The 2025 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Futsal Euro 2025) will be the fourth edition of the UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship, the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe.[1] The tournament will be hosted at the Chișinău Arena, Moldova from 28 September to 5 October 2025.[1] A total of eight will participate in the final tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2006 being eligible to participate.[2]
A total of 36 teams are participating, with 35 competing for a spot alongside hosts Moldova[1] in the finals. The 25 nations with the highest rankings, including Portugal, Spain, and 2023 semi-finalists Slovenia and Ukraine, will enter directly into the main round between 25 and 30 March. The other ten teams will compete in the preliminary round between 21 and 26 January 2025, aiming to secure the final three spots in the main round.
The qualifying draw was held on 31 October 2024.[3]
Each national team have to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.
Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.
Tiebreakers
In the group stage, teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 18.01 and 18.02):[2]
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
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