2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

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.

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	Portugal (5th title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	Austria
Fourth place	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	44 (2.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)	David Rodríguez (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Miguel Veloso[1]
← 2002 2004 →

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
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, 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.

Chaves Mangualde Nelas Stª Comba Dão Santa Marta de Penaguião 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

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.^[2]

Referees Damir Skomina Sergiy Berezka Veaceslav Banari Stefan Johannesson Novo Panic Kuddusi Müftüoglu

Assistant referees David Paul Todd Gianpietro Lucca Dimitrios Bozatzidis Ingmar Spiteri Roman Slysko Tomislav Petrovic Arie Brink Tihon Kalugin

Fourth officials Pedro Proenca Oliveira Alves Garcia Joaquim Paulo Paraty Da Silva

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

7 May 2003

16:00 CET

Portugal	3–2	Denmark
João Pedro 34' Paulo Ricardo 40' Curto 55'	Report	Torry 32', 42'

Estádio do Fontelo, Viseu

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

7 May 2003

18:00 CET

Austria	1–0	Hungary
Saurer 78'	Report

Estádio Municipal de Nelas, Nelas

Referee: Sergiy Berezka (Ukraine)

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9 May 2003

16:00 CET

Portugal	1–0	Austria
Curto 14'	Report

Santa Comba Dão

Referee: Kuddusi Müftüoglu (Turkey)

9 May 2003

18:00 CET

Denmark	2–0	Hungary
Storm 33' Jakobsen 50'	Report

Estádio Municipal de Mangualde, Mangualde

Referee: Novo Panic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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11 May 2003

17:30 CET

Hungary	0–2	Portugal
	Report	Bruno Gama 50' Vieirinha 62'

Estádio do Fontelo, Viseu

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

11 May 2003

17:30 CET

Denmark	0–2	Austria
	Report	Mayer 42' Horvath 83'

Estádio Municipal de Nelas, Nelas

Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova)

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

7 May 2003

16:00 CET

Israel	1–2	England
Rafaelov 47' (pen.)	Report	Bowditch 51' Milner 54'

Municipal de Santa Marta de Penaguião, Santa Marta de Penaguião

Referee: Novo Panic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

7 May 2003

18:00 CET

Spain	2–0	Italy
Cases 28' Nadal 35'	Report

Complexo Desportivo Monte da Forca, Vila Real

Referee: Kuddusi Müftüoglu (Turkey)

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9 May 2003

15:30 CET

Israel	0–3	Spain
	Report	Silva 33' David 36' Cases 47'

Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira, Chaves

Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova)

9 May 2003

18:00 CET

England	0–0	Italy
	Report

Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira, Chaves

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

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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, Vila Real

Referee: Sergiy Berezka (Ukraine)

11 May 2003

17:30 CET

Italy	4–0	Israel
Pozzi 32', 46' Lupoli 35', 78'	Report

Municipal de Santa Marta de Penaguião, Santa Marta de Penaguião

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

Knockout stage

Knockout map

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 May – Viseu
	Portugal (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

14 May 2003

18:00 CET

Portugal	2–2	England
Vieirinha 10' Saleiro 82'	Report	Bowditch 8' Milner 21'
Penalties
Machado Vieirinha Saleiro Gama	3–2	Doyle Moore Milner Ifil Leadbitter

Estádio do Fontelo, Viseu

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

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14 May 2003

16:00 CET

Spain	5–2	Austria
David 4', 12', 37', 68' Cases 16'	Report	Fuchs 59' Stankovic 62'

Estádio Municipal de Mangualde, Mangualde

Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

Third Place Playoff

17 May 2003

15:30 CET

England	0–1	Austria
	Report	Pirker 53'

Estádio Municipal Doutor Orlando Mendes, Santa Comba Dão

Referee: Sergiy Berezka (Ukraine)

Final

17 May 2003

18:30 CET

Portugal	2–1	Spain
Márcio Sousa 22', 47'	Report	David 42'

Estádio do Fontelo, Viseu

Referee: Novo Panic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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

• 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