Turkey national under-19 football team

Turkey Under-19s

Association	Turkish Football Federation
Head coach	Feyyaz Uçar
First colours Second colours
First international
Turkey 2–0 Slovakia 25 April 1999
Biggest win
Turkey 10–0 San Marino Belgium, 10 October 2004
Biggest defeat
Ukraine 4–0 Turkey Kiev, 6 July 2004
European Championship
Appearances	4 (first in 2004)
Best result	Runners-up: 2004

The Turkey national under-19 football team is the national under-19 football team of Turkey and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, held every year. The Under-19 UEFA tournament originally began as the FIFA Junior Tournament between 1948-54. It has since been renamed a number of times, most notably referred to as the UEFA European U-18 Championship between 1981-2001. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948. In addition, every even year, the top six teams from the respective UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship compete in the FIFA U-20 World Cup the following year.

Competitive record

UEFA European U-19 Championship record*

Edition	Round	MP	W	D**	L	GF	GA
2002	Qualifying round	–	–	–	–	–	–
2003	First qualifying round	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004	Runner-up^Q	5	2	1	2	10	10
2005	Qualifying round	–	–	–	–	–	–
2006	Group stage	3	0	1	2	9	12
2007	Elite round	3	1	1	1	3	3
2008	Elite round	3	1	0	2	2	7
2009	Group stage	3	0	1	2	2	4
2010	Elite round	3	2	0	1	6	4
2011	Group stage	3	1	1	1	4	3
2012	Elite round	3	1	0	2	6	6
2013	Group stage	3	1	0	2	6	6
2014	Elite round	3	2	1	0	7	5
2015	Group stage	3	0	0	3	2	13
2016	To be determined
2017

*The tournament originally began in 1948 and has had a number of different names. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948.

**Draws include knockout matches decided by penalty shoot-out.

***Silver background colour indicates that Turkey finished as runner-up.

Q - Denotes qualified for the FIFA U-20 World Cup held the following year.

Individual awards

In addition to team victories, Turkish players have won individual awards at UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.

Year	Top Goalscorer
2004*	Ali Öztürk
2006*	İlhan Parlak

*Award was shared with other players.

Recent results

Hungary  v  Turkey

23 April 2014 Friendly	Hungary	5–2	Turkey	Pancho Arena, Felcsút
17:00	G. Bobál  8', 38', 60' Farkas  49'  61'	TFF	Demirci  47' Antalyalı  78'

Current squad

The following players were called up to participate in the Friendly match against  Hungary on 23 April 2014.^[1]

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	İbrahim Demir	2 September 1995	2	0	Trabzonspor
	GK	Okan Koçuk	27 July 1995	0	0	Bursaspor
	DF	Onur Atasayar	1 January 1995	0	0	Ankaragücü
	DF	İdris Cengiz	1 January 1995	1	0	Kasımpaşa
	DF	Süheyl Çetin	22 June 1995	5	0	Kahramanmaraşspor
	DF	Mert Kula	1 January 1995	0	0	Kasımpaşa
	DF	Emre Taşdemir	8 August 1995	6	2	Ankaragücü
	MF	Muhammed Ali Doğan	10 August 1995	3	0	Elazığspor
	MF	Taylan Antalyalı	8 January 1995	4	0	Bucaspor
	MF	Vedat Bora	27 January 1995	0	0	Anadolu Selçukluspor
	MF	Şevki Çinar	6 July 1995	6	0	Denizlispor
	MF	Muhammed Demirci	3 January 1995	5	1	Beşiktaş
	MF	Doğan Erdoğan	22 August 1996	9	0	Samsunspor
	MF	Oğuzhan Kayar	2 April 1995	3	0	Galatasaray
	MF	Melih Okutan	1 July 1996	3	0	Fenerbahçe
	FW	Batuhan Altıntaş	14 March 1996	6	2	Bursaspor
	FW	Oğulcan Cağlayan	22 March 1996	0	0	Gaziantepspor
	FW	Gökdeniz Varol	15 September 1995	0	0	Manisaspor

See also

• Turkey national football team
• Turkey national under-21 football team
• Turkey national under-20 football team
• Turkey national under-17 football team

References

1. "Turkey Under-19". TFF (in Turkish).