2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (18th edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual European youth football competition contested by the women's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Israel hosted the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to participate in this competition. Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The four semi-finalists qualified  for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the UEFA representatives. Qualification. A total of 48 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Israel qualifying automatically, the other 47 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2014, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2015. Qualified teams. The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. "Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002)." Notes Final  draw. The final draw was held in Haifa, Israel on 20 May 2015, 20:15 IDT (). The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding except that the hosts Israel were assigned to position A1 in the draw. Venues. The matches were played at four venues in four host cities. Squads. Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players. Match officials. A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament. Group stage. Group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and  qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings: All times were local, IDT (). Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Knockout stage. In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. Team of the tournament. Golden player: Stina Blackstenius Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The following four teams from UEFA qualified for  the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.