The UEFA U-17 Championship is an annual football competition organised by the sport's European governing body, UEFA. From 1982 to 2001 it was an Under-16 event.

Competition logo.

This meeting serves as a preliminary competition for the FIFA U-17 World Cup every other year.

[edit] Tournaments

[edit] European Under-16 Football Championship

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1982 Details	Italy	Italy	1 - 0	West Germany	Yugoslavia	0 - 0 (4 - 2) ps	Finland
1984 Details	West Germany	West Germany	2 - 0	Soviet Union	England	1 - 0	Yugoslavia
1985 Details	Hungary	Soviet Union	4 - 0	Greece	Spain	1 - 0	East Germany
1986 Details	Greece	Spain	2 - 1	Italy	Soviet Union	1 - 1 (9 - 8) ps	East Germany
1987 Details	France	Italy title not awarded[1]	(1 - 0) 0 - 3[2]	Soviet Union	France	3 - 0	Turkey
1988 Details	Spain	Spain	0 - 0 (4 - 2) ps	Portugal	East Germany	0 - 0 (5 - 4) ps	West Germany
1989 Details	Denmark	Portugal	4 - 1	East Germany	France	3 - 2	Spain
1990 Details	East Germany	Czechoslovakia	3 - 2 aet	Yugoslavia	Poland	3 - 2	Portugal
1991 Details	Switzerland	Spain	2 - 0	Germany	Greece	1 - 1 (5 - 4) ps	France
1992 Details	Cyprus	Germany	2 - 1	Spain	Italy	1 - 0	Portugal
1993 Details	Turkey	Poland	1 - 0	Italy	Czechoslovakia	2 - 1	France
1994 Details	Republic of Ireland	Turkey	1 - 0	Denmark	Ukraine	2 - 0	Austria
1995 Details	Belgium	Portugal	2 - 0	Spain	Germany	2 - 1 aet	France
1996 Details	Austria	Portugal	1 - 0	France	Israel	3 - 2	Greece
1997 Details	Germany	Spain	0 - 0 (5 - 4) ps	Austria	Germany	3 - 1	Switzerland
1998 Details	Scotland	Republic of Ireland	2 - 1	Italy	Spain	2 - 1	Portugal
1999 Details	Czech Republic	Spain	4 - 1	Poland	Germany	2 - 1	Czech Republic
2000 Details	Israel	Portugal	2 - 1 asdet	Czech Republic	Netherlands	5 - 0	Greece
2001 Details	England	Spain	1 - 0	France	Croatia	4 - 1	England

[edit] European Under-17 Football Championship

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
2002 Details	Denmark	Switzerland	0 - 0 (4 - 2) ps	France	England	4 - 1	Spain
2003 Details	Portugal	Portugal	2 - 1	Spain	Austria	1 - 0	England
2004 Details	France	France	2 - 1	Spain	Portugal	4 - 4 (3 - 2) ps	England
2005 Details	Italy	Turkey	2 - 0	Netherlands	Italy	2 - 1 aet	Croatia
2006 Details	Luxembourg	Russia	2 - 2 (5 - 3) ps	Czech Republic	Spain	1 - 1 (3 - 2) ps	Germany
Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists (1)
		Winner	Score	Runner-up
2007 Details	Belgium	Spain	1 - 0	England	Belgium and  France
2008 Details	Turkey	Spain	4 - 0	France	Netherlands and  Turkey
2009 Details	Germany	Germany	2 - 1 aet	Netherlands	Italy and  Switzerland
2010 Details	Liechtenstein
2011 Details	Serbia

• Key:
  • aet - after extra time
  • asdet - after sudden death extra time
  • ps - after penalty shootout

[edit] Winners

Country	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place(1)	Fourth-place(1)	Semi-finalists(1)
Spain	8 (1986, 1988, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008)	4 (1992, 1995, 2003, 2004)	3 (1985, 1998, 2006)	2 (1989, 2002)
Portugal	5 (1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003)	1 (1988)	1 (2004)	3 (1990,1992, 1998)
Germany  West Germany	3 (1984, 1992, 2009)	3 (1982, 1989, 1991)	4 (1988, 1995, 1997, 1999)	4 (1985, 1986, 1888, 1986)
Russia  Soviet Union	2 (1985, 2006)	2 (1984, 1987)	1 (1986)
Turkey	2 (1994, 2005)			1 (1987)	1 (2008)
France	1 (2004)	4 (1996, 2001, 2002, 2008)	2 (1987, 1989)	3 (1991, 1993, 1995)	1 (2007)
Italy[1]	1 (1982)	3 (1986, 1993, 1998)	2 (1992, 2005)		1 (2009)
Czech Republic  Czechoslovakia	1 (1990)	2 (2000, 2006)	1 (1993)	1 (1999)
Poland	1 (1993)	1 (1999)	1 (1990)
Switzerland	1 (2002)			1 (1997)	1 (2009)
Republic of Ireland	1 (1998)
Netherlands		2 (2005, 2009)	1 (2000)		1 (2008)
England		1 (2007)	2 (1984, 2002)	3 (2001, 2003, 2004)
Greece		1 (1985)	1 (1991)	2 (1996 ,2000)
Austria		1 (1997)	1 (2003)	1 (1994)
Serbia  Yugoslavia		1 (1990)	1 (1982)	1 (1984)
Denmark		1 (1994)
Croatia			1 (2001)	1 (2005)
Israel			1 (1996)
Ukraine			1 (1994)
Finland				1 (1982)
Belgium					1 (2007)

¹ There was no match to determine 3rd place after the 2006 tournament.

[edit] Golden Player Award

Sinc the 2002 edition, The Golden Player Award is given to the most valuable player of the tournament.

Tournament	Golden Player
2002 Denmark	Wayne Rooney
2003 Portugal	David Rodríguez
2004 France	Cesc Fàbregas
2005 Italy	Nuri Şahin
2006 Luxembourg	Toni Kroos
2007 Belgium	Bojan Krkić
2008 Turkey	Danijel Aleksić
2009 Germany	?

[edit] See also

• UEFA
• UEFA European Football Championship
• UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
• UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship
• FIFA U-17 World Cup

[edit] External links

• UEFA.com
• UefaU17.com

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} It was then ruled that Roberto Secci had not been eligible to play in the competition, and UEFA decided that the title of Under-16 champions would not be awarded this year.
   "Italy success overruled". uefa.com. 1 January 2006. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/history/season=1987/intro.html. Retrieved 2009-03-19. 
2. ^ "UEFA Under17 Championship 2008 Technical Report" (pdf). http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/technicalreport/trainingground/trainingground/79/98/34/799834_download.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-19. 

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Italy 1982 · West Germany 1984 · Hungary 1985 · Greece 1986 · France 1987 · Spain 1988 · Denmark 1989 · East Germany 1990 · Switzerland 1991 · Cyprus 1992 · Turkey 1993 · Republic of Ireland 1994 · Belgium 1995 · Austria 1996 · Germany 1997 · Scotland 1998 · Czech Republic 1999 · Israel 2000 · England 2001 · Denmark 2002 · Portugal 2003 · France 2004 · Italy 2005 · Luxembourg 2006 · Belgium 2007 · Turkey 2008 · Germany 2009 · Liechtenstein 2010