The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2024) will be the 21st UEFA European Under-17 Championship (40th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. Cyprus will be hosting the tournament.[1] A total of 16 teams are playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.
Germany, having won the title in 2023, are the title holders, after reaching the final match and won against France with penalties. They won their fourth title.
Host selection
19 April 2021: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Montreux
For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2023 and 2024, Hungary and Cyprus were selected as hosts respectively.[1]
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Cyprus qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which will take place in autumn 2023, and Elite round, which will take place in spring 2024, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (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);
Disciplinary points
Yellow card: −1 point;
Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
Cyprus