# 2019 Granatkin Memorial

The 2019 Valentin Granatkin Memorial Cup is its 19th edition after dissolution of the USSR. The tournament was held at Saint Petersburg, Russia from 4 to 14 June 2019, being organised by Russian Football Union.

## Participating nations

Total of 12 National U-18 teams from three different confederations namely AFC, CONMEBOL and UEFA, participated in this edition of the tournament. The teams are further divided in three different groups, where Group A have Bulgaria, India, Moldova and host Russia, Group B have Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Greece and Group C have Argentina, Iran, Armenia and second team of host Russia as Russia 2.

## Group stage

* All times are Further-eastern European Time (UTC+03:00).
The participants will play each other in each group and the winners of each group and the best of the teams finished second in each group will play for the semifinals. The remaining teams will play for 5–8 places.

### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 |
| Moldova | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
| India | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 1 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Turkey | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 7 |
| Greece | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 5 |
| Tajikistan | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 2 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 1 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Argentina | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 9 |
| Russia 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 |
| Iran | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3 |
| Armenia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Argentina | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 15 |
| 2 | Russia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 10 |
| 3 | Turkey | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 10 |
| 4 | Russia 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | Greece | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 11 |
| 6 | Iran | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 6 |
| 7 | Bulgaria | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 3 |
| 8 | Moldova | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 5 |
| 9 | Armenia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | Kyrgyzstan | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 2 |
| 11 | Tajikistan | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 5 |
| 12 | India | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 |

## Goalscorers

There were 69 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.65 goals per match.
4 goals
* Kirill Kosarev
3 goals
* Panagiotis Tzimas
* Ali Sobhani
* Nikita Iosifov
2 goals
* Franco Orozco
* Matías Palacios
* Tomas Leonardo Lecanda
* Grenik Petrosyan
* Georgios Vrakas
* Akash Mishra
* Aria Barzegar
* Emir Shigaibaev
* Danila Prokhin
* Rustam Soirov
* Muhammet Arslantas
* Oğuzhan Akgün
1 goal
* Oscar Exequiel Zeballos
* Matías Godoy
* Cristian Nicholas Medina
* Lautaro Ezequiel Cano
* Narek Alaverdyan
* Narek Grigoryan
* Aram Kolozyan
* Patvakan Avetisyan
* Konstantinos Thymianis
* Nikolaos Michelis
* Ioannis Tsakiris
* Theodoros Pournaras
* Ioannis Fakkis
* Rohit Danu
* Ahmad Jalali
* Reza Mohammad Moharrami
* Ryskeldi Artykbaev
* Dan Pușcaș
* Valeriu Gaiu
* Ilie Ghiderman
* Denis Faizullin
* Maksim Petrov
* Marat Apshatsev
* Ilya Petukhov
* Danil Pelikh
* Sharifbek Rahmatov
* Islom Zairov
* Amadoni Kamolov
* Ozodbek Panzhiev
* Ilkay İşler
* Burak Yasin Yeşilay
1 own goal
* Muhammed Rafi (against Bulgaria)