• Jonathan Ikoné
• Chris Willock
• Jeff Reine-Adélaïde

Source: UEFA Technical Report

References

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