The national under-17 football team is composed of the 20 best national football players, aged 17 years or less, selected from the 4 CTR's (Centre Technique Regional) spread throughout Mauritius.

The team has never qualified for the FIFA U-17 World Cup or the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations, but has won the CJSOI football gold medal twice, in 2008 and 2010.

[1] The players in the team are being prepared to join the Mauritius national under-20 football team and the 1st Division Junior National Tournament in the coming years, as well as the Mauritius national football team soon after that.

Some of these players are Louis Fabrice Pithia, Andy Sophie, Henri Speville, Kersley Appou, Christopher Perle and Ricardo Naboth.

The following players were named to the Mauritius U-17 squad for the CJSOI games.