{"id":5586,"date":"2026-04-10T06:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:07:18","slug":"italy-learn-opponents-in-under-17-european-championship-final-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5586\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy learn opponents in Under-17 European Championship final phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy will face France, Denmark and Montenegro in the European Under-17 Championship<\/a>, which runs from May 25 to June 7 in Estonia.<\/p>\n

While the senior team might be struggling, youth level football is still flourishing, and they qualified for the final phase of the Under-17 tournament.<\/p>\n

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Who Italy will play in Under-17 Euros\"\"<\/p>\n

Italy Under 17 squad celebrate FIGC<\/p>\n

The draw has placed the Azzurrini in Group B and will make their debut against France on May 26, then Montenegro on May 29 and Denmark on June 1.<\/p>\n

All their games will be played at the Kalevi Central Stadium in Tallinn.<\/p>\n

The top two teams in each group will go through to the semi-finals, while the Final is scheduled for June 7.<\/p>\n

Italy qualified by finishing second in their group with six points, one behind leaders Montenegro, then dominated the A2 phase in March with a 100 per cent record, beating Portugal 3-2, Iceland 4-0 and Romania 2-1.<\/p>\n

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EMPOLI- JUNE 09: Team of Italy U17 celebrate the victory of UEFA European Under 17-Championship 2023\/2024 before an International Friendly match between Italy and Bosnia & Herzegovina at Stadio Carlo Castellani on June 09, 2024 in Empoli (Photo by Claudio Villa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Coach Daniele Franceschini not only qualified them for the final phase of the European Under-21 Championship, but also the Under-17 World Cup, scheduled for November 2026 in Qatar.<\/p>\n

Italy won the 2024 edition<\/a> of the European Under-17 Championship and then\u00a0came third in the 2025 edition of the Under-17 World Cup.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy will face France, Denmark and Montenegro in the European Under-17 Championship, which runs from May 25 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[689,41,5,1496,433],"class_list":{"0":"post-5586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-portugal","12":"tag-qatar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}