2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Switzerland
Dates	25–28 June
Teams	4
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Poland (1st title)
Runners-up	Sweden
Third place	Spain
Fourth place	Belgium
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	13 (3.25 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nahikari García; (2 goals)
Best player(s)	Ewa Pajor
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The 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the sixth edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. The first matches were played on 3 September 2012.

With the return of Slovakia, who haven't played since the inaugural edition, and U-17 newcomers Montenegro, a new record of 44 participating nations was set.^[1] The final tournament was played for the last time in Nyon with four teams. Starting the next edition of the tournament, eight countries will contest the final tournament with the host changing every edition.

Dutch player Vivianne Miedema set a competition record by netting eight goals in a match against Kazakhstan. She also became the tournament's all-time top scorer with 20 goals.^[2]

For the first time Belgium and Poland qualified for the final tournament, and also for the first time Germany failed to do so.

Qualification

All 44 teams entered the first qualification round, consisting of 11 groups of 4 teams. The group winners and five best runners-up advanced to the second qualification round. In the second round, there were four groups of four teams and only the group winners advanced to the final tournament. For the first time Poland and Belgium reached the final tournament.

Final round

2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship teams and final round performance

The four group champions played the knockout stage in the Centre sportif de Colovray Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland in summer 2013. There will be two semifinals, a third place match and the final.

Semi-finals		Final

25 June 2013

Belgium	1
		28 June 2013
Poland	3
		Poland	1
25 June 2013
		Sweden	0
Spain	2 (4)

Sweden (pen.)	2 (5)
		Third place

		28 June 2013

		Belgium	0

		Spain	4

Semifinals

25 June 2013

12:00

Belgium	1–3	Poland
De Caigny 29'	Report	Konat 25' Dudek 43' Pajor 67'

Colovray Sports Centre, Nyon

Referee: Vesna Budimir (Croatia)

25 June 2013

14:30

Spain	2–2	Sweden
García 26' Torre 75'	Report	Blackstenius 27' Karlsson 62'
Penalties
Perea Torre Caldentey Guijarro Falcón N. Garrote	4–5	Andersson Blackstenius Strömberg Angeldal Björn Holmgren