2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 18th 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. Scotland, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, was the host of the tournament.
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2000 eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions are permitted per team in each match.
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 four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica as the UEFA representatives.
France defeated Germany 2–1 in the final to claim its fifth title. Spain were the defending champions, but lost 1–3 to France in the semi-finals after extra-time.
Qualification
A total of 51 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Scotland qualifying automatically, the other 50 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.
| Team | Method of qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| 6th | 2017 | |||
| 16th | 2018 | |||
| 2nd | 2014 | |||
| 9th | 2018 | |||
| 14th | 2018 | |||
| 13th | 2018 | |||
| 13th | 2017 | |||
| 15th | 2018 |
Final draw
The final draw was held on 16 April 2019, 12:00 BST, at Barras Art and Design in Glasgow, Scotland. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that the hosts Scotland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.Venues
The tournament was held in four venues:| Paisley | Perth | |
| St Mirren Park | McDiarmid Park | |
| Capacity: 7,937 | Capacity: 10,696 | |
| 3 group matches, semi-final, final | 3 group matches, potential play-off | |
| Glasgow | Stirling | |
| Firhill Stadium | Forthbank Stadium | |
| Capacity: 10,102 | Capacity: 3,798 | |
| 3 group matches, semi-final | 3 group matches | |
Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players.Group stage
The final tournament schedule was announced on 26 April 2019.The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
;Tiebreakers
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
- 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 are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are 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 have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.Bracket
Semi-finals
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Goalscorers
Team of the tournament
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament:| Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards | Substitutes |
| Justine Lerond |
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following four teams from UEFA qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup[|1] |
| 19 7 2019 | 9 | |
| 19 7 2019 | 3 | |
| 22 7 2019 | 7 | |
| 22 7 2019 | 1 |
International Broadcasters
Television
Up to all 16 live matches and highlights are available on UEFA.tv for all territories around the world.Note : Live matches on UEFA.tv is not available in UK , France, Germany, Israel, MENA, and USA.