2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Majstrovstvá Európy vo futbale hráčov do 19 rokov 2022
Tournament details
Host country	Slovakia
Dates	18 June – 1 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	England (11th title)
Runners-up	Israel
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	51 (3.19 per match)
Attendance	38,555 (2,410 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Loum Tchaouna (4 goals)
← 2019 2020 2021 2023 →

The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2022) was the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (69th edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Slovakia hosted the tournament between 18 June and 1 July 2022. ^[1] A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.

Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina as the UEFA representatives.

Spain were the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 editions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the title was not awarded. They were not able to defend the title after failing to qualify for the competition.

Host selection

The timeline of host selection was as follows: ^[2]

• 11 January 2019: bidding procedure launched
• 28 February 2019: deadline to express interest
• 27 March 2019: Announcement by UEFA that declaration of interest were received from 17 member associations to host one of the UEFA national team youth final tournaments (UEFA European Under-19 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, UEFA European Under-17 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship) in 2021 and 2022 (although it was not specified which association were interested in which tournament)
• 28 June 2019: Submission of bid dossiers
• 24 September 2019: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Ljubljana

For the UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Romania and Slovakia were selected as hosts respectively. ^[1]

Qualification

Main article: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

The UEFA Executive Committee originally decided on 29 May 2019 to test a new qualifying format for the Under-19 Championship in 2022 and 2023. ^[3] The qualifying competition would have been played in four rounds over a two-year period from autumn 2020 to spring 2022, with teams divided into three leagues, and promotion and relegation between leagues after each round similar to the UEFA Nations League. ^[4] However, on 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the introduction of the new format had been postponed to the 2023 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, and qualification for the 2022 edition would use the previous format involving two rounds only. ^{[5] [6]}

A total of 54 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Slovakia qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams will compete in the qualifying competition, which consisted of two rounds: the Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2021, and the Elite round, which took place in spring 2022, to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020, 10:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. ^{[7] [8]}

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Slovakia	Hosts	2nd	2002	Third place (2002)
Israel	Elite round Group 1 winners	2nd	2014	Group stage (2014)
France	Elite round Group 2 winners	12th	2019	Champions (2005, 2010, 2016)
England	Elite round Group 3 winners	11th	2018	Champions (2017)
Romania	Elite round Group 4 winners	2nd	2011	Group stage (2011)
Italy	Elite round Group 5 winners	8th	2019	Champions (2003)
Serbia	Elite round Group 6 winners	8th	2014	Champions (2013)
Austria	Elite round Group 7 winners	8th	2016	Semi-finals (2003, 2006, 2014)

Venues

Trnava	Dunajská Streda	Banská Bystrica
City Aréna - Štadión Antona Malatinského	DAC Aréna	Štiavničky - Štadión SNP
Capacity: 19,200	Capacity: 12,700	Capacity: 7,900
Žiar nad Hronom	Trnava Senec Banská Bystrica Žiar nad Hronom Dunajská Streda
Mestský štadión Žiar nad Hronom
Capacity: 2,309
Senec
NTC Senec
Capacity: 3,264

Match officials

The following officials were appointed for the final tournament:

Referees Nathan Verboomen Morten Krogh Goga Kikacheishvili Manfredas Lukjančukas Matthew De Gabriele António Nobre

Assistant referees Mathias Hillaert Deniz Sokolov Steffen Beck Bramsen Turkka Joonas Valjakka Davit Gabisonia Edgaras Bučinskas Luke Portelli Pedro Martins

Fourth officials Gergő Bogár Adam Ladebäck

Squads

Main article: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was announced on 28 April 2022. ^[9]

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

All times are local CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	11	2	+9	9	Knockout stage and 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	Italy	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6
3	Slovakia (H)	3	1	0	2	1	6	−5	3	FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4	Romania	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0

Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

18 June 2022 (2022-06-18)

17:30

Slovakia	0–5	France
	Report	Tchaouna 16' Bonny 34', 59' Virginius 57', 62'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 5,238

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

18 June 2022 (2022-06-18)

20:00

Italy	2–1	Romania
Baldanzi 47' Volpato 68'	Report	Andronache 53'

DAC Aréna, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 1,327

Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)

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21 June 2022 (2022-06-21)

17:30

Slovakia	0–1	Italy
	Report	Ambrosino 33'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 8,235

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

21 June 2022 (2022-06-21)

20:00

Romania	1–2	France
Coubiș 82'	Report	Tchaouna 12' Adeline 20'

DAC Aréna, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 869

Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)

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24 June 2022 (2022-06-24)

17:30

Romania	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Griger 90+5'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 3,485

Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas (Lithuania)

24 June 2022 (2022-06-24)

17:30

France	4–1	Italy
Da Silva 24' Tchaouna 37', 69' Arconte 79'	Report	Volpato 16'

DAC Aréna, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 2,137

Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9	Knockout stage and 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	Israel	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
3	Austria	3	1	0	2	5	8	−3	3	FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4	Serbia	3	0	1	2	4	9	−5	1

Source: UEFA

19 June 2022 (2022-06-19)

17:30

Serbia	2–2	Israel
Lazetić 8' Leković 90+3'	Report	Gloukh 16' Ibrahim 74'

Mestský štadión, Žiar nad Hronom

Attendance: 945

Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)

19 June 2022 (2022-06-19)

20:00

England	2–0	Austria
Chukwuemeka 43' Devine 65'	Report

Štadión SNP, Banská Bystrica

Attendance: 1,537

Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas (Lithuania)

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22 June 2022 (2022-06-22)

17:30

Israel	4–2	Austria
Abed 5' Lugasi 29' Madmon 52' (pen.) Gloukh 54'	Report	Jasic 24' Demir 76'

Mestský štadión, Žiar nad Hronom

Attendance: 1,026

Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)

22 June 2022 (2022-06-22)

20:00

England	4–0	Serbia
Scarlett 5', 40' Chukwuemeka 68' Jebbison 90+1'	Report

Štadión SNP, Banská Bystrica

Attendance: 2,569

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

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25 June 2022 (2022-06-25)

20:00

Israel	0–1	England
	Report	Delap 6'

Mestský štadión, Žiar nad Hronom

Attendance: 933

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

25 June 2022 (2022-06-25)

20:00

Austria	3–2	Serbia
Querfeld 25', 55' Wallner 66'	Report	Lazetić 44' Ratkov 88'

Štadión SNP, Banská Bystrica

Attendance: 1,129

Referee: Matthew De Gabriele (Malta)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 June – DAC Aréna
	France	1
					1 July – Anton Malatinský Stadium
	Israel	2
					Israel	1
	28 June – NTC Senec
					England (a.e.t.)	3
	England	2
	Italy	1

	World Cup play-off
	28 June – Anton Malatinský Stadium
	Slovakia	1
	Austria	0

FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

Winners qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

28 June 2022 (2022-06-28)

17:00

Slovakia	1–0	Austria
Kopásek 64'	Report

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 4,087

Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)

Semi-finals

28 June 2022 (2022-06-28)

17:00

England	2–1	Italy
Scott 58' Quansah 82'	Report	Miretti 12' (pen.)

NTC Senec, Senec

Attendance: 897

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili (Georgia)

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28 June 2022 (2022-06-28)

20:00

France	1–2	Israel
Virginius 62'	Report	Touré 29' (o.g.) Kancepolsky 57'

DAC Aréna, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 1,226

Referee: Morten Krogh (Denmark)

Final

1 July 2022 (2022-07-01)

20:00

Israel	1–3 (a.e.t.)	England
Gloukh 40'	Report	Doyle 52' Chukwuemeka 108' Ramsey 116'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 3,005

Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)

Goalscorers

There were 51 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.19 goals per match.

4 goals

• Loum Tchaouna

3 goals

• Carney Chukwuemeka
• Alan Virginius
• Oscar Gloukh

2 goals

• Leopold Querfeld
• Dane Scarlett
• Ange-Yoan Bonny
• Cristian Volpato
• Marko Lazetić

1 goal

• Yusuf Demir
• Adis Jasic
• Lukas Wallner
• Liam Delap
• Alfie Devine
• Callum Doyle
• Daniel Jebbison
• Jarell Quansah
• Aaron Ramsey
• Alex Scott
• Martin Adeline
• Taïryk Arconte
• Florent Da Silva
• Tai Abed
• Ahmed Ibrahim
• El Yam Kancepolsky
• Ariel Lugasi
• Ilay Madmon
• Giuseppe Ambrosino
• Tommaso Baldanzi
• Fabio Miretti
• Luca Andronache
• Andrei Coubiș
• Stefan Leković
• Petar Ratkov
• Adam Griger
• Samuel Kopásek

1 own goal

• Souleymane Isaak Touré

Source: UEFA

Team of the tournament

The UEFA Technical Observer team announced the team of the tournament. ^[10]

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Matthew Cox	Brayann Pereira Stav Lemkin Jarell Quansah Harvey Vale	Ilay Madmon Carney Chukwuemeka Oscar Gloukh	Loum Tchaouna Giuseppe Ambrosino Alan Virginius

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina. ^[11]

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup 1
Italy	21 June 2022	7 (1977, 1981, 1987, 2005, 2009, 2017, 2019)
France	21 June 2022	7 (1977, 1997, 2001, 2011, 2013 , 2017, 2019)
England	22 June 2022	11 (1981, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017 )
Israel	25 June 2022	0 (debut)
Slovakia	28 June 2022	1 (2003)

¹Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Sponsors

• Adidas
• Slovnaft
• DEMI Šport
• Oxyworld
• Lucka

References

1. "Romania, Slovakia to stage U19 EURO in 2021 and 2022". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019.
2. "17 member associations interested in hosting UEFA youth national team final tournaments in 2021 and 2022". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 27 March 2019. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019.
3. "UEFA to ask FIFA/IFAB for new concussion protocol". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 29 May 2019.
4. "New Nations League format for U19 EURO: how it works". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 28 October 2019. Archived from the original on July 7, 2020.
5. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020.
6. "2020 Under-19 EURO cancelled". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 20 October 2020.
7. "2021/22 U19 qualifying round draw: 9 December". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 4 December 2020.
8. "2021/22 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws" (PDF). UEFA . Union of European Football Associations.
9. "2022 U19 EURO finals in Slovakia: Tournament information, scouting". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 19 April 2021.
10. "2022 Under-19 EURO Team of the Tournament". UEFA . 5 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
11. "England take U-19 title as Israel and Slovakia make history". FIFA. 1 July 2022.

External links

• Official website