2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

The 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2023) was the 20th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (70th edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Malta hosted the tournament from 3 to 16 July 2023.^[2] A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate.

2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

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Tournament details
Host country	Malta
Dates	3–16 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Italy (4th title)
Runners-up	Portugal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	49 (3.27 per match)
Attendance	20,539 (1,369 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Víctor Barberà (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Luis Hasa[1]
← 2022 2024 →

England were the defending champions.^[3] They were not able to defend the title after failing to qualify for the competition. Italy were crowned champions for the fourth time after beating Portugal 1–0 in the final.^[4]

Host selection

Malta was appointed as the host for the tournament by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 19 April 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland.^[5][6]

Qualification

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).

Team	Method of qualification	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Malta	Hosts	1st	Debut
Norway	Elite round Group 1 winners	6th	2019 (Group stage)	Group stage (2002, 2003, 2005, 2018, 2019)
Italy	Elite round Group 2 winners	9th	2022 (Semi-finals)	Champions (2003)
Spain	Elite round Group 3 winners	13th	2019 (Champions)	Champions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)
Portugal	Elite round Group 4 winners	12th	2019 (Runners-up)	Champions (2018)
Greece	Elite round Group 5 winners	7th	2015 (Semi-finals)	Runners-up (2007, 2012)
Poland	Elite round Group 6 winners	3rd	2006 (Group stage)	Group stage (2004, 2006)
Iceland	Elite round Group 7 winners	1st	Debut

Venues

Ta'Qali		Paola
National Stadium	Centenary Stadium	Tony Bezzina Stadium
Capacity: 16,997	Capacity: 3,000	Capacity: 2,968
Xewkija (Gozo)	Ta'Qali Paola Xewkija
Gozo Stadium
Capacity: 1,644

Draw

The final draw was held on 19 April 2023, 13:00 CEST at Manoel Theatre, Valletta.^[7]

Squads

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads

Group stage

All times are local CEST (UTC+2).

Tie-breaking criteria for group play

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; 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; Disciplinary points Yellow card: −1 point; Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; Direct red card: −3 points; UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Knockout stage
2	Italy	3	1	1	1	6	6	0	4
3	Poland	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Malta	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Poland	0–2	Portugal
	Report	Brás 4' H. Félix 60'

3 July 2023

18:00 CEST

Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola

Attendance: 772

Referee: Juxhin Xhaja (Albania)

Malta	0–4	Italy
	Report	Ndour 19' (pen.) Esposito 32' (pen.) D'Andrea 47' Vignato 90+2' (pen.)

3 July 2023

21:00 CEST

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,427

Referee: Yigal Frid (Israel)

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Portugal	5–1	Italy
R. Ribeiro 35' Sá 57' Brás 68' H. Félix 89' Vasconcelos 90+1'	Report	Lipani 6'

6 July 2023

18:00 CEST

Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 1,328

Referee: Sven Jablonski (Germany)

Malta	0–2	Poland
	Report	Strzałek 59' Pieńko 82'

6 July 2023

21:15 CEST

Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 1,618

Referee: Yael Falcón (Argentina)

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Portugal	2–1	Malta
Falé 8' Vasconcelos 75'	Report	Tuma 72'

9 July 2023

18:00 CEST

Gozo Stadium, Xewkija

Attendance: 894

Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)

Italy	1–1	Poland
Hasa 34'	Report	Strzałek 8'

9 July 2023

18:00 CEST

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 1,053

Referee: Gergo Bogár (Hungary)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	7	Knockout stage
2	Norway	3	1	2	0	6	5	+1	5
3	Iceland	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Greece	3	0	1	2	4	10	−6	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Norway	5–4	Greece
Roaldsøy 6' Ødegård 15', 44' Flataker 18' Skogvold 36'	Report	Tzimas 51', 81' Stavropoulos 80' Kalogeropoulos 90+5'

4 July 2023

18:00 CEST

Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 586

Referee: Joonas Jaanovits (Estonia)

Iceland	1–2	Spain
Þorsteinsson 90+1'	Report	Gasiorowski 16' Barberà 47'

4 July 2023

21:15 CEST

Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 753

Referee: Gergo Bogár (Hungary)

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Greece	0–5	Spain
	Report	Barberà 11', 45+1' Ángel 14' Palacios 17' Casas 57'

7 July 2023

18:00 CEST

Gozo Stadium, Xewkija

Attendance: 479

Referee: Yigal Frid (Israel)

Iceland	1–1	Norway
Guðmundsson 89'	Report	Roaldsøy 65' (pen.)

7 July 2023

21:00 CEST

Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola

Attendance: 532

Referee: Juxhin Xhaja (Albania)

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Greece	0–0	Iceland
	Report

10 July 2023

21:00 CEST

Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola

Attendance: 324

Referee: Sven Jablonski (Germany)

Spain	0–0	Norway
	Report

10 July 2023

21:00 CEST

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 704

Referee: Yael Falcón (Argentina)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	13 July – Paola
	Portugal	5
					16 July – Ta' Qali
	Norway	0
					Portugal	0
	13 July – Ta' Qali
					Italy	1
	Spain	2
	Italy	3

Semi-finals

Portugal	5–0	Norway
Sá 6' H. Félix 17' (pen.) Ribeiro 31', 66' Forbs 69'	Report

13 July 2023 (2023-7-13)

18:00 CEST

Tony Bezzina Stadium, Paola

Attendance: 709

Referee: Yael Falcón (Argentina)

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Spain	2–3	Italy
Barberà 58' Gasiorowski 74'	Report	Vignato 52' Pisilli 66' Lipani 85'

13 July 2023 (2023-7-13)

21:00 CEST

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 1,712

Referee: Yigal Frid (Israel)

Final

Portugal	0–1	Italy
	Report	Kayode 19'

16 July 2023 (2023-7-16)

21:00 CEST

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 5,648^[8]

Referee: Sven Jablonski (Germany)

Goalscorers

There were 49 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.27 goals per match.

4 goals

• Víctor Barberà

3 goals

• Hugo Félix
• Rodrigo Ribeiro

2 goals

• Stefanos Tzimas
• Luca Lipani
• Samuele Vignato
• Niklas Ødegård
• Alwande Roaldsøy
• Igor Strzałek
• Gabi Brás
• Gustavo Sá
• João Vasconcelos
• Yarek Gasiorowski

1 goal

• Alexios Kalogeropoulos
• Christos Stavropoulos
• Eggert Aron Guðmundsson
• Ágúst Orri Þorsteinsson
• Luca D'Andrea
• Francesco Pio Esposito
• Luis Hasa
• Michael Kayode
• Cher Ndour
• Niccolò Pisilli
• Basil Tuma
• Tomasz Pieńko
• Carlos Forbs
• Miguel Falé
• Erik Flataker
• Henrik Skogvold
• Manuel Ángel
• Arnau Casas
• César Palacios

Source: UEFA

Team of the Tournament

Portugal and Italy teams right before the beginning of the final match of the tournament.

The UEFA Technical Observer team announced the team of the tournament.^[9]

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Gonçalo Ribeiro	Filippo Missori Alessandro Dellavalle Gabriel Brás Álex Valle	Niklas Ødegård César Palacios Luis Hasa	Hugo Félix Víctor Barberà Carlos Forbs