Starting from 2017, the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) will receive an additional spot (in total two spots), while UEFA will have five instead of six spots. In addition to India, the other 23 teams qualified from six separate continental competitions. Ī total of 24 teams qualified for the final tournament. In failing to qualify, Nigeria became the first nation since Switzerland in 2009 to fail to qualify for the next edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup after winning the previous edition. The previous U-17 World Cup title holders, Nigeria, failed to qualify for this edition. As well as India, New Caledonia and Niger also made their first appearance in the FIFA U-17 World Cup. Qualified teams Īs host, India made their first ever appearance at the FIFA U-17 World Cup and their first appearance in the World Cup at any age level. įinally, on 5 December 2013, FIFA announced that India had won the 2017 FIFA World Cup hosting rights. On it was announced by FIFA that Azerbaijan, India, Republic of Ireland, and Uzbekistan would bid for the hosting rights. The bids for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup had to be submitted by 15 November 2013. The official match ball used in the tournament was Adidas Krasava. England has also become the third country, after Brazil and North Korea, to win both U-17 and U-20 World Cup in their respective gender tournaments on the same year, as North Korea had also won both U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cup the previous year. This made England the second nation, after Brazil in 2003, to win both of FIFA's male age-capped (U-20 and U-17) World Cups in the same calendar year. The reigning champions, Nigeria, failed to qualify, becoming the first title holders fail to qualify for the subsequent edition since Switzerland in 2009.Įngland won the U-17 World Cup for the first time after coming back from a two-goal deficit and beating Spain 5–2 in the final. These 16 teams will advance to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four for points, where the top two teams in each group along with the top four third placed teams would advance to the next round. Twenty-three teams, besides the host India, managed to qualify for the tournament via participating in their various continental under-17 tournaments. The matches were played in six stadiums in six host cities around the country, with the final taking place at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. The attendance for this World Cup was a record 1,347,133 surpassing China's record in 1985 with 1,230,976. The tournament marked the first time India have hosted a FIFA tournament and the first Asian country to host U-17 World Cup since United Arab Emirates in 2013. Organised by FIFA, the tournament took place in India between 6 and 28 October 2017, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 5 December 2013. The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 17th FIFA U-17 World Cup, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-17 national teams.
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