Tournament details | |
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Host country | Northern Ireland |
Dates | 15–28 July |
Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 3 (in 2 host cities) |
The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2024) will be the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (71st 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. Northern Ireland will host the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 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 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the UEFA representatives.
Italy are the defending champions being crowned champions for the fourth time after beating Portugal 1–0 in the final. [1]
Northern Ireland was appointed as the host for the tournament by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 19 April 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland. [2] [3]
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 |
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Northern Ireland | Hosts | 2nd | 2005 (Group stage) | Group stage (2005) |
France | Elite round Group 2 winners | 13th | 2022 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2005, 2010, 2016) |
Turkey | Elite round Group 6 winners | 7th | 2018 (Group stage) | Runners-up (2004) |
Spain | Elite round Group 1 winners | 14th | 2023 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019) |
Ukraine | Elite round Group 7 winners | 6th | 2018 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2009) |
Italy | Elite round Group 5 winners | 10th | 2023 (Champions) | Champions (2003, 2023) |
Norway | Elite round Group 3 winners | 7th | 2023 (Semi-finals) | Semi-finals (2023) |
Denmark | Elite round Group 4 winners | 1st | Debut |
The tournament is hosted in 3 venues. [4]
Belfast | Larne | ||
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Windsor Park | Seaview | Inver Park | |
Capacity: 18,500 | Capacity: 3,383 | Capacity: 3,000 | |
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.
Tie-breaking criteria for group play |
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The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Northern Ireland (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
2 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off |
4 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
2 | Turkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off |
4 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
25 July – | ||||||
28 July – | ||||||
25 July – | ||||||
Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup 1 |
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TBD | July 2024 | |
TBD | July 2024 | |
TBD | July 2024 | |
TBD | July 2024 | |
TBD | July 2024 |
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