2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

The 2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2021) will be the 20th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (24th edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Belarus will host the tournament between 21 July – 2 August 2021.[2] A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2002 eligible to participate.[3]

2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryBelarus
Dates21 July – 2 August 2021[1]
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)TBD (in TBD host cities)

Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica as the UEFA representatives.

France are the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in 2019, with the 2020 edition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[4]

Host selection

The timeline of host selection was as follows:[5]

For the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Belarus and Czech Republic were selected as hosts respectively.[2]

Qualification
Main article: 2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification

A total of 50 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Belarus qualifying automatically, the original format would see the other 49 teams competing in the qualifying competition, which would consist of two rounds: Qualifying round, which would take place in autumn 2020, and Elite round, which would take place in spring 2021, to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.[6] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round would be delayed to February 2021, and the elite round would be abolished and replaced by play-offs, contested in April 2021 by the 12 qualifying round group winners, the best runners-up, and the top seed by coefficient ranking, Spain (which originally would receive a bye to the elite round), to determine the teams qualifying for the final tournament to determine the teams qualifying for the final tournament.[7][4]

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
 BelarusHosts2nd2009Group stage (2009)
TBDPlay-off winners
TBDPlay-off winners
TBDPlay-off winners
TBDPlay-off winners
TBDPlay-off winners
TBDPlay-off winners
TBDPlay-off winners

Venues

To be confirmed.

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

The following four teams from UEFA qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1
TBDJuly 2021
TBDJuly 2021
TBDJuly 2021
TBDJuly 2021
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References
  1. "2020/21 #WU19EURO qualifying round guide". UEFA. 18 July 2020.
  2. "Belarus, Czech Republic to host WU19 EURO in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 24 September 2019.
  3. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, 2020/21". UEFA. 13 July 2020.
  4. "Updated UEFA competitions calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  5. "17 member associations interested in hosting UEFA youth national team final tournaments in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 27 March 2019.
  6. "2020/21 #WU19EURO qualifying round draw". UEFA.com. 12 November 2019.
  7. "UEFA postpones youth national team competitions". UEFA.com. 13 August 2020.
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