UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

Founded	1997
Region	Europe (UEFA)
Number of teams	Maximum of 54 (qualifying round) 24 (elite round) 8 (finals)
Current champions	France (4th title)
Most successful team(s)	Germany (6 titles)
2016 tournament

The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship is a competition in women's football for European national teams of players under 19 years of age. National under-19 teams whose countries belong to the European governing body UEFA can register to enter the competition.

In odd years the tournament is also a FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualifying competition. The tournament began in the 1997–98 season as an under-18 event and became an under-19s event from the 2001–02 season, it is held yearly.^[1] The Championship has 3 phases: the qualifying phase open to all eligible nations, the elite phase featuring the group winners and runners-up from the qualifying phase, and the finals phase which is composed of 8 qualifying teams. The finals themselves are composed of two groups of four teams; each team plays the others in the group. The winner of each group after the 3 matches plays the runner-up of the opposing group in a semi-final, with the winner contesting the final.

Finals format

Since 2002 the finals had eight teams with two groups of four teams, semi finals and the final.

Results

All finals so far.^[2]

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Losing Semi-Finalists
1998 Details	Two-legged final	Denmark	2–0 / 2–3	France	Germany and  Sweden
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1999 Details	Sweden	Sweden	Round-robin	Germany	Italy	Round-robin	Norway
2000 Details	France	Germany	4–2	Spain	Sweden	Round-robin	France
2001 Details	Norway	Germany	3–2	Norway	Denmark	1–0	Spain
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Losing Semi-Finalists
2002 Details	Sweden	Germany	3–1	France	Denmark and  England
2003 Details	Germany	France	2–0	Norway	England and  Sweden
2004 Details	Finland	Spain	2–1	Germany	Italy and  Russia
2005 Details	Hungary	Russia	2–2 6–5 (pen.)	France	Finland and  Germany
2006 Details	Switzerland	Germany	3–0	France	Denmark and  Russia
2007 Details	Iceland	Germany	2–0 (a.e.t.)	England	France and  Norway
2008 Details	France	Italy	1–0	Norway	Germany and  Sweden
2009 Details	Belarus	England	2–0	Sweden	France and   Switzerland
2010 Details	Macedonia	France	2–1	England	Germany and  Netherlands
2011 Details	Italy	Germany	8–1	Norway	Italy and   Switzerland
2012 Details	Turkey	Sweden	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Spain	Denmark and  Portugal
2013 Details	Wales	France	2–0 (a.e.t.)	England	Finland and  Germany
2014 Details	Norway	Netherlands	1–0	Spain	Republic of Ireland and  Norway
2015 Details	Israel	Sweden	3–1	Spain	France and  Germany
2016 Details	Slovakia	France	2–1	Spain	Netherlands and   Switzerland
2017 Details	Northern Ireland
2018 Details	Switzerland

Winners

Country	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place	Semi-Finalists
Germany	6 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2011)	2 (1999, 2004)			6 (1998, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015)
France	4 (2003, 2010, 2013, 2016)	4 (1998, 2002, 2005, 2006)		1 (2000)	3 (2007, 2009, 2015)
Sweden	3 (1999, 2012, 2015)	1 (2009)	1 (2000)		3 (1998, 2003, 2008)
Spain	1 (2004)	5 (2000, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)		1 (2001)
England	1 (2009)	3 (2007, 2010, 2013)			2 (2002, 2003)
Denmark	1 (1998)		1 (2001)		3 (2002, 2006, 2012)
Italy	1 (2008)		1 (1999)		2 (2004, 2011)
Russia	1 (2005)				2 (2004, 2006)
Netherlands	1 (2014)				2 (2010, 2016)
Norway		4 (2001, 2003, 2008, 2011)		1 (1999)	2 (2007, 2014)
Switzerland					3 (2009, 2011, 2016)
Finland					2 (2005, 2013)
Portugal					1 (2012)
Republic of Ireland					1 (2014)

Tournament statistics

Top scorers by tournament

Year	Player	Goals
2002	Claire Morel Barbara Müller	4
2003	Shelley Thompson	4
2004	Anja Mittag	6
2005	Elena Danilova	9
2006	Elena Danilova	7
2007	Marie-Laure Delie Fanndís Friðriksdóttir Ellen White	3
2008	Marie Pollmann	4
2009	Sofia Jakobsson	5
2010	Turid Knaak Lieke Martens	4
2011	Melissa Bjånesøy	7
2012	Elin Rubensson	5
2013	Pauline Bremer	6
2014	Vivianne Miedema	6
2015	Stina Blackstenius	6
2016	Marie-Antoinette Katoto	6

Golden Player by tournament

Since the 2002 edition, the Golden Player Award has been given to the most valuable player of the tournament.^[3]

Year	Player
2002	Viola Odebrecht
2003	Sarah Bouhaddi
2004	Anja Mittag
2005	Elena Danilova
2006	Isabel & Monique Kerschowski
2007	Fern Whelan
2008	Sara Gama
2009	Ramona Bachmann
2010	Nataša Andonova
2011	Ramona Petzelberger
2012	Elin Rubensson
2013	Sandie Toletti
2014	Vivianne Miedema
2015	Stina Blackstenius

References

1. "History of the competition". UEFA. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
2. "European Women's U-18/U-19 Championship". RSSSF. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
3. History

External links

• UEFA – Women's Under-19 homepage
• Facts and figures, uefa.com