2017 European Women's Under-19 Football Championship
2017 European Women's Under-19 Football Championship | |
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UEFA Under 19 Women's Championship 2017 | |
Number of nations | 8 (of 48 applicants) |
European champion | Spain (2nd title) |
venue | Northern Ireland |
Opening game | August 8, 2017 |
Endgame | 20th August 2017 |
Games | 16 |
Gates | 52 (⌀: 3.25 per game) |
spectator | 18,438 (⌀: 1,152 per game) |
Top scorer | Patricia Guijarro (5 goals) |
yellow cards | 24 (⌀: 1.5 per game) |
Yellow-red cards | 2 (⌀: 0.13 per game) |
The finals of the 20th European Women's Under-19 Football Championship took place in Northern Ireland from 8 to 20 August 2017 . The country was chosen as the host by UEFA on January 26, 2015, the first ever women's tournament. The defending champions were the French. Players born on January 1, 1998 or later were eligible to play. The tournament also served to determine the participants for the 2018 U-20 Women's World Cup , which took place in France from 7 to 26 August 2018 .
qualification
1 round
Northern Ireland was automatically qualified to host. France, England and Germany received wild cards for the second qualifying round as these teams were in the top three of the UEFA rankings. The remaining 44 registered national teams were divided into eleven groups of four teams each on November 13, 2015.
The games were played in the form of mini-tournaments between September 8th and October 25th, 2016. The group winners and runners-up as well as the best third-placed group qualified for the second round.
Austria played in Group 3 against Belarus, Belgium and Lithuania; with a win, a draw and a defeat the qualification for the 2nd round was missed. Switzerland met Estonia, the Czech Republic and Croatia in Group 9; With two wins and one draw, the Swiss qualified as the best runner-up in the group for the next round.
Elite round
On November 4, the teams for the November 11 draw were divided into six pots according to the results of the first round, the teams with bye tickets from the first round were assigned to Pot A. Teams that had already played against each other in the first round could not meet again. The six group winners and the second with the best record against the group winners and thirds qualified for the final round.
The draw resulted in the following groups (order according to final placement):
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 |
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Spain | England | Netherlands | Scotland | Italy | Germany |
Belgium | Denmark | France | Finland | Sweden | Poland |
Hungary | Turkey | Portugal | Ireland | Norway | Switzerland |
Russia | Czech Republic | Slovenia | Ukraine | Serbia | Iceland |
At the drawing, Germany and Switzerland were drawn into group 6 together with Iceland and Poland. The German team qualified for the finals with three wins from three games, while Switzerland was eliminated in third place with two draws and one defeat.
Attendees
Venues
The final round took place in four stages in four cities. With the exception of Ballymena, the cities are geographically close together in the south-east of Northern Ireland.
Belfast | Lurgan |
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Windsor Park | Mourneview Park | |||
Capacity: 20,332 | Capacity: 5,000 | |||
Portadown | Ballymena | |||
Shamrock Park | Ballymena Showgrounds | |||
Capacity: 2,770 | Capacity: 5,000 | |||
Group stage
draw
The group draw took place on June 22nd 2017 at the Belfast City Hotel in Belfast . The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams each, there was no seeding list, only Northern Ireland was set as the host as the head of group A.
mode
The preliminary round was held in two groups of four teams each. The group winners and runners-up qualified for the semi-finals. As France qualified for the semi-finals as hosts of the 2018 U-20 World Cup, the two thirds in the group competed against each other in a play-off game to determine the fourth European participant for the tournament.
If two or more teams in the same group had the same number of points at the end of the group matches, the placement was determined according to the following criteria in this order:
- a. higher number of points from direct encounters between the teams in question;
- b. better goal difference from the direct encounters between the teams in question;
- c. higher number of goals scored from direct encounters between the teams in question;
- d. if, after applying criteria a) to c), several teams still have the same rank, criteria a) to c) are reapplied, but only to the matches between the teams in question, in order to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria e) to i) are applied;
- e. better goal difference from all group games;
- f. higher number of goals scored from all group games;
- G. lower total number of penalty points based on the yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion after two yellow cards in one game = 3 points);
- H. better placement in the coefficient rankings used for the qualifying round draw;
- i. Drawing of lots.
If two teams met in the last group match with the same number of points and the same goal difference and the same number of goals, and the game in question ended in a draw, the final placement of the two teams will be determined by penalty shoot-out , provided that no other team in the same group follows All group games showed the same number of points. If more than two teams had the same number of points, the criteria above were applied.
Group A
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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1. | Germany | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11: 0 | +11 | 9 |
2. | Spain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3: 2 | +1 | 6th |
3. | Scotland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1: 5 | −4 | 1 |
4th | Northern Ireland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1: 9 | −8 | 1 |
Belfast on August 8, 2017 at 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST ) | |||
Scotland | - | Germany | 0: 3 (0: 2) |
Belfast on August 8, 2017 at 7pm (8pm CEST) | |||
Northern Ireland | - | Spain | 0: 2 (0: 1) |
August 11, 2017, 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST) in Portadown | |||
Germany | - | Spain | 2: 0 (1: 0) |
August 11, 2017, 7 p.m. (8 p.m. CEST) in Lurgan | |||
Northern Ireland | - | Scotland | 1: 1 (0: 0) |
August 14, 2017, 7 p.m. (8 p.m. CEST) in Ballymena | |||
Germany | - | Northern Ireland | 6: 0 (3: 0) |
August 14, 2017, 7 p.m. (8 p.m. CEST) in Lurgan | |||
Spain | - | Scotland | 1: 0 (0: 0) |
Group B
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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1. | Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7: 3 | +4 | 7th |
2. | France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7: 3 | +4 | 6th |
3. | England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2: 4 | −2 | 3 |
4th | Italy | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5:11 | −6 | 1 |
August 8, 2017, 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST ) in Lurgan | |||
Italy | - | England | 1: 2 (0: 0) |
August 8, 2017, 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST) in Ballymena | |||
France | - | Netherlands | 0: 2 (0: 2) |
Belfast on August 11, 2017 at 3pm (4pm CEST) | |||
Italy | - | France | 1: 6 (1: 2) |
Belfast on August 11, 2017 at 7pm (8pm CEST) | |||
Netherlands | - | England | 2: 0 (2: 0) |
August 14, 2017, 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST) in Portadown | |||
Netherlands | - | Italy | 3: 3 (2: 1) |
August 14, 2017, 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST) in Ballymena | |||
England | - | France | 0: 1 (0: 0) |
Final round
mode
If a semi-final match, the final or the play-off match for the U-20 World Cup ended after the end of regular time without a winner, this was determined by a penalty shoot-out. In contrast to the usual procedure for penalty shootouts, the shooters of teams A and B then competed in the order ABBAABBA etc. - similar to the procedure for tie-breakers in tennis . According to the fair play initiative of the International Football Association Board (IFAB), this experiment was intended to check whether the starting advantage of team A could be reduced.
According to a decision of the UEFA Executive Committee on May 2, 2016, each team was allowed to make a fourth substitution at this tournament in overtime.
Play for 5th place
Since France, as host of the U-20 World Cup 2018, had qualified for the semi-finals, the two group thirds played the fourth European participant in the tournament.
August 17, 2017, 7 p.m. (8 p.m. CEST ) in Lurgan | |||
Scotland | - | England | 0: 2 (0: 1) |
Semifinals
Belfast on August 17, 2017 at 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CEST) | |||
Netherlands | - | Spain | 2: 3 (0: 0) |
Belfast on August 17, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) | |||
Germany | - | France | 1: 2 (1: 0) |
final
The final between France and Spain was a remake of the 2016 U-19 European Championship final in Slovakia.
France | Spain | |||||||
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Mylène Chavas - Lena Goetsch , Julie Piga , Sarah Galera (54th Élisa De Almeida ), Pauline Dechilly - Julie Thibaud , Cathérine Karadjov (53rd Cindy Caputo ), Sana Daoudi - Emelyne Laurent , Mathilde Bourdieu , Christy Gavory Trainer: Gilles Eyquem |
Noelia Ramos - Ona Batlle , Andrea Sierra , Lucía Rodríguez , Carmen Menayo - Paula Fernández (67th Laura María Pérez ), Patricia Guijarro , Damaris Egurrola - Aitana Bonmatí , Lucía García , Maite Oroz (78th Ana Marcos Moral ) Trainer: Pedro López |
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1: 0 Mathilde Bourdieu (4th) 2: 1 Emelyne Laurent (71.) |
1: 1 Patricia Guijarro (18th) 2: 2 Damaris Egurrola (85th) 2: 3 Patricia Guijarro (90th) |
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Dechilly (29th), Caputo (90.) | ||||||||
Dechilly (87.) |
Best goalscorers
Listed below are the top goalscorers in the finals. The sorting takes place according to the number of goals scored, if the number of hits is the same, the templates and then the game minutes are decisive.
rank | Player | Gates | templates | Game minutes |
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1 | Patricia Guijarro | 5 | 1 | 449 |
2 | Emelyne Laurent | 3 | 4th | 333 |
3 | Mathilde Bourdieu | 3 | 2 | 393 |
4th | Annamaria Serturini | 3 | 0 | 146 |
5 | Klara Bühl | 3 | 0 | 213 |
6th | Victoria Pelova | 2 | 1 | 267 |
7th | Joëlle Smits | 2 | 1 | 270 |
8th | Aniek Nouwen | 2 | 1 | 360 |
9 | Annalena Rieke | 2 | 0 | 194 |
10 | Georgia Allen | 2 | 0 | 215 |
11 | Lucía García | 2 | 0 | 450 |
... | ... | ... | ... | |
12 | Anna Gerhardt | 1 | 2 | 334 |
13 | Kristin Kögel | 1 | 1 | 121 |
16 | Dina Orschmann | 1 | 1 | 322 |
17th | Ereleta Memeti | 1 | 0 | 11 |
23 | Luca Maria Graf | 1 | 0 | 255 |
27 | Giulia Gwinn | 1 | 0 | 270 |
29 | Caroline Siems | 1 | 0 | 300 |
Referees
UEFA nominated six referees and eight assistant referees from 13 nations as well as two referees to serve as fourth officials for this final tournament. There were no permanent teams of referees and assistants.
DFB selection
Trainer: Maren Meinert (born August 5, 1973) has nominated the following squad:
position | Surname | society | birth date |
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goalkeeper | Vanessa Fischer | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | Apr 18, 1998 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
goalkeeper | Lena Pauels | Werder Bremen | Feb. 2, 1998 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defense | Sophia Kleinherne | 1. FFC Frankfurt | Apr 12, 2000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defense | Katja Orschmann | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | Jan. 8, 1998 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defense | Annalena Rieke | FF USV Jena | Jan. 10, 1999 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defense | Caroline Siems | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | May 9, 1999 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Anna Gerhardt | FC Bayern Munich | Apr 17, 1998 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Luca Maria Graf | FF USV Jena | 19 Mar 1999 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Giulia Gwinn | Sc freiburg | July 2, 1999 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Sarai Linder | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | Oct 26, 1999 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Ereleta Memeti | VfL Wolfsburg | July 10, 1999 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Janina Minge | Sc freiburg | June 11, 1999 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Tanja Pawollek | 1. FFC Frankfurt | Jan. 18, 1999 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
midfield | Lisa Schöppl | VfL Wolfsburg | Jan. 11, 2000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
attack | Klara Bühl | Sc freiburg | Dec 7, 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
attack | Laura clearance | Penn State Nittany Lions | Feb. 1, 1998 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
attack | Kristin Kögel | FC Bayern Munich | 21 Sep 1999 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
attack | Dina Orschmann | UCF Knights | Jan. 8, 1998 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Northern Ireland and Switzerland selected as hosts. In: uefa.com. UEFA , January 26, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Seeding list for the draw for the elite round. In: uefa.com. UEFA, November 4, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016 .
- ^ Paul Saffer: U19 elite round of women: Germany against Switzerland. In: uefa.com. UEFA, November 11, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016 .
- Jump up ↑ 2017 Women's U19 Final: Northern Ireland. In: de.uefa.com. UEFA, accessed July 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Draw for the women's U19 EURO. In: de.uefa.com. UEFA, June 22, 2017, accessed July 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Penalty shoot-out trial at UEFA final tournaments. In: uefa.com. UEFA, May 1, 2017, accessed May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee. In: uefa.com. UEFA, May 2, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Statistics. In: uefa.com. UEFA , accessed August 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Germany - squad. In: uefa.com. UEFA , accessed August 20, 2017 .