UEFA_Women's_Under-19_Championship

UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

Football tournament

The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship or simply UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, is a competition in women's football for European national teams of players under 19 years of age. National under-19 teams whose countries belong to the European governing body UEFA can register to enter the competition.

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In odd years the tournament is also a FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualifying competition. The tournament began in the 1997–98 season as an under-18 event and became an under-19s event from the 2001–02 season, it is held yearly.[1] The Championship has three phases: two qualifying rounds open to all eligible nations and the finals phase which is composed of 8 qualified teams. The finals themselves are composed of two groups of four teams; each team plays the others in the group. The winner of each group after the 3 matches plays the runner-up of the opposing group in a semi-final, with the winner contesting the final.

Finals format

Since 2002 the finals had eight teams with two groups of four teams, semi-finals and the final.

Results

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Notes

  1. Belarus were originally appointed as hosts of the 2025 tournament, but were stripped of their hosting rights on 4 April 2023 due to their country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

Winners

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Comprehensive team results by tournament (since 2002)

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
  • SF – Semifinals
  • GS – Group Stage
  • 5th – Fifth place (played in 2005 and 2017)
  • 6th – Sixth place (played in 2005 and 2017)
  •  •  – Did not qualify
  •  ×  – Did not enter / Withdrew
  • q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
  •    — Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

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Since 2002, the 3rd/4th-place match has not been played.

Tournament statistics

Top scorers by tournament

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Player of the Tournament

The official website UEFA.com selected a Golden Player or Player of the Tournament for certain tournaments.

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "History of the competition". UEFA. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Women's Under-19 finals in Georgia cancelled". UEFA.com. 1 April 2020.
  3. [3]
    "2020/21 Women's U19 EURO cancelled". UEFA.com. 23 February 2021.
  4. [4]
    "UEFA holds off on banning Belarus despite EU pressure". France 24. Lisbon. Agence France-Presse. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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