UEFA European Under-19 Championship

For the women's competition, see UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.

UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Organising body	UEFA
Founded	1948
Region	Europe
Number of teams	Maximum of 54 (qualifying round) 28 (elite round) 8 (finals)
Current champions	Italy (4th title)
Most successful team(s)	England Spain (11 titles each)
Website	Official website
2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA.

Spain and England are the joint most successful team in this competition, having won eleven titles each. England are also the current champions.

History and format

The competition has been held since 1948. It was originally called the FIFA International Youth Tournament, until it was taken over by UEFA in 1956. In 1980, it was restyled the UEFA European Under-18 Championship. Until the 1997 tournament, players born on or after 1 August the year they turned 19 years were eligible to compete. Since the 1998 tournament, the date limit has been moved back to 1 January. The championship received its current name in 2001, which has been used since the 2002 championship. The contest has been held every year since its inauguration in 1948, except for the period between 1984 and 1992, when it was only held every other year.

The tournament has been played in a number of different formats during its existence. Currently it consists of two stages, similar to UEFA's other European championship competitions. The qualifying stage is open to all UEFA members, and the final stage is contested between eight teams.

During even years, the best finishing teams qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup held in the next (odd) year. Currently, five teams can qualify for the World Cup, consisting of the top two of their groups plus the winner of a play-off match between the third-placed teams of each group.

Number of teams

Year of tournament	Format of the final round	Number of teams
1986–1992	Knockout format	8
1993	Two groups of four teams, third place play-off and final
1994	Two groups of four teams, fifth place play-off, third place play-off and final
1995–2002	Two groups of four teams, third place play-off and final
2003–2015	Two groups of four teams, semi-finals and final
2016–present	Two groups of four teams, fifth place play-off (in even years only, for qualifying to FIFA U-20 World Cup), semi-finals and final

Results

FIFA Youth Tournament (1948–1954)

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1948 details	England	England	3–2	Netherlands	Belgium	3–1	Italy
1949 details	Netherlands	France	4–1	Netherlands	Belgium	5–0	Ireland
1950 details	Austria	Austria	3–2	France	Netherlands	6–0	Luxembourg
1951 details	France	Yugoslavia	3–2	Austria	Belgium	1–0	Northern Ireland
1952 details	Spain	Spain	0–0 (a.e.t.) Spain won on goal average	Belgium	Austria	5–5 Austria won on coin toss	England
1953 details	Belgium	Hungary	2–0	Yugoslavia	Turkey	3–2	Spain
1954 details	West Germany	Spain	2–2 (a.e.t.) Spain won on goal average	West Germany	Argentina	1–0	Turkey

UEFA Youth Tournament (1955–1980)

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1955 Details	Italy	Only group matches were played and no winner was declared.
1956 Details	Hungary	Only group matches were played and no winner was declared.
1957 Details	Spain	Austria	3–2	Spain	France Italy	0–0	Third place was shared
1958 Details	Luxembourg	Italy	1–0	England	France	3–0	Romania
1959 Details	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	1–0	Italy	Hungary	6–1	East Germany
1960 Details	Austria	Hungary	2–1	Romania	Portugal	2–1	Austria
1961 Details	Portugal	Portugal	4–0	Poland	West Germany	2–1	Spain
1962 Details	Romania	Romania	4–1	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	1–1 Czechoslovakia won on coin toss	Turkey
1963 Details	England	England	4–0	Northern Ireland	Scotland	4–2	Bulgaria
1964 Details	Netherlands	England	4–0	Spain	Portugal	3–2	Scotland
1965 Details	West Germany	East Germany	3–2	England	Czechoslovakia	4–1	Italy
1966 Details	Yugoslavia	Italy Soviet Union	0–0	Title was shared	Yugoslavia	2–0	Spain
1967 Details	Turkey	Soviet Union	1–0	England	Turkey	1–1 Turkey won on coin toss	France
1968 Details	France	Czechoslovakia	2–1	France	Portugal	4–2	Bulgaria
1969 Details	East Germany	Bulgaria	1–1 Bulgaria won on coin toss	East Germany	Soviet Union	1–0	Scotland
1970 Details	Scotland	East Germany	1–1 East Germany won on coin toss	Netherlands	Scotland	2–0	France
1971 Details	Czechoslovakia	England	3–0	Portugal	East Germany	1–1 (5–3 p)	Soviet Union
1972 Details	Spain	England	2–0	West Germany	Poland	0–0 (6–5 p)	Spain
1973 Details	Italy	England	3–2 (a.e.t.)	East Germany	Italy	1–0	Bulgaria
1974 Details	Sweden	Bulgaria	1–0	Yugoslavia	Scotland	1–0	Greece
1975 Details	Switzerland	England	1–0 (g.g.)	Finland	Hungary	2–2 (p)	Turkey
1976 Details	Hungary	Soviet Union	1–0	Hungary	Spain	3–0	France
1977 Details	Belgium	Belgium	2–1	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	7–2	West Germany
1978 Details	Poland	Soviet Union	3–0	Yugoslavia	Poland	3–1	Scotland
1979 Details	Austria	Yugoslavia	1–0	Bulgaria	England	0–0 (4–3 p)	France
1980 Details	East Germany	England	2–1	Poland	Italy	3–0	Netherlands

UEFA European Under-18 Championship (1981–2001)

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1981 Details	West Germany	West Germany	1–0	Poland	France	1–1 (2–0 p)	Spain
1982 Details	Finland	Scotland	3–1	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	3–1	Poland
1983 Details	England	France	1–0	Czechoslovakia	England	1–1 (4–2 p)	Italy
1984 Details	Soviet Union	Hungary	0–0 (3–2 p)	Soviet Union	Poland	2–1	Republic of Ireland
1986 Details	Yugoslavia	East Germany	3–1	Italy	West Germany	1–0	Scotland
1988 Details	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	East Germany	2–0	Spain
1990 Details	Hungary	Soviet Union	0–0 (4–2 p)	Portugal	Spain	1–0	England
1992 Details	Germany	Turkey	2–1 (g.g.)	Portugal	Norway	1–1 (8–7 p)	England
1993 Details	England	England	1–0	Turkey	Spain	2–1	Portugal
1994 Details	Spain	Portugal	1–1 (4–1 p)	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.e.t.)	Belgium
1997 Details	Iceland	France	1–0 (g.g.)	Portugal	Spain	2–1	Republic of Ireland
1998 Details	Cyprus	Republic of Ireland	1–1 (4–3 p)	Germany	Croatia	0–0 (5–4 p)	Portugal
1999 Details	Sweden	Portugal	1–0	Italy	Republic of 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	FR Yugoslavia

UEFA European Under-19 Championship (since 2002)

Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists (or third place match)
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
2002 Details	Norway	Spain	1–0	Germany	Slovakia	2–1	Republic of Ireland
2003 Details	Liechtenstein	Italy	2–0	Portugal	Austria and Czech Republic
2004 Details	Switzerland	Spain	1–0	Turkey	Switzerland and Ukraine
2005 Details	Northern Ireland	France	3–1	England	Germany and Serbia and Montenegro
2006 Details	Poland	Spain	2–1	Scotland	Austria and Czech Republic
2007 Details	Austria	Spain	1–0	Greece	France and Germany
2008 Details	Czech Republic	Germany	3–1	Italy	Czech Republic and Hungary
2009 Details	Ukraine	Ukraine	2–0	England	France and Serbia
2010 Details	France	France	2–1	Spain	Croatia and England
2011 Details	Romania	Spain	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Czech Republic	Republic of Ireland and Serbia
2012 Details	Estonia	Spain	1–0	Greece	England and France
2013 Details	Lithuania	Serbia	1–0	France	Portugal and Spain
2014 Details	Hungary	Germany	1–0	Portugal	Austria and Serbia
2015 Details	Greece	Spain	2–0	Russia	France and Greece
2016 Details	Germany	France	4–0	Italy	England and Portugal
2017 Details	Georgia	England	2–1	Portugal	Czech Republic and Netherlands
2018 Details	Finland	Portugal	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Italy	France and Ukraine
2019 Details	Armenia	Spain	2–0	Portugal	France and Republic of Ireland
2020 Details	Northern Ireland	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Details	Romania	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Details	Slovakia	England	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Israel	France and Italy
2023 Details	Malta	Italy	1-0 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	Norway and Spain
2024 Details	Northern Ireland
2025 Details	Romania

Statistics

Performances by countries

UEFA European Youth Championship
Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalists	Total (Top Four)
England	11 (1948, 1963, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1993, 2017, 2022)	5 (1958, 1965, 1967, 2005, 2009)	3 (1979, 1983, 1996)	3	3	25
Spain	11 (1952, 1954, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)	4 (1957, 1964, 1996, 2010)	6	6	1	28
France	8 (1949, 1983, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016)	3 (1950, 1968, 2013)	3	4	7	25
Germany	6 (1965, 1970, 1981, 1986, 2008, 2014)	7 (1954, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1994, 1998, 2002)	5	2	2	22
Russia Soviet Union	6 (1966*, 1967, 1976, 1978, 1988, 1990)	2 (1984, 2015)	3	1		12
Portugal	4 (1961, 1994, 1999, 2018)	10 (1971, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2003, 2014, 2017, 2019,2023)	3	2	2	19
Italy	4 (1958, 1966*, 2003, 2023)	7 (1959, 1986, 1995, 1999, 2008, 2016, 2018)	3	3	1	17
Serbia Yugoslavia	3 (1951, 1979, 2013)	4 (1953, 1962, 1974, 1978)	1	1	4	13
Bulgaria	3 (1959, 1969, 1974)	2 (1977, 1979)		3		8
Hungary	3 (1953, 1960, 1984)	1 (1976)	2		1	7
Austria	2 (1950, 1957)	1 (1951)	1	1	3	8
Czech Republic	1 (1968)	4 (1982, 1983, 2001, 2011)	2	1	4	12
Poland	1 (2001)	3 (1961, 1980, 1981)	3	1		8
Turkey	1 (1992)	2 (1993, 2004)	2	3		8
Scotland	1 (1982)	1 (2006)	3	4		9
Belgium	1 (1977)	1 (1952)	3	1		6
Romania	1 (1962)	1 (1960)		1		3
Ukraine	1 (2009)	1 (2000)			2	4
Republic of Ireland	1 (1998)		1	3	2	7
Netherlands		3 (1948, 1949, 1970)	1	3	1	8
Greece		2 (2007, 2012)	1	2	1	6
Northern Ireland		1 (1963)		2		3
Finland		1 (1975)				1
Israel		1 (2022)				1
Croatia			1		1	2
Slovakia			1			1
Norway			1			1
Luxembourg				1		1
Switzerland					1	1
Total (68th)	68	66	49	48	36	267

Note:
1954 Third place Argentina.
1966 Title Shared between Italy and Soviet Union.
1957 Third place Shared between Italy and France.

Awards

Golden Player Award

For certain tournaments, the official website UEFA.com subsequently named a Golden Player.

European Championship	Golden Player
2002 Norway	Fernando Torres
2003 Liechtenstein	Alberto Aquilani
2004 Switzerland	Juanfran
2005 Northern Ireland	Abdoulaye Baldé
2006 Poland	Alberto Bueno
2007 Austria	Sotiris Ninis
2008 Czech Republic1	Lars Bender Sven Bender
2009 Ukraine	Kyrylo Petrov
2010 France	Gaël Kakuta
2011 Romania	Álex Fernández
2012 Estonia	Gerard Deulofeu
2013 Lithuania	Aleksandar Mitrović
2014 Hungary	Davie Selke
2015 Greece	Marco Asensio
2016 Germany	Jean-Kévin Augustin
2017 Georgia	Mason Mount
2018 Finland	-
2019 Armenia	-
2022 Slovakia	-

Top goalscorer

The Top goalscorer award is awarded to the player who scores the most goals during the tournament.

European Championship	Top goalscorer	Goals
2002 Norway	Fernando Torres	4
2003 Liechtenstein	Paulo Sérgio	5
2004 Switzerland	Ali Öztürk Łukasz Piszczek	4
2005 Northern Ireland	Borko Veselinović	5
2006 Poland	Alberto Bueno İlhan Parlak	5
2007 Austria	Änis Ben-Hatira Kostantinos Mitroglou Kévin Monnet-Paquet	3
2008 Czech Republic	Tomáš Necid	4
2009 Ukraine	Nathan Delfouneso	4
2010 France	Dani Pacheco	4
2011 Romania	Álvaro Morata	6
2012 Estonia	Jesé	5
2013 Lithuania	Gratas Sirgedas Anass Achahbar Alexandre Guedes	3
2014 Hungary	Davie Selke	6
2015 Greece	Borja Mayoral	3
2016 Germany	Jean-Kévin Augustin	6
2017 Georgia	Ben Brereton Ryan Sessegnon Joël Piroe Viktor Gyökeres	3
2018 Finland	Jota Francisco Trincão	5
2019 Armenia	Gonçalo Ramos	4
2022 Slovakia	Loum Tchaouna	4

Comprehensive team results by tournament at the FIFA U-20 World Cup

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• QF – Quarterfinals
• R2 – Round 2
• R1 – Round 1
•      – Hosts
•      – Not affiliated to UEFA
• q – Qualified for upcoming tournament

Team	1977	1979	1981	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019	2023	Total
Austria	R1			R1												4th		R1		R2				5
Belgium											R2													1
Bulgaria					QF	QF																		2
Croatia	Part of Yugoslavia											R2						R1	R2					3
Czech Republic				R1			R1						QF	R1		2nd	R2							6
East Germany						3rd	R1		Reunified with West Germany															2
England			4th		R1			R1	3rd		R2	R1		R1			R1	R2	R1		1st		R2	12
Finland													R1											1
France	R1										QF		QF					4th	1st		R2	R2	R1	8
Germany			1st			2nd			R1	R1		R1	R2	R1	QF		QF			QF	R2			11
Greece																			R2					1
Hungary	R1	R1			R1						R1						3rd			R2				6
Israel																							3rd	1
Italy	R1		R1			QF									QF		QF				3rd	4th	2nd	8
Netherlands				QF			R1			R1			QF		QF									4
Norway							R1		R1													R1		3
Poland		4th	R1	3rd												R2						R2		5
Portugal		QF					1st	1st	R1	3rd		R2				R2		2nd	R2	QF	QF	R1		12
Republic of Ireland					R1			R1			3rd	R2		R2										5
Romania			3rd																					1
Russia	1st	2nd		R1	4th		QF	3rd	QF	QF														8
Scotland				QF		QF										R1								3
Serbia		R1				1st														1st				3
Slovakia	Part of Czechoslovakia													R2									R2	2
Spain	R1	QF	R1		2nd		R1	QF		4th	QF	1st		2nd	QF	QF	R2	QF	QF					15
Sweden								R1																1
Switzerland															R1									1
Turkey									R1						R2				R2					3
Ukraine	Part of Soviet Union												R2		R2					R2		1st		3

See also

• UEFA European Championship
• UEFA European Under-21 Championship
• UEFA European Under-17 Championship

External links

• UEFA European U-19 Championship at uefa.com
• Tournament details at rsssf.com