U-17 European Football Championship 2009

This article is about the Men's U-17 Football Championship. For the women's competition, see the 2009 Women's U-17 European Football Championship .

U-17 European Football Championship 2009
UEFA Under 17 Championship 2009
Number of nations	8  (of 53 applicants)
European champion	Germany (3rd title)
venue	Germany
Opening game	May 6, 2009
Endgame	May 18, 2009
Games	15th
Gates	33  (⌀: 2.2 per game)
Top scorer	Luc Castaignos / Lennart Thy (3 goals each)

The final round of the 27th U-17 European Football Championship was held in Germany from May 6th to 18th, 2009. The defending champion was Spain, Germany was automatically qualified as host. Austria was eliminated in the qualification, Switzerland qualified for the final round. The German team won the final 2-1 against the Netherlands. Shkodran Mustafi and Mario Götze from this squad were part of the squad of the world champions in Brazil five years later .

motto

The motto of the tournament was "Football knows no borders". Behind this was the idea of ​​improving the integration of young people with a migration background . Since the DFB-Elf had some players with one, the motto should make it clear that these young people like to play together for Germany. It was also a call to the Germans to perceive these players as German citizens. The role model function was explained to the players; they were also encouraged by the DFB to all sing along with the national anthem.

Venues

Dessau-Rosslau Erfurt Gera Gotha Grimma Jena Magdeburg Markranstädt Meuselwitz Sandersdorf Taucha Torgau

Venues

The tournament of the final round was held in twelve cities in central Germany :

• Dessau-Roßlau : The Paul Greifzu Stadium in Dessau is the home of SV Dessau 05 and can accommodate 17,820 spectators.
• Erfurt : In the capital of Thuringia , the Steigerwald Stadium was played. The Rot-Weiß Erfurt venue has a capacity of 19,400 seats and was the venue for the 2001 Women's European Championship in 2001 .
• Gera : 1. FC Gera 03 is at home in the Stadium of Friendship . 15,950 spectators were able to watch the games here in Gera .
• Gotha : The Volkspark Stadium in Gotha is the home of FSV Wacker 03 Gotha . It can accommodate 7,760 spectators.
• Grimma : The Stadium of Friendship in Grimma offers 8,000 seats . This is where FC Grimma plays .
• Jena : The Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld is the home ground of FC Carl Zeiss Jena . 15,600 spectators could watch the games. Games of the 2001 Women's European Championship have also been played in Jena .
• Magdeburg : With a capacity of 25,000 seats, the Magdeburg stadium is the largest venue. The arena in the capital of Saxony-Anhalt was the venue for the final.
• Markranstädt : The Stadion am Bad in Markranstädt is the home of SSV Markranstädt . With 5,000 seats, it was one of the smallest stadiums in the tournament.
• Meuselwitz : ZFC Meuselwitz is at home in the 5,000-seat blue-chip arena . During the tournament, the stadium in Meuselwitz was named Arena Meuselwitz because of the sponsor's name .
• Sandersdorf-Brehna : The Sandersdorf sports and leisure center in Sandersdorf has space for 6,000 spectators and is the venue for SG Union Sandersdorf .
• Taucha : The smallest stadium is the sports and leisure center in Taucha . The games can be attended by 4,000 spectators.
• Torgau : The Hafenstadion in Torgau is the second smallest venue with 4,500 seats.

mode

At the final round, the eight teams formed two groups of four teams each. In the group stage, each team within the group played once against each other. There were three points for a win and one point for a draw. After the preliminary round matches, the group winners and runners-up qualified for the semi-finals.

If several teams had equal points in the group matches, the positions would initially have been used based on the larger number of points from the direct encounters . If these had been the same, first the goal difference and then the number of goals scored in the direct encounters would be compared. If two or more teams are still tied, the next criteria would be the goal difference from all games and then the total number of goals scored. The last criterion would have been the fair play rating .

From the semi-finals onwards, the tournament was continued in the knockout system . Games that draw ended after regular time were to ten minutes twice extended . If no winner had been found after extra time, the decision would have been made on penalties .

The regular playing time for all games was 40 minutes twice. The top six teams in the tournament qualified for the 2009 U-17 World Cup in Nigeria .

Attendees

Participants (orange: group A; green: group B)

qualification

52 of UEFA's 53 associations took part in the qualification . For the first qualifying round, the teams were divided into 13 groups of four and played a short tournament in one of the four countries. For the second qualifying round ( elite round ) the best 28 teams of the first round qualified, namely the group first and second as well as the two best group thirds. These groups (7 of 4 teams) were also played in a short tournament in one of the countries. The seven group winners will take part in the final round alongside Germany. The first qualifying round took place between July and October 2008, the elite round before April 2009.

The following teams take part in the final round:

Germany (host)  Netherlands  England  Turkey

Spain (defending champion)  France  Switzerland  Italy

see also: U-17 European Football Championship 2009 / squad

Final round draw

The draw for the final round was held on April 3, 2009 at 2 p.m. in the New Town Hall of Leipzig . The lots were drawn by DFB Sports Director Matthias Sammer and UEFA General Secretary David Taylor.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Switzerland	3	1	2	0	004: 200	+2	05
2.	Italy	3	1	1	1	003: 400	−1	04th
3.	Spain	3	0	3	0	000-000	± 0	03
4th	France	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02

May 6, 2009, 11:00 a.m. in Dessau-Roßlau
Spain	-	Italy	0-0
May 6, 2009, 11:00 a.m. in Markranstädt
France	-	Switzerland	1: 1 (0: 0)
May 9, 2009, 12:00 p.m. in Grimma
Spain	-	France	0-0
May 9, 2009, 2 p.m. in Torgau
Italy	-	Switzerland	1: 3 (1: 1)
May 12, 2009, 11:00 a.m. in Sandersdorf
Switzerland	-	Spain	0-0
May 12, 2009, 11:00 a.m. in Taucha
Italy	-	France	2: 1 (1: 1)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	3	0	0	009: 100	+8	09
2.	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	003: 400	−1	07th
3.	Turkey	3	1	0	2	003: 500	−2	03
4th	England	3	0	1	2	001: 600	−5	01

May 6, 2009, 11:00 a.m. in Gera
England	-	Netherlands	1: 1 (0: 1)
May 6, 2009, 6:15 p.m. in Erfurt
Germany	-	Turkey	3: 1 (1: 1)
May 9, 2009, 2 p.m. in Jena
Germany	-	England	4: 0 (2: 0)
May 9, 2009, 2 p.m. in Meuselwitz
Turkey	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 1)
May 12, 2009, 5:45 p.m. in Jena
Netherlands	-	Germany	0: 2 (0: 1)
May 12, 2009, 5:45 p.m. in Gotha
Turkey	-	England	1: 0 (0: 0)

Final round

	Semifinals				final
	Switzerland	1
	Netherlands	2
					Netherlands	1
					Germany	12 1
	Germany	2
	Italy	0

¹ win after extra time

Semifinals

May 15, 2009, 11:00 a.m. in Grimma
Switzerland	-	Netherlands	1: 2
May 15, 2009, 5:45 p.m. in Dessau-Roßlau
Germany	-	Italy	2-0

final

The final took place on May 18, 2009 in the Magdeburg stadium. The game was sold out with 24,500 spectators, which was a new record for U-17 national team games.

Netherlands		Germany
	May 18, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in Magdeburg ( Magdeburg Stadium ) Result: 1: 2 n.v. (1: 1, 1: 1) Spectators: 24,500 (sold out) Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov ( Russia )
	Patrick Mate - Ruben Ligeon, Stefan de Vrij , Dico Koppers , Mats van Huijgevoort - Mohamed Madmar (99th Jerry van Ewijk) - Oğuzhan Özyakup , Osama Rashid - Bob Schepers (63rd Martijn de Vries), Shabir Isoufi (66th Rangelo Janga ) - Luc Castaigno's coach: Albert Stuivenberg	Marc-André ter Stegen - Bienvenue Basala-Mazana , Shkodran Mustafi , Robert Labus, Marvin Plattenhardt - Matthias Zimmermann - Reinhold Yabo , Christopher Buchtmann (88th Manuel Janzer ) - Mario Götze , Kevin Scheidhauer (59th Florian Trinks ) - Lennart Thy ( 99. Gerrit Nauber ) Coach: Marco Pezzaiuoli
	1-0 Castaignos (7th)	1: 1 Thy (34th) 1: 2 Trinks (97th)

Best goal scorers

space	player	Gates
1	Luc Castaignos	3
	Lennart Thy	3
3	Janick Kamber	2
	Kevin Scheidhauer	2

Team of the tournament

goalkeeper	Defense	midfield	striker
Mattia Perin Marc-André ter Stegen	Dennis Appiah Bienvenue Basala-Mazana Stefan de Vrij Janick Kamber Marc Muniesa Furkan Şeker	Stephan El Shaarawy Álex Fernández Marco Fossati Shabir Isoufi Jack Wilshere Reinhold Yabo Matthias Zimmermann	Nassim Ben Khalifa Giacomo Beretta Luc Castaignos Simone Dell'Agnello Mario Götze Lennart Thy

Media presence

In the German-speaking area, the games, including all three preliminary round games of the DFB as well as the two semi-finals and the final, could be seen live on Eurosport . The final was also broadcast on ARD .

Web links

Commons : European Under-17 Football Championship 2009  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• UEFA website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dfb.de: DFB announcement of April 22, 2008 (visited on September 21, 2008)
2. ↑ dfb.de: mode
3. ↑ UEFA European U-17 Championship regulations (visited on September 21, 2008)
4. ↑ dfb.de: Sammer draws U17 European Championship groups in Leipzig