UEFA Women's Euro 2017
| Europees kampioenschap voetbal vrouwen 2017 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country |
 Netherlands
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| Dates | 16 July – 6 August 2017 |
| Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
The 2017 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2017, will be the 12th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. The competition will be expanded from twelve teams in the previous edition to 16 teams. The Netherlands were declared as hosts by the UEFA Executive Committee on 4 December 2014.
Expressions of interest in hosting the tournament were received from seven associations.
The Netherlands were chosen to host the tournament on 4 December 2014. This was the first time that the tournament will be staged in this country.
A total of 47 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Andorra which entered for the first time at senior women's level), and with the hosts Netherlands qualifying automatically, the other 46 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition, which took place from April 2015 to October 2016, consisted of three rounds:
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
The final draw was held on 8 November 2016, 17:30 CET (UTC+1), at the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying group stage (excluding the play-offs), with the hosts Netherlands assigned to position A1 in the draw. Each group contained one team from each of the four seeding pots.
Seven venues in seven different towns will be used in the tournament.
Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent her participation in the tournament before her team's first match, she can be replaced by another player.
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