2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Tournament details
Host country	TBA
Dates	Summer 2019
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)

The 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship will be 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.

A total of 12 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1996 eligible to participate.^[1]

Same as previous Under-21 Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, this tournament will serve as European qualifying for the Olympic football tournament, with the top teams of the tournament (number of teams to be confirmed) qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament, where they will be represented by their under-23 national teams with maximum of three overage players allowed.

Hosts

The hosts have yet to be announced. The Italian Football Federation has confirmed that Italy will bid to host the tournament in 2019.^[2]

Qualification

With the hosts qualifying automatically, the other teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 11 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition, which will take place from March 2017 to November 2018, consists of two rounds:^[1]

Qualifying group stage: The teams are drawn into nine groups of five or six teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the four best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) advance to the play-offs.
Play-offs: The four teams are drawn into two ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last two qualified teams.

References

1 2 "2017-19 UEFA European Under-21 Championship regulations" (PDF). UEFA.
↑ "ITALY WILL SUBMIT APPLICATION TO HOST U21 2019 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP TO UEFA". FIGC.it. 10 July 2015.

External links

Official website

UEFA European U-21 and U-23 Championship

Under-23 Championship

Without host	1970–1972 1972–1974 1974–1976

Under-21 Championship

Without host	1976–1978 1978–1980 1980–1982 1982–1984 1984–1986 1986–1988 1988–1990 1990–1992

With host	France 1994 Spain 1996 Romania 1998 Slovakia 2000 Switzerland 2002 Germany 2004 Portugal 2006 Netherlands 2007 Sweden 2009 Denmark 2011 Israel 2013 Czech Republic 2015 Poland 2017 TBA 2019

Qualification	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

Finals	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Squads	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

National under-21 football teams of Europe (UEFA)

Active	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany USSR Yugoslavia

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