2016 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Tournament details | |
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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) |
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.[1]
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.[2]
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Qualification
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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.[3] 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.[4]
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament:[5]
Team | Method of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
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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.[6] 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.[7]
Venues
The tournament was hosted in five venues:
Barysaw | Minsk | ||
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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
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Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.[4]
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 finals schedule was confirmed on 7 April 2016.[8]
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:[4]
- 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
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4 May 2016
16:00 |
Belarus | 1–5 | Serbia |
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Zhitko 68' | Report | Poljak 7' Agbaba 30' Ivanović 48' Filipović 57' Burkert 79' |
7 May 2016
16:00 |
Belarus | 0–12 | England |
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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 |
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Ivanović 40' | Report | Stanway 47' (pen.) Brazil 68' Charles 71' Cain 76' |
Group B
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[4]
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 |
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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 |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Rodríguez Monente Andújar L. Navarro Na. Ramos |
2–3 | Gwinn Minge Pawollek Müller Siems |
Goalscorers
- 5 goals
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- 4 goals
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- 3 goals
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- 2 goals
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- 1 goal
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- Own goal
- Sophia Kleinherne (playing against Spain)
Source: UEFA.com[9]
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.[10]
Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
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Germany | 13 May 2016 | 4 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) |
Spain | 13 May 2016 | 2 (2010, 2014) |
England | 16 May 2016 | 1 (2008) |
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1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
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External links
- Official website
- Belarus 2016, UEFA.com
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- 2015–16 in UEFA football
- International association football competitions hosted by Belarus
- 2016 in women's association football
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