2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship

The 2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Futsal Euro 2019) was the first edition of the UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship, the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe.^[1][2] The tournament was held at the Arēna Rīga in Riga, Latvia between 8–14 September 2019.^[3][4]

2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Latvia
City	Riga
Dates	8–14 September
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (1st title)
Runners-up	Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	78 (5.2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Adrián Rodríguez Antonio Pérez (5 goals each)
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A total of eight teams played in the final tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2000 eligible to participate. Spain won the title to become the first UEFA Under-19 Futsal Euro champions.^[5]

Host selection

The bid requirements were made available on 13 April 2018. A total of seven countries declared interest in hosting the tournament:

•  Croatia
•  Georgia
•  Hungary
•  Latvia
•  Portugal
•  Russia
•  Ukraine

Only Georgia and Latvia submitted the bid dossier by the deadline of 25 July. Latvia were appointed as hosts by the UEFA Executive Committee on 27 September 2018.^[3][4]

Qualification

Main article: 2019 UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship qualification

A total of 35 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Latvia qualifying automatically, the other 34 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.^[6] The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds:^[7]

• Preliminary round: The eight lowest-ranked teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the pre-selected hosts. The two group winners advanced to the main round.
• Main round: The 28 teams (26 highest-ranked teams and two preliminary round qualifiers) were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the pre-selected hosts. The seven group winners qualified to the final tournament.

The qualifying draw was held on 1 November 2018. The preliminary round was held between 21 and 26 January 2019, and the main round was held between 26 and 31 March 2019.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification
Latvia	Hosts
Poland	Main round Group 1 winners
Netherlands	Main round Group 2 winners
Portugal	Main round Group 3 winners
Ukraine	Main round Group 4 winners
Spain	Main round Group 5 winners
Russia	Main round Group 6 winners
Croatia	Main round Group 7 winners

Final draw

The final draw was held on 7 June 2019, 21:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Daugava Stadium in Riga, Latvia.^[8] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that the hosts Latvia were assigned to position A1 in the draw. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn into the same group.

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was announced on 25 June 2019.^[9]

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 18.01 and 18.02):^[7]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
10. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, EEST (UTC+3).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	9	Knockout stage
2	Poland	3	2	0	1	7	6	+1	6
3	Russia	3	1	0	2	8	8	0	3
4	Latvia (H)	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

Updated to match(es) played on 11 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Poland	3–2	Russia
Krzysztof Iwanek  10:03 Jakub Raszkowski  16:15 Bartosz Borowik  31:04 (2pen.)	Report	Pavel Karpov  3:27, 32:25

8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)

17:30

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 475^[10]

Referee: Admir Zahovič (Slovenia), Vedran Babić (Croatia)

Latvia	0–6	Portugal
	Report	Andrejs Iļjins  11:22 (o.g.) Hugo Neves  15:03, 29:52 Célio Coque  23:44 Rui Moreira  24:37 Daniel Costa  36:12

8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)

20:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 1150^[10]

Referee: Juan José Cordero (Spain), Chiara Perona (Italy)

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Russia	5–1	Latvia
Danil Karpyuk  13:48, 32:12 Pavel Karpov  14:02 Denis Titkov  29:19 Kamil Gereykhanov  35:48	Report	Edgars Tarakanovs  24:54

9 September 2019 (2019-09-09)

17:30

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 650^[10]

Referee: Grigori Ošomkov (Estonia), Daniel Matkovic (Switzerland)

Poland	1–3	Portugal
Tomasz Palonek  12:39	Report	Tomás Reis  4:00 Ricardo Lopes  7:16, 8:20

9 September 2019 (2019-09-09)

20:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 260^[10]

Referee: Yaroslav Vovchok (Ukraine), Michael Christofides (Cyprus)

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Portugal	4–1	Russia
Sévio Marcelo  13:24, 39:31 Tomás Paçó  39:01 Tomás Reis  39:41	Report	Denis Titkov  2:21

11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)

12:30

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 250^[10]

Referee: Vedran Babić (Croatia), Juan José Cordero (Spain)

Latvia	1–3	Poland
Toms Grīslis  27:30	Report	Tomasz Palonek  13:23 Bartosz Borowik  21:24 Piotr Matras  31:34

11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)

20:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 710^[10]

Referee: Chiara Perona (Italy), Yaroslav Vovchok (Ukraine)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	9	Knockout stage
2	Croatia	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
3	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	9	10	−1	3
4	Netherlands	3	0	0	3	0	18	−18	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ukraine	7–0	Netherlands
Danylo Bielan  4:09, 15:31, 26:31 Denys Blank  11:22 Marian Masevych  23:39 Eduard Nahornyi  34:53 Oleh Nehela  35:28	Report

8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)

12:30

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 250^[10]

Referee: Ingus Puriņš (Latvia), Cristiano José Cardoso (Portugal)

Croatia	0–3	Spain
	Report	Adrián Rodríguez  3:23 Antonio Pérez  22:33 Jesús Gordillo  25:14

8 September 2019 (2019-09-08)

15:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 450^[10]

Referee: Jan Kresta (Czech Republic), Marjan Mladenovski (North Macedonia)

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Netherlands	0–6	Croatia
	Report	Božo Sučić  16:38, 17:54 Jakov Mudronja  21:09 Filip Petrušić  25:22 Toni Rendić  32:53 Fran Vukelić  34:34

9 September 2019 (2019-09-09)

12:30

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 120^[10]

Referee: Irina Velikanova (Russia), Fatma Özlem Tursun (Turkey)

Ukraine	1–7	Spain
Oleh Nehela  15:05	Report	Bernat Povill  2:46 Antonio Pérez  19:26 (2pen.) David Peña  21:58, 38:45 Cristian Molina  24:05 Adrián Rodríguez  30:03 Eduard Volkov  38:06 (o.g)

9 September 2019 (2019-09-09)

15:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 295^[10]

Referee: Borislav Kolev (Bulgaria), Slawomir Steczko (Poland)

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Croatia	3–1	Ukraine
Jakov Hrstić  16:06, 31:24 Božo Sučić  39:30	Report	Denys Blank  12:51

11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)

15:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 200^[10]

Referee: Cristiano José Cardoso (Portugal), Admir Zahovič (Slovenia)

Spain	5–0	Netherlands
Antonio Pérez  6:02 Nito Valle  7:55 Ricardo Mayor  15:40 David Peña  20:54 Adrián Rodríguez  22:49	Report

11 September 2019 (2019-09-11)

17:30

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 270^[10]

Referee: Jan Kresta (Czech Republic), Ingus Puriņš (Latvia)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.^[7]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	12 September – Riga
	Portugal	2 (2)
					14 September – Riga
	Croatia (p)	2 (3)
					Croatia	1
	12 September – Riga
					Spain	6
	Spain	3
	Poland	1

Semi-finals

Portugal	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Croatia
Célio Coque  29:29 Nuno Chuva  43:02	Report	Josip Jurlina  38:58 Fran Vukelić  47:15
Penalties
Tomás Paçó Célio Coque Hugo Neves	2–3	Jakov Mudronja Dominik Cvišić Josip Jurlina

12 September 2019 (2019-09-12)

17:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 250^[10]

Referee: Juan José Cordero (Spain), Jan Kresta (Czech Republic)

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Spain	3–1	Poland
Ricardo Mayor  13:35 Antonio Pérez  18:04 (pen.) Jesús Gordillo  23:51	Report	Tomasz Palonek  11:04

12 September 2019 (2019-09-12)

20:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 625^[10]

Referee: Cristiano José Cardoso (Portugal), Borislav Kolev (Bulgaria)

Final

Croatia	1–6	Spain
Mateo Mužar  13:00	Report	Ricardo Mayor  5:20 Adrián Rodríguez  14:13, 23:53 Cristian Molina  18:26 Antonio Pérez  19:33 (2pen.) Bernat Povill  22:25

14 September 2019 (2019-09-14)

20:00

Arēna Rīga, Riga

Attendance: 2 138^[10]

Referee: Ingus Puriņš (Latvia), Grigori Ošomkov (Estonia)

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Adrián Rodríguez
• Antonio Pérez

3 goals

• Božo Sučić
• Tomasz Palonek
• Pavel Karpov
• David Peña
• Ricardo Mayor
• Danylo Bielan

2 goals

• Fran Vukelić
• Jakov Hrstić
• Bartosz Borowik
• Célio Coque
• Hugo Neves
• Ricardo Lopes
• Sévio Marcelo
• Tomás Reis
• Danil Karpyuk
• Denis Titkov
• Bernat Povill
• Cristian Molina
• Jesús Gordillo
• Denys Blank
• Oleh Nehela

1 goal

• Filip Petrušić
• Jakov Mudronja
• Josip Jurlina
• Mateo Mužar
• Toni Rendić
• Edgars Tarakanovs
• Toms Grīslis
• Jakub Raszkowski
• Krzysztof Iwanek
• Piotr Matras
• Daniel Costa
• Nuno Chuva
• Rui Moreira
• Tomás Paçó
• Kamil Gereykhanov
• Nito Valle
• Eduard Nahornyi
• Marian Masevych

1 own goal

• Andrejs Iļjins (playing against Portugal)
• Eduard Volkov (playing against Spain)

Source:^[11]

Team of the tournament

The UEFA technical observers selected the following 14 players for the team of the tournament:^[12]

• Krzysztof Iwanek (goalkeeper)
• Antonio Navarro (goalkeeper)
• Ricardo Mayor
• Tomás Paçó
• Alejandro Cerón
• Josip Jurlina
• Antonio Pérez
• Cristian Molina
• Bernat Povill
• Fran Vukelić
• David Peña
• Jesús Gordillo
• Adrián Rodríguez
• Hugo Neves

Broadcasting

Television

All 15 matches will be live streamed in selected countries (including all unsold markets) and highlights are available for all territories around the world on UEFA.tv.^[13]

Participating nations

Country	Broadcaster
Latvia (host)	LTV
Croatia	Sport Klub
Netherlands	NOS
Poland	TVP
Portugal	RTP
Russia	Match TV
Spain	RTVE
Ukraine	UA:PBC

Non-participating European nations

Country/Region	Broadcaster
Albania	RTSH
Andorra	RTVE (Spanish)
Armenia	APMTV
Austria	ORF
Other Balkan countries  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Macedonia  Montenegro  Serbia  Slovenia	Sport Klub
Belarus	Belteleradio
Belgium	VRT (Dutch) RTBF (French)
Luxembourg
Bulgaria	BNT
Czech Republic	ČT
Denmark	DR
Faroe Islands
Estonia	ERR
Finland	Yle
Germany	Sport1
Hungary	MTVA
Iceland	RÚV
Ireland	RTÉ
Israel	Charlton
Italy	RAI
San Marino
Vatican City
Kosovo	RTK
Liechtenstein	SRG SSR
Switzerland
Lithuania	LRT
Malta	PBS
Norway	NRK
Romania	TVR
Slovakia	RTVS
Sweden	SVT
Turkey	TRT
United Kingdom	BBC

Outside Europe

Country/Regional	Broadcaster
China	CCTV
Latin American countries  Argentina  Bolivia  Chile  Colombia  Costa Rica  Dominican Republic  Ecuador  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama  Paraguay  Peru  Puerto Rico  Uruguay  Venezuela	ESPN Univision Deportes (Puerto Rico and USA only)
United States
MENA  Algeria  Bahrain  Chad  Comoros  Djibouti  Iran  Iraq  Jordan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Libya  Mauritania  Morocco  Oman  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Somalia  Palestine  Sudan  Syria  Tunisia  United Arab Emirates  Yemen	beIN Sports

Radio

Participating nations

Country	Broadcaster
Latvia (host)	LR
Netherlands	NOS
Poland	PR
Portugal	RTP
Spain	RTVE
Ukraine	UA:PBC

Non-participating European nations

Country/Region	Broadcaster
Albania	RTSH
Andorra	RTVE (Spanish)
Armenia	HR
Austria	ORF
Belarus	Belteleradio
Belgium	VRT (Dutch) RTBF (French)
Luxembourg
Bulgaria	BNR
Czech Republic	ČR
Denmark	DR
Faroe Islands
Estonia	ERR
Finland	Yle
Germany	Sport1
Hungary	MTVA
Iceland	RÚV
Ireland	RTÉ
Italy	RAI
San Marino
Vatican City
Kosovo	RTK
Liechtenstein	SRG SSR
Switzerland
Lithuania	LRT
Malta	PBS
Norway	NRK
Romania	RR
Slovakia	RTVS
Sweden	SR
Turkey	TRT
United Kingdom	BBC

Outside Europe

Country/Regional	Broadcaster
China	CRI
Latin American countries  Argentina  Bolivia  Chile  Colombia  Costa Rica  Dominican Republic  Ecuador  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama  Paraguay  Peru  Puerto Rico  Uruguay  Venezuela	ESPN Univision (Puerto Rico and USA only)
United States

References

1. "UEFA to revamp and expand futsal competitions". UEFA.com. 4 April 2017.
2. "Futsal entering an exciting era". UEFA.com. 30 January 2018.
3. "Bidders, calendar for new U19 Futsal EURO". UEFA.com. 12 April 2018.
4. "Latvia to host first U19 Futsal EURO". UEFA.com. 27 September 2018.
5. "Spain claim first U19 Futsal title: at a glance". UEFA.com. 14 September 2019.
6. "Entrants for new U19 Futsal EURO". UEFA.com. 20 September 2018.
7. "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-19 Futsal Championship, 2018/19" (PDF). UEFA.com.
8. "U19 Futsal EURO finals draw". UEFA.com.
9. "U19 Futsal EURO finals schedule confirmed". UEFA.com. 25 June 2019.
10. "UEFA European Under-19 Futsal Championship 2019. Final Tournament". UEFAtechnicalreports.com.
11. "Statistics — Under-19 Futsal EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
12. "U19 Futsal EURO 2019 team of the tournament". UEFA.com. 16 September 2019.
13. UEFA. "Where to watch Under-19 Futsal EURO". UEFA. Retrieved 2019-08-28.

External links

• Official website
• UEFA Under-19 Futsal EURO 2019, UEFA.com