[Francis Cole]

The thread for all the talk about the 2008 U17 tournament, to be held in Antalya, Turkey.

The qualification started about 2 weeks ago, and consists of 3 stages:

The Qualifying round is made up of 13 groups of 4 teams. Each group takes turns to play all their games, with the a group usually finished within a week - Then the 28 qualifiers from those groups go to the Elite round, (7 groups of 4 teams) - and then onto the main tournament in Turkey.

Group 3 and Group 5 have already finished -
Slovakia and Scotland qualifying from Group 3
Republic of Ireland and Denmark qualify from Group 5.

Group 8 has nearly finished, and Croatia and Hungary look to qualify from there.

The end of group 7 and Group 8 will take place tommorow.

Fixtures

Standings

For those who are looking out for England their first game is in late Oct, and they are in Group 11 along with Malta, Portugal and Estonia.

[Francis Cole]

The two finished groups. I bet this doesn't come out correctly

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Group 3 Pld Pts Slovakia 3 9 Scotland 3 6 Belarus 3 3 Liechtenstein 3 0 Group 5 Pld Pts Republic of Ireland 3 9 Denmark 3 4 Slovenia 3 2 Ukraine 3 1 </pre>

[PMLF]

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> Group 3 Pld Pts Slovakia 3 9 Scotland 3 6 Belarus 3 3 Liechtenstein 3 0 Group 5 Pld Pts Republic of Ireland 3 9 Denmark 3 4 Slovenia 3 2 Ukraine 3 1 </pre>

[Francis Cole]

Cheers :thup:

[Crazy_T]

\o/ Youth football is :cool:

This is ages away though isn't it?

[Francis Cole]

Final Tournament in May next year. Qualifiers basically non-stop till then.

U19 tournament basically the same format, so I guess this thread could be for that too.

[Crazy_T]

Originally posted by Francis Cole:
Final Tournament in May next year. Qualifiers basically non-stop till then.

U19 tournament basically the same format, so I guess this thread could be for that too.

Ok, but I can't watch the quals anywhere can i?

We'll just share the Mérida love till May

[Francis Cole]

You can't watch them that I know of, the UEFA website I linked above always has scores and the full teams fairly shortly after the games.

[Worcester City Researcher]

I've refereed at one of the two venues they're using for the Finals in Turkey.

Nice complex

[Francis Cole]

For the Chelsea guys you might be interested to know Milan Lalkovic played in all of Slovakia's games in the qualifiers (they won all of them and qualify for the 'Elite' stage).

He's a 14/15 year old striker for you, though he was given the 7 shirt of the Slovakia team so he might play RW for them.

Juni might have more info.