2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country |
 Belarus |
| Dates | 4–16 May 2016 |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 5 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Germany (5th title) |
| Runners-up |
 Spain |
| Third place |
 England |
| Fourth place |
 Norway |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 58 (3.63 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Alessia Russo Lorena Navarro (5 goals each) |
| Best player |
Caroline Siems[1] |
The 2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the 9th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual European international youth football championship contested by the women's under-17 national teams of UEFA member associations. Belarus, which were selected by UEFA on 20 March 2012, hosted the tournament between 4 and 16 May 2016.[2]
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan as the UEFA representatives.[3]
Qualification
The national teams from 47 UEFA member associations entered the competition, which was a record total, including Andorra who entered a UEFA women's competition for the first time. With Belarus automatically qualified as hosts, the other 46 teams contested a qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.[4] The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: the qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2015, and the elite round, which took place in spring 2016.[5]
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament:[6]
| Team | Method of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belarus | Hosts | 1st | — | Debut |
| Germany | Elite round Group 1 winners | 8th | 2015 | Champions (2008, 2009, 2012, 2014) |
| Spain | Elite round Group 2 winners | 7th | 2015 | Champions (2010, 2011, 2015) |
 Czech Republic | Elite round Group 3 winners | 1st | — | Debut |
 Italy | Elite round Group 4 winners | 2nd | 2014 | Third place (2014) |
| Norway | Elite round Group 5 winners | 3rd | 2015 | Fourth place (2009) |
| England | Elite round Group 6 winners | 4th | 2015 | Fourth place (2008, 2014) |
 Serbia | Elite round Group 6 runners-up[^] | 1st | — | Debut |
- Notes
- ^ The best runners-up among all six elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.
Final draw
The final draw was held on 6 April 2016, 11:30 FET (UTC+3), at the Victoria Hotel in Minsk, Belarus.[7] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Belarus were assigned to position A1 in the draw.[8]
Venues
The tournament was hosted in five venues:[9]
| Barysaw | Minsk | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Borisov Arena | Haradski Stadium | Traktor Stadium | |
| Capacity: 13,126 | Capacity: 5,402 | Capacity: 16,500 | |
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| Slutsk | Zhodzina | ||
| City Stadium | Torpedo Stadium | ||
| Capacity: 1,896 | Capacity: 6,524 | ||
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Squads
Each national team had 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.
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Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 7 April 2016.[10]
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.
- Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). 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:[5]
- Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
- Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
- Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
- If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 applied;
- Superior goal difference in all group matches;
- Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
- If only two teams have the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out (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).
- Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- Drawing of lots.
All times were local, FET (UTC+3).
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Norway |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 | Serbia |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | Belarus (H) |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | −18 | 0 |
4 May 2016 16:00 |
| Belarus |
1–5 | Serbia |
|---|---|---|
Zhitko  68' |
Report | Poljak 7' Agbaba 30'Ivanović 48'Filipović 57'Burkert 79' |
7 May 2016 16:00 |
| Belarus |
0–12 | England |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Toone 5', 38' Filbey 7', 19'Russo 15', 23'Stanway 29'Cain 71', 75'Smith 74', 80+5'Brazil 80+1' |
10 May 2016 16:00 |
| Serbia |
1–4 | England |
|---|---|---|
| Ivanović 40' |
Report | Stanway 47' (pen.) Brazil 68'Charles 71'Cain 76' |
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Germany |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 5 | |
| 3 | Italy |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 2 | |
| 4 | Czech Republic |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 1 |
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[5]
There was a third place match (i.e., FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off) for this edition of the tournament as it was used as a qualifier for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (since expansion to eight teams).
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 13 May – Zhodzina | ||||||
| Spain | 4 | |||||
| 16 May – Barysaw | ||||||
| Norway | 0 | |||||
| Spain | 0 (2) | |||||
| 13 May – Zhodzina | ||||||
| Germany (p) | 0 (3) | |||||
| England | 3 | |||||
| Germany | 4 | |||||
| Third Place | ||||||
| 16 May – Minsk | ||||||
| Norway | 1 | |||||
| England | 2 | |||||
Semi-finals
Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
13 May 2016 19:00 |
| England |
3–4 | Germany |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil 31' Russo 42', 77' |
Report | Ziegler 29', 70' Bühl 41'Pawollek 57' |
Third place match
Winner qualified for 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
Final
16 May 2016 20:00 |
| Spain |
0–0 | Germany |
|---|---|---|
| Report | ||
| Penalties | ||
Rodríguez  Monente  Andújar L. Navarro Na. Ramos |
2–3 | Gwinn Minge Pawollek Müller Siems |
Goalscorers
- 5 goals
- Alessia Russo
- Lorena Navarro
- 4 goals
- Niamh Charles
- Vanessa Ziegler
- 3 goals
- Ellie Brazil
- Hannah Cain
- Anna Filbey
- Klara Bühl
- Sophie Haug
- 2 goals
- Grace Smith
- Georgia Stanway
- Ella Ann Toone
- Marie Müller
- Miljana Ivanović
- Silvia Rubio
- 1 goal
- Karolina Zhitko
- Tanja Pawollek
- Benedetta Glionna
- Frida Maanum
- Ingrid Olsen
- Emilia Ruud
- Jovana Agbaba
- Teodora Burkert
- Tijana Filipović
- Allegra Poljak
- María Blanco
- Natalia Ramos
- 1 own goal
- Sophia Kleinherne (playing against Spain)
Source: UEFA.com[11]
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[12]
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 13 May 2016 | 4 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) |
| Spain | 13 May 2016 | 2 (2010, 2014) |
| England | 16 May 2016 | 1 (2008) |
- 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
References
- ↑ "2016: Caroline Siems". UEFA.com.
- ↑ "England, Iceland, Belarus have Women's U17 honour". UEFA. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
- ↑ "Decisions taken by the FIFA Executive Committee concerning women's competitions in 2016" (PDF). FIFA. 23 June 2014.
- ↑ "Belarus the goal for record Women's U17 entry". UEFA.com. 1 November 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship, 2015/16" (PDF). UEFA.com.
- ↑ "Women's U17 finals lineup complete". UEFA.com. 29 March 2016.
- ↑ "Final tournament draw". UEFA.com.
- ↑ "Women's Under-17 Championship finals draw". UEFA.com. 6 April 2016.
- ↑ "Venue guide". UEFA.com.
- ↑ "Women's U17 finals schedule confirmed". UEFA.com. 7 April 2016.
- ↑ "Statistics — Tournament phase — Player statistics — Goals". UEFA.com. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
- ↑ "Spain, Germany and England heading to Jordan". FIFA.com. 13 May 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Belarus 2016, UEFA.com