2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship


The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 17th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Switzerland, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament.
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.
Spain were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final, and became the first nation to win the women's under-17 and under-19 titles in the same year.

Qualification

A total of 49 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Switzerland qualifying automatically, the other 48 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era.
TeamMethod of qualificationAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
8th2016
12th2016
15th2017
14th2017
13th2017
8th2017
7th2015
7th2017

Final draw

The final draw was held on 23 April 2018, 18:00 CEST, at the Stufenbau in Ittigen, Switzerland. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Switzerland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, a group West and a group East.

Yverdon-les-BainsBiel/BienneWohlenZug
Stade MunicipalTissot ArenaStadion NiedermattenHerti Allmend Stadion
Capacity: 5,165Capacity: 5,200Capacity: 3,616Capacity: 4,707
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Match officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.
;Referees
;Assistant referees
;Fourth officials
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players.

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 30 April 2018.
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.
;Tiebreakers
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
  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 ;
  8. Disciplinary points ;
  9. UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
  10. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, CEST.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

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

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

Team of the tournament

The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament :
Starting XI:
;Goalkeeper
;Defenders
;Midfielders
;Forwards
Substitutes:
;Goalkeeper
;Defenders
;Midfielders
;Forwards