The 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2019) was the 18th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (68th 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. Armenia, which was selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, hosted the final tournament.

A total of eight teams played in the final tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2000 eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions were permitted per team in each match.

In the final, Spain defeated defending champions Portugal 2–0 to win their 11th title (8th in the U-19 era).

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Armenia qualifying automatically, the other 54 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 2018, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2019.

Qualified teams The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).

Team Method of qualificationAppearance Last appearance Previous best performance 2nd 2005 (group stage) (2005) 3rd 2011 (semi-finals) (2002), (2011) 7th 2017 (semi-finals) (2011) 5th 2018 (group stage) (2002, 2003, 2005, 2018) 12th 2015 (champions) (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015) 11th 2018 (semi-finals) (2005, 2010, 2016) 11th 2018 (champions) (2018) 7th 2018 (runners-up) (2003)

Final draw The final draw was held on 31 May 2019, 12:00 AMT (UTC+4), at the Armenia Marriott Hotel in Yerevan, Armenia. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that the hosts Armenia were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues On 2 April 2019, the Football Federation of Armenia announced that 3 stadiums would host the tournament matches, all located in the capital Yerevan. A special fan zone dedicated to UEFA U19 with a small football court was built on the Opera Square of Yerevan. YerevanVazgen Sargsyan Republican StadiumBanants StadiumFootball Academy StadiumCapacity: 14,403Capacity: 4,860Capacity: 1,428

Match officials A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.

Referees Irfan Peljto Kristo Tohver Anastasios Papapetrou Nikola Dabanović Sergey Ivanov Filip Glova

Assistant referees Theodoros Georgiou Sagy Metzamber Aleksandr Radius Luke Portelli Dawid Golis Valentin Avram Grega Kordež Stéphane De Almeida

Fourth officials Suren Baliyan Zaven Hovhannisyan

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 37).

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was announced on 7 June 2019.

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 16.01 and 16.02): 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 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 this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; 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); Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

All times are local, AMT (UTC+4).

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner, if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

Team of the tournament The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament:

Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards Arnau Tenas

Broadcasting All 15 live matches and highlights were available on UEFA.tv for all territories around the world.

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References

External links 2019 #U19EURO finals: Armenia, UEFA.com