2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Europees kampioenschap dames onder 19 2023
Championnat d'Europe féminin des moins de 19 ans 2023
U-19-Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2023
Tournament details
Host countryBelgium
Dates18–30 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Spain (5th title)
Runners-up Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored47 (3.13 per match)
Attendance15,149 (1,010 per match)
Top scorer(s)France Louna Ribadeira
(4 goals)
Best player(s)France Louna Ribadeira[1]
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The 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 20th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Belgium hosted the tournament on 18–30 July.[2] It was the first women's final tournament held in Belgium.[3] A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate.

Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia as the UEFA representatives. However, on 4 October 2023, after the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, a new fifth spot was allocated to UEFA and the winner of a play-off between the group stage third-placed teams would take this fifth spot.[4][5]

Spain were the defending champions and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final.

Qualification

Main article: 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Belgium also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams would qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[6]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Method of qualification Appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 Belgium Hosts 5th 2019 (Group stage) Group stage (2006, 2011, 2014, 2019)
 Germany Round 2 Group A1 winners 18th 2022 (Group stage) Champions (2002, 2006, 2007, 2011)
 Czech Republic Round 2 Group A2 winners 2nd 2022 (Group stage) Group stage (2022)
 France Round 2 Group A3 winners 17th 2022 (Semi-finals) Champions (2003, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)
 Spain Round 2 Group A4 winners 16th 2022 (Champions) Champions (2004, 2017, 2018, 2022)
 Iceland Round 2 Group A5 winners 3rd 2009 (Group stage) Group stage (2007, 2009)
 Austria Round 2 Group A6 winners 2nd 2016 (Group stage) Group stage (2016)
 Netherlands Round 2 Group A7 winners 10th 2019 (Semi-finals) Champions (2014)

Final draw

The final draw was held on 26 April 2023, 10:00 CET, at the headquarters of the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) in Tubize, Belgium.[7]

Venues

Belgium
Tubize
RBFA Academy Stadium Stade Leburton
Capacity: 2,000 Capacity: 8,100
Leuven (Heverlee) La Louvière
Den Dreef Stade du Tivoli
Capacity: 10,020 Capacity: 12,500

Squads

Main article: 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).[8]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, a new fifth spot was allocated to UEFA, and the winner of a play-off between the group stage third-placed teams would take this fifth spot.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02):[8]

  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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that 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 had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were 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. Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 3 2 0 1 6 2 +4 6[a] Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  Germany 3 2 0 1 9 3 +6 6[a]
3  Austria 3 1 1 1 4 9 −5 4 Fifth place play-off for 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
4  Belgium (H) 3 0 1 2 3 8 −5 1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Netherlands 3 v 1 Germany
Germany 6–0 Austria
 Report
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 306[9]
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)
Belgium 0–3 Netherlands
Report
Attendance: 3,384[10]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Belgium 0–2 Germany
Report
Attendance: 2,548[11]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Austria 1–0 Netherlands
 Report
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 430[12]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)
Austria 3–3 Belgium
 Report
Attendance: 1,479[13]
Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
Netherlands 3–1 Germany
 Report
Attendance: 621[14]
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5 9 Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  Spain 3 2 0 1 10 2 +8 6
3  Iceland 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3 Fifth place play-off for 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
4  Czech Republic 3 0 0 3 0 10 −10 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Czech Republic 0–1 France
Report
Attendance: 206[15]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Iceland 0–3 Spain
Report
Attendance: 402[16]
Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
Iceland 2–0 Czech Republic
 Report
Attendance: 217[17]
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)
France 2–0 Spain
 Report
Attendance: 458[18]
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)
France 3–1 Iceland
 Report
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 434[19]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Spain 7–0 Czech Republic
 Report
Attendance: 278[20]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[8]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 July – Stade Leburton
 
 
 Netherlands0
 
30 July – Den Dreef
 
 Spain1
 
 Spain (p)0 (3)
 
27 July – RBFA Academy Stadium
 
 Germany0 (2)
 
 France2
 
 
 Germany (a.e.t.)3
 

Semi-finals

Netherlands 0–1 Spain
Report
Attendance: 778[21]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
France 2–3 (a.e.t.) Germany
 Report
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 597[22]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)

Final

Spain 0–0 (a.e.t.) Germany
Report
Penalties
 3–2
Attendance: 3,011[23]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)

Goalscorers

There were 47 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.13 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Awards

The following awards were given after the tournament:

Team of the Tournament

After the tournament, the Under-19 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.[25]

Position Player
Goalkeeper Spain Txell Font
Defenders Spain Sara Ortega
Germany Vanessa Diehm
France Thiniba Samoura
Spain Andrea Medina
Midfielders Spain Júlia Bartel
France Kysha Sylla
Germany Alara Şehitler
Forwards Netherlands Lotte Keukelaar
France Louna Ribadeira
Germany Franziska Kett

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
 Netherlands 24 July 2023 2 (2018, 2022)
 Germany 24 July 2023 10 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
 France 24 July 2023 8 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
 Spain 24 July 2023 3 (2004, 2016, 2018, 2022)
 Austria 4 December 2023[a] 0 (debut)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
  1. ^ After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, UEFA decided to organize a play-off between Austria and Iceland, the group stage third-placed teams, on 4 December 2023. The fifth place play-off winner would qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[26]

Fifth place play-off

Winner qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Iceland 0–6 Austria
Report
Futbol Salou Sports Center, Salou (Spain)
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)

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