# 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2024) was the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (71st edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland hosted the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the UEFA representatives.
Italy were the defending champions, having beaten Portugal 1–0 in the 2023 final, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Spain.

## Host selection

Northern Ireland was appointed as the host for the tournament by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 19 April 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland.

## Qualification
### Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
| Team | Method of qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| Northern Ireland | Hosts | 2nd | 2005 (Group stage) | Group stage (2005) |
| France | Elite round Group 2 winners | 13th | 2022 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2005, 2010, 2016) |
| Turkey | Elite round Group 6 winners | 7th | 2018 (Group stage) | Runners-up (2004) |
| Spain | Elite round Group 1 winners | 14th | 2023 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019) |
| Ukraine | Elite round Group 7 winners | 6th | 2018 (Semi-finals) | Champions (2009) |
| Italy | Elite round Group 5 winners | 10th | 2023 (Champions) | Champions (2003, 2023) |
| Norway | Elite round Group 3 winners | 7th | 2023 (Semi-finals) | Semi-finals (2023) |
| Denmark | Elite round Group 4 winners | 1st | Debut | Debut |

## Venues

The tournament was hosted in 3 venues.
| BelfastLarne | Belfast | Belfast | Larne |
| BelfastLarne | Windsor Park | Seaview | Inver Park |
| BelfastLarne | Capacity: 18,500 | Capacity: 3,383 | Capacity: 3,000 |

## Officials

A total of 6 Referees, 8 Assistants and 2 Fourth Officials were selected for the tournament.
| Referees | Assistant Referees | Fourth Officials |
| Ishmael Barbara (Malta) | Dyon Fikkert (Netherlands) | Edgars Maļcevs (Latvia) |
| Marian Barbu (Romania) | Andreas Fotopoulos (Greece) | Jamie Robinson (Northern Ireland) |
| Luka Bilbija (Bosnia) | Benas Kikutis (Lithuania) |
| Vassilis Fotias (Greece) | Mihai Marica (Romania) |
| Henrik Nalbandyan (Armenia) | Slagjan Markoski (North Macedonia) |
| Sander van der Eijk (Netherlands) | Atom Sevgulyan (Armenia) |
| | Aleksandar Smiljanić (Bosnia) |
| | Duncan Spencer (Malta) |

## Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
* Tie-breaking criteria for group play
* The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:
* Points obtained in all group matches;
* Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
* Goal difference in all group matches;
* Goals scored in all group matches;
* Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
* Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point;Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;Direct red card: −3 points;
* UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 2 | Ukraine | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 3 | Norway | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off |
| 4 | Northern Ireland (H) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 7 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 2 | Spain | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| 3 | Turkey | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 | FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off |
| 4 | Denmark | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 1 | |

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 25 July – Belfast | 25 July – Belfast |
| Italy | 0 |
| Italy | 0 | 28 July – Belfast | 28 July – Belfast |
| Spain (a.e.t.) | 1 | 28 July – Belfast | 28 July – Belfast |
| Spain (a.e.t.) | 1 | Spain | 2 |
| 25 July – Belfast | 25 July – Belfast | | Spain | 2 |
| 25 July – Belfast | 25 July – Belfast | France | 0 |
| France | 1 | France | 0 |
| Ukraine | 0 | | |

### FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

### Final
## Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup |
| Italy | 18 July 2024 | 8 (1977, 1981, 1987, 2005, 2009, 2017, 2019, 2023) |
| France | 19 July 2024 | 8 (1977, 1997, 2001, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2023) |
| Ukraine | 21 July 2024 | 4 (2001, 2005, 2015, 2019) |
| Spain | 22 July 2024 | 15 (1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) |
| Norway | 25 July 2024 | 3 (1989, 1993, 2019) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

## Goalscorers

There were 43 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.
3 goals
* Daniel Braut
2 goals
* Mikel Krüger-Johnsen
* Alexander Simmelhack
* Valentin Atangana
* Saïmon Bouabré
* Francesco Camarda
* Kevin Zeroli
* Iker Bravo
1 goal
* Cornelius Olsson
* Oscar Schwartau
* Ayman Aiki
* Dehmaine Assoumani
* Jean-Mattéo Bahoya
* Jérémy Jacquet
* Lucas Michal
* Luca Di Maggio
* Tommaso Ebone
* Marco Romano
* Rasmus Holten
* Chema Andrés
* Assane Diao
* Pol Fortuny
* Yarek Gasiorowski
* Simo Keddari
* Dani Rodríguez
* Fahri Kerem Ay
* Emir Bars
* Yiğit Fidan
* Efe Sarıkaya
* İsak Vural
* Poyraz Yıldırım
* Danylo Krevsun
* Matviy Ponomarenko
* Hennadiy Synchuk
Source: UEFA

## Team of the Tournament

The UEFA Technical Observer team announced the team of the tournament.
| Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
| Vladyslav Krapyvtsov | Mattia Mannini Jérémy Jacquet Yarek Gasiorowski Berkay Yılmaz | Valentin Atangana Gerard Hernández Luca Di Maggio | Dani Rodríguez Iker Bravo Saïmon Bouabré |