2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

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2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Northern Ireland
Dates15–28 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)3 (in 2 host cities)
2023
2025

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.

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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]

Host selection

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]

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

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

TeamMethod of qualificationAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
Ulster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland Hosts2nd 2005 (Group stage)Group stage (2005)
Flag of France.svg  France Elite round Group 2 winners13th 2022 (Semi-finals)Champions (2005, 2010, 2016)
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Elite round Group 6 winners7th 2018 (Group stage)Runners-up (2004)
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Elite round Group 1 winners14th 2023 (Semi-finals)Champions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Elite round Group 7 winners6th 2018 (Semi-finals)Champions (2009)
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Elite round Group 5 winners10th 2023 (Champions)Champions (2003, 2023)
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Elite round Group 3 winners7th 2023 (Semi-finals)Semi-finals (2023)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Elite round Group 4 winners1stDebut

Venues

The tournament is hosted in 3 venues. [4]

Belfast Larne
Windsor Park Seaview Inver Park
Capacity: 18,500Capacity: 3,383Capacity: 3,000
Windsor Park redevelopment .jpg Crusaders mural.JPG Inver Park, Larne (1) - geograph.org.uk - 2314259.jpg

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Ulster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland (H)00000000 Knockout stage and
2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 00000000
3Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 00000000 FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 00000000
First match(es) will be played: 15 July 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Northern Ireland  Ulster Banner.svgvFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Italy  Flag of Italy.svgvFlag of Norway.svg  Norway

Northern Ireland  Ulster Banner.svgvFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Norway  Flag of Norway.svgvFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine

Norway  Flag of Norway.svgvUlster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland
Ukraine  Flag of Ukraine.svgvFlag of Italy.svg  Italy

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 00000000 Knockout stage and
2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 00000000
3Flag of France.svg  France 00000000 FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 00000000
First match(es) will be played: 16 July 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Denmark  Flag of Denmark.svgvFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
France  Flag of France.svgvFlag of Turkey.svg  Turkey

Denmark  Flag of Denmark.svgvFlag of France.svg  France
Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svgvFlag of Spain.svg  Spain

Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svgvFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Spain  Flag of Spain.svgvFlag of France.svg  France

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finals Final
 
      
 
25 July –
 
 
 
 
28 July –
 
 
 
 
 
25 July –
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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Semi-finals

v

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Final

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Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup 1
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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