The 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Armenia in the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.[1]
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2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification|
Dates | Qualifying round: 10 October – 20 November 2018 Elite round: 20–26 March 2019 |
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Teams | 54 (from 1 confederation) |
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Matches played | 120 |
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Goals scored | 370 (3.08 per match) |
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Top scorer(s) | Loïs Openda Valentin Mihăilă Aljoša Matko (6 goals each) |
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Apart from Armenia, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.[2] Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to participate. Starting from this season, up to five substitutions were permitted per team in each match.[3]
The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:[4]
- Qualifying round: Apart from Portugal and Germany, which received byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The thirteen group winners and the thirteen runners-up advanced to the elite round.
- Elite round: The 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The seven group winners qualified for the final tournament.
The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 19.04):[4]
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Group schedule
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1 v 4, 3 v 2 |
Matchday 2 |
1 v 3, 2 v 4 |
Matchday 3 |
2 v 1, 4 v 3 |
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Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, 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 14.01 and 14.02):[4]
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference 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 this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- 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);
- Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
- UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 2017, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5][6]
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (a four-year window was used instead of the previous three-year window):[7]
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.[2]
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- Notes
- Teams marked in bold qualified for the final tournament.
Groups
The qualifying round was required to be completed by 20 November 2018.[6]
Times up to 27 October 2018 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Group 5
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Head-to-head result: Turkey 1–0 England.
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Group 6
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Group 7
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Group 8
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Head-to-head results: Norway 1–2 Slovakia, Ukraine 1–2 Norway, Slovakia 1–4 Ukraine. Head-to-head standings:
- Ukraine: 3 pts, +2 GD (5 GF, 3 GA)
- Norway: 3 pts, 0 GD (3 GF, 3 GA)
- Slovakia: 3 pts, −2 GD (3 GF, 5 GA)
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Head-to-head result: Latvia 0–1 Cyprus.
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Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2018, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8][9]
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round.[10] Portugal and Germany, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn in the same group.
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UEFARules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient; 6) drawing of lots.
Groups
The elite round was played from 18–26 March 2019, during the March FIFA International Match Calendar dates.
Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group 1
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Head-to-head result: Greece 2–1 England.
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Head-to-head result: Belgium 2–5 Ukraine.
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The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
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Armenia | Hosts | 9 December 2016[1] | 1 (2005) |
Republic of Ireland | Elite round Group 1 winners | 23 March 2019 | 2 (2002, 2011) |
Czech Republic | Elite round Group 2 winners | 26 March 2019 | 6 (2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2017) |
Norway | Elite round Group 3 winners | 26 March 2019 | 4 (2002, 2003, 2005, 2018) |
Spain | Elite round Group 4 winners | 26 March 2019 | 11 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015) |
France | Elite round Group 5 winners | 26 March 2019 | 10 (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018) |
Portugal | Elite round Group 6 winners | 26 March 2019 | 10 (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) |
Italy | Elite round Group 7 winners | 26 March 2019 | 6 (2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018) |
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
In the qualifying round, there were 243 goals scored in 78 matches, for an average of 3.12 goals per match.
In the elite round, there were 127 goals scored in 42 matches, for an average of 3.02 goals per match.
In total, there were 370 goals scored in 120 matches, for an average of 3.08 goals per match.
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Source: UEFA.com[11]