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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | India |
| Dates | 6–28 October |
| Teams | 24 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  England (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Spain |
| Third place |  Brazil |
| Fourth place |  Mali |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 52 |
| Goals scored | 183 (3.52 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,347,133 (25,906 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Rhian Brewster (8 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Phil Foden |
| Best goalkeeper | Gabriel Brazão |
| Fair play award | Brazil |
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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. Organised by FIFA, the tournament took place in India from 6 to 28 October 2017, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 5 December 2013. The tournament marked the first time India hosted a FIFA tournament and the fifth Asian country to host U-17 World Cup after China in 1985, Japan in 1993, South Korea in 2007 and United Arab Emirates in 2013. The attendance for this World Cup was a record 1,347,133, surpassing China's record in 1985 with 1,230,976.
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. Twenty-three teams, besides the host India, managed to qualify for the tournament via participating in their various continental under-17 tournaments. 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. These 16 teams will advance to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.
The reigning champions Nigeria failed to qualify, becoming the first title holders to fail to qualify for the subsequent edition of the tournament since Switzerland in 2009.
England 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.[1] 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.[2][3] 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. The official match ball used in the tournament was Adidas Krasava.
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- ^ "England double up by winning U17 World Cup". UEFA.com. 28 October 2017. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "England win U17 World Cup: Young Lions fight back to beat Spain in final". BBC Sport. 28 October 2017. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.