Tourney Name: | UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification |
Year: | 2019 |
Dates: | Qualifying round: Elite round: 20–26 March 2019 |
Num Teams: | 54 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Top Scorer: | Loïs Openda Valentin Mihăilă Aljoša Matko |
Prevseason: | 2018 |
Nextseason: | 2022 |
The 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Armenia in the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1]
Apart from Armenia, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions were permitted per team in each match.[3]
The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:[4]
The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 19.04):[4]
Matchday | Matches | |
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Matchday 1 | 1 v 4, 3 v 2 | |
Matchday 2 | 1 v 3, 2 v 4 | |
Matchday 3 | 2 v 1, 4 v 3 |
In the qualifying round and elite round, 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 14.01 and 14.02):[4]
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 2017, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5] [6]
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (a four-year window was used instead of the previous three-year window):[7]
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.[2]
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The qualifying round was required to be completed by 20 November 2018.[6]
Times up to 27 October 2018 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2018, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8] [9]
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[10] Portugal and Germany, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn in the same group.
The elite round was played from 18–26 March 2019, during the March FIFA International Match Calendar dates.
Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Under-19 Euro1 only U-19 era (since 2002) |
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1 (2005) | ||||
2 (2002, 2011) | ||||
6 (2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2017) | ||||
4 (2002, 2003, 2005, 2018) | ||||
11 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015) | ||||
10 (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018) | ||||
10 (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) | ||||
6 (2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
In the qualifying round, In the elite round, In total,