The Northern Ireland national under-19 football team also known as Northern Ireland under-19s or Northern Ireland U19s represents

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

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at under-19 level. It is controlled by the

Irish Football Association The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the governing body for association football in Northern Ireland. It organised the Ireland national football team from 1880 to 1950, which after 1954, became the Northern Ireland national football team. ...

and began under the name of Ireland Youth when the

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first held a round robin of friendly matches in 1948. The same year they entered the first International Youth Tournament, now the

UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain and England ...

. Their best performance was in 1963 when they finished as runner-up. The team evolved into the Northern Ireland under-18 team then the current under-19 team. As well as the UEFA Under-19 Championships the team also enters the annual

Milk Cup SuperCupNI, formerly called the Northern Ireland Youth Soccer Tournament and the Dale Farm Milk Cup, is an international youth football tournament held annually in Northern Ireland. The cup matches are mainly played in the North Coast area of ...

(currently as an under-20 side). In addition, the team plays regular friendlies, sometimes as an under-20 or under-18 team by agreement of the opposing association.

Competitive record

Champions Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place

European Championships

* 1948–1954 – FIFA Junior Tournament * 1955–1980 – UEFA Junior Tournament * 1981–2001 – UEFA European U-18 Championship * 2002–present – UEFA European U-19 Championship

Honours

Milk Cup Elite Section

* Winners: 1997, 2008, 2009, 2014

Coaches

Coaches of the Northern Ireland youth/under-18/under-19 side include:

Players

Current squad

Players born on or after 1 January 2003 will be eligible until the end of the

2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2022) was 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 footba ...

. ''Names in bold denote players who have been capped by Northern Ireland in a higher age group.'' The following players were named in the squad for the

2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification The 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-19 football competition that will determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Malta in the 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final ...

games against , and on 21, 24 and 27 September 2022 respectively.

Recent call-ups

The following players have previously been called up to the Northern Ireland under-19 squad and remain eligible. ^COVID = Player withdrew due to a positive COVID test or from being in close contact with someone with a positive COVID test.
^INJ = Player withdrew from the squad before any games had been played.
^PRE = Preliminary squad / standby.
^SEN = Player withdrew from the squad due to a call up to the senior team.
^SUS = Suspended from national team.
^WTD = Withdrew due to other reasons.

References

External links

Fixtures & Results

Current squad

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