The 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship will be the 15th 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. Sweden will be hosting the tournament from May 5 to 18. The matches will be played in Malmö and Lund. 16 matches will be played in Malmö IP, Malmö and 16 matches will be played in Klostergårdens IP, Lund.^[1][2] A total of eight teams will be playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.

In the final 2023, France won their first title by defeating Spain 3–2.

This tournament will also act as UEFA's qualifier for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic, with the winner, runner-up and third placed teams qualifying as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

50 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Sweden also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams qualified for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Sweden	Hosts	3rd	2023 (Group stage)	Runners-up (2013)

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).^[4]

Venues

Malmö

Lund

The venues for the tournament (Malmö and Lund)

The venues for the 2024 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship are Malmö IP, located in Sweden's third biggest city Malmö and Klostergårdens IP, located in Lund.

Group stage

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

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, 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 20.01 and 20.02):^[4]

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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that 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 were 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. Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

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

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 20 May 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

5 May 2024 (2024-05-05)

Sweden	v	A4

5 May 2024 (2024-05-05)

A3	v	A2

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8 May 2024 (2024-05-08)

Sweden	v	A3

8 May 2024 (2024-05-08)

A2	v	A4

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11 May 2024 (2024-05-11)

A2	v	Sweden

11 May 2024 (2024-05-11)

A4	v	A3

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).^[4]

Final standings

Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8

References

External links

• UEFA's Website with more information