Campionato europeo di calcio Under-21 2019 | |
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Tournament details | |
Host countries | Italy San Marino |
Dates | 16–30 June [1] |
Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Spain (5th title) |
Runners-up | Germany |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 21 |
Goals scored | 78 (3.71 per match) |
Attendance | 214,637 (10,221 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Luca Waldschmidt (7 goals) |
Best player(s) | Fabián |
The 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2019) was the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (25th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament was hosted by Italy (and some matches by San Marino) in mid-2019, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 9 December 2016 in Nyon, Switzerland. [2] [3]
A total of twelve teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1996 eligible to participate. [4]
Same as previous Under-21 Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, this tournament served as European qualifying for the Olympic football tournament, with the top four teams of the tournament qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament in Japan, where they will be represented by their under-23 national teams with maximum of three overage players allowed. The four teams that qualified for the Olympic Games were the ones that qualified for the knockout stage of this championship. [5] For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used at the UEFA European Under-21 Championship. [6]
Germany were the defending champions.
In 2015 the Italian Football Federation confirmed that Italy would bid to host the tournament in 2019, [7] which also involved the San Marino Football Federation. Italy and San Marino were appointed as hosts at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 9 December 2016. [2] [ failed verification ] [8]
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Italy qualifying automatically (the other co-hosts San Marino would not qualify automatically), the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining eleven spots in the final tournament. [9] The qualifying competition, which took place from March 2017 to November 2018, consisted of two rounds: [4]
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).
Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
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Italy | Hosts | 9 December 2016 | 20th | 2017 (semi-finals) | Champions (1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004) |
Spain | Group 2 winners | 6 September 2018 | 14th | 2017 (runners-up) | Champions (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013) |
France | Group 9 winners | 7 September 2018 | 9th | 2006 (semi-finals) | Champions (1988) |
England | Group 4 winners | 11 October 2018 | 15th | 2017 (semi-finals) | Champions (1982, 1984) |
Serbia | Group 7 winners | 12 October 2018 | 11th [SRB] | 2017 (group stage) | Champions (1978) (as Yugoslavia) [SRB] |
Germany | Group 5 winners | 12 October 2018 | 12th | 2017 (champions) | Champions (2009, 2017) |
Croatia | Group 1 winners | 15 October 2018 | 3rd | 2004 (group stage) | Group stage (2000, 2004) |
Denmark | Group 3 winners | 16 October 2018 | 8th | 2017 (group stage) | Semi-finals (1992, 2015) |
Belgium | Group 6 winners | 16 October 2018 | 3rd | 2007 (semi-finals) | Semi-finals (2007) |
Romania | Group 8 winners | 16 October 2018 | 2nd | 1998 (quarter-finals) | Quarter-finals (1998) |
Poland | Play-off winners | 20 November 2018 | 7th | 2017 (group stage) | Quarter-finals (1982, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994) |
Austria | Play-off winners | 20 November 2018 | 1st | — | Debut |
The final draw was held on 23 November 2018, 18:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Lamborghini headquarters in Sant'Agata Bolognese, [10] [11] [12] hosted by Mia Ceran and conducted by tournament ambassador Andrea Pirlo, who won the tournament in 2000. [13]
The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. Italy, the host country, was assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking following the end of the qualifying stage, calculated based on the following: [14]
Each group contained either the hosts or one team from Pot 1 (which were drawn to position B1 or C1), and one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3 (which were drawn to any of the positions 2–4 in the groups). The draw pots were as follows: [15]
Team |
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Italy |
Team | Coeff |
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Germany | 39,913 |
England | 37,946 |
Team | Coeff |
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Spain | 37,774 |
Denmark | 35,533 |
France | 35,182 |
Team | Coeff |
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Serbia | 33,083 |
Croatia | 32,952 |
Belgium | 32,122 |
Austria | 31,767 |
Poland | 30,946 |
Romania | 29,259 |
On 9 December 2016, Italian Football Federation pre-selected venues (including one inside San Marino territory): [16]
Bologna | Reggio nell'Emilia | Cesena |
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Stadio Renato Dall'Ara | Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore | Stadio Dino Manuzzi |
Capacity: 31,000 | Capacity: 21,500 | Capacity: 20,194 |
Trieste | Udine | Serravalle (San Marino) |
Stadio Nereo Rocco | Dacia Arena | San Marino Stadium |
Capacity: 20,500 | Capacity: 25,151 | Capacity: 4,778 |
Country | Referee | 1st assistant referee | 2nd assistant referee |
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Belarus | Aleksei Kulbakov | Dzmitry Zhuk | Aleh Maslianka |
Bulgaria | Georgi Kabakov | Martin Margaritov | Diyan Valkov |
Israel | Orel Grinfeld | Roy Hassan | Idan Yarkoni |
Latvia | Andris Treimanis | Haralds Gudermanis | Aleksejs Spasjonņikovs |
Netherlands | Serdar Gözübüyük | Charles Schaap | Jan de Vries |
Romania | István Kovács | Ovidiu Artene | Vasile Marinescu |
Scotland | Bobby Madden | Francis Connor | David Roome |
Serbia | Srđan Jovanović | Uroš Stojković | Milan Mihajlović |
Sweden | Andreas Ekberg | Mehmet Culum | Stefan Hallberg |
Video Assistant Referees (VAR)
Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers, at least 10 full days before the opening match. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player. [4]
The group winners and the best runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria would be applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 18.01 and 18.02): [4]
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2). [17]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Spain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 [lower-alpha 1] | Knockout stage and 2020 Summer Olympics |
2 | Italy (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 [lower-alpha 1] | |
3 | Poland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 6 [lower-alpha 1] | |
4 | Belgium | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 0 |
Poland | 3–2 | Belgium |
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Belgium | 1–3 | Italy |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 7 | Knockout stage and 2020 Summer Olympics |
2 | Denmark | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | |
3 | Austria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
4 | Serbia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 |
Germany | 3–1 | Denmark |
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Austria | 1–1 | Germany |
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Denmark | 2–0 | Serbia |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Romania | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 7 | Knockout stage and 2020 Summer Olympics |
2 | France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 7 | |
3 | England [lower-alpha 1] | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 1 | |
4 | Croatia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 1 |
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | C | France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 7 | Knockout stage and 2020 Summer Olympics |
2 | A | Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 | |
3 | B | Denmark | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 |
The match-ups of the semi-finals depended on which runners-up qualified (Regulations Article 17.02): [4]
Best runners-up from | Best runners-up play | Other semi-final |
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Group A | Winners of Group B | Winners of Group A vs Winners of Group C |
Group B | Winners of Group A | Winners of Group B vs Winners of Group C |
Group C | Winners of Group A | Winners of Group B vs Winners of Group C |
In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary. [4]
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
27 June – Reggio Emilia | ||||||
Spain | 4 | |||||
30 June – Udine | ||||||
France | 1 | |||||
Spain | 2 | |||||
27 June – Bologna | ||||||
Germany | 1 | |||||
Germany | 4 | |||||
Romania | 2 | |||||
There were 78 goals scored in 21 matches, for an average of 3.71 goals per match.
7 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
After the tournament the Under-21 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observers. [41]
Position | Player |
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Goalkeeper | Alexander Nübel |
Defenders | Lukas Klostermann |
Jonathan Tah | |
Jesús Vallejo | |
Benjamin Henrichs | |
Midfielders | Fabián |
Mahmoud Dahoud | |
Dani Olmo | |
Luca Waldschmidt | |
Dani Ceballos | |
Forward | George Pușcaș |
The following four teams from UEFA qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.
Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics 1 |
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Spain | 22 June 2019 [42] | 10 (1920, 1924, 1928, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1992 , 1996, 2000, 2012) |
Germany | 23 June 2019 [43] | 9 (1912, 1928, 1936 , 1952, 1956 2 , 1972 2 , 1984 2 , 1988 2 , 2016) |
Romania | 24 June 2019 [44] | 3 (1924, 1952, 1964) |
France | 24 June 2019 [44] | 12 ( 1900 , 1908, 1920, 1924 , 1928, 1948, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1984 , 1996) |
England were ineligible for the Olympics as they are not an Olympic nation (while an agreement was reached between the four British football associations to enter the Great Britain women's team, no agreement was reached for the men's team). [45] Had they reached the semi-finals, the last Olympic spot would have gone to the winner of an Olympic play-off match, scheduled to be played at Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena on 28 June 2019, 21:00 CEST, between the two group runners-up which did not qualify for the semi-finals. [15] [46] However, when England failed to advance out of the group stage, this match was cancelled.
All 21 matches were live streamed for the unsold markets via UEFA.tv and highlights were also available for all territories around the world via the UEFA YouTube channel. [47]
Country | Broadcaster | |
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Free | Pay | |
Italy (host) | RAI | |
Austria | ORF | |
Sport1 | ||
Germany | ||
ARD | ||
ZDF | ||
Belgium | VRT (Dutch) | |
RTBF (French) | ||
Croatia | HRT | |
Denmark | DR | |
France | M6 | beIN Sports |
Poland | TVP | |
Romania | TVR | |
Serbia | RTS | |
Spain | Mediaset | |
United Kingdom | Sky Sports |
Country/Region | Broadcaster | |
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Free | Pay | |
Albania | RTSH | |
Andorra | Mediaset (Spanish) | beIN Sports (French) |
M6 (French) | ||
Luxembourg | ||
RTBF (French) | ||
VRT (Dutch) | ||
Armenia | APMTV | |
Belarus | Belteleradio | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BHRT | |
Bulgaria | BNT | |
Czech Republic | ČT | |
Estonia | ERR | |
Faroe Islands | DR | |
Finland | Yle | |
Greece | ERT [48] | |
Hungary | MTVA | |
Ireland | RTÉ | Sky Sports |
Israel | Charlton | |
Kosovo | RTK | |
Latvia | LTV | |
Liechtenstein | SRG SSR (German, French, and Italian) | |
Switzerland | ||
Sport1 (German) | ||
Lithuania | LRT | |
Malta | PBS | |
Montenegro | RTCG | |
Netherlands | NOS | |
Norway | NRK | |
Portugal | RTP | |
Russia | Match TV | |
San Marino | RAI | |
Vatican City | ||
Slovakia | RTVS | |
Slovenia | RTV SLO | |
Sweden | SVT | |
Turkey | TRT | |
Ukraine | UA:PBC |
Country/Region | Broadcaster | |
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Free | Pay | |
China | CCTV | Super Sports |
Indonesia | Super Soccer TV [49] | |
Japan | Wowow [50] | |
United States | ||
Canada | ||
African Television | beIN Sports |
Country | Broadcaster |
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Italy (host) | RAI |
Austria | ORF |
Sport1 | |
Germany | |
ARD | |
Belgium | VRT (Dutch) |
RTBF (French) | |
Croatia | HRT |
Denmark | DR |
Poland | PR |
Romania | RR |
Serbia | RTS |
Spain | Marca [51] |
United Kingdom | Talksport |
Country/Region | Broadcaster |
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Albania | RTSH |
Andorra | RTBF (French) |
Luxembourg | |
Armenia | HR |
Belarus | Belteleradio |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BHRT |
Bulgaria | BNR |
Czech Republic | ČR |
Estonia | ERR |
Faroe Islands | DR |
Finland | Yle |
Greece | ERT |
Hungary | MTVA |
Ireland | RTÉ |
Kosovo | RTK |
Latvia | LR |
Liechtenstein | SRG SSR (German, French, and Italian) |
Switzerland | |
Sport1 (German) | |
Lithuania | LRT |
Malta | PBS |
Montenegro | RTCG |
Netherlands | NOS |
Norway | NRK |
Portugal | RTP |
San Marino | RAI |
Vatican City | |
Slovakia | RTVS |
Slovenia | RTV SLO |
Sweden | SR |
Turkey | TRT |
Ukraine | UA:PBC |
Country/Region | Broadcaster |
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China | CRI |
United States | |
Canada |
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