2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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Host countriesItaly
San Marino
Dates16–30 June[1]
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue6 (in 6 host cities)
2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Campionato europeo di calcio Under-21 2019
Tournament details
Host countriesItaly
San Marino
Dates16–30 June[1]
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Spain (5th title)
Runners-up Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played21
Goals scored78 (3.71 per match)
Attendance214,637 (10,221 per match)
Top scorerGermany Luca Waldschmidt (7 goals)
Best playerSpain Fabián Ruiz
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The 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-21 Euro 2019) was the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (25th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament was hosted by Italy (and some matches by San Marino) in mid-2019, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 9 December 2016 in Nyon, Switzerland.[2][3]

A total of twelve teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1996 eligible to participate.[4]

Same as previous Under-21 Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, this tournament served as European qualifying for the Olympic football tournament, with the top four teams of the tournament qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament in Japan, where they will be represented by their under-23 national teams with maximum of three overage players allowed. The four teams that qualified for the Olympic Games were the ones that qualified for the knockout stage of this championship.[5] For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used at the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.[6]

Germany were the defending champions.

In 2015 the Italian Football Federation confirmed that Italy would bid to host the tournament in 2019,[7] which also involved the San Marino Football Federation. Italy and San Marino were appointed as hosts at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 9 December 2016.[2][failed verification][8]

Qualification

Venues

On 9 December 2016, Italian Football Federation pre-selected venues (including one inside San Marino territory):[16]

Italy
Bologna Reggio nell'Emilia Cesena
Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore Stadio Dino Manuzzi
Capacity: 31,000 Capacity: 21,500 Capacity: 20,194
Trieste Udine Serravalle ( San Marino)
Stadio Nereo Rocco Dacia Arena San Marino Stadium
Capacity: 20,500 Capacity: 25,151 Capacity: 4,778

Match officials

Country Referee 1st assistant referee 2nd assistant referee
 BelarusAleksei KulbakovDzmitry ZhukAleh Maslianka
 BulgariaGeorgi KabakovMartin MargaritovDiyan Valkov
 IsraelOrel GrinfeldRoy HassanIdan Yarkoni
 LatviaAndris TreimanisHaralds GudermanisAleksejs Spasjonņikovs
 NetherlandsSerdar GözübüyükCharles SchaapJan de Vries
 RomaniaIstván KovácsOvidiu ArteneVasile Marinescu
 ScotlandBobby MaddenFrancis ConnorDavid Roome
 SerbiaSrđan JovanovićUroš StojkovićMilan Mihajlović
 SwedenAndreas EkbergMehmet CulumStefan Hallberg

Video Assistant Referees (VAR)

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers, at least 10 full days before the opening match. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.[4]

Group stage

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.[4]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 June – Reggio Emilia
 
 
 Spain4
 
30 June – Udine
 
 France1
 
 Spain2
 
27 June – Bologna
 
 Germany1
 
 Germany4
 
 
 Romania2
 

Semi-finals

Germany 4–2 Romania
 Report
Attendance: 16,211[36]
Spain 4–1 France
 Report
Attendance: 6,522[37]

Final

Spain 2–1 Germany
 Report
Attendance: 23,232[38]

Goalscorers

There were 78 goals scored in 21 matches, for an average of 3.71 goals per match.

7 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Team of the tournament

After the tournament the Under-21 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observers.[41]

Position Player
Goalkeeper Germany Alexander Nübel
Defenders Germany Lukas Klostermann
Germany Jonathan Tah
Spain Jesús Vallejo
Germany Benjamin Henrichs
Midfielders Spain Fabián Ruiz
Germany Mahmoud Dahoud
Spain Dani Olmo
Germany Luca Waldschmidt
Spain Dani Ceballos
Forward Romania George Pușcaș

Qualified teams for 2020 Summer Olympics

The following four teams from UEFA qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
 Spain22 June 2019[42]10 (1920, 1924, 1928, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2012)
 Germany23 June 2019[43]9 (1912, 1928, 1936, 1952, 19562, 19722, 19842, 19882, 2016)
 Romania24 June 2019[44]3 (1924, 1952, 1964)
 France24 June 2019[44]12 (1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1948, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1996)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
2 The team represented the United Team of Germany in 1956, and the Federal Republic of Germany (i.e., West Germany) in 1972, 1984 and 1988.

England were ineligible for the Olympics as they are not an Olympic nation (while an agreement was reached between the four British football associations to enter the Great Britain women's team, no agreement was reached for the men's team).[45] Had they reached the semi-finals, the last Olympic spot would have gone to the winner of an Olympic play-off match, scheduled to be played at Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena on 28 June 2019, 21:00 CEST, between the two group runners-up which did not qualify for the semi-finals.[15][46] However, when England failed to advance out of the group stage, this match was cancelled.

International broadcasters

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