2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
| UEFA U-17 Europsko prvenstvo 2017. | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country |
 Croatia
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| Dates | 3–19 May 2017 |
| Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 8 (in 7 host cities) |
The 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be the 16th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (35th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Croatia, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, will host the tournament.
A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2000 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India as the UEFA representatives. This was decreased from the previous six teams, as FIFA decided to give one of the slots originally reserved for UEFA to the Oceania Football Confederation starting from 2017.
All 54 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Croatia qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2016, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2017.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).
The final draw will be held in April 2017 in Croatia. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams. Hosts Croatia will be assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams will be seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round, with the seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.
Croatian Football Federation submitted to UEFA a list of nine venues in seven host cities: Kantrida and Rujevica (in Rijeka), Aldo Drosina and Veruda (in Pula), Valbruna (in Rovinj), Veli Jože (in Poreč), Gradski stadion (in Crikvenica), Bahalin (in Novi Vinodolski), and Žuknica (in Kostrena).
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