Israel national under-17 football team

 Israel under-17
Association Israel Football Association
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Israel Ofer Fabian
FIFA code ISR
First colours
Second colours
European U-17 championships
Appearances 9 (First in 1987)
Best result Third place, 1996

The Israel national under-17 football team represents Israel in association football at the under-17 youth level, and is controlled by the Israel Football Association.

The team is for Israeli players aged 17 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-17 Football Championship cycle, so players can be up to 19 years old.

Competition history

Although the Israel Football Association became a member of UEFA as late as 1994, Israel U-16s took part in several European youth championships since the late 1980s, beginning with the 1987 European U-16 tournament, for which they qualified but failed to progress past the group stage after a defeat to Turkey U16s and draws against Denmark and Greece.[1]

The team managed to qualify for six other European U-16 championships (including five consecutive appearances between 1996 and 2000) before UEFA's realignment of youth levels in 2001. Since then, Israel U17s only qualified twice for the final tournament, in 2003 and 2005. Their best result in the under-16 era came in the 1996 European U-16 Championship where they won third place, beating Greece in a third-place play-off match.[2]

European Championship

Under-16 format

Year Round GP W D L GS GA
France 1987Group stage302112
Spain 1988Did not enter
Denmark 1989Did not qualify
East Germany 1990Did not enter
Switzerland 1991Did not qualify
Cyprus 1992Group stage311133
Turkey 1993Did not qualify
Republic of Ireland 1994Did not qualify
Belgium 1995Did not qualify
Austria 1996Third place6402109
Germany 1997Group stage300338
Scotland 1998Quarter-final412156
Czech Republic 1999Quarter-final4202810
Israel 2000Group stage301237
England 2001Did not qualify
Total7/152686121245

Under-17 format

Year Round GP W D L GS GA
Denmark 2002Did not qualify
Portugal 2003Group stage300319
France 2004Did not qualify
Italy 2005Group stage300339
Luxembourg 2006Did not qualify
Belgium 2007Did not qualify
Turkey 2008Did not qualify
Germany 2009Did not qualify
Liechtenstein 2010Did not qualify
Serbia 2011Did not qualify
Slovenia 2012Did not qualify
Slovakia 2013Did not qualify
Total2/126006418

Past squads

UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship squads

References

  1. Garin, Erik (28 June 2006). "European U-16 Championship 1987". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  2. Garin, Erik (7 December 2003). "European U-16 Championship 1996". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

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