Austria’s female U17 national team missed qualifying for the European Championship finals in May in Sweden. In the last game of the elite round on Thursday, a 3-0 win in Omis against Hungary was not enough, as Belgium celebrated a 1-0 last-minute win against mini-tournament hosts Croatia in the parallel game and were tied on points with the ÖFB team due to the win Direct comparison crossed the finish line first in Group A3.
The Austrians lost 2-3 against the Belgians after a 2-0 win against Croatia at the start. “The entire team is devastated. We did everything for our game and knew that we depended on the outcome of the parallel game and had to hope. The fact that the decisive goal came in the 90th minute is emblematic of the course of the elite round, in which luck was not on our side one or two times,” said ÖFB team boss Patrick Haidbauer.
