U-19 European Football Championship 2019

This article is about the men's championship. For the Women's European Championship, see U-19 Women's European Football Championship 2019 .

U-19 European Football Championship 2019
UEFA Under 19 Championship 2019 (English) Եվրոպայի մինչև 19 տարեկանների 2019 թվականի առաջնության (Armenian)
Number of nations	8  (of 55 applicants)
European champion	Spain (9th title)
venue	Armenia
Opening game	14th July 2019
Endgame	July 27, 2019
Games	15th
Gates	37  (⌀: 2.47 per game)
spectator	52,180  (⌀: 3,479 per game)
Top scorer	Gonçalo Ramos (4 goals)

The finals of the 35th U-19 European Championship took place in Armenia from July 14 to 27, 2019 . A total of eight teams took part, the Spanish team won .

Award

The Executive Committee of the UEFA European Association has awarded Armenia for the first time to host the European Under-19 Championship.

qualification

The qualification for the tournament took place in two stages. The first qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2018, was followed by a second round, called the elite round , which was held in spring 2019. Armenia is directly qualified as a host.

First round

The draw for the first round took place on December 6, 2017 in Nyon . Germany as the second best and Portugal as the team with the highest points in the three-year ranking as well as the reigning European champions each 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 reached the elite round in spring 2019. Austria failed in group 7 against group first Hungary and group second Slovenia, Liechtenstein was eliminated without a point in group 1 against Israel, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Elite round

The draw for the elite round took place on December 6, 2017 in Nyon . 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 qualified for the final round. The elite round took place from March 20-26, 2019. In Group 3, which played in Croatia, Germany met Hungary and Norway alongside the hosts, but only finished second and therefore could not qualify for the finals. Switzerland played in group 5 against hosts France as well as Israel and Poland and finished bottom of the group, Belgium competed in elite group 7 against hosts Italy, Ukraine and Serbia and could not qualify either.

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
Ireland	Czech Republic	Norway	Spain	France 1	Portugal 1	Italy 1
Romania	Greece	Germany	Netherlands 1	Israel	Scotland	Ukraine
Russia 1	England 1	Croatia 1	Slovenia	Poland	Turkey	Belgium
Azerbaijan	Denmark	Hungary	Wales	Switzerland	Cyprus	Serbia

¹ Host of the group tournament

Attendees

Hosts Armenia are automatically selected to head Group A for the finals. The other seven places went to the seven group winners of the elite round, which was played until March 26, 2019. The final round draw will take place after the elite qualifying round has been completed.

•  Armenia
•  France
•  Ireland
•  Italy
•  Norway
•  Portugal
•  Spain
•  Czech Republic

Venues

Three stadiums were named as venues. All venues are located in the Armenian capital Yerevan .

Venues of the U-19 European Championship 2019 in Armenia
Yerevan			Yerevan Location of the venues
Republican Stadium	Banants Stadium	FFA Academy Stadium
Capacity: 14,572	Capacity: 4,860	Capacity: 1,500

Preliminary round

mode

The preliminary round is held in two groups of four teams each. The two group winners and runners-up qualify for the semi-finals.

If two or more teams in the same group have the same number of points at the end of the group matches, the placement is 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 a distinction was made after applying criteria a) to c), but several teams are still tied, criteria a) to c) are reapplied to the direct encounters between the teams in question. 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. Penalty shoot-out after the last match, if the two teams are tied on the pitch according to the previous criteria and no other team has the same number of points after the end of the last game;

H. 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);

i. UEFA coefficient at the qualifying draw;

j. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	1	0	008: 100	+7	07th
2.	Spain	3	2	1	0	007: 300	+4	07th
3.	Italy	3	1	0	2	005: 500	± 0	03
4th	Armenia	3	0	0	3	001:120	−11	00

Sun., July 14, 2019 at 6:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Republican Stadium)
Armenia	-	Spain	1: 4 (0: 1)
Sun., July 14, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Banants Stadium)
Italy	-	Portugal	0: 3 (0: 1)
Wed., July 17, 2019 at 6:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Banants Stadium)
Portugal	-	Spain	1: 1 (0: 1)
Wed., July 17, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Republican Stadium)
Armenia	-	Italy	0: 4 (0: 2)
Sat, July 20, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Republican Stadium)
Portugal	-	Armenia	4: 0 (1: 0)
Sat., July 20, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (FFA Academy Stadium)
Spain	-	Italy	2: 1 (0: 1)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	3	3	0	0	005-000	+5	09
2.	Ireland	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
3.	Norway	3	0	2	1	001: 200	−1	02
4th	Czech Republic	3	0	1	2	001: 500	−4	01

Mon., July 15, 2019 at 6:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (FFA Academy Stadium)
Norway	-	Ireland	1: 1 (1: 0)
Mon., July 15, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Republican Stadium)
Czech Republic	-	France	0: 3 (0: 1)
Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 6:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (FFA Academy Stadium)
Czech Republic	-	Norway	0-0
Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Banants Stadium)
Ireland	-	France	0: 1 (0: 0)
Sun., July 21, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Banants Stadium)
France	-	Norway	1: 0 (0: 0)
Sun., July 21, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (FFA Academy Stadium)
Ireland	-	Czech Republic	2: 1 (1: 0)

Final round

Semifinals

The exact allocation of the semi-finals to the venue and time took place after the end of the group stage.

Wednesday, July 24th at 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Banants Stadium)
Portugal	-	Ireland	4: 0 (2: 0)
Wednesday, July 24 at 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan (Republican Stadium)
France	-	Spain	0: 0, 3: 4 i. E.

final

Portugal		Spain
	final Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. CEST) in Yerevan , Wasken Sarkissjan Republican Stadium Result: 0: 2 (0: 1) Spectators: 7,150 Referee: Irfan Peljto ( Bosnia and Herzegovina )   Match report
	Celton Biai - Costinha, Gonçalo Loureiro, Gonçalo Cardoso, Tomás Tavares - Vitor Ferreira (64th Samuel Costa), Diogo Capitão, Fábio Vieira (75th Daniel Silva) - João Mário (57th Tiago Gouveia), Gonçalo Ramos, Félix Correia ( 76. António Gomes) Coach: Filipe Ramos	Arnau Tenas - Victor Gómez, Eric García , Hugo Guillamón, Juan Miranda - Moha (87th Víctor Mollejo), Antonio Blanco, Sergio Gómez (80th Ander Barrenetxea) - Ferrán Torres (90th Víctor Chust), Abel Ruiz (90th Alejandro Marqués), Bryan Gil (80th Jandro Orellana) Coach: Santi Denia
		0: 1 Ferrán Torres (34.) 0: 2 Ferrán Torres (51.)
	Gonçalo Ramos (77th), Tomás Tavares (86th), Gonçalo Loureiro (90th +3 ')

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	Gonçalo Ramos	4th		268
02	Vitor Ferreira	2	1	378
03	Ferrán Torres	2	1	480
04th	Davide Merola	2		160
05	Juan Miranda	2		471

Team of the tournament

On July 30, 2019, the team of the tournament was published. The tournament winner Spain is represented by six players.

goalkeeper	Defense	midfield	striker	Best player
Arnau Tenas	Víctor Gómez Eric García Oumar Solet Juan Miranda	Maxence Caqueret Antonio Blanco Fábio Vieira	Ferrán Torres Jonathan Afolabi Félix Correia

referee

UEFA nominated a total of 6 referees and 8 assistant referees for the tournament . No fixed teams were nominated, but referees and assistants were only assigned to one another during the course of the tournament. In addition, two referees from the host country were used as fourth officials.

referee	Assistants	Fourth official
Anastasios Papapetrou	Theodoros Georgiou	Suras Balijan
Irfan Peljto	Sagy Metzamber	Sawen Howhannisjan
Kristo Tohver	Aleksandr Radiuš
Filip Glova	Luke Portelli
Nikola Dabanović	David Golis
Sergei Ivanov	Valentin Avram
	Gregor Kordež
	Stéphane De Almeida

Web links

• Official website of UEFA for the European Championship 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ # U19EURO finals in Armenia: All information , de.uefa.com, accessed on March 23, 2019
2. ↑ U19 qualifying round 2018/19 drawn , de.uefa.com, accessed on March 23, 2019
3. ↑ U19 elite round drawn , de.uefa.com, accessed on March 23, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 2019 # U19EURO finals in Armenia: all you need to know. In: uefa.com. UEFA , accessed June 12, 2019 . 
5. ↑ 2019 Under-19 EURO finals schedule. In: uefa.com. UEFA , June 7, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 . 
6. ↑ U19 EURO: Team of the tournament. In: uefa.com. UEFA , July 30, 2019, accessed August 27, 2019 .