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2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | UEFA Under-17 Championship |
| year | 2003 |
| other_titles | Campeonato Europeu de Futebol Sub-17 de 2003 |
| country | Portugal |
| dates | 7–17 May |
| num_teams | 8 |
| champion_other | |
| count | 5 |
| second_other | |
| third_other | |
| fourth_other | |
| matches | 16 |
| goals | 44 |
| top_scorer | David Rodríguez (6 goals) |
| player | Miguel Veloso |
| prevseason | 2002 |
| nextseason | 2004 |
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
Main article: 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Group 1 winner | ||
| Group 2 winner | ||
| Group 3 winner | 0 (debut) | |
| Group 4 winner | 0 (debut) | |
| Group 5 winner | ||
| Group 6 winner | ||
| Group 7 winner | 0 (debut) |
Venues
The final tournament was played in seven venues located in seven different cities, Viseu, Nelas, Chaves, Mangualde, Vila Real, Santa Comba Dão and Santa Marta de Penaguião. 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.
| Viseu | Chaves | Santa Comba Dão | Nelas | Vila Real | Mangualde | Santa Marta de Penaguião | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Estádio do Fontelo | Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira | ||||||||||
| Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 12,000 | ||||||||||
| [[File:Blank.svg | 150px]] | [[File:SD Chaves - Rio Ave 02.jpg | 200px]] | ||||||||
| Estádio Municipal Doutor Orlando Mendes | Estádio Municipal de Nelas | ||||||||||
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 7,500 | ||||||||||
| [[File:Blank.svg | 150px]] | [[File:Blank.svg | 150px]] | ||||||||
| Complexo Desportivo Monte da Forca | Estádio Municipal de Mangualde | Municipal de Santa Marta de Penaguião | |||||||||
| Capacity: 6,000 | Capacity: 1,500 | Capacity: 500 | |||||||||
| [[File:Blank.svg | 150px]] | [[File:Blank.svg | 150px]] | [[File:Blank.svg | 150px]] |
Squads
Main article: 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship 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. ;Referees
- SLO Damir Skomina
- UKR Sergiy Berezka
- MDA Veaceslav Banari
- SWE Stefan Johannesson
- POL Novo Panic
- TUR Kuddusi Müftüoglu ;Assistant referees
- NIR David Paul Todd
- SUI Gianpietro Lucca
- GRE Dimitrios Bozatzidis
- MLT Ingmar Spiteri
- SVK Roman Slysko
- CRO Tomislav Petrovic
- NLD Arie Brink
- RUS Tihon Kalugin ;Fourth officials
- POR Pedro Proenca Oliveira Alves Garcia
- POR Joaquim Paulo Paraty Da Silva
Group stage
Group A
| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | Advanced to the semifinals | |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 0 |
Paulo Ricardo Curto
Jakobsen
Vieirinha Horvath
Group B
| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 7 | Advanced to the semifinals | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 0 |
Milner 18:00 CET Nadal Kuddusi Müftüoglu (Turkey)
15:30 CET David Cases 18:00 CET
Milner Jurado Lupoli
Knockout stage
Knockout map
|14 May – Viseu|**** (p)|2 (3)||2 (2) |14 May – Mangualde||5||2 |17 May – Viseu||2||1 |17 May – Santa Comba Dão||0|****|1
Semifinals
Saleiro
Milner
Vieirinha
Saleiro
Gama
Moore
Milner
Ifil
Leadbitter
Cases
Stankovic
Third Place Playoff
Final
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|---|
| António Violante |
|---|
| Juan Santisteban |
|---|
|}
Goalscorers
;6 goals
- David Rodríguez ;3 goals
- James Milner
- José Cases ;2 goals
- Mads Torry
- Dean Bowditch
- Arturo Lupoli
- Nicola Pozzi
- Manuel Curto
- Márcio Sousa
- Vieirinha
- Xisco Nadal ;1 goal
- Christian Fuchs
- Daniel Horvath
- Patrick Mayer
- Daniel Pirker
- Christoph Saurer
- Marko Stanković
- Michael Jakobsen
- Bo Storm
- Steven Taylor
- Lior Refaelov
- Bruno Gama
- João Pedro
- Paulo Machado
- Carlos Saleiro
- Jurado
- David Silva
References
References
- [https://archive.today/20140915160653/http://www.uefa.com/under17/history/season=2003/goldenplayer/index.html 2003: Miguel Veloso]
- (2003-08-04). "uefa.com – UEFA European U-17 C'Ship – Fixtures & Results – Grp FT".
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