2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship


The 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual European youth football competition contested by the women's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Israel hosted the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to participate in this competition.
Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The four semi-finalists qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the UEFA representatives.

Qualification

A total of 48 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Israel qualifying automatically, the other 47 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2014, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2015.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era.
TeamMethod of qualificationFinals appearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
HostsDebutDebut
Elite round Group 1 winners2014
Elite round Group 2 winners2014
Elite round Group 3 winners2013
Elite round Group 4 winners2014
Elite round Group 4 runners-up2014
Elite round Group 5 winners2013
Elite round Group 6 winners2013

Notes

Final draw

The final draw was held in Haifa, Israel on 20 May 2015, 20:15 IDT. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding except that the hosts Israel were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

The matches were played at four venues in four host cities.

NetanyaRishon LeZion
Netanya StadiumHaberfeld Stadium
Capacity: 13,610Capacity: 6,000
LodRamla
Lod Municipal StadiumRamla Municipal Stadium
Capacity: 3,000Capacity: 2,000

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.

Match officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.
;Referees
;Assistant referees
;Fourth officials
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the [|semi-finals] and qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
;Tiebreakers
if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
  1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  2. Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  4. If, after having applied criteria [|1] to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 applied;
  5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  7. If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out.
  8. Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times were local, IDT.

Group A


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Group B


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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

;6 goals
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goals
;Goalkeepers
;Defenders
;Midfielders
;Forwards
Golden player: Stina Blackstenius

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

The following four teams from UEFA qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1