2013 UEFA Women's U-17 Championship

The sixth U-17 Football Championship Women was held in the period from June 25 to 28 2013 Nyon ( Switzerland ). The final round was played for the last time with four teams instead of the venue and was his for the last time the Centre sportif de Colovray, then eight teams will also find this EM at different locations with then instead. Game were eligible players who were born on 1 January 1996 or later. For the first time in the qualifying took the team from Montenegro and in part because Slovakia also participated again, who has not participated last, a new attendance record was set with 44 participants. Belgium, Poland and Sweden reached the final round for the first time, for the defending champions and record winners Germany failed to qualify.

Qualification

The European Championship was held in three stages. In two qualifying rounds, the four participants were identified in the final round.

In the first qualifying round, the 44 teams entered the participants played out in eleven groups of four teams each in the second qualifying round. Within each group played each team once against each other in the form of mini-tournaments, which were held at various dates between 3 September and 3 November 2013. One of the four participating teams of each group served as the host of this mini-tournament. A victory was rewarded with three points, a draw one point. The German team won in Group 7, which took place from 29 October to 3 November by draw against host Greece (1:1) and two wins against Romania (5-0 ) and Russia ( 7-1 ). Switzerland played in Group 1 against hosts Moldova ( 8-0 ), Belgium ( 2-1) and Bulgaria ( 11:0 ) and sat confidently through with three wins. Austria hit as host of Group 6 to Sweden (2-2 ), Croatia ( 10:0 ) and Azerbaijan ( 4-1) and qualified as the best second-placed team for the next round.

The 11 group winners and five best runners qualified for the second qualifying round. This suffered from the long and snowy winter in Europe, so that games in Belgium and Austria had to be postponed several times. In determining the best runners only the games against the group winners and third parties have been considered. In this case Germany failed in group 1 and was able with a win ( 5-1 against the Netherlands), a defeat ( 1-2 against Denmark) and achieve a draw (0-0 against hosts Belgium) only the third place. In group 2, Austria was exactly as in the first qualifying round hosts, but this time the team finished in third place with a win ( 4-1 against Ireland), a defeat ( 0-2 against Norway) and a draw ( 1-1 against Poland). The Swiss players ended up in last place in their group 4, as they have lost twice ( 0-1 against Sweden and 0-2 against host Czech Republic) and won once (2:1 against Italy )

Best scorer of qualifications was the Dutch Anna Miedema with 18 goals.

Mode

The four group winners of the second qualifying round determined the European champions in the knockout system. The winners of the semifinals reached the final and played the European champions. The losers play for third place. A game lasted regularly twice 40 minutes. Stand it as a draw at the end of normal time, so the decision was right in the penalty shoot without previous extension.

Final round

Semifinal

3rd Place Match

Final

Scorers

Scorer of the whole competition was the Dutch Anna Miedema with 18 goals in the qualifiers.