The 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship is the 22nd edition of the

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, 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. Currently held in

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, the country hosted the tournament after the original host

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was stripped from hosting rights due to the country's involvement of the

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. Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the

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. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the

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as the UEFA representatives besides

who automatically qualified as host. If Poland finished in the top four, the team that would be ranked fifth and sixth in the final stage would also qualify. A total of eight teams are playing in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2006 eligible to participate.

Venues

Qualification

52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Poland 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.

Qualified teams

Seven teams will qualify for the final tournament along with hosts Poland. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Squads

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and are automatically qualified for the

. If Poland finished fourth in their group, the play-off match for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup would be played.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winners if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers

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

The following six teams from UEFA qualified for the

, including Poland which qualified as hosts. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links

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