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 yearly football competition, challenged by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA.

Spain and England are the 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 founding 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 has two stages, similar to UEFA's other European championship competitions. The qualifying stage is open to all UEFA members, and the final stage is battled 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, having 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||

### FIFA Youth Tournament (1948–1954)

|rowspan="2" width="5%"|Year|rowspan="2" width="10%"|Host|colspan="3"|Final|colspan="3"|Third place match|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1948 _details_||****|**3–2**|||**3–1**||
|1949 _details_||****|**4–1**|||**5–0**||
|1950 _details_||****|**3–2**|||**6–0**||
|1951 _details_||****|**3–2**|||**1–0**||
|1952 _details_||****|**0–0** goal average|||**5–5** coin toss||
|1953 _details_||****|**2–0**|||**3–2**||
|1954 _details_||****|**2–2** Spain won on goal average|||**1–0**||

### UEFA Youth Tournament (1955–1980)

|1957 _Details_||****|**3–2**||🇫🇷 France|**0–0**|🇮🇹 Italy|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1958 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**3–0**||
|1959 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**6–1**||
|1960 _Details_||****|**2–1**|||**2–1**||
|1961 _Details_||****|**4–0**|||**2–1**||
|1962 _Details_||****|**4–1**|||**1–1** Czechoslovakia won on coin toss||
|1963 _Details_||****|**4–0**|||**4–2**||
|1964 _Details_||****|**4–0**|||**3–2**||
|1965 _Details_||****|**3–2**|||**4–1**||
|1966 _Details_||***' ***'|**0–0**|_Title was shared_||**2–0**||
|1967 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**1–1** Turkey won on coin toss**||
|1968 _Details_||****|**2–1**|||**4–2**||
|1969 _Details_||****|**1–1** Bulgaria won on coin toss|||**1–0**||
|1970 _Details_||****|**1–1** coin toss|||**2–0**||
|1971 _Details_||****|**3–0**|||**1–1**||
|1972 _Details_||****|**2–0**|||**0–0**||
|1973 _Details_||****|**3–2**|||**1–0**||
|1974 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**1–0**||
|1975 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**2–2**||
|1976 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**3–0**||
|1977 _Details_||****|**2–1**|||**7–2**||
|1978 _Details_||****|**3–0**|||**3–1**||
|1979 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**0–0**||
|1980 _Details_||****|**2–1**|||**3–0**||

### UEFA European Under-18 Championship (1981–2001)

|1981 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**1–1**||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1982 _Details_||****|**3–1**|||**3–1**||
|1983 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**1–1**||
|1984 _Details_||****|**0–0**|||**2–1**||
|1986 _Details_||****|**3–1**|||**1–0**||
|1988 _Details_||****|**3–1**|||**2–0**||
|1990 _Details_||****|**0–0**|||**1–0**||
|1992 _Details_||****|**2–1**|||**1–1**||
|1993 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**2–1**||
|1994 _Details_||****|**1–1**|||**5–2**||
|1995 _Details_||****|**4–1**|||**5–0**||
|1996 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**3–2**||
|1997 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**2–1**||
|1998 _Details_||****|**1–1**|||**0–0**||
|1999 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**1–0**||
|2000 _Details_||****|**1–0**|||**3–1**||
|2001 _Details_||****|**3–1**|||**6–2**||

### UEFA European Under-19 Championship (since 2002)

|2002 _Details_||****|**1–0**||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2003 _Details_||****|**2–0**||
|2004 _Details_||****|**1–0**||
|2005 _Details_||****|**3–1**||
|2006 _Details_||****|**2–1**||
|2007 _Details_||****|**1–0**||
|2008 _Details_||****|**3–1**||
|2009 _Details_||****|**2–0**||
|2010 _Details_||****|**2–1**||
|2011 _Details_||****|**3–2**||
|2012 _Details_||****|**1–0**||
|2013 _Details_||****|**1–0**||
|2014 _Details_||****|**1–0**||
|2015 _Details_||****|**2–0**||
|2016 _Details_||****|**4–0**||
|2017 _Details_||****|**2–1**||
|2018 _Details_||****|**4–3**||
|2019 _Details_||****|**2–0**||
|2022 _Details_||****|**3–1**||
|2023 _Details_|||||
|2024 _Details_|||||
|2025 _Details_|||||
|2026 _Details_|||||

### Performances by countries

|Team|Titles|Runners-up|Third place|Fourth place|Semi-finalists|Total (Top Four)||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=center colspan=7|**UEFA European Youth Championship**|||||||||||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**11** (1948, 1963, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1993, 2017, 2022)|bgcolor=silver|**5** (1958, 1965, 1967, 2005, 2009)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|3|bgcolor=#81c846|3|align=center|25|
|bgcolor="gold"||bgcolor="gold"|**11** (1952, 1954, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)|bgcolor="silver"|**4** (1957, 1964, 1996, 2010)|bgcolor="a67d3d"|6|bgcolor="#9acdff"|6|bgcolor="#81c846"|1|align="center"|28|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**8** (1949, 1983, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016)|bgcolor=silver|**3** (1950, 1968, 2013)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|4|bgcolor=#81c846|7|align=center|25|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**6** (1965, 1970, 1981, 1986, 2008, 2014)|bgcolor=silver|**7** (1954, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1994, 1998, 2002)|bgcolor=a67d3d|5|bgcolor=#9acdff|2|bgcolor=#81c846|2|align=center|22|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**6** (1966*, 1967, 1976, 1978, 1988, 1990)|bgcolor=silver|**2** (1984, 2015)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|1||align=center|12||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**4** (1961, 1994, 1999, 2018)|bgcolor=silver|**9** (1971, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2003, 2014, 2017, 2019)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|2|bgcolor=#81c846|2|align=center|20|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**3** (1958, 1966*, 2003)|bgcolor=silver|**7** (1959, 1986, 1995, 1999, 2008, 2016, 2018)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|3|bgcolor=#81c846|1|align=center|17|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**3** (1951, 1979, 2013)|bgcolor=silver|**4** (1953, 1962, 1974, 1978)|bgcolor=a67d3d|1|bgcolor=#9acdff|1|bgcolor=#81c846|4|align=center|13|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**3** (1959, 1969, 1974)|bgcolor=silver|**2** (1977, 1979)||bgcolor=#9acdff|3||align=center|8|||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**3** (1953, 1960, 1984)|bgcolor=silver|**1** (1976)|bgcolor=a67d3d|2||bgcolor=#81c846|1|align=center|7||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**2** (1950, 1957)|bgcolor=silver|**1** (1951)|bgcolor=a67d3d|1|bgcolor=#9acdff|1|bgcolor=#81c846|3|align=center|8|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (1968)|bgcolor=silver|**4** (1982, 1983, 2001, 2011)|bgcolor=a67d3d|2|bgcolor=#9acdff|1|bgcolor=#81c846|4|align=center|12|
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (2001)|bgcolor=silver|**3** (1961, 1980, 1981)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|1||align=center|8||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (1992)|bgcolor=silver|**2** (1993, 2004)|bgcolor=a67d3d|2|bgcolor=#9acdff|3||align=center|8||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (1982)|bgcolor=silver|**1** (2006)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|4||align=center|9||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (1977)|bgcolor=silver|**1** (1952)|bgcolor=a67d3d|3|bgcolor=#9acdff|1||align=center|6||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (1962)|bgcolor=silver|**1** (1960)||bgcolor=#9acdff|1||align=center|3|||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (2009)|bgcolor=silver|**1** (2000)|||bgcolor=#81c846|2|align=center|4|||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|**1** (1998)||bgcolor=a67d3d|1|bgcolor=#9acdff|3|bgcolor=#81c846|2|align=center|7||
|||bgcolor="silver"|**3** (1948, 1949, 1970)|bgcolor="a67d3d"|1|bgcolor="#9acdff"|3|bgcolor="#81c846"|1|align="center"|8|||
|||bgcolor="silver"|**2** (2007, 2012)|bgcolor="a67d3d"|1|bgcolor="#9acdff"|2|bgcolor="#81c846"|1|align="center"|6|||
|||bgcolor="silver"|**1** (1963)||bgcolor="#9acdff"|2||align="center"|3|||||
|||bgcolor="silver"|**1** (1975)||||align="center"|1||||||
|||bgcolor=silver|**1** (2022)||||align=center|1||||||
||||bgcolor=a67d3d|1||bgcolor=#81c846|1|align=center|2|||||
||||bgcolor=a67d3d|1|||align=center|1||||||
||||bgcolor=a67d3d|1|||align=center|1||||||
|||||bgcolor=#9acdff|1||align=center|1||||||
||||||bgcolor=#81c846|1|align=center|1||||||
Note:

_1954 **Third place** ._
 _1966 **Title Shared** between  and ._
 _1957 **Third place Shared** between  and ._

### 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 Republic<sup>1</sup>|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|

<sup>1</sup>Honour shared.

### 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|

## FIFA U-20 World Cup performances

- Legend
- <span style="background:gold">**1st**</span> – Champions
- <span style="background:silver">**2nd**</span> – Runners-up
- <span style="background:#CFAA88">**3rd**</span> – Third place
- <span style="background:#9acdff">**4th**</span> – Fourth place
- **QF** – Quarterfinals
- **R2** – Round 2
- **R1_' – Round 1
- <span style="border:3px solid red">    </span> – Hosts
- <span style="border:1px solid gray">    </span> – Not affiliated to UEFA
- q – Qualified for upcoming tournament

|Team|1977 !! 1979 !! 1981 !! 1983 !! style="border:3px solid red"| 1985 !! 1987 !! 1989 !! style="border:3px solid red"| 1991 !! 1993 !! 1995 !! 1997 !! 1999 !! 2001 !! 2003 !! style="border:3px solid red"| 2005 !! 2007 !! 2009 !! 2011 !! style="border:3px solid red"| 2013 !! 2015 !! 2017 !! style="border:3px solid red"| 2019 !! 2023 !!  Total||||||||||||||||||||||||
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||**R1**|||**R1**||||||||||||**4th**||**R1**||**R2**||||**5**|
||||||||||||**R2**|||||||||||||**1**|
||||||**QF**|**QF**||||||||||||||||||**2**|
||Part of Yugoslavia||||**R2**||||||**R1**|**R2**|||||**3**||||||||
|||||**R1**|||**R1**||||||**QF**|**R1**||**2nd**|**R2**|||||||**6**|
|||||||**3rd**|**R1**||Reunified with West Germany|**2**|||||||||||||||
||||**4th**||**R1**|||**R1**|**3rd**||**R2**|**R1**||**R1**|||**R1**|**R2**|**R1**||**1st**||q|**12**|
||||||||||||||**R1**|||||||||||**1**|
||**R1**||||||||||**QF**||**QF**|||||**4th**|**1st**||**R2**|**R2**|q|**8**|
||||**1st**|||**2nd**|||**R1**|**R1**||**R1**|**R2**|**R1**|**QF**||**QF**|||**QF**|**R2**|||**11**|
||||||||||||||||||||**R2**|||||**1**|
||**R1**|**R1**|||**R1**||||||**R1**||||||**3rd**|||**R2**||||**6**|
||||||||||||||||||||||||q|**1**|
||**R1**||**R1**|||**QF**|||||||||**QF**||**QF**||||**3rd**|**4th**|q|**8**|
|||||**QF**|||**R1**||||||**QF**||**QF**|||||||||**4**|
||||||||**R1**||**R1**|||||||||||||**R1**||**3**|
|||**4th**|**R1**|**3rd**||||||||||||**R2**||||||**R2**||**5**|
|||**QF**|||||**1st**|**1st**|**R1**|**3rd**||**R2**||||**R2**||**2nd**|**R2**|**QF**|**QF**|**R1**||**12**|
||||||**R1**|||**R1**|||**3rd**|**R2**||**R2**||||||||||**5**|
||||**3rd**|||||||||||||||||||||**1**|
||**1st**|**2nd**||**R1**|**4th**||**QF**|**3rd**|**QF**|**QF**||||||||||||||**8**|
|||||**QF**||**QF**||||||||||**R1**||||||||**3**|
|||**R1**||||**1st**||||||||||||||**1st**||||**3**|
||Part of Czechoslovakia|||||**R2**|||||||||q|**2**|||||||||
||**R1**|**QF**|**R1**||**2nd**||**R1**|**QF**||**4th**|**QF**|**1st**||**2nd**|**QF**|**QF**|**R2**|**QF**|**QF**|||||**15**|
|||||||||**R1**||||||||||||||||**1**|
||||||||||||||||**R1**|||||||||**1**|
||||||||||**R1**||||||**R2**||||**R2**|||||**3**|
||Part of Soviet Union|||||**R2**||**R2**|||||**R2**||**1st**||**3**||||||||

## Related pages

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

## Other websites

- UEFA European U-19 Championship at _uefa.com''
- Tournament details at rsssf.com

## Infobox (football tournament)

- **name**: UEFA European Under-19 Championship
- **founded**: 1948
- **region**: Europe (UEFA)
- **number of teams**: Maximum of 54 (qualifying round)
28 (elite round)
8 (finals)
- **website**: [https://www.uefa.com/under19 Official website]
- **current**: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship