2013 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Slovakia
Dates	5–17 May 2013
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Russia (3rd title)
Runners-up	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	24 (1.6 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Robin Kamber Martin Slaninka (2 goals)
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The 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship is the twelfth edition of UEFA's European Under-17 Football Championship since the re-organising of age group competitions in 2002. Slovakia are hosts of the tournament.^[1] with games taking place at four venues between 5 - 17 May.

This competition also acts as a qualifier for the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, as 6 teams will qualify.

Players born after 1 January 1996 will be eligible to participate in this competition. The Netherlands was the titleholder, but failed to make it past the elite round qualification process, along with every team that played in the 2012 final round.^[2]

Venues [edit]

Nitra

Žilina

Dubnica nad Váhom

Zlaté Moravce

Venues map

• Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina (capacity 10,831)
• Mestský Štadión, Dubnica nad Váhom (5,156)
• Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra (5,050)
• Štadión FC ViOn, Zlaté Moravce (3,300)

Qualification [edit]

The final tournament of the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was be preceded by two qualification stages: a qualifying round and an Elite round. During the rounds, 52 national teams competed to determine the seven teams that would progress to the finals.

The first round was played from 24 September to 14 November 2012, with 28 of those advancing to the elite round. The elite rounds were played during March 2013.

Qualified countries [edit]

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearances in tournament1 only U-17 era (since 2002)
Slovakia	Hosts	0 (debut)
Croatia	Winner of Group 1	1 (2005)
Austria	Winner of Group 2	2 (2003, 2004)
Sweden	Winner of Group 3	0 (debut)
Ukraine	Winner of Group 4	3 (2002, 2004, 2007)
Switzerland	Winner of Group 5	5 (2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Russia	Winner of Group 6	1 (2006)
Italy	Winner of Group 7	3 (2003, 2005, 2009)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italics indicate host.

Squads [edit]

Match officials [edit]

Group stage [edit]

Group A [edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovakia	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Sweden	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Austria	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Switzerland	3	0	1	2	3	5	−2	1

5 May 2013 14:30 CEST	Slovakia	1 – 0	Austria	Mestský Štadión, Dubnica nad Váhom Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)
	Slaninka  80+2'	Report

5 May 2013 19:30 CEST	Switzerland	0 – 1	Sweden	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)
		Report	Engvall  38'

8 May 2013 16:00 CEST	Austria	1 – 1	Sweden	Mestský Štadión, Dubnica nad Váhom Referee: Neil Doyle (Republic of Ireland)
	Zivotic  49'	Report	Suljic  44'

8 May 2013 18:00 CEST	Slovakia	2 – 2	Switzerland	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina Referee: Ivaylo Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
	Varga  39' Slaninka  69'	Report	Trachsel  22' Kamber  29'

11 May 2013 16:30 CEST	Sweden	0 – 0	Slovakia	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
		Report

11 May 2013 16:30 CEST	Austria	2 – 1	Switzerland	Mestský Štadión, Dubnica nad Váhom Referee: Nerijus Dunauskas (Lithuania)
	Baumgartner  11' Ripic  35'	Report	Kamber  57'

Group B [edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Russia	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	5
Italy	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Croatia	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Ukraine	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0

5 May 2013 14:30 CEST	Russia	3 – 0	Ukraine	Štadión FC ViOn, Zlaté Moravce Referee: Ivaylo Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
	Khodzhaniyazov  47' Mayrovich  62' Zhemaletdinov  79'	Report

5 May 2013 17:30 CEST	Croatia	0 – 0	Italy	Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra Referee: Neil Doyle (Republic of Ireland)
		Report

8 May 2013 14:00 CEST	Russia	0 – 0	Croatia	Štadión FC ViOn, Zlaté Moravce Referee: Nerijus Dunauskas (Lithuania)
		Report

8 May 2013 18:00 CEST	Ukraine	1 – 2	Italy	Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
	Vachiberadze  61'	Report	Parigini  75' Pugliese  80+3'

11 May 2013 19:30 CEST	Ukraine	1 – 2	Croatia	Štadión FC ViOn, Zlaté Moravce Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)
	Tsygankov  17'	Report	Halilović  40' (pen.) Murić  72'

11 May 2013 19:30 CEST	Italy	1 – 1	Russia	Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)
	Capradossi  43'	Report	Gasilin  12'

Knockout stage [edit]

Bracket [edit]

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 May – Žilina
	Slovakia	0
	Italy	2
					17 May – Žilina
					Italy	0 (4)
					Russia	0 (5)
	14 May – Žilina
	Russia	0 (10)
	Sweden	0 (9)

Semi-finals [edit]

14 May 2013 16:00	Slovakia	0 – 2	Italy	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina Referee: Nerijus Dunauskas (Lithuania)
		Report	Pugliese  3' Capradossi  64'

14 May 2013 20:30	Russia	0 − 0	Sweden	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
		Report
		Penalties
	Rudkovskiy Zhemaletdinov Khodzhaniyazov Sheydaev Gasilin Parshikov S. Makarov Likhachev Barinov Mitryushkin Sheydaev	10 – 9	Ssewankambo Wahlqvist Lipovac Berisha Halvadzić Bergman Sonko Sundberg Suljić S. Ramhorn Mohlin Ssewankambo

Final [edit]

17 May 2013 18:00	Italy	0 − 0	Russia	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)
		Report
		Penalties
	Di Molfetta Cerri Sciacca Capradossi Dimarco Parigini Palazzi	4 − 5	Sheydaev Khodzhaniyazov Parshikov Buranov Gasilin A. Makarov S. Makarov

2013 UEFA Euro Under-17 Champions
Russia Third title

Statistics [edit]

Goalscorers [edit]

2 goals

1 goal

Assists [edit]

3 assists

•  Valentino Lazaro

2 assists

•  Gennaro Tutino

1 assist

Broadcasting [edit]

Live coverage and highlights of the finals were broadcast by Eurosport throughout Europe. ^[3]

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Official site uefa.com