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.[1] A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2002 eligible to participate.
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Belarus |
Dates | July/August 2021 |
Teams | 8 (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 as the UEFA representatives.
Host selection
The timeline of host selection was as follows:[2]
- 11 January 2019: bidding procedure launched
- 28 February 2019: deadline to express interest
- 27 March 2019: Announcement by UEFA that declaration of interest were received from 17 member associations to host one of the UEFA national team youth final tournaments (UEFA European Under-19 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, UEFA European Under-17 Championship, UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship) in 2021 and 2022 (although it was not specified which association were interested in which tournament)
- 28 June 2019: Submission of bid dossiers
- 24 September 2019: Selection of successful host associations by the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting in Ljubljana
For the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Belarus and Czech Republic were selected as hosts respectively.[1]
Qualification
A total of 50 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Belarus qualifying automatically, the other 49 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.[3] The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2020, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2021.
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 |
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![]() | Hosts | 2nd | 2009 | Group stage (2009) |
TBD | Elite round Group 1 winners | |||
TBD | Elite round Group 2 winners | |||
TBD | Elite round Group 3 winners | |||
TBD | Elite round Group 4 winners | |||
TBD | Elite round Group 5 winners | |||
TBD | Elite round Group 6 winners | |||
TBD | Elite round Group 7 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 |
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TBD | 2021 | |
TBD | 2021 | |
TBD | 2021 | |
TBD | 2021 |
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
References
- "Belarus, Czech Republic to host WU19 EURO in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 24 September 2019.
- "17 member associations interested in hosting UEFA youth national team final tournaments in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 27 March 2019.
- "2020/21 #WU19EURO qualifying round draw". UEFA.com. 12 November 2019.