2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

A total of 54 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Northern Ireland qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.[8] The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020.[9]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

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

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Northern Ireland	Hosts	2nd	2005 (group stage)	Group stage (2005)
TBD	Elite round Group 1 winners
TBD	Elite round Group 2 winners
TBD	Elite round Group 3 winners
TBD	Elite round Group 4 winners
TBD	Elite round Group 5 winners
TBD	Elite round Group 6 winners
TBD	Elite round Group 7 winners

The tournament will be held in four venues:[11]

Belfast	Belfast Lurgan Ballymena Portadown		Ballymena
Windsor Park			Ballymena Showgrounds
Capacity: 18,614			Capacity: 3,600
group stage, semi-finals, final			group stage
Portadown			Lurgan
Shamrock Park			Mourneview Park
Capacity: 2,770			Capacity: 4,160
group stage			group stage

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 37).[9]

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The third-placed teams enter the FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off.

Tiebreakers

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 16.01 and 16.02):[9]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. 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);
8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
10. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, BST (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Northern Ireland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage and 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 13 July 2020. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.

13 July 2020 (2020-07-13)

Northern Ireland	Postponed	A4

13 July 2020 (2020-07-13)

A3	Postponed	A2

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16 July 2020 (2020-07-16)

Northern Ireland	Postponed	A3

16 July 2020 (2020-07-16)

A2	Postponed	A4

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19 July 2020 (2020-07-19)

A2	Postponed	Northern Ireland

19 July 2020 (2020-07-19)

A4	Postponed	A3

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[9]

The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

• Official website
• Under-19 Matches: 2020, UEFA.com