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

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competition contested by the women's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Israel hosted the tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to participate in this competition. Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the

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. The four semi-finalists qualified for the

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in Papua New Guinea as the UEFA representatives.

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.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. ''Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).'' Notes

Final draw

The final draw was held in Haifa, Israel on 20 May 2015, 20:15 IDT ( UTC+3). 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.

Squads

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

Sweden

Match officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament. ;Referees * Esther Azzopardi ( Malta) * Lorraine Clark ( Scotland) * Rhona Daly ( Republic of Ireland) * Eleni Lampadariou ( Greece) * Lina Lehtovaara ( Finland) * Ana Minić ( Serbia) ;Assistant referees * Biljana Atanasovski Milanova (

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) * Stephanie Forde ( Belgium) * Fijke Hoogendijk ( Netherlands) * Biljana Iskin ( Austria) * Susanne Küng (

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) * Mihaela Ţepuşă Gomoescu ( Romania) * Katalin Török ( Hungary) * Diana Vanaga (

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) ;Fourth officials * Vesna Budimir ( Croatia) * Tania Fernandes Morais ( Luxembourg)

Group stage

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the

. ;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: # Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question; # Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question; # Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question; # 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; # Superior goal difference in all group matches; # Higher number of goals scored in all group matches; # 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). # 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); # Drawing of lots. All times were local, IDT ( UTC+3).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,

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and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

;6 goals *

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;3 goals *

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* Alba Redondo ;2 goals * Nicoline Sørensen *

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* Rebecca Knaak *

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;1 goal *

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* Noémie Carage * Juliane Gathrat *

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* Madeline Gier * Eden Avital *

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* Sandra Hernández *

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* Tove Almqvist *

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;Own goals * Rebecca Knaak (playing against Norway) *

(playing against Germany) * Emelie Andersson (playing against France)

Team of the tournament

;Goalkeepers * Lena Pauels *

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;Defenders * Théa Greboval * Rebecca Knaak *

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* Felicitas Rauch *

;Midfielders *

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* Juliane Gathrat * Maёlle Garbino * Sandra Hernández ;Forwards *

* Tove Almqvist *

* Eden Avital * Madeline Gier Golden player:

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. :

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

References

External links

History – UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship: 2014/15
UEFA.com

UEFA.com
Official website (Hebrew)
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