2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship


The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland hosted the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams played 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 will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the UEFA representatives.
Italy were the defending champions, having beaten Portugal 1–0 in the 2023 final, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Spain.

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.

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
''Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era.''

Venues

The tournament was hosted in 3 venues.

Officials

A total of 6 Referees, 8 Assistants and 2 Fourth Officials were selected for the tournament.
RefereesAssistant RefereesFourth Officials
Malta

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:
  1. Points obtained in all group matches;
  2. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  5. 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;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. 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 ;
  9. Disciplinary points
  10. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  11. Drawing of lots.

Group A


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Group B


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Knockout stage

FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

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

Semi-finals

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Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
18 7 20248
19 7 20248
21 7 20244
22 7 202415
25 7 20243

Team of the Tournament

The UEFA Technical Observer team announced the team of the tournament.
GoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwards
Vladyslav Krapyvtsov