2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host countrySwitzerland
Dates25–28 June
Teams4
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Poland (1st title)
Runners-up Sweden
Third place Spain
Fourth place Belgium
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
Goals scored13 (3.25 per match)
Top scorer(s)Spain Nahikari García
(2 goals)
Best player(s)Poland Ewa Pajor
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International football competition

The 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the sixth edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. The first matches were played on 3 September 2012.

With the return of Slovakia, who haven't played since the inaugural edition, and U-17 newcomers Montenegro, a new record of 44 participating nations was set.[1] The final tournament was played for the last time in Nyon with four teams. Starting the next edition of the tournament, eight countries will contest the final tournament with the host changing every edition.

Dutch player Vivianne Miedema set a competition record by netting eight goals in a match against Kazakhstan. She also became the tournament's all-time top scorer with 20 goals.[2]

For the first time Belgium and Poland qualified for the final tournament, and also for the first time Germany failed to do so.

Qualification

All 44 teams entered the first qualification round, consisting of 11 groups of 4 teams. The group winners and five best runners-up advanced to the second qualification round. In the second round, there were four groups of four teams and only the group winners advanced to the final tournament. For the first time Poland and Belgium reached the final tournament.

Final round

2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship teams and final round performance

The four group champions played the knockout stage in the Centre sportif de Colovray Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland in summer 2013. There will be two semifinals, a third place match and the final.

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 June 2013
 
 
 Belgium1
 
28 June 2013
 
 Poland3
 
 Poland1
 
25 June 2013
 
 Sweden0
 
 Spain2 (4)
 
 
 Sweden (pen.)2 (5)
 
Third place
 
 
28 June 2013
 
 
 Belgium0
 
 
 Spain4

Semifinals

Belgium 1–3 Poland
De Caigny 29' Report Konat 25'
Dudek 43'
Pajor 67'
Referee: Vesna Budimir (Croatia)
Spain 2–2 Sweden
García 26'
Torre 75'		 Report Blackstenius 27'
Karlsson 62'
Penalties
Perea soccer ball with check mark
Torre soccer ball with check mark
Caldentey soccer ball with check mark
Guijarro soccer ball with check mark
Sánchez soccer ball with red X
Garrote soccer ball with red X		 4–5 soccer ball with check mark Andersson
soccer ball with red X Blackstenius
soccer ball with check mark Strömberg
soccer ball with check mark Angeldal
soccer ball with check mark Björn
soccer ball with check mark Holmgren

Third place match

Belgium 0–4 Spain
Report Baetens 21' (o.g.)
García 31'
Caldentey 40+2'
Guijarro 57'

Final

Poland 1–0 Sweden
Kamczyk 15' Report


 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 European champions 

Poland
First title

References

  1. ^ "Big entry for 2012/13 Women's U17s". UEFA. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Awesome Miedema leads Netherlands through". UEFA. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2012.

External links

  • UEFA.com
  • Tournament Regulations
  • 2013 tournament Archived 2012-09-03 at the Wayback Machine on soccerway.com