2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

2003 UEFA Under-17 Championship

Campeonato Europeu de Futebol Sub-17 de 2003
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	7–17 May
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	David Rodríguez (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Miguel Veloso[1]
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The 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the second edition of UEFA's UEFA European Under-17 Championship. Portugal hosted the championship, during 7–17 May. The format of the competition changed, and only 8 teams entered the competition. Host Portugal defeated Spain in the final to win the competition for the fifth time.

For winning their semifinals, Portugal and Spain qualified for the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship, held in Finland, with England and Austria missing out.

Qualification

Qualification for the final tournament of the 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship consisted of two rounds: a Qualifying round and an Elite round. In the qualifying round, 44 national teams competed in 11 groups of four teams, with two best teams of each group advancing to the elite round. There, the 22 first-round qualifiers plus the teams who were given a bye (Spain, England, Russia, Finland, Poland and Hungary), were distributed in seven groups of four teams. The winner of each group qualified for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following 8 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearances in tournament
Portugal	Hosts	1 (2002)
Spain	Group 1 winner	1 (2002)
Denmark	Group 2 winner	1 (2002)
Austria	Group 3 winner	0 (debut)
Israel	Group 4 winner	0 (debut)
Hungary	Group 5 winner	1 (2002)
England	Group 6 winner	1 (2002)
Italy	Group 7 winner	0 (debut)

Venues

The final tournament was played in seven venues located in seven different cities,

. The Estádio do Fontelo was the largest stadium with a tournament capacity of 12,000 seats, and served as both the opening ceremony and the final venue.

The table below lists stadium capacity for the final tournament, which may not correspond to their effective maximum capacity.

Vila Real Viseu	Viseu	Chaves
	Estádio do Fontelo	Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira
	Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 12,000
	Santa Comba Dão	Nelas
	Estádio Municipal Doutor Orlando Mendes	Estádio Municipal de Nelas
	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 7,500
Vila Real	Mangualde	Santa Marta de Penaguião
Complexo Desportivo Monte da Forca	Estádio Municipal de Mangualde	Municipal de Santa Marta de Penaguião
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 1,500	Capacity: 500

Squads

Each participating national association had to submit a final list of 18 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers). All players must have been born on or after 1 January 1986.

Match Officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.^[2]

Group stage

Group A

Teams	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
Portugal	3	3	0	0	6	2	4	9	Advanced to the semifinals
Austria	3	2	0	1	3	1	2	6
Denmark	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
Hungary	3	0	0	3	0	5	−5	0

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Group B

Teams	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
Spain	3	2	1	0	7	2	5	7	Advanced to the semifinals
England	3	1	2	0	4	3	1	5
Italy	3	1	1	1	4	2	2	4
Israel	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

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11 May 2003

17:30 CET

England	2–2	Spain
Taylor 47' Milner 51'	Report	Nadal 9' Jurado 27'

Complexo Desportivo Monte da Forca,

Ukraine

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Knockout stage

Knockout map

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 May – p)		2 (3)
				17 May – Viseu
	England	2 (2)
				Portugal	2
	14 May – Mangualde
					Spain	1
	Spain	5
	Austria	2
					Third place
					17 May – Santa Comba Dão
					England	0
					Austria	1

Semifinals

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Third Place Playoff

Final

Portugal

Spain

GK 12 Mário Felgueiras RB 2 João Dias  60' CB 4 Miguel Veloso (c) CB 14 Paulo Ricardo LB 3 Tiago Gomes CM 6 Paulo Machado CM 17 João Coimbra  70' MO 10 Márcio Sousa  77' RW 7 Vieirinha LW 15 João Pedro  52' CF 9 Carlos Saleiro Substitutions: GK 1 Pedro Freitas LB 13 Vítor Vinha CB 5 Tiago Costa MF 8 João Moutinho  77' LW 11 Hélder Barbosa RW 16 Bruno Gama  52' FW 18 Manuel Curto  70' Manager: António Violante

GK 13 Antonio Adán RB 2 Manuel Ruz  72' CB 5 Sergio Sánchez CB 14 César Arzo  81' LB 3 Raúl Llorente DM 8 Markel Bergara  63' MF 16 José Cases  49' MF 11 Jurado (c) MF 10 David Silva LW 7 Sisi CF 9 David Rodríguez Substitutions: GK 1 Roberto Jiménez DF 4 Marcos Martín DF 17 César Collado  72' MF 6 Marcos Tébar  49' MF 15 Eneko Urien FW 12 Manu Alejandro FW 18 Xisco Nadal  63' Manager: Juan Santisteban

Goalscorers

6 goals

• David Rodríguez

3 goals

• James Milner
• José Cases

2 goals

1 goal

References

External links

• UEFA.com
• RSSSF.com