2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Northern Ireland |
| Dates | 8–20 August |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Spain (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  France |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 52 (3.25 per match) |
| Attendance | 18,438 (1,152 per match) |
| Top scorer | Patricia Guijarro (5 goals) |
| Best player | Patricia Guijarro[1] |
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The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2017) was the 16th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (20th edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland was selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015 as the host country for the tournament.[2]
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1998 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France as the UEFA representatives, besides France who qualified automatically as hosts.[3]
Qualified teams
Venues
The tournament was hosted in four venues:
| Belfast | Lurgan | |
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| Windsor Park | Mourneview Park | |
| Capacity: 18,434 | Capacity: 4,160 | |
| 4 group matches, 2 semi-finals, final | 3 group matches | |
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| Portadown | Ballymena | |
| Shamrock Park | Ballymena Showgrounds | |
| Capacity: 2,770 | Capacity: 3,600 | |
| 2 group matches | 3 group matches, third-place playoff | |
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Squads
Each national team have 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.[10]
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Group stage
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[5]
On 2 May 2016, the UEFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be part of the International Football Association Board (IFAB)'s trial to allow a fourth substitute to be made during extra time.[13] On 1 June 2017, it was also announced as part of a trial sanctioned by the IFAB to reduce the advantage of the team shooting first in a penalty shoot-out,[14] a different sequence of taking penalties, known as "ABBA", that mirrors the serving sequence in a tennis tiebreak would be used if a penalty shoot-out was needed (team A kicks first, team B kicks second):[15]
- Original sequence
- AB AB AB AB AB (sudden death starts) AB AB etc.
- Trial sequence
- AB BA AB BA AB (sudden death starts) BA AB etc.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 17 August – Belfast | ||||||
 Germany | 1 | |||||
| 20 August – Belfast | ||||||
| France | 2 | |||||
| France | 2 | |||||
| 17 August – Belfast | ||||||
| Spain | 3 | |||||
 Netherlands | 2 | |||||
| Spain | 3 | |||||
| World Cup play-off | ||||||
| 17 August – Lurgan | ||||||
 Scotland | 0 | |||||
 England | 2 | |||||
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup play-off
Winner qualifies for 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Semi-finals
Final
Goalscorers
Note: Goals scored in the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup play-off are included in this list, but are not counted by UEFA for statistical purposes.
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Zoe Cross (in play-off)- Mollie Rouse (in play-off)
Lina Boussaha- Christy Gavory
- Catherine Karadjov
- Agathe Ollivier
- Julie Thibaud
Anna Gerhardt- Luca Maria Graf
- Giulia Gwinn
- Kristin Kögel
- Ereleta Memeti
- Dina Orschmann
- Caroline Siems
Alice Regazzoli
Fenna Kalma- Ashleigh Weerden
Louise McDaniel
Kirsty Hanson
Damaris Egurrola- Maite Oroz
- 1 own goal
- Julie Piga (against Netherlands)
- Aniek Nouwen (against Italy)
Source: UEFA.com[16]
Team of the Tournament
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Source: UEFA Technical Report[17]