2017 UEFA European Under-21 ChampionshipMistrzostwa Europy U-21 w Piłce Nożnej 2017
Tournament detailsHost country
PolandDates16–30 June 2017Teams12 (from 1 confederation)Venue(s)6 (in 6 host cities)Final positionsChampions
Germany ( 2nd title )Runners-up
SpainTournament statisticsMatches played21Goals scored65 (3.1 per match)Attendance244,085 (11,623 per match)Top scorer(s)Saúl ( 5 goals )
Best player(s)Dani Ceballos2015 2019 → International football rival
The 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship ( besides known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2017 ) was the twenty-first edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, a biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men ‘s under-21 home teams of Europe. The concluding tournament was hosted in Poland for the beginning prison term, 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 flush count years from 2016 onwards. [ 3 ] In September 2013, UEFA announced its intention to continue holding the final tournament in odd number years following a request from its member home 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 [edit ]
The hosts were announced at a meet of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 26 January 2015. In late April 2014, the Polish Football Association identical powerfully indicated the state has senior high school chances to host the tournament. bid to welcome Europe ‘s best young person team was one of the reasons for Poland ‘s withdrawal from the UEFA Euro 2020 race. [ 6 ]
reservation [edit ]
A sum of 53 UEFA nations entered the rival ( Gibraltar did not insert, as per common ), and with the hosts Poland qualifying mechanically, the other 52 teams competed in the qualifying contest to determine the remaining 11 spots in the concluding tournament. [ 7 ] The qualifying competition, which took rate 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 [edit ]
The following 12 teams qualified for the concluding tournament. [ 9 ] Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).
Final draw [edit ]
The concluding 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 trace. 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 ]
Venues [edit ]
On 7 June 2016, Polish Football Association selected six venues : [ 14 ]
match officials [edit ]
In February 2017, UEFA selected nine referees and their teams for this tournament .
- 4th officials:
Country
4th official
Poland
Marcin Borkowski
Russia
Igor Demeshko
Israel
Roy Hassan
Poland
Michał Obukowicz
Squads [edit ]
Each national team had to submit a team of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a actor was injured or ill hard enough to prevent his engagement in the tournament before his team ‘s first base match, he could be replaced by another player. [ 8 ]
Group stage [edit ]
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 indicate 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 ]
- 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 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);
- Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- UEFA coefficient for the final draw.
All times are local, CEST ( UTC+2 ). [ 15 ]
Group A [edit ]
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
Group B [edit ]
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
Group C [edit ]
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
Ranking of second-placed teams [edit ]
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
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient (Regulations Article 18.03).[8] reservoir : UEFA Rules for classification : 1 ) points ; 2 ) goal dispute ; 3 ) goals scored ; 4 ) disciplinary points ; 5 ) coefficient ( Regulations Article 18.03 ). The match-ups of the semi-finals depended on which runner-up qualified ( Regulations Article 17.02 ) : [ 8 ]
scenario according to the qualify team
Best runner-up from
Best runner-up plays
Other semi-final
Group A
Winner Group B
Winner Group A vs Winner Group C
Group B
Winner Group A
Winner Group B vs Winner Group C
Group C
Winner Group A
Winner Group B vs Winner Group C
Knockout stage [edit ]
In the hard stage, extra time and a punishment shoot-out were used to decide the achiever if necessary. [ 8 ] On 2 May 2016, the UEFA Executive Committee agreed that the competition would be separate of the International Football Association Board ‘s test to allow a fourthly utility to be made during extra time. [ 17 ]
Read more: โบรุสเซีย ดอร์ทมุนด์(Borussia Dortmund)
bracket [edit ]
Semi-finalsFinal 27 June – Tychy England2 (3)30 June – Kraków Germany (p)2 (4)
Germany127 June – Kraków Spain0
Spain3 Italy1
concluding [edit ]
Goalscorers [edit ]
There were 65 goals scored in 21 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match .
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
reference : UEFA.com [ 19 ]
Awards [edit ]
The follow awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament :
team of the tournament [edit ]
After the tournament, the Under-21 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observers. [ 22 ]