2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Year:	2024
Country:	Northern Ireland
Dates:	15–28 July
Num Teams:	8
Confederations:	1
Venues:	3
Cities:	2
Count:	12
Matches:	16
Goals:	43
Attendance:	25046
Top Scorer:	Daniel Braut (3 goals)
Player:	Iker Bravo^[1]
Prevseason:	2023
Nextseason:	2025

The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2024) is the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (71st edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland will host the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.

Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the UEFA representatives.

Italy were the defending champions, having beaten Portugal 1–0 in the 2023 final, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Spain.^{[2] [3]}

Host selection

Northern Ireland was appointed as the host for the tournament by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 19 April 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland.^{[4] [5]}

Qualification

See main article: 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	data-sort-type="number"	Appearance		Previous best performance
				(2005)
			2022 (Semi-finals)	(2005, 2010, 2016)
			2018 (Group stage)	(2004)
			2023 (Semi-finals)
			2018 (Semi-finals)	(2009)
			2023 (Champions)	(2003, 2023)
			2023 (Semi-finals)	(2023)
			Debut

Venues

The tournament is hosted in 3 venues.^[6]

	Belfast		Larne
	Windsor Park	Seaview	Inver Park
	Capacity: 18,500	Capacity: 3,383	Capacity: 3,000

Squads

See main article: articles and 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads.

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Semi-finals

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Final

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.

Team	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup^1
	^[7]	8 (1977, 1981, 1987, 2005, 2009, 2017, 2019, 2023)
	^[8]	8 (1977, 1997, 2001, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2023)
	^[9]	4 (2001, 2005, 2015, 2019)
	^[10]	15 (1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013)
	^[11]	3 (1989, 1993, 2019)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Team of the Tournament

The UEFA Technical Observer team announced the team of the tournament.^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Iker Bravo named 2024 Under-19 EURO Player of the Tournament. UEFA. 29 July 2024. 29 July 2024.
2. Web site: Portugal 0-1 Italy: Kayode heads resilient Azzurrini to second Under-19 title . UEFA . 20 July 2023.
3. Web site: Match summary: Italy vs. Spain . UEFA.com . 25 July 2024.
4. Web site: Decision on remaining EURO 2020 venues to be made on 23 April . UEFA.com . Union of European Football Associations . 19 April 2021 . 6 October 2022.
5. Web site: Malta, Northern Ireland and Romania to stage U19 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025 . UEFA.com . Union of European Football Associations . 19 April 2021 . 6 October 2022.
6. Web site: 2024 U19 EURO finals in Northern Ireland: Tournament information . uefa.com . 4 March 2024.
7. Web site: Italy punch ticket to Chile 2025. FIFA. 18 July 2024.
8. Web site: France secure U-20 World Cup spot. FIFA. 19 July 2024.
9. Web site: Former champions Ukraine return to the U-20 World Cup. FIFA. 21 July 2024.
10. Web site: Spain stamp ticket to U-20 World Cup. FIFA. 22 July 2024.
11. Web site: Norway edge Turkey in 20-penalty shootout to qualify. FIFA. 25 July 2024.
12. News: 2024 Under-19 EURO Team of the Tournament. 31 July 2024 . UEFA.com. 31 July 2024.