2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Belarus
Dates 4–16 May 2016
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Germany (5th title)
Runners-up  Spain
Third place  England
Fourth place  Norway
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 58 (3.63 per match)
Attendance 44,601 (2,788 per match)
Top scorer(s) England Alessia Russo
Spain Lorena Navarro
(5 goals each)
Best player Germany Caroline Siems[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament:[6]

Team Method of qualification Finals appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 BelarusHosts1st—Debut
 GermanyElite round Group 1 winners8th2015Champions (2008, 2009, 2012, 2014)
 SpainElite round Group 2 winners7th2015Champions (2010, 2011, 2015)
 Czech RepublicElite round Group 3 winners1st—Debut
 ItalyElite round Group 4 winners2nd2014Third place (2014)
 NorwayElite round Group 5 winners3rd2015Fourth place (2009)
 EnglandElite round Group 6 winners4th2015Fourth place (2008, 2014)
 SerbiaElite round Group 6 runners-up[^]1st—Debut

Notes

  1. ^ The best runners-up among all six elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.

Final draw

The final draw was held on 6 April 2016, 11:30 FET (UTC+3), at the Victoria Hotel in Minsk, Belarus.[7] 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.[8]

Venues

The tournament was hosted in five venues:[9]

Barysaw Minsk
Borisov Arena Haradski Stadium Traktor Stadium
Capacity: 13,126 Capacity: 5,402 Capacity: 16,500
Slutsk Zhodzina
City Stadium Torpedo Stadium
Capacity: 1,896 Capacity: 6,524

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.[5]

Match officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.

Group stage

Results of teams participating at the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 7 April 2016.[10]

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). 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:[5]

  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 (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, FET (UTC+3).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 3 3 0 0 19 3 +16 9 Knockout stage
2  Norway 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2 6
3  Serbia 3 1 0 2 6 6 0 3
4  Belarus (H) 3 0 0 3 1 19 −18 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Belarus  1–5  Serbia
Zhitko  68' Report Poljak  7'
Agbaba  30'
Ivanović  48'
Filipović  57'
Burkert  79'
Attendance: 4,500[11]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)
England  3–2  Norway
Charles  16'
Russo  36'
Filbey  69'		 Report Haug  59', 62'
Attendance: 2,600[11]
Referee: Vera Opeykina (Russia)
Belarus  0–12  England
Report Toone  5', 38'
Filbey  7', 19'
Russo  15', 23'
Stanway  29'
Cain  71', 75'
Smith  74', 80+5'
Brazil  80+1'
Attendance: 1,700[11]
Referee: Ana Aguiar (Portugal)
Serbia  0–1  Norway
Report Maanum  54'
Attendance: 585[11]
Referee: Elvira Nurmustafina (Kazakhstan)
Norway  2–0  Belarus
Olsen  18'
Ruud  40'		 Report
Attendance: 1,530[11]
Referee: Dimitrina Milkova (Bulgaria)
Serbia  1–4  England
Ivanović  40' Report Stanway  47' (pen.)
Brazil  68'
Charles  71'
Cain  76'
Attendance: 500[11]
Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 7 Knockout stage
2  Germany 3 1 2 0 6 2 +4 5
3  Italy 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2
4  Czech Republic 3 0 1 2 0 5 −5 1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Italy  0–0  Czech Republic
Report
Attendance: 1,730[11]
Referee: Ana Aguiar (Portugal)
Germany  2–2  Spain
Bühl  44', 74' Report Rubio  43'
Kleinherne  45' (o.g.)
Attendance: 1,826[11]
Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)
Italy  0–0  Germany
Report
Attendance: 2,500[11]
Referee: Vera Opeykina (Russia)
Czech Republic  0–1  Spain
Report L. Navarro  54'
Attendance: 1,200[11]
Referee: Dimitrina Milkova (Bulgaria)
Spain  3–1  Italy
Blanco  10'
L. Navarro  29', 58'		 Report Glionna  62'
Attendance: 2,400[11]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)
Czech Republic  0–4  Germany
Report Ziegler  7', 22'
Müller  36', 51'
Attendance: 250[11]
Referee: Elvira Nurmustafina (Kazakhstan)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[5]

There was a third place match (i.e., FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off) for this edition of the tournament as it was used as a qualifier for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (since expansion to eight teams).

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 May – Zhodzina
 
 
 Spain4
 
16 May – Barysaw
 
 Norway0
 
 Spain0 (2)
 
13 May – Zhodzina
 
 Germany (p)0 (3)
 
 England3
 
 
 Germany4
 
Third place
 
 
16 May – Minsk
 
 
 Norway1
 
 
 England2

Semi-finals

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

Spain  4–0  Norway
Rubio  48'
Na. Ramos  71'
L. Navarro  73', 76'		 Report
Attendance: 4,800[11]
Referee: Vera Opeykina (Russia)
England  3–4  Germany
Brazil  31'
Russo  42', 77'		 Report Ziegler  29', 70'
Bühl  41'
Pawollek  57'
Attendance: 4,100[11]
Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

Third place match

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

Norway  1–2  England
Haug  52' Report Charles  8', 57'
Attendance: 4,180[11]
Referee: Ana Aguiar (Portugal)

Final

Spain  0–0  Germany
Report
Penalties
Rodríguez
Monente
Andújar
L. Navarro
Na. Ramos 		2–3 Gwinn
Minge
Pawollek
Müller
Siems
Attendance: 10,200[11]
Referee: Eleni Antoniou (Greece)

Goalscorers

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
  • England Grace Smith
  • England Georgia Stanway
  • England Ella Ann Toone
  • Germany Marie Müller
  • Serbia Miljana Ivanović
  • Spain Silvia Rubio
1 goal
  • Belarus Karolina Zhitko
  • Germany Tanja Pawollek
  • Italy Benedetta Glionna
  • Norway Frida Maanum
  • Norway Ingrid Olsen
  • Norway Emilia Ruud
  • Serbia Jovana Agbaba
  • Serbia Teodora Burkert
  • Serbia Tijana Filipović
  • Serbia Allegra Poljak
  • Spain María Blanco
  • Spain Natalia Ramos
1 own goal
  • Germany Sophia Kleinherne (playing against Spain)

Source: UEFA.com[12]

Team of the Tournament

Source: UEFA Technical Report[11]

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

The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[13]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Germany13 May 20164 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
 Spain13 May 20162 (2010, 2014)
 England16 May 20161 (2008)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References

  1. ↑ "2016: Caroline Siems". UEFA.com.
  2. ↑ "England, Iceland, Belarus have Women's U17 honour". UEFA. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Decisions taken by the FIFA Executive Committee concerning women's competitions in 2016" (PDF). FIFA. 23 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Belarus the goal for record Women's U17 entry". UEFA.com. 1 November 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2015/16" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  6. ↑ "Women's U17 finals lineup complete". UEFA.com. 29 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Final tournament draw". UEFA.com.
  8. ↑ "Women's Under-17 Championship finals draw". UEFA.com. 6 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Venue guide". UEFA.com.
  10. ↑ "Women's U17 finals schedule confirmed". UEFA.com. 7 April 2016.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Technical Report". UEFA.com. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  12. ↑ "Statistics — Tournament phase — Player statistics — Goals". UEFA.com. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  13. ↑ "Spain, Germany and England heading to Jordan". FIFA.com. 13 May 2016.
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