2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

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]
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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.

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]

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]

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

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

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

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.

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

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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

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	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

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

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: UEFA

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

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