2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
2025 kvinnur U-17 dmeistaraheitið fótbólt; UEFA U17-mesterskab for kvinder i 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Faroe Islands
Dates	4 – 17 May
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Attendance	0
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The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship will be the 16th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Faroe Islands will be hosting the tournament.^[1] A total of eight teams will be playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2008 eligible to participate.

In the 2024 final, Spain won their fifth title by defeating England 4–0.

This tournament will act as a qualifier for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco from 17 October to 8 November. UEFA's five berths will be taken by the four WU17 Euro semi-finalists and the winner of a play-off between the two teams finishing third in their groups.^[2]

Qualification

50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Faroe Islands also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts.

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Faroe Islands	Hosts	1st	—	Debut
France	Round 2 Group A2 winners	11th	2024 (Fourth place)	Champions (2023)
Spain	Round 2 Group A1 winners	14th	2024 (Champions)	Champions (2010, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2024)
Italy	Round 2 Group A3 winners	4th	2018 (Group stage)	Third place (2014)
Poland	Round 2 Group A4 winners	5th	2024 (Third place)	Champions (2013)
Netherlands	Round 2 Group A5 winners	6th	2022 (Fourth place)	Runners-up (2019)
Norway	Round 2 Group A6 winners	7th	2024 (Group stage)	Fourth place (2009, 2016), Semi-finals (2017)
Austria	Round 2 Group A7 winners	3rd	2019 (Group stage)	Group stage (2014, 2019)

Venues

Klaksvík Tórshavn	Klaksvík	Tórshavn
	Við Djúpumýru (Klaksvík Stadium)	Tórsvøllur
	Capacity: 2500	Capacity: 6500

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 March 2025 at 12:00 at the Philharmonic Hall in Varpið, Klaksvík.^[3] The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and are automatically qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The third-placed teams in both groups qualify for the play-off match, with the winner also qualifying for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; 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; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; 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 (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage); Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point; Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; Direct red card: −3 points; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Faroe Islands (H)	Knockout stage and qualification for 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
2	Netherlands
3	Austria	Play-off match for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
4	Norway

First match(es) will be played: 4 May 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

4 May 2025