2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
The 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship will be the 19th 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, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, will host the tournament. Northern Ireland previously hosted the tournament 15 years previously in 2005.
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 13–26 July 2020, but had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The calendar and format of the competition will be discussed at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 17 June 2020. A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives.
Spain are the defending champions.
Qualification
A total of 54 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Northern Ireland qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020.Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era.
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Final draw
The final draw was originally to be held on 22 April 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The eight teams will be drawn into two groups of four teams. There will be no seeding, except that the hosts Northern Ireland will be assigned to position A1 in the draw.Venues
The tournament will be held in four venues:Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players.Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The third-placed teams enter the FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off.;Tiebreakers
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- 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;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- 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 ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.Bracket
FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
Winner qualifies for 2021 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 qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup[|1] |
| TBD | 19 7 2020 | |
| TBD | 19 7 2020 | |
| TBD | 20 7 2020 | |
| TBD | 20 7 2020 | |
| TBD | 23 7 2020 |