The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 22nd edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. It was held in Poland, after the original host Belarus was stripped from hosting rights due to the country's involvement of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament would qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland as the UEFA representatives besides Poland who automatically qualified as hosts. If Poland finished in the top four, the team that ranked fifth and sixth in the final stage would also qualify.
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2006 eligible to participate.
Venues PolandPolska zorganizuje dwa wielkie turnieje piłkarskie kobiet: ME U19 i MŚ U20 Mielec Stalowa Wola Stadium Mielec Capacity: 7,000 Capacity: 3,764 Rzeszów Tarnobrzeg Stadium Tarnobrzeg Capacity: 15,026 Capacity: 3,770
Qualification
51 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Poland also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams would qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts.
Qualified teams Seven teams qualified for the final tournament along with hosts Poland.
Team Method of qualificationAppearance Last appearance Previous 2007 (Group stage) (2007) 2024 (Runners-up) (2014) 2012 (Semi-finals) (2012) 2024 (Semi-finals) (2009) 2022 (Group stage) (2008) 2024 (Champions) (2004, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024) 2024 (Semi-finals) (2003, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019) 2022 (Semi-finals) (1999, 2012, 2015) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Squads
Group stage The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and automatically qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. If Poland had finished fourth in their group, the play-off match for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup would have been played.
Tie-breaking criteria for group playThe ranking of teams in the group stage was 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 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 UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Goalscorers
Awards The following awards were given after the tournament: Player of the Tournament: Maeline Mendy Top Scorer: Liana Joseph (4 goals)
Team of the Tournament After the tournament, the Under-19 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.
PositionPlayerGoalkeeper Laia LópezDefenders Noemí Bejarano Aïcha Camara Azzurra Gallo Olivia RademakerMidfielders Clara Serrajordi Irune Dorado Maeline MendyForwards Daniela Agote Liana Joseph Ornella Graziani
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The following six teams from UEFA qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, including Poland which qualified as hosts.
Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in 1 0 (debut) 9 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024) 2 (2004, 2012) 21 June 2025 5 (2002, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2018) 0 (debut) 5 (2004, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
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