U-19 European Football Championship 2017

This article covers the U19 European Championship for men. For the Women's European Championship, see the U-19 Women's European Football Championship 2017 .

U-19 European Football Championship 2017
UEFA Under 19 Championship 2017
Number of nations	8  (of 54 applicants)
European champion	England (2nd title)
venue	Georgia
Opening game	2nd July 2017
Endgame	15th July 2017
Games	15th
Gates	39  (⌀: 2.6 per game)
Top scorer	Ben Brereton (3 goals)
yellow cards	41  (⌀: 2.73 per game)
Yellow-red cards	2  (⌀: 0.13 per game)
Red cards	1  (⌀: 0.07 per game)

The final round of the 33rd U-19 European Championship took place in Georgia from July 2nd to 15th, 2017 . A total of eight teams took part.

According to a decision of the UEFA Executive Committee on May 2, 2016, each team was allowed to make a fourth substitution at this tournament in overtime.

Award

On January 26, 2015, the Executive Committee of the UEFA European Association awarded Georgia the contract to host the 2017 European Under-19 Championship. UEFA announced the decision after an Executive Committee meeting in Nyon . Georgia was the first to host a UEFA youth competition.

qualification

The qualification for the tournament took place in two stages. The first qualifying round was followed by a second round, called the elite round . Georgia was directly qualified to host.

First round

The draw for the first round took place on December 3, 2015 in Nyon . Spain received a bye for the elite round in advance. The remaining 52 participants were divided into 13 groups of four teams. The group first and second as well as the best group third, for whose determination only the games against the first two group counted, reached the elite round in spring 2017. Germany met Ireland in group 4, which played in Albania from October 6th to 11th, 2016 and Gibraltar. Austria had to travel to Lithuania and met Bosnia and Herzegovina and Azerbaijan in Group 5 from October 4 to 9, 2016. Switzerland met Italy and Hungary in Group 7 from November 10th to 15th in Armenia. Both Germany and Austria prevailed as group winners with three wins in three games and qualified for the elite round, but Switzerland had to admit defeat to the Bulgarians (1: 2) after a strong game against Armenia (4: 0) A draw against Italy was only enough for third place, which meant the end.

Elite round

In the elite round, the remaining teams were divided into seven groups of four teams. Each group played a mini-tournament in one country. The seven group winners of the elite round qualify for the final round. The elite round took place from March 22nd to 28th, 2017.

The draw resulted in the following groups (order according to final placement):

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
Netherlands 1	Germany 1	England 1	Portugal 1	Bulgaria	Czech Republic 1	Sweden
Greece	Serbia	Spain	Croatia	Bosnia a. Herzegovina	Hungary	Ireland
Finland	Slovakia	Norway	Turkey	Israel	Austria	Belgium 1
Ukraine	Cyprus	Belarus	Poland	France 1	Scotland	Italy

¹ Host of the group tournament

The German selection of coach Frank Kramer prevailed in group 2 with three wins from three games as group winners and thus qualified for the final round. After a last-minute win in the first game against Cyprus, when the winning goal by Etienne Amenyido only fell in the third minute of stoppage time, there were two sovereign victories against the selections from Serbia (2-0) and Slovakia (4-0) . The selection of Austria played in group 6 against the teams from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Scotland. After a win against the Scottish team (3: 0), two clear defeats against Hungary (1: 3) and the Czech Republic (0: 3) followed. With this record, Austria landed in third place and was therefore unable to qualify for the final round.

Attendees

Host Georgia was automatically seeded for the finals. Thus there were seven more places that were awarded to the seven group winners of the elite round. The full field of participants was determined in March 2017. This was followed by the official draw for the finals of the U-19 Euro 2017.

Georgia (hosts)  Netherlands (winner group 1)  Germany (winner group 2)  England (Group 3 Winner)

Portugal (Winner Group 4)  Bulgaria (Winner Group 5)  Czech Republic (winner group 6)  Sweden (winner group 7)

DFB selection

Trainer: Frank Kramer (born May 3, 1972)

position	Surname	society	birth date
goalkeeper	Eike Bansen	Borussia Dortmund	Feb 21, 1998	3	0	1	0	0
goalkeeper	Markus Schubert	Dynamo Dresden	June 12, 1998	0	0	0	0	0
Defense	Maxime Awoudja	FC Bayern Munich	0Feb. 2, 1998	2	0	0	0	0
Defense	Jonas Busam	Sc freiburg	0May 3, 1998	3	0	0	0	0
Defense	Julian Chabot	Sparta Rotterdam	Feb 12, 1998	2	0	0	0	0
Defense	Dominik Franke	RB Leipzig	0Oct 5, 1998	2	0	0	0	0
midfield	Etienne Amenyido	Borussia Dortmund	01st Mar 1998	3	1	1	0	0
midfield	Ridle Baku	1. FSV Mainz 05	0Apr 8, 1998	2	0	0	0	0
midfield	Aymen Barkok	Eintracht Frankfurt	May 21, 1998	3	1	1	0	0
midfield	Sidney peace	Hertha BSC	Apr 12, 1998	3	1	0	0	0
midfield	Dennis Geiger	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	June 10, 1998	3	0	1	0	0
midfield	Felix Gotze	FC Bayern Munich	Feb 11, 1998	1	0	0	0	0
midfield	Gökhan Gül	Fortuna Dusseldorf	July 17, 1998	3	1	1	0	0
midfield	Robin Hack	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Aug 27, 1998	3	0	0	0	0
midfield	David room	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Apr 22, 1998	3	0	0	0	0
midfield	Gorkem Sağlam	VfL Bochum	Apr 11, 1998	3	0	1	0	0
attack	Mats Koehler	Hamburger SV	0May 2, 1998	1	0	0	0	0
attack	Tobias Warschewski	Prussia Munster	0Feb 6, 1998	2	1	0	0	0

Venues

4 stadiums in the cities of Tbilisi , Gori , Rustavi and Mtskheta have been named as provisional venues . Before the final round it was announced that the cities of Rustavi and Mtskheta would not be playing. Instead, two more stadiums in Tbilisi were added to the schedule, including the training ground of the Micheil-Meschi-Stadion .

Tbilisi			Gori	Tbilisi Gori Venues of the U-19 European Championship 2017 in Georgia
Micheil Meschi Stadium	Micheil Meschi Stadium 2	David Petriashvili Stadium	Tengis Burjanadze Stadium
Capacity: 24,600	Capacity: 2,000	Capacity: 2,200	Capacity: 4,259

Preliminary round

mode

The preliminary round was held in two groups of four teams each. The two group winners and runners-up qualified for the semifinals.

If two or more teams in the same group showed the same number of points at the end of the group matches, the placement was determined according to the following criteria in this order:

a. higher number of points from direct encounters between the teams in question;

b. better goal difference from the direct encounters between the teams in question;

c. higher number of goals scored from direct encounters between the teams in question;

d. if, after applying criteria a) to c), several teams still have the same rank, criteria a) to c) are reapplied, but only to the matches between the teams in question, in order to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria e) to h) are applied;

e. better goal difference from all group games;

f. higher number of goals scored from all group games;

G. lower total number of penalty points based on the yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion after two yellow cards in one game = 3 points);

H. Drawing of lots.

If two teams met in the final group match with the same number of points, goal difference and number of goals, and the game in question ended in a draw, the final placement of the two teams will be determined by penalty shoot-out, provided that no other team in the same group has reached the end all group matches have achieved the same number of points. If more than two teams had the same number of points, the criteria above were applied.

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	1	0	005: 300	+2	07th
2.	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	005: 300	+2	06th
3.	Georgia	3	1	0	2	002: 400	−2	03
4th	Sweden	3	0	1	2	004: 600	−2	01

July 2, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. CEST ) in Tbilisi (Micheil-Meschi-Stadion 2)
Sweden	-	Czech Republic	1: 2 (0: 1)
July 2, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Gori
Georgia	-	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 0)
July 5, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Micheil Meschi Stadium)
Georgia	-	Sweden	2: 1 (2: 0)
July 5, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Dawid Petriaschwili Stadium)
Czech Republic	-	Portugal	1: 2 (1: 1)
July 8, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Micheil Meschi Stadium)
Czech Republic	-	Georgia	2: 0 (1: 0)
July 8, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Gori
Portugal	-	Sweden	2: 2 (0: 1)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	3	3	0	0	007: 100	+6	09
2.	Netherlands	3	1	1	1	005: 300	+2	04th
3.	Germany	3	1	0	2	005: 800	−3	03
4th	Bulgaria	3	0	1	2	001: 600	−5	01

July 3, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. CEST ) in Tbilisi (Micheil Meschi Stadium)
Bulgaria	-	England	0: 2 (0: 1)
July 3, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Dawid Petriaschwili Stadium)
Germany	-	Netherlands	1: 4 (0: 0)
July 6, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Micheil-Meschi-Stadion 2)
England	-	Netherlands	1: 0 (0: 0)
July 6, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Gori
Germany	-	Bulgaria	3: 0 (2: 0)
July 9, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Dawid Petriaschwili Stadium)
England	-	Germany	4: 1 (0: 0)
July 9, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Gori
Netherlands	-	Bulgaria	1: 1 (0: 0)

Final round

Semifinals

July 12, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. CEST ) in Tbilisi (Dawid Petriaschwili Stadium)
Portugal	-	Netherlands	1: 0 (1: 0)
July 12, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Tbilisi (Micheil Meschi Stadium)
England	-	Czech Republic	1: 0 (0: 0)

final

Portugal		England
	final July 15, 2017, 8 p.m. (6 p.m. CEST ) in Gori ( Tengis Burjanadze Stadium ) Result: 1: 2 (0: 0) Referee: Srđan Jovanović ( Serbia )   Match report
	Diogo Costa - Diogo Dalot , Diogo Queirós , João Queirós , Abdu Conte (78th Madi Queta ) - Gedson Fernandes , Rui Pires , Domingos Quina - Mesaque Dju (75th Miguel Luís ), Rui Pedro , João Filipe (56th Rafael Leão ) Coach: Hélio Sousa	Aaron Ramsdale - Dujon Sterling , Darnell Johnson , Easah Suliman , Jay DaSilva - Isaac Buckley-Ricketts (84th Marcus Edwards ), Andre Dozzell (77th Joshua Da Silva ), Mason Mount , Tayo Edun , Ryan Sessegnon - Lukas Nmecha (73rd Ben Brereton ) Trainer: Keith Downing
	1: 1 Dujon Sterling (56th, ET)	0: 1 Easah Suliman (50.) 1: 2 Lukas Nmecha (68.)
	Pires (67.)	Edun (54th), Ramsdale (90th + 1 ')
		Edun (86.)

Best goal scorers

Listed below are the top scorers in the final round. The sorting takes place according to the number of goals scored, if the number of hits is the same, the templates and then the game minutes are decisive.

rank	player	Gates	templates	Game minutes
01	Ben Brereton	3	1	263
02	Joël Piroe	3	0	098
03	Viktor Gyökeres	3	0	270
04th	Ryan Sessegnon	3	0	435
05	Luke Nmecha	2	0	187
06th	Daniel Turyna	2	0	253
07th	Rui Pedro	2	0	360
08th	Mason Mount	1	4th	437
09	Sidney peace	1	2	270
10	Libor Holík	1	2	360
	...	...	...	...
12	Etienne Amenyido	1	1	256
14th	Tobias Warschewski	1	0	037
21st	Aymen Barkok	1	0	228
23	Gökhan Gül	1	0	260

Team of the tournament

goalkeeper	Defense	midfield	striker	Best player
Justin Bijlow Diogo Costa	Dujon Sterling Diogo Dalot Diogo Queirós Abdu Conté Alex Král	Tayo Edun Rui Pires Giorgi Kutsia Mason Mount Ondřej Šašinka	Javairo Dilrosun Mesaque Dju Ryan Sessegnon Giorgi Tschakwetadze Rui Pedro Viktor Gyökeres	Mason Mount

referee

The UEFA nominated for the final round six referees from six countries, who were supported by eight assistants. There were no permanent teams of referees and assistants. Two further referees, who were used as fourth officials, completed the field of referees for the final round.

referee	Assistants	Fourth official
Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen	Ihor Alyokhin	Giorgi Qruashvili
Davide Massa	Balázs Buzás	Giorgi Vadachkoria
Ola Hobber Nilsen	Daniel Da Costa
Sergei Lapochkin	Juryy Khomchanka
Srđan Jovanović	Silver Kõiv
Ali Palabıyık	Thibaud Nijssen
	Denis Rexha
	Graeme Stewart

Television broadcast

The sports broadcaster Eurosport has secured the transmission rights for the U-19 finals. In the main program on Eurosport 1, six group games, including the three games with the participation of the German team, as well as a semi-final were broadcast. The second semi-final was also broadcast on Eurosport 2.

Web links

• Official website of UEFA for Euro 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee. In: uefa.com. UEFA , May 2, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ U19 EURO to Georgia and Finland. In: uefa.com. UEFA , January 15, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Draw for the U19 European Championship 2016/17. In: uefa.com. UEFA, December 3, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Game location guide: Georgia 2017. In: uefa.com. UEFA , June 21, 2017, accessed July 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Statistics. In: uefa.com. UEFA , July 2, 2017, accessed July 5, 2017 . 
6. ^ The UEFA technical team - Team of the Tournament . In: uefa.com . Retrieved October 28, 2017.
7. ↑ UEFA program booklet for the final round. In: uefa.com. UEFA, accessed June 29, 2017 .  (PDF, page 42.)
8. ^ U19 finals: schedule and TV broadcasts. In: uefa.com. UEFA, April 24, 2017, accessed April 25, 2017 .