The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2017) was the 16th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (20th edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland was selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015 as the host country for the tournament.
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1998 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France as the UEFA representatives, besides France who qualified automatically as hosts.
Qualification
A total of 48 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Northern Ireland qualifying automatically, the other 47 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 2016, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2017.
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
Notes
Final draw
The final draw was held on 22 June 2017, 15:00 BST (UTC+1), at the Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Northern Ireland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.
Venues
The tournament was hosted in four venues:
Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 18 players.
Match officials
A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.
Referees
Barbara Poxhofer (Austria) Volha Tsiareshka (Belarus) Justina Lavrenovaitė (Lithuania) Marte Sørø (Norway) Silvia Domingos (Portugal) Petra Pavlikova (Slovakia)
Assistant referees
Bérengère Pierart (Belgium) Gabriela Hanáková (Czech Republic) Nina Hammarberg (Finland) Elena Soklevska-Ilievski (Macedonia) Iuliia Petrova (Russia) Vikki Robertson (Scotland) Ivana Lesková (Slovakia) Staša Špur (Slovenia)
Fourth officials
Rebecca Welch (England) Cheryl Foster (Wales)
Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 22 June 2017.
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Tiebreakers
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02): 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 have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply; 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 are tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are 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); Higher position in the coefficient ranking list used for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.
All times are local, BST (UTC+1).
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.