2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

The 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship will be the 20th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Belgium will host the tournament on 18-30 July.[1] It will be the first women's final tournament to be held in Belgium[2] A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate.

2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryBelgium
Dates18–30 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)

Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as the UEFA representatives.

Spain is the defending champions.

Qualification
Main article: 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Belgium also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams will qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[3]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Method of qualification Appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 BelgiumHosts5th2019 (Group stage)Group stage (2006, 2011, 2014, 2019)
 GermanyRound 2 Group A1 winners18th2022 (Group stage)Champions (2002, 2006, 2007, 2011)
 CzechiaRound 2 Group A2 winners2nd2022 (Group stage)Group stage (2022)
 FranceRound 2 Group A3 winners17th2022 (Semi-finals)Champions (2003, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)
 SpainRound 2 Group A4 winners16th2022 (Champions)Champions (2004, 2017, 2018, 2022)
 IcelandRound 2 Group A5 winners3rd2009 (Group stage)Group stage (2007, 2009)
 AustriaRound 2 Group A6 winners2nd2016 (Group stage)Group stage (2016)
 NetherlandsRound 2 Group A7 winners10th2019 (Semi-finals)Champions (2014)

Final draw

The final draw was held on 26 April 2023, 10:00 CET, at the headquarters of the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) in Tubize, Belgium.[4]

Venues

To be determined.

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).[5]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02):[5]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
  8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Belgium (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Austria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 18 July 2023. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host
Belgium v Netherlands
Germany v Austria
Belgium v Germany
Austria v Netherlands
Austria v Belgium
Netherlands v Germany

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iceland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Czech Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Spain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 18 July 2023. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Iceland v Spain
Czech Republic v France
Iceland v Czech Republic
France v Spain
France v Iceland
Spain v Czech Republic

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[5]

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 
 
 
Winner group A
 
 
 
Runner-up group B
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Winner group B
 
 
Runner-up group A
 

Semi-finals
Winner group AvRunner-up group B
Winner group BvRunner-up group A

Final
Winner semi-final 1vWinner semi-final 2

Goalscorers

References
  1. "2022/23 Women's U19 EURO round 2 draw". UEFA. 7 December 2022.
  2. "Belgium, Lithuania, Belarus to host WU19 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025". UEFA. 19 April 2021.
  3. "2022/23 Women's Under-19 EURO round 1 draw made". UEFA. 31 May 2022.
  4. "2023 Women's U19 EURO finals draw: 26 April". UEFA.com. 26 April 2023.
  5. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship". UEFA.com.
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