2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryNorthern Ireland
Dates15–28 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)

The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2024) will be the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (71st edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland will host the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.

Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the UEFA representatives.

Italy are the defending champions being crowned champions for the fourth time after beating Portugal 1–0 in the final.[1]

Host selection

Northern Ireland was appointed as the host for the tournament by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 19 April 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland.[2][3]

Qualification

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 IrelandHosts2nd2005 (Group stage)Group stage (2005)

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

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
2025 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: 15 July 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Northern Ireland vA4
A3vA2
Northern Ireland vA3
A2vA4
A2v Northern Ireland
A4vA3

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage and
2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2 B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4 B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 15 July 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
B1vB4
B3vB2
B1vB3
B2vB4
B2vB1
B4vB3

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 July –
 
 
 
 
28 July –
 
 
 
 
 
25 July –
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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Semi-finals

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Final

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Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
TBDJuly 2024
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. ↑ "Portugal 0-1 Italy: Kayode heads resilient Azzurrini to second Under-19 title". UEFA. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Decision on remaining EURO 2020 venues to be made on 23 April". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Malta, Northern Ireland and Romania to stage U19 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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