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2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ923273 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the fourth edition of UEFA's European Under-17 Football Championship. Italy hosted the championship, during 3–14 May. Turkey defeated Netherlands in the final to win the competition for the second time.

Squads

Qualifying

2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round

Match officials

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

Cities & Stadiums

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

For winning their semi-finals, Netherlands and Turkey qualified for the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship with Italy and Croatia meeting in the third place playoff for the third and final place in the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship.

Third place play-off

For winning the third place play-off, Italy qualified for the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship with Croatia missing out.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship” as football tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where UEFA, European and Under-17 can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.