2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

The 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 20th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Belgium hosts the tournament on 18–30 July.[1] It is the first women's final tournament to be held in Belgium[2] A total of eight teams are playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate.

2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryBelgium
Dates18–30 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Spain (5th title)
Runners-up Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored47 (3.13 per match)
Attendance15,149 (1,010 per match)
Top scorer(s)France Louna Ribadeira
(4 goals)

Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia as the UEFA representatives. However, on 4 October 2023, after the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, a new fifth spot was allocated to UEFA and Austria took this fifth spot due to ending as the best third-ranked place team in the group stage.

Spain were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final.

Qualification
Main article: 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Belgium also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams will qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[3]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Method of qualification Appearance Last appearance Previous best performance
 BelgiumHosts5th2019 (Group stage)Group stage (2006, 2011, 2014, 2019)
 GermanyRound 2 Group A1 winners18th2022 (Group stage)Champions (2002, 2006, 2007, 2011)
 Czech RepublicRound 2 Group A2 winners2nd2022 (Group stage)Group stage (2022)
 FranceRound 2 Group A3 winners17th2022 (Semi-finals)Champions (2003, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)
 SpainRound 2 Group A4 winners16th2022 (Champions)Champions (2004, 2017, 2018, 2022)
 IcelandRound 2 Group A5 winners3rd2009 (Group stage)Group stage (2007, 2009)
 AustriaRound 2 Group A6 winners2nd2016 (Group stage)Group stage (2016)
 NetherlandsRound 2 Group A7 winners10th2019 (Semi-finals)Champions (2014)

Final draw

The final draw was held on 26 April 2023, 10:00 CET, at the headquarters of the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) in Tubize, Belgium.[4]

Venues
Belgium
Tubize
RBFA Academy Stadium Stade Leburton
Capacity: 2,000 Capacity: 8,100
Leuven (Heverlee) La Louvière
Den Dreef Stade du Tivoli
Capacity: 10,020 Capacity: 12,500

Squads
Main article: 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).[5]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, a new fifth spot was allocated to UEFA, so the best third-ranked place team in the group stage also qualified.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, 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 20.01 and 20.02):[5]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (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. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
  9. Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 3 2 0 1 6 2 +4 6[lower-alpha 1] Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  Germany 3 2 0 1 9 3 +6 6[lower-alpha 1]
3  Austria 3 1 1 1 4 9 −5 4 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
4  Belgium (H) 3 0 1 2 3 8 −5 1
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:
  1. Netherlands 3 v 1 Germany
Germany 6–0 Austria
  • Nachtigall 16', 29'
  • Şehitler 18', 77'
  • Alber 26'
  • Kett 49'
 Report
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 306[6]
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)
Belgium 0–3 Netherlands
Report
  • Huizenga 30'
  • Henry 55'
  • Tolhoek 86'
Attendance: 3,384[7]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Belgium 0–2 Germany
Report
Attendance: 2,548[8]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Austria 1–0 Netherlands
  • Mädl 70'
 Report
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 430[9]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)
Austria 3–3 Belgium
  • Rukavina 11'
  • Natter 50' (pen.)
  • Mädl 59'
 Report
Attendance: 1,479[10]
Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
Netherlands 3–1 Germany
  • Veit 42' (o.g.)
  • Keukelaar 62'
  • Van Gool 81' (pen.)
 Report
  • Açıkgöz 27'
Attendance: 621[11]
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5 9 Knockout stage and
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2  Spain 3 2 0 1 10 2 +8 6
3  Iceland 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
4  Czech Republic 3 0 0 3 0 10 −10 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Czech Republic 0–1 France
Report
  • Bárková 26' (o.g.)
Attendance: 206[12]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)
Iceland 0–3 Spain
Report
Attendance: 402[13]
Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)
Iceland 2–0 Czech Republic
  • Kristjánsdóttir 13'
  • Jörundsdóttir 85'
 Report
Attendance: 217[14]
Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)
France 2–0 Spain
  • Fontaine 57'
  • Ribadeira 79'
 Report
Attendance: 458[15]
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)
France 3–1 Iceland
  • Ribadeira 27'
  • Neller 45'
  • Benera 89'
 Report
  • Sveinsdóttir 33'
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 434[16]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Spain 7–0 Czech Republic
 Report
Attendance: 278[17]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).[5]

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 July – Stade Leburton
 
 
 Netherlands0
 
30 July – Den Dreef
 
 Spain1
 
 Spain (p)0 (3)
 
27 July – RBFA Academy Stadium
 
 Germany0 (2)
 
 France2
 
 
 Germany (a.e.t.)3
 

Semi-finals
Netherlands 0–1 Spain
Report
Attendance: 778[18]
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
France 2–3 (a.e.t.) Germany
  • Ribadeira 18', 21' (pen.)
 Report
  • Veit 57'
  • Platner 90+3'
  • Kett 115'
RBFA Academy Stadium, Tubize
Attendance: 597[19]
Referee: Sabina Bolic (Croatia)

Final
Spain 0–0 (a.e.t.) Germany
Report
Penalties
 3–2
  • soccer ball with check mark Veit
  • soccer ball with red X Diehm
  • soccer ball with check mark Hils
  • soccer ball with red X Bartz
  • soccer ball with red X Deutsch
Attendance: 3,011[20]
Referee: Frida Klarlund (Denmark)

Goalscorers

There were 47 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.13 goals per match.

4 goals

  • France Louna Ribadeira

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

  • Austria Linda Natter
  • Austria Magdalena Rukavina
  • Belgium Valesca Ampoorter
  • Belgium Marie Detruyer
  • Belgium Lore Jacobs
  • France Baby Jordy Benera
  • France Aïrine Fontaine
  • France Chloé Neller
  • Germany Dilara Açıkgöz
  • Germany Paulina Platner
  • Germany Jella Veit
  • Iceland Snædís María Jörundsdóttir
  • Iceland Vigdís Lilja Kristjánsdóttir
  • Iceland Bergdís Sveinsdóttir
  • Netherlands Ziva Henry
  • Netherlands Hanna Huizenga
  • Netherlands Lotte Keukelaar
  • Netherlands Danique Tolhoek
  • Netherlands Rosa van Gool
  • Spain Júlia Bartel
  • Spain Laia Martret

1 own goal

  • Czech Republic Anna Bárková (against France)
  • Germany Jella Veit (against Netherlands)

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

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
 Netherlands24 July 20232 (2018, 2022)
 Germany24 July 202310 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
 France24 July 20238 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
 Spain24 July 20233 (2004, 2016, 2018, 2022)
 Austria4 October 2023[lower-alpha 1]0 (debut)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
  1. After the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, Austria took the new fifth spot as UEFA representative as they ended as the best third-ranked place team in the group stage.

References
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  2. "Belgium, Lithuania, Belarus to host WU19 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025". UEFA. 19 April 2021.
  3. "2022/23 Women's Under-19 EURO round 1 draw made". UEFA. 31 May 2022.
  4. "2023 Women's U19 EURO finals draw: 26 April". UEFA.com. 26 April 2023.
  5. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship". UEFA.com.
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