2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2022) will be the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (69th 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. Slovakia will host the tournament between 18 June and 1 July 2022.[1] A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.

2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Majstrovstvá Európy vo futbale hráčov do 19 rokov 2022
Tournament details
Host countrySlovakia
Dates18 June – 1 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)5 (in 5 host cities)

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 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives.

Spain are the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 editions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the title was not awarded.

Host selection

The timeline of host selection was as follows:[2]

For the UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Romania and Slovakia were selected as hosts respectively.[1]

Qualification
Main article: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

The UEFA Executive Committee originally decided on 29 May 2019 to test a new qualifying format for the Under-19 Championship in 2022 and 2023.[3] The qualifying competition would have been played in four rounds over a two-year period from autumn 2020 to spring 2022, with teams divided into three leagues, and promotion and relegation between leagues after each round similar to the UEFA Nations League.[4] However, on 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the introduction of the new format had been postponed to the 2023 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and qualification for the 2022 edition would use the previous format involving two rounds only.[5][6]

A total of 54 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Slovakia qualifying automatically, the other 53 teams will compete in the qualifying competition, which will consist of two rounds: Qualifying round, which will take place in autumn 2021, and Elite round, which will take place in spring 2022, to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 9 December 2020, 10:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[7][8]

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
 SlovakiaHosts2nd2002Third place (2002)
 RomaniaElite round Group 4 winners2nd2011Group Stage (2011)
 ItalyElite round Group 5 winners8th2019Champions (2003)
 IsraelElite round Group 1 winners2nd2014Group Stage (2014)
 FranceElite round Group 2 winners12th2019Champions (2005, 2010, 2016)
 EnglandElite round Group 3 winners11th2018Champions (2017)
 AustriaElite round Group 7 winners8th2016Semi-finals (2003, 2006, 2014)

Venues
Trnava Dunajská Streda Banská Bystrica
Anton Malatinský Stadium MOL Aréna Národný Atletický Štadión
Capacity: 19,200 Capacity: 12,700 Capacity: 7,900
Žiar nad Hronom
Mestský štadión Žiar nad Hronom
Capacity: 2,309
Senec
NTC Senec
Capacity: 3,264

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was announced on 28 April 2022.[9]

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

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Slovakia (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Romania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4  France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: UEFA
(H) Host
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Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2  Israel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Elite round Group 6 winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
4  Austria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: UEFA
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Knockout stage

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

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
28 June – Trnava
 
 
 
 
1 July – Trnava
 
 
 
 
 
28 June – Dunajská Streda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
World Cup play-off
 
 
28 June – Senec
 
 
 
 
 
 


FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off

Winner will qualified for 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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Semi-finals
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Final
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Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following five teams from UEFA qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
TBD2022
TBD2022
TBD2022
TBD2022
TBD2022
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References
  1. "Romania, Slovakia to stage U19 EURO in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 24 September 2019.
  2. "17 member associations interested in hosting UEFA youth national team final tournaments in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 27 March 2019.
  3. "UEFA to ask FIFA/IFAB for new concussion protocol". UEFA.com. 29 May 2019.
  4. "New Nations League format for U19 EURO: how it works". UEFA.com. 28 October 2019.
  5. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. 17 June 2020.
  6. "2020 Under-19 EURO cancelled". UEFA.com. 20 October 2020.
  7. "2021/22 U19 qualifying round draw: 9 December". UEFA.com. 4 December 2020.
  8. "2021/22 UEFA European Under-17 and Under-19 Championships Qualifying round draws" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  9. https://www.uefa.com/under19/news/0268-121434cd0a0c-1120f8d2d3a6-1000--2022-u19-euro-finals-slovakia/
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