2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
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The 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 20th edition of the
UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship or simply UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, is an annual competition in women's football for European national teams of players under 19 years of age. National under-19 teams whose countries belon ...
, the annual international youth
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championship organised by
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for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe.
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hosted the tournament on 18–30 July. It was the first women's final tournament held in Belgium. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate. Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the
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. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the
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in
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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 the winner of a play-off between the group stage third-placed teams would take this fifth spot.
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were the defending champions and successfully defended the title after beating
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in the final.


Qualification

52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Belgium also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams would 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
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, Switzerland.


Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.


Final draw

The final draw was held on 26 April 2023, 10:00
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, at the headquarters of the
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(RBFA) in Tubize, Belgium.


Venues


Squads

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


Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the
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. 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 the winner of a play-off between the group stage third-placed teams would take this fifth spot. ;Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams were ranked according to
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(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): #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #
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in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #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; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #
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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); #Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); #Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking All times are local, CEST (
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).


Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,
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would be used to decide the winner if necessary (no
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was played).


Bracket


Semi-finals

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Final


Goalscorers


Awards

The following awards were given after the tournament: *Player of the Tournament: Louna Ribadeira *Top Scorer: Louna Ribadeira (4 goals)


Team of the Tournament

After the tournament, the Under-19 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.


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

The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the
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in
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.


Fifth place play-off

Winner qualified for the
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.


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Women's Under-19 Championship 2023
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