2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Mistrzostwa Europy U-21 w Piłce Nożnej 2017
Tournament details
Host country  Poland
Dates 16–30 June 2017
Teams 12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Germany (2nd title)
Runners-up  Spain
Tournament statistics
Matches played 21
Goals scored 65 (3.1 per match)
Attendance 244,085 (11,623 per match)
Top scorer(s) Spain Saúl (5 goals)
Best player Spain Dani Ceballos

The 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2017) was the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, a biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament was hosted in Poland for the first time, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 26 January 2015 in Nyon, Switzerland.[1] The tournament took place from 16–30 June 2017.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 1994 were eligible for the tournament.

In March 2012, UEFA announced that the competition would take place in even numbered years from 2016 onwards.[3] In September 2013, UEFA announced its intention to continue holding the final tournament in odd numbered years following a request from its member national football associations.[4] On 24 January 2014, UEFA confirmed that the final tournament would be held in 2017 and that it would be expanded from 8 teams to 12.[5]

Hosts

The hosts were announced at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 26 January 2015. In late April 2014 the Polish football association PZPN very strongly indicated the country has high chances to host the tournament. Bidding to welcome Europe's best youth teams was one of the reasons for Poland's withdrawal from the UEFA Euro 2020 race.[6]

Qualification

A total of 53 UEFA nations entered the competition (Gibraltar did not enter), and with the hosts Poland qualifying automatically, the other 52 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 11 spots in the final tournament.[7] The qualifying competition, which took place from March 2015 to November 2016, consisted of two rounds:[8]

  • Qualifying group stage: The 52 teams are drawn into nine groups – seven groups of six teams and two groups of five teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the four best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) advance to the play-offs.
  • Play-offs: The four teams are drawn into two ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last two qualified teams.

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.[9]

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).

Team Method of qualification Date of qualification Finals appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 PolandHosts26 January 20156th1994Quarter-finals (1982, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994)
 PortugalGroup 4 winners6 September 20168th2015Runners-up (1994, 2015)
 DenmarkGroup 5 winners6 September 20167th2015Semi-finals (1992, 2015)
 EnglandGroup 9 winners6 October 201614th2015Winners (1982, 1984)
 SlovakiaGroup 8 winners6 October 20162nd
(8th incl. Czechoslovakia)		2000Fourth place (2000)
 GermanyGroup 7 winners7 October 201611th2015Winners (2009)
 Czech RepublicGroup 1 winners7 October 20167th
(13th incl. Czechoslovakia)		2015Winners (2002)
 SwedenGroup 6 winners10 October 20168th2015Winners (2015)
 ItalyGroup 2 winners11 October 201619th2015Winners (1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 MacedoniaGroup 3 winners11 October 20161st—Debut
 SpainPlay-off winners15 November 201613th2013Winners (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013)
 SerbiaPlay-off winners15 November 20166th
(10th incl. Yugoslavia)		2015Runners-up (2004, 2007)
Winners (1978 as Yugoslavia)

Final draw

The final draw was held on 1 December 2016, 18:00 CET (UTC+1), at the ICE Congress Centre in Kraków.[10][11] The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying play-offs, with the hosts Poland assigned to position A1 in the draw. Each group contained either the hosts or one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2, and two teams from Pot 3.[12][13]

Hosts (Position A1)
TeamCoeff
 Poland28,102
Pot 1
TeamCoeff
 Germany39,037
 Portugal38,378
Pot 2
TeamCoeff
 England36,621
 Spain36,536
 Denmark35,590
Pot 3
TeamCoeff
 Italy35,546
 Sweden34,259
 Czech Republic33,690
 Serbia31,060
 Slovakia31,057
 Macedonia23,283

Venues

On 7 June 2016, Polish Football Association selected six venues:[14]

Opening match and Group A Group A Group B
Lublin Kielce Gdynia
Arena Lublin Kolporter Arena Stadion GOSiR
Capacity: 15,500 Capacity: 15,500 Capacity: 15,139
Group B Group C, semifinal, and Final Group C and semifinal
Bydgoszcz Kraków Tychy
Kompleks Sportowy Zawisza Stadion Cracovia Stadion Miejski
Capacity: 20,247 Capacity: 15,016 Capacity: 15,300

Match officials

In February 2017, UEFA selected nine referees and their teams for this tournament.

Country Referee 1st assistant referee 2nd assistant referee Additional assistant referee Additional assistant referee
 AustriaHarald LechnerAndreas HeidenreichMaximilian KolbitschAlexander HarkamJulian Weinberger
 SpainJesús Gil ManzanoÁngel Nevado RodríguezDiego Berbero SevillaCarlos del Cerro GrandeJuan Martínez Munuera
 FranceBenoît BastienHicham ZakraniFrédéric HaquetteBenoît MillotJérôme Miguelgorry
 GermanyTobias StielerRafael FoltynJan SeidelDaniel SiebertBenjamin Brand
 LithuaniaGediminas MažeikaVytautas ŠimkusVytenis KazlauskasDonatas RumšasRobertas Valikonis
 NetherlandsSerdar GözübüyükBas van DongenJoost van ZuilenDennis HiglerJeroen Manschot
 ScotlandBobby MaddenDavid McGeachieAlastair MatherAndrew DallasDonald Robertson
 SlovakiaIvan KružliakTomáš SomolániBranislav HanckoPeter KráľovičFilip Glova
 SloveniaSlavko VinčićTomaž KlančnikAndraž KovačičRade ObrenovićRoberto Ponis
  • 4th officials:
Country 4th official
 PolandMarcin Borkowski
 RussiaIgor Demeshko
 IsraelRoy Hassan
 PolandMichał Obukowicz

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.[8]

Group stage

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

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 18.01 and 18.02):[8]

  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 had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (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. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. UEFA coefficient for the final draw.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).[15]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 3 2 1 0 5 1 +4 7 Knockout stage
2  Slovakia 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
3  Sweden 3 0 2 1 2 5 −3 2
4  Poland (H) 3 0 1 2 3 7 −4 1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Sweden  0–0  England
Report
Attendance: 11,672[16]
Poland  1–2  Slovakia
Lipski  1' Report Valjent  20'
Šafranko  78'
Attendance: 14,911[16]
Slovakia  1–2  England
Chrien  23' Report Mawson  50'
Redmond  61'
Attendance: 12,087[16]
Poland  2–2  Sweden
Moneta  6'
Kownacki  90+1' (pen.)		 Report Strandberg  36'
Une Larsson  41'
Attendance: 14,651[16]
England  3–0  Poland
Gray  6'
Murphy  69'
Baker  82' (pen.)		 Report
Attendance: 13,176[16]
Slovakia  3–0  Sweden
Chrien  5'
Mihalík  22'
Šatka  73'		 Report
Attendance: 11,203[16]

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 3 3 0 0 9 1 +8 9 Knockout stage
2  Portugal 3 2 0 1 7 5 +2 6
3  Serbia 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1
4  Macedonia 3 0 1 2 4 11 −7 1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Portugal  2–0  Serbia
Guedes  37'
Fernandes  88'		 Report
Attendance: 10,724[16]
Spain  5–0  Macedonia
Saúl  10'
Asensio  16', 54', 72'
Deulofeu  35' (pen.)		 Report
Attendance: 8,269[16]
Serbia  2–2  Macedonia
Gaćinović  24'
Đurđević  90'		 Report Bardhi  64' (pen.)
Gjorgjev  83'
Attendance: 5,121[16]
Portugal  1–3  Spain
Bruma  77' Report Saúl  21'
Sandro  65'
Williams  90+3'
Attendance: 13,862[16]
Macedonia  2–4  Portugal
Bardhi  40'
Markoski  80'		 Report Edgar Ié  2'
Bruma  22', 90+1'
Daniel Podence  57'
Attendance: 7,533[16]
Serbia  0–1  Spain
Report Denis Suárez  38'
Attendance: 12,058[16]

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Italy 3 2 0 1 4 3 +1 6 Knockout stage
2  Germany 3 2 0 1 5 1 +4 6
3  Denmark 3 1 0 2 4 7 −3 3
4  Czech Republic 3 1 0 2 5 7 −2 3
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Germany  2–0  Czech Republic
Meyer  44'
Gnabry  50'		 Report
Attendance: 14,051[16]
Denmark  0–2  Italy
Report Pellegrini  54'
Petagna  86'
Attendance: 8,754[16]
Czech Republic  3–1  Italy
Trávník  24'
Havlík  79'
Lüftner  85'		 Report Berardi  70'
Attendance: 13,251[16]
Germany  3–0  Denmark
Selke  53'
Kempf  73'
Amiri  79'		 Report
Attendance: 9,298[16]
Italy  1–0  Germany
Bernardeschi  31' Report
Attendance: 14,039[16]
Czech Republic  2–4  Denmark
Schick  27'
Chorý  54'		 Report L. Andersen  23'
Zohore  35', 73'
Ingvartsen  90+1'
Attendance: 9,047[16]

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 C  Germany 3 2 0 1 5 1 +4 6 Knockout stage
2 A  Slovakia 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
3 B  Portugal 3 2 0 1 7 5 +2 6
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient (Regulations Article 18.03).[8]

The match-ups of the semi-finals depend on which runner-up qualified (Regulations Article 17.02):[8]

  Scenario according to the qualified team
Best runner-up from Best runner-up plays Other semi-final
Group AWinner Group BWinner Group A vs Winner Group C
Group BWinner Group AWinner Group B vs Winner Group C
Group CWinner Group AWinner Group B vs Winner Group C

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.[8]

On 2 May 2016, the UEFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board's trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.[17]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 June – Tychy
 
 
 England2 (3)
 
30 June – Kraków
 
 Germany (p)2 (4)
 
 Germany1
 
27 June – Kraków
 
 Spain0
 
 Spain3
 
 
 Italy1
 

Semi-finals

England  2–2 (a.e.t.)  Germany
Gray  41'
Abraham  50'		 Report Selke  35'
Platte  70'
Penalties
Baker
Abraham
Chilwell
Ward-Prowse
Redmond 		3–4 Arnold
Gerhardt
Philipp
Meyer
Amiri
Attendance: 13,214[16]
Spain  3–1  Italy
Saúl  53', 65', 74' Report Bernardeschi  62'
Attendance: 13,105[16]

Final

Germany  1–0  Spain
Weiser  40' Report
Attendance: 14,059[18]

Goalscorers

There have been 65 goals scored in 21 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Source: UEFA.com[19]

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Team of the tournament

After the tournament the Under-21 Team of the Tournament is selected by the UEFA Technical Observers.[22]

Position Player
Goalkeeper Germany Julian Pollersbeck
Defenders Germany Jeremy Toljan
Slovakia Milan Škriniar
Germany Niklas Stark
Germany Yannick Gerhardt
Midfielders Germany Maximilian Arnold
Spain Dani Ceballos
Germany Max Meyer
Spain Saúl Ñíguez
Forwards Spain Marco Asensio
Italy Federico Bernardeschi

Sponsorship

Sponsors

References

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  2. ↑ "Cardiff to host 2017 UEFA Champions League final". UEFA.org. 30 June 2015.
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  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2015–17" (PDF). UEFA.com. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
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