2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

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2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
2013 m. Europos U-19 futbolo čempionatas
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Tournament details
Host countryLithuania
Dates20 July – 1 August
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia (1st title)
Runners-up Flag of France (lighter variant).svg France
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored47 (3.13 per match)
Attendance56,169 (3,745 per match)
Top scorer(s) Flag of Lithuania.svg Gratas Sirgėdas
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Anass Achahbar
Flag of Portugal.svg Alexandre Guedes (3 goals)
Best player(s) Flag of Serbia.svg Aleksandar Mitrović
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The 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 12th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, since its reclassification from an under-18 tournament in 2002, and the 62nd since the tournament was created in 1948. It was hosted in Lithuania from 20 July to 1 August 2013, in three cities. Only players born after 1 January 1994 were eligible to participate.

Contents

The qualification matches began in September 2012 and concluded in June 2013, with seven teams joining the Lithuanian hosts in the final tournament. Spain were the two-time defending champions, after defeating Greece in the final of the previous edition, but were eliminated by France in the semi-finals. In the final, France were beaten 1–0 by Serbia.

Bids

Eight national associations showed interest in hosting the final tournament, but only Lithuania, Germany, Hungary, and Slovenia reached the final bidding stage. On 4 October 2010, Lithuania were announced as the hosts in a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Minsk, Belarus. [1] [2]

Venues

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Location map of the final tournament host cities

The final round matches were held in three stadium venues located in three Lithuanian cities: [3]

StadiumLocationCapacityMatchesRef
Alytus Stadium Alytus 3,7484 group matches and 1 semi-final [4]
Darius and Girėnas Stadium Kaunas 9,2804 group matches and 1 semi-final [5]
ARVI Football Arena Marijampolė 6,2504 group matches and the final [6]

Qualification

Qualification for the final tournament occurred in two phases: a qualifying round and an elite round. During these rounds, 51 national teams competed to determine the seven teams that would join the automatically qualified host nation, Lithuania. [7]

The qualifying round was played between 26 September and 26 November 2012, following a draw that took place on 29 November 2011 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. According to the UEFA under-19 national team coefficient ranking, [8] the top three teams – Spain, Serbia and Turkey – were given a bye to the elite round, whereas the remaining 48 teams were divided into two pots and drawn into 12 groups of four teams. Each group included two teams from both pots and was contested as a round-robin tournament, hosted in the country of one of the teams. The group winners and runners-up, along with the best third-placed team, qualified for the next round. [9]

The elite round was played between 22 May and 11 June 2012 and was contested by the 25 teams advancing from the qualifying round plus the three teams which received byes. The draw took place on 5 December 2012 at the UEFA headquarters and allocated the 28 teams – previously arranged into four seeding pots according to their qualifying round coefficient (teams with bye were automatically seeded in the first pot) [10] – into seven groups of four. Each group was contested similarly to the qualifying round, with the seven group winners securing qualification for the final tournament. [11]

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament: [12]

CountryQualified asPrevious appearances in final tournament 1
only U-19 era (since 2002)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Hosts0 (debut)
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France Winner of Group 1 6 (2003, 2005 , 2007, 2009, 2010 , 2012)
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Winner of Group 2 5 (2005 2 , 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Winner of Group 3 5 (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012)
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Winner of Group 4 9 ( 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 , 2012 )
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Winner of Group 5 1 (2010)
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia Winner of Group 6 0 (debut)
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Winner of Group 7 4 (2004, 2006, 2009, 2011)
1Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Match officials

UEFA named six referees and eight assistant referees to officiate matches at the final tournament. Additionally, two referees from the host nation were chosen as fourth officials. [13]

Squads

Group stage

2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship teams and final classification 2013 UEFA U-19 European Championship map.svg
2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship teams and final classification

The draw for the group stage was held on 14 June 2013 in Kaunas, at the Town Hall, and was conducted by the UEFA Youth and Amateur Football Committee chairman, Jim Boyce, who was assisted by final tournament ambassadors Vaida Česnauskienė and Marius Stankevičius. [15] The eight finalists were drawn into two groups of four teams and played matches against each other in a round-robin system. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals. [12]

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied: [16]

  1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  2. Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  4. If two teams are still tied after criteria 1–3 have been applied, the criteria are reapplied on those teams. If the tie is not broken, criteria 5–8 are applied;
  5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Fair play conduct of the teams (final tournament);
  8. Drawing of lots.

If two teams are tied after having met in the last round of the group stage, their final ranking is determined instead by a penalty shoot-out. This method is only valid when determining which team qualifies for the next round or for another competition. [16]

All times are in Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00). [17]

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 330062+49 Knockout stage
2Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 320184+46
3Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 310269−33
4Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania (H)300349−50
Source: [ citation needed ]
(H) Host
Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg2–3Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Artimavičius Soccerball shade.svg38'
Sirgėdas Soccerball shade.svg83'		 Report Achahbar Soccerball shade.svg10', 29'
Vloet Soccerball shade.svg90+6'
Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas
Attendance: 7,436
Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)
Spain  Flag of Spain.svg1–0Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Ramírez Soccerball shade.svg19' Report
ARVI Arena, Marijampolė
Attendance: 2,900
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg1–4Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Vloet Soccerball shade.svg90+1' Report Guedes Soccerball shade.svg32', 89'
L. Silva Soccerball shade.svg73'
Horta Soccerball shade.svg87'
Alytus Stadium, Alytus
Attendance: 3,170
Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg0–2Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Report Hernández Soccerball shade.svg6', 74'
Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas
Attendance: 8,900
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
Portugal  Flag of Portugal.svg4–2Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
Lopes Soccerball shade.svg8'
Petrauskas Soccerball shade.svg45' (o.g.)
Figueiredo Soccerball shade.svg51' (pen.)
Mané Soccerball shade.svg65'		 Report Sirgėdas Soccerball shade.svg53', 90+2'
Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas
Attendance: 8,075
Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg2–3Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Mahi Soccerball shade.svg36'
Achahbar Soccerball shade.svg90+1' (pen.)		 Report Ramírez Soccerball shade.svg68'
Vadillo Soccerball shade.svg81'
Vico Soccerball shade.svg83'
Alytus Stadium, Alytus
Attendance: 3,618
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 321042+27 Knockout stage
2Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France 312032+15
3Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 31026603
4Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 301225−31
Source: [ citation needed ]
Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg2–1Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Luković Soccerball shade.svg17'
Mitrović Soccerball shade.svg54'		 Report Niyaz Soccerball shade.svg88'
ARVI Arena, Marijampolė
Attendance: 450
Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
Georgia  Flag of Georgia.svg0–0Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France
Report
Alytus Stadium, Alytus
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Emir Alečković (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg1–0Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Meleg Soccerball shade.svg74' Report
ARVI Arena, Marijampolė
Attendance: 1,100
Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svg1–2Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France
Yılmaz Soccerball shade.svg87' (pen.) Report Hunou Soccerball shade.svg6'
Benzia Soccerball shade.svg64'
Alytus Stadium, Alytus
Attendance: 1,915
Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)
France  Flag of France (lighter variant).svg1–1Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Hunou Soccerball shade.svg31' Report Pavlovski Soccerball shade.svg77'
Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas
Attendance: 1,228
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svg4–2Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Deniz Soccerball shade.svg16', 18'
Niyaz Soccerball shade.svg58'
Şahin Soccerball shade.svg80'		 Report Endeladze Soccerball shade.svg3'
Kacharava Soccerball shade.svg50'
ARVI Arena, Marijampolė
Attendance: 950
Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
29 July – Alytus
 
 
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia (p)2 (3)
 
1 August – Marijampolė
 
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2 (2)
 
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 1
 
29 July – Kaunas
 
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France 0
 
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1
 
 
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France (a.e.t.)2
 

Semifinals

Spain  Flag of Spain.svg1–2 (a.e.t.)Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France
Rodríguez Soccerball shade.svg27' (pen.) Report Benzia Soccerball shade.svg29'
Conte Soccerball shade.svg105'
Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas
Attendance: 4,436
Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

Final

France  Flag of France (lighter variant).svg0–1Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Report Luković Soccerball shade.svg57'
ARVI Football Arena, Marijampolė
Attendance: 6,211
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Goalscorers

3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

Awards

NameGoals ScoredAssistsMinutes played
Flag of Lithuania.svg Gratas Sirgėdas 30141
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Anass Achahbar 30255
Flag of Portugal.svg Alexandre Guedes 30390

Team of the Tournament

After the final, the UEFA technical team selected 23 players to integrate the "team of the tournament". [19] [20]

Notes

  1. ↑ Bosnian referee Emir Alečković was officially suspended from this tournament. [14]

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