2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2024) was 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 hosted the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.

2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Flag parade of the participating nations
Host country	Northern Ireland
Dates	15–28 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue	3 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (12th title)
Runners-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	43 (2.69 per match)
Attendance	25,046 (1,565 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Daniel Braut (3 goals)
Best player	Iker Bravo
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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.

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.

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	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Northern Ireland	Hosts	2nd	2005 (Group stage)	Group stage (2005)
France	Elite round Group 2 winners	13th	2022 (Semi-finals)	Champions (2005, 2010, 2016)
Turkey	Elite round Group 6 winners	7th	2018 (Group stage)	Runners-up (2004)
Spain	Elite round Group 1 winners	14th	2023 (Semi-finals)	Champions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)
Ukraine	Elite round Group 7 winners	6th	2018 (Semi-finals)	Champions (2009)
Italy	Elite round Group 5 winners	10th	2023 (Champions)	Champions (2003, 2023)
Norway	Elite round Group 3 winners	7th	2023 (Semi-finals)	Semi-finals (2023)
Denmark	Elite round Group 4 winners	1st	Debut

Venues

The tournament was hosted in 3 venues.

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

Officials

A total of 6 Referees, 8 Assistants and 2 Fourth Officials were selected for the tournament.

Referees	Assistant Referees	Fourth Officials
Ishmael Barbara (Malta)	Dyon Fikkert (Netherlands)	Edgars Maļcevs (Latvia)
Marian Barbu (Romania)	Andreas Fotopoulos (Greece)	Jamie Robinson (Northern Ireland)
Luka Bilbija (Bosnia)	Benas Kikutis (Lithuania)
Vassilis Fotias (Greece)	Mihai Marica (Romania)
Henrik Nalbandyan (Armenia)	Slagjan Markoski (North Macedonia)
Sander van der Eijk (Netherlands)	Atom Sevgulyan (Armenia)
	Aleksandar Smiljanić (Bosnia)
	Duncan Spencer (Malta)

Squads

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; 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 (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage); Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point; Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; Direct red card: −3 points; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6	Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	Ukraine	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5	Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
3	Norway	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4	FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4	Northern Ireland (H)	3	0	1	2	0	5	−5	1

Updated to match(es) played on 18 July 2024. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

15 July 2024