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2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Iceland
Dates 22 June – 4 July 2015
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 6 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Spain (3rd title)
Runners-up   Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 45 (3 per match)
Attendance 6,369 (425 per match)
Top scorer(s) Germany Stefanie Sanders (6 goals)
Best player Germany Stefanie Sanders
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The 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the eighth edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual European youth football competition contested by the women's under-17 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Iceland hosted the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1998 were eligible to participate in this competition.

Each match lasted 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes.

A total of 44 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Iceland qualifying automatically, the other 43 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2014, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2015.

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

The final draw was held in Reykjavík, Iceland on 29 April 2015, 11:30 WET (UTC±0). The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding except that the hosts Iceland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

The competition was played at six venues in four host cities.

Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

All times were local, WET (UTC±0).


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