The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2019) will be the 18th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (22nd edition if the Under-18 era is included), 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, will host the tournament.[2]
A total of eight teams will play 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.[3]
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as the UEFA representatives.
A total of 51 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Liechtenstein who entered a competitive women's national team tournament for the first time), and with the hosts Scotland qualifying automatically, the other 50 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.[4] The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2018, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2019.[5]
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
The final draw will be held in spring or early summer 2019.[6] The eight teams are drawn into two groups of four teams. There is no seeding, except that hosts Scotland are assigned to position A1 in the draw.
Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 39).[5]
In the group stage, teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):[5]
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 (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are 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);
