2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was originally to be held as the 19th 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, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Georgia, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, were originally to host the tournament. A total of eight teams were originally to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 21 July – 2 August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.
France were the defending champions.
Qualification
A total of 49 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Georgia qualifying automatically, the other 48 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020.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 |
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Final draw
The final draw was originally to be held on 22 April 2020 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The eight teams would be drawn into two groups of four teams. There would be no seeding, except that the hosts Georgia would be assigned to position A1 in the draw.Venues
To be confirmed.Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players.Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.;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 ranking for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
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Group B
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