2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

The 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (18th edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual European youth football competition contested by the women's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Israel hosted the tournament.[1] Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to participate in this competition.

2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryIsrael
Dates15–27 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Sweden (3rd title)
Runners-up Spain
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored39 (2.6 per match)
Attendance18,603 (1,240 per match)
Top scorer(s)Sweden Stina Blackstenius (6 goals)
Best player(s)Sweden Stina Blackstenius

Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The four semi-finalists qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the UEFA representatives.[2]

Qualification
Main article: 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

A total of 48 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Israel qualifying automatically, the other 47 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2014, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2015.[3]

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.[4][5]

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

Team Method of qualification Finals appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 IsraelHosts1stDebutDebut
 SpainElite round Group 1 winners10th2014Champions (2004)
 SwedenElite round Group 2 winners9th2014Champions (2012)
 FranceElite round Group 3 winners11th2013Champions (2003, 2010, 2013)
 EnglandElite round Group 4 winners11th2014Champions (2009)
 NorwayElite round Group 4 runners-up[^]10th2014Runners-up (2003, 2008, 2011)
 GermanyElite round Group 5 winners12th2013Champions (2002, 2006, 2007, 2011)
 DenmarkElite round Group 6 winners6th2013Semi-finals (2002, 2006, 2012)

Notes

  1. ^
    The best runners-up among all six elite round groups qualified for the final tournament.

Final draw

The final draw was held in Haifa, Israel on 20 May 2015, 20:15 IDT (UTC+3).[6][7] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding except that the hosts Israel were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

The matches were played at four venues in four host cities.[8]

Netanya
Rishon LeZion
Netanya Stadium Haberfeld Stadium
Capacity: 13,610 Capacity: 6,000
Lod Ramla
Lod Municipal Stadium Ramla Municipal Stadium
Capacity: 3,000 Capacity: 2,000

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.[3]

Sweden

Match officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.[10]

Group stage

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Tiebreakers

if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:[3]

  1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  2. Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 applied;
  5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  7. If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage).
  8. Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

All times were local, IDT (UTC+3).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 3 3 0 0 6 0 +6 9 Advance to knockout stage
2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  Sweden 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3 6
3  Denmark 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 3
4  Israel (H) 3 0 0 3 1 9 −8 0
Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts
France 1–0 Denmark
Léger 49' Report
Attendance: 400[10]
Referee: Ana Minić (Serbia)
Israel 0–3 Sweden
Report Björn 22'
Blackstenius 28', 72'
Attendance: 2,500[10]
Referee: Rhona Daly (Republic of Ireland)
Sweden 1–0 Denmark
Angeldal 35' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 250[10]
Referee: Lorraine Clark (Scotland)
Israel 0–4 France
Report Matéo 10'
Carage 26'
Gathrat 63'
Léger 90'
Attendance: 2,630[10]
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)
Denmark 2–1 Israel
Sørensen 33', 60' Report Avital 22'
Attendance: 2,300[10]
Referee: Eleni Lampadariou (Greece)
Sweden 0–1 France
Report Andersson 5' (o.g.)
Attendance: 600[10]
Referee: Rhona Daly (Republic of Ireland)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Germany 3 2 0 1 3 3 0 6[lower-alpha 1] Advance to knockout stage
2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  Spain 3 2 0 1 7 2 +5 6[lower-alpha 1]
3  Norway 3 1 1 1 2 4 −2 4
4  England 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1
Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. Ranked by head-to-head result (Germany 1–0 Spain)
England 1–2 Germany
George 30' Report Ehegötz 25'
Knaak 87'
Attendance: 300[10]
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)
Spain 4–0 Norway
Redondo 22', 83'
Nahikari 26'
Garrote 38'		 Report
Attendance: 180[10]
Referee: Esther Azzopardi (Malta)
England 1–3 Spain
Flint 9' Report Garrote 54'
Redondo 82'
Gálvez 90'
Attendance: 300[10]
Referee: Eleni Lampadariou (Greece)
Germany 0–2 Norway
Report Fjelldal 5'
Knaak 33' (o.g.)
Attendance: 200[10]
Referee: Ana Minić (Serbia)
Norway 0–0 England
Report
Attendance: 200[10]
Referee: Esther Azzopardi (Malta)
Germany 1–0 Spain
Gálvez 39' (o.g.) Report
Attendance: 400[10]
Referee: Lorraine Clark (Scotland)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.[3]

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
24 July – Lod
 
 
 France1 (4)
 
27 July – Netanya
 
 Spain (p)1 (5)
 
 Spain1
 
24 July – Netanya
 
 Sweden3
 
 Germany3 (2)
 
 
 Sweden (p)3 (4)
 

Semi-finals
Germany 3–3 (a.e.t.) Sweden
Knaak 12'
Ehegötz 58'
Gier 78'		 Report Almqvist 21'
Blackstenius 44', 88'
Penalties
Knaak soccer ball with check mark
Gier soccer ball with red X
Rauch soccer ball with red X
Gaugigl soccer ball with check mark		 2–4 soccer ball with check mark Angeldal
soccer ball with check mark Björn
soccer ball with check mark Blackstenius
soccer ball with check mark Blomqvist
Attendance: 680[10]
Referee: Esther Azzopardi (Malta)
France 1–1 (a.e.t.) Spain
Léger 36' Report Sánchez 42'
Penalties
Greboval soccer ball with check mark
Lahmari soccer ball with check mark
Karchaoui soccer ball with check mark
Romanelli soccer ball with check mark
Léger soccer ball with red X		 4–5 soccer ball with check mark Domínguez
soccer ball with check mark Hernández
soccer ball with check mark Ortega
soccer ball with check mark Beltrán
soccer ball with check mark García
Attendance: 433[10]
Referee: Rhona Daly (Republic of Ireland)

Final
Spain 1–3 Sweden
Hernández 81' Report Blackstenius 28', 36'
Angeldal 89'
Attendance: 7,230[10]
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)

Goalscorers
6 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

Source: UEFA.com[11]

Team of the tournament

Source: UEFA.com[12]

Golden player: Sweden Stina Blackstenius[13]

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from UEFA qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[14]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Sweden18 July 20151 (2010)
 Spain21 July 20151 (2004)
 France18 July 20155 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014)
 Germany21 July 20157 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References
  1. "Norway, Israel, Slovakia to host Women's U19s". UEFA.com. 20 March 2012.
  2. "Decisions taken by the FIFA Executive Committee concerning women's competitions in 2016" (PDF). FIFA. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2014.
  3. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, 2014/15" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  4. "England and Norway complete finals lineup". UEFA.com. 9 April 2015.
  5. "2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship programme" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  6. "Final tournament draw". UEFA.com.
  7. "Finalists learn fate in Women's Under-19 draw". UEFA.com. 20 May 2015.
  8. "Venue guide". UEFA.com.
  9. Petersson, Martin (27 July 2015). "EM-guide: Här är guldhjältarna bakom Sveriges F19-succé" [Euros guide: Here are the golden heroes behind Sweden's U19-success] (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  10. "UEFA Technical Report – Results". UEFA.com.
  11. "Statistics — Tournament phase — Player statistics — Goals". UEFA.com. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  12. "Official WU19 EURO squad of the tournament". UEFA. 29 July 2015.
  13. "Golden Player – Stina Blackstenius". UEFA.com.
  14. "Germany, Spain complete European foursome". FIFA.com. 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016.
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