U-19 European Football Championship

This article describes the European Under-19 Football Championships for men ; on the U-19 European Championship for women see U-19 European Football Championship for women ; For further European football championships, see European football championship (explanation of terms) .

U-19 European Football Championship
abbreviation	U-19 European Championship
Association	UEFA
First edition	1981 (U-18)
Teams	8th
Game mode	Round tournament (2 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system (from semi-finals)
Title holder	Spain (9th title)
Record winner	Spain (9 wins)
Website	www.uefa.com
Qualification for	U-20 World Championship

The UEFA U-19 European Football Championship ( UEFA UNDER19 Championship ), also known as the U-19 European Championship for short, is a competition for European national teams for men under 19 years of age. The competition, which is organized by UEFA , has been played in the form of a tournament since 1981 . The competition also serves as a qualification for the U-20 World Cup every two years.

Story and mode

Since 1948, FIFA (from 1955 UEFA ) held an international tournament for youth national teams . Players who had not yet reached the age of 19 were eligible to participate. In 1981 the tournament was named "Junior European Championship".

The tournament was held annually from 1981 to 1984, every two years from 1986 to 1992, and every year from 1993. The organizer was always automatically qualified. 16 U-18 national teams took part in the first tournaments. The four group winners then played a semi-final and a final, the losers of the semi-final in the game for third place. From 1986 the tournament was played with eight teams, up to and including 1992 in a pure knockout system, then initially with two groups of four teams, then followed Game for 3rd place of the group runners-up and the final of the group winners. Since 2003 there have been additional semi-finals, but no more game for 3rd place. In 1994 and 2016, 5th place was also played, which entitles them to participate in the 1995 and 2017 U-20 World Cup .

In the even years, the championship also serves as a qualification for the U-20 World Cup (until 2005: FIFA Junior World Cup), with the best six teams qualifying as a rule (exceptions: five in 1995, seven in 1999, 2005 and In 2013 the Netherlands and Turkey were also qualified as hosts and thus the seventh European team).

First participations

Until 1984 there was always at least one national soccer team that took part in a U-18 European soccer championship final for the first time. The highest number of first-time participants was reached in 1981 with the first edition. Below is a list of the first-time participants, each with the flags and names valid at the time. In addition, countries are listed in brackets that only took part in a European Championship under a new name for the first time. Even so, these countries are sometimes cited as newcomers in the media. However, these “newcomers” completely adopted the results and titles of their predecessors in UEFA's statistics - and accordingly their debut date. A special case are the Czech Republic and Slovakia, both of which are considered to be the successors of Czechoslovakia at UEFA and both of which took over their titles.

• Teams in bold won the tournament when they first entered a final tournament.
• Teams in italics were the hosts when they first entered a final tournament.

year	First time participant
1981	Belgium	Bulgaria	Denmark	BR Germany
	England	France	Greece	Italy
	Austria	Poland	Romania	Scotland
	Sweden	Spain	Czechoslovakia	Wales
1982	Albania	Finland	Ireland	Netherlands
	Portugal	Soviet Union	Turkey	Hungary
1983	Yugoslavia
1984	GDR	Luxembourg	Switzerland
1986	no first-time participants
1988	Norway
1990	no first-time participants
1992	( CIS )
1993	no first-time participants
1994	Belarus
1995	( Slovakia )
1996	no first-time participants
1997	Iceland	Israel
1998	Croatia	Lithuania	Cyprus
1999	Georgia
2000	( Russia )	( Czech Republic )	Ukraine
2001	( Federal Republic of Yugoslavia )
2002	no first-time participants
2003	Liechtenstein
2004	no first-time participants
2005	Armenia	Northern Ireland	( Serbia & Montenegro )
2006	no first-time participants
2007	( Serbia )
2008	no first-time participants
2009	Slovenia
2010	no first-time participants
2011	no first-time participants
2012	Estonia
2013	no first-time participants
2014	no first-time participants
2015	no first-time participants
2016	no first-time participants
2017	no first-time participants
2018	no first-time participants
2019	no first-time participants

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Both the Czech Republic (“debut” under this name in 2000) and Slovakia (“debut” under this name in 1995) are UEFA's successors to Czechoslovakia (debut in 1981, final participation in 1988). As a result, the results for Czechoslovakia are attributed to both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Therefore, the year 1986 is considered to be the debut in a U18 / 19 European Championship for both countries.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Russia is regarded by FIFA as the successor to the Soviet Union (debut in 1982, last participation in the final round in 1990 as the Soviet Union, 1992 as the CIS). The results of the Soviet Union and the CIS are included in the statistics of Russia. The year 1982 is therefore considered to be Russia's debut in a final round. Russia was able to qualify for the final round for the first time in 2000 under its own name .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} UEFA sees Serbia as the successor to the following “three countries”: 1.) Yugoslavia (debut 1983), 2.) Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the rest of Yugoslavia (“debut” 2001 under the name of Yugoslavia ) and 3 .) Serbia and Montenegro (new name of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) (“Debut” 2005 under the name Serbia and Montenegro ). The results of all these teams will be allocated to Serbia in UEFA statistics. As a debut of Serbia thus applies the year 1982. Under his own name could Serbia for the first time in 2007 to qualify for the final round.
4. ↑ Belarus took part in the tournaments from 1982 to 1992 as part of the USSR and the CIS.
5. ↑ Croatia was part of Yugoslavia until 1991. The successes of the Yugoslav team were initially attributed to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , then Serbia and Montenegro and now Serbia.
6. ↑ Lithuania took part in the tournaments from 1982 to 1990 as part of the USSR.
7. ↑ Georgia took part in the tournaments from 1982 to 1992 as part of the USSR and CIS.
8. ↑ As part of the USSR or CIS, Ukraine took part in the tournaments from 1982 to 1992.
9. ↑ As part of the USSR, Armenia took part in the tournaments from 1982 to 1990.
10. ↑ Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia until 1991.
11. ↑ As part of the USSR, Estonia took part in the tournaments from 1982 to 1990.

The tournaments at a glance

U-18 European Championship
year	host	final			Game for third place / semi-finalists 1
		winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
1981 details	BR Germany	BR Germany	1-0	Poland	France	1: 1 n.v. 2: 0 in E.	Spain
1982 details	Finland	Scotland	3: 1	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	2: 1	Poland
1983 details	England	France	1-0	Czechoslovakia	England	1: 1 a.d. 4: 2 i. E.	Italy
1984 details	Soviet Union	Hungary	0: 0 n.v. 3: 2 i. E.	Soviet Union	Poland	2: 1	Ireland
1986 details	Yugoslavia	GDR	3: 1	Italy	BR Germany	1-0	Scotland
1988 details	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	3: 1	Portugal	GDR	2-0	Spain
1990 details	Hungary	Soviet Union	0: 0 n.v. 4: 2 i. E.	Portugal	Spain	6-0	England
1992 details	Germany	Turkey	2: 1 a.d.	Portugal	Norway	1: 1 a.d. 8: 7 i. E.	England
1993 details	England	England	1-0	Turkey	Spain	2: 1	Portugal
1994 details	Spain	Portugal	1: 1 n.v. 4: 1 i. E.	Germany	Spain	5: 2	Netherlands
1995 details	Greece	Spain	4: 1	Italy	Greece	5-0	Netherlands
1996 details	France	France	1-0	Spain	England	3: 2 a.d.	Belgium
1997 details	Iceland	France	1: 0 according to GG	Portugal	Spain	2: 1	Ireland
1998 details	Cyprus	Ireland	1: 1 n.V. 4: 3 i. E.	Germany	Croatia	0: 0 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	Portugal
1999 details	Sweden	Portugal	1-0	Italy	Ireland	1-0	Greece
2000 details	Germany	France	1-0	Ukraine	Germany	3: 1	Czech Republic
2001 details	Finland	Poland	3: 1	Czech Republic	Spain	6: 2	BR Yugoslavia
U-19 European Championship
2002 details	Norway	Spain	1-0	Germany	Slovakia	2: 1	Ireland
2003 details	Liechtenstein	Italy	2-0	Portugal	Czech Republic Austria
2004 details	Switzerland	Spain	1-0	Turkey	Ukraine Switzerland
2005 details	Northern Ireland	France	3: 1	England	Germany Serbia and Montenegro
2006 details	Poland	Spain	2: 1	Scotland	Austria Czech Republic
2007 details	Austria	Spain	1-0	Greece	France Germany
2008 details	Czech Republic	Germany	3: 1	Italy	Czech Republic Hungary
2009 details	Ukraine	Ukraine	2-0	England	Serbia France
2010 details	France	France	2: 1	Spain	Croatia England
2011 details	Romania	Spain	3: 2 a.d.	Czech Republic	Ireland Serbia
2012 details	Estonia	Spain	1-0	Greece	France England
2013 details	Lithuania	Serbia	1-0	France	Portugal Spain
2014 details	Hungary	Germany	1-0	Portugal	Austria Serbia
2015 details	Greece	Spain	2-0	Russia	France Greece
2016 details	Germany	France	4-0	Italy	Portugal England
2017 details	Georgia	England	2: 1	Portugal	Czech Republic Netherlands
2018 details	Finland	Portugal	4: 3 a.d.	Italy	France Ukraine
2019 details	Armenia	Spain	2-0	Portugal	France Ireland
2020 details	Northern Ireland		:
2021 details	Romania		:
2022 details	Slovakia		:

¹Since 2003 there has been no match for third place. Of the semi-finalists listed, the first named was defeated by the eventual European champion, the second named to the other finalist.

Leaderboards

Ranking of the U-18 / U-19 European champions

rank	country	title	Year (s)
1	Spain	9	1995, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019
2	France	7th	1983, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016
3	Germany	3	1981, 2008, 2014
	Portugal	3	1994, 1999, 2018
5	England	2	1993, 2017
	Soviet Union	2	1988, 1990
7th	GDR	1	1986
	Ireland	1	1998
	Italy	1	2003
	Poland	1	2001
	Serbia	1	2013
	Scotland	1	1982
	Turkey	1	1992
	Ukraine	1	2009
	Hungary	1	1984

Ranking list of final round participation

As of July 27, 2019

rank	nation	Final round participation	First participation in the finals
1	France	26th	1981
2	Portugal	21st	1982
3	Germany  4)	19th	1981
4th	Spain	17th	1981
5	England	16	1981
6th	Italy	14th	1981
7th	Czech Republic  1)	13	1981
8th	Belgium	11	1981
	Ireland	11	1982
10	Hungary	10	1982
	Russia  2)	10	1982
	Greece	10	1981
	Netherlands	10	1982
	Turkey	10	1982
15th	Serbia  3)	9	1983
16	Austria	8th	1981
	Norway	8th	1988
18th	Poland	7th	1981
	Bulgaria	7th	1981
20th	Scotland	6th	1981
	Ukraine	6th	2000
22nd	Sweden	5	1981
	Romania	5	1981
	Croatia	5	1998
	Finland	5	1982
26th	Denmark	4th	1981
27	GDR	3	1984
	Switzerland	3	1984
29	Georgia	2	1999
	Lithuania	2	1998
	Slovakia	2	1995
	Israel	2	1997
	Armenia	2	2005
34	Wales	1	1981
	Albania	1	1982
	Luxembourg	1	1984
	Belarus	1	1994
	Iceland	1	1997
	Cyprus	1	1998
	Liechtenstein	1	2003
	Northern Ireland	1	2005
	Slovenia	1	2009
	Estonia	1	2012

Remarks:

1) including Czechoslovakia 

2) including the Soviet Union and the CIS  

3) including SFR Yugoslavia , FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro   

4) including GDR 

Top scorer / awards

Top scorer (U-19 only) year player Gates 2002  Fernando Torres 4th 2003  Paulo Sérgio 5 2004  Ali Öztürk Łukasz Piszczek   4th 2005  Borko Veselinović 5 2006  Alberto Bueno İlhan Parlak   5 2007  Änis Ben-Hatira Konstantinos Mitroglou   3 2008  Tomáš Necid 4th 2009  Nathan Delfouneso 4th 2010  Dani Pacheco 4th 2011  Álvaro Morata 6th 2012  Jesé 5 2013  Anass Achahbar Alexandre Guedes Gratas Sirgėdas     3 2014  Davie Selke 6th 2015  Borja Mayoral 3 2016  Jean-Kévin Augustin 6th 2017  Ben Brereton 3 2018  Iota 5 2019  Gonçalo Ramos 4th Record mark

Since 2002 the “Golden Player” has been named for every tournament on uefa.com . The previous winners are: year player 2002  Fernando Torres 2003  Alberto Aquilani 2004  Juanfran Torres 2005  Abdoulaye Baldé (soccer player) 2006  Alberto Bueno 2007  Sotirios Ninis 2008  Lars & Sven Bender 2009  Kyrylo Petrov 2010  Gaël Kakuta 2011  Álex Fernández 2012  Gerard Deulofeu 2013  Aleksandar Mitrovic 2014  Davie Selke 2015  Marco Asensio 2016  Jean-Kévin Augustin 2017  Mason Mount 2018 k. A. 2019 k. A. Player also European champion

Varia

competition	places	Stages	Messages 1	Teams	Games		⌀	spectator	viewers ⌀		⌀		⌀		⌀
1981	28	28	32	16	28	72	2.57
1982	19th	19th	32	16	28	75	2.67
1983	19th	19th	33	16	28	66	2.36
1984	4th	6th	32	16	28	69	2.46
1986	6th	6th	32	8th	10 2	22nd	2.20
1988	4th	4th	32	8th	10 2	26th	2.60
1990	5	5	32	8th	10 2	30th	3.00
1992	10	10	32	8th	10 2	38	3.80
1993	7th	7th	33	8th	14th	39	2.79
1994	6th	6th	42	8th	15 2	55	3.67
1995	6th	6th	45	8th	14th	56	4.00
1996	7th	7th	46	8th	14th	30th	2.14
1997	6th	6th	47	8th	14th	32	2.29
1998	4th	6th	50	8th	14th	45	3.21
1999	5	5	51	8th	14th	33	2.36
2000	14th	14th	51	8th	14th	35	2.50
2001	4th	4th	51	8th	14th	59	4.21
2002	7th	7th	51	8th	14th	49	3.50
2003	5	5	51	8th	15th	54	3.60
2004	5	5	52	8th	15th	45	3.00
2005	4th	5	52	8th	15th	46	3.07
2006	6th	6th	52	8th	15th	63	4.20
2007	4th	4th	52	8th	15th	42	2.80
2008	6th	6th	52	8th	15th	37	2.47
2009	2	4th	52	8th	15th	38	2.53
2010	5	5	52	8th	15th	45	3.00			60	4.00	0	0.00	4th	0.27
2011	4th	4th	52	8th	15th	46	3.07			68	4.53	0	0.00	2	0.13
2012	3	4th	52	8th	15th	49	3.27	46,022	3,068	58	3.87	1	0.07	3	0.20
2013	3	3	52	8th	15th	47	3.13	56,169	3,745	69	4.60	1	0.07	1	0.07
2014	4th	4th	54	8th	15th	41	2.73	32.106	2.140	56	3.73	0	0.00	1	0.07
2015	3	3	54	8th	15th	36	2.40	70,612	4,707	42	2.80	3	0.20	2	0.13
2016	9	10	54	8th	15th	55	3.44	165,529	10,346	64	4.00	0	0.00	1	0.06
2017	2	4th	54	8th	15th	39	2.60	53,707	3,580	41	2.73	2	0.13	1	0.06
2018	2	2	55	8th	16 2	58	3.63	37,063	2,316	59	3.39	1	0.06	2	0.13
2019	1	3	55	8th	15th	37	2.47	52,180	3,479
Respective record

¹The reports submitted on time are counted regardless of whether they were withdrawn or not started before the start of the qualification; including host.

²Including the playoffs for participation in the U-20 World Cup .