2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Mistrovství Evropy ve fotbale žen do 19 let 2022
Tournament details
Host country	Czech Republic
Dates	27 June – 9 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (4th title)
Runners-up	Norway
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	42 (2.8 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nicole Arcangeli; (5 goals)
	← 2019; 2020; 2021 2023 →

The 2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2022) was the 19th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (23rd 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. The Czech Republic hosted the tournament.^[1] A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.

France were the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 editions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. France was eliminated in the semifinals.

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

The UEFA Executive Committee approved on 18 June 2020 a new qualifying format for the Women's Under-17 and Under-19 Championship starting from 2022.^[3] The qualifying competition will be played in two rounds, with teams divided into two leagues, and promotion and relegation between leagues after each round similar to the UEFA Nations League.^[4]

A record total of 52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Czech Republic also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams will qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 11 March 2021, 15:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[5]

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Under-19 Euro¹ only U-19 era (since 2002)
Czech Republic	Hosts	24 September 2019^[1]	0 (debut)
Germany	Round 2 Group A2 winners	12 April 2022	16 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
England	Round 2 Group A3 winners	12 April 2022	13 (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Sweden	Round 2 Group A1 winners	12 April 2022	9 (2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Norway	Round 2 Group A4 winners	16 May 2022	13 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
Italy	Round 2 Group A5 winners	12 April 2022	7 (2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018)
Spain	Round 2 Group A6 winners	12 April 2022	14 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
France	Round 2 Group A7 winners	12 April 2022	15 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Final draw

The final draw was held on 18 May 2022, 10:30 CET, at Clarion Congress Hotel in Ostrava, the Czech Republic.^[6] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There were no seeding, except that the hosts Czech Republic were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues

Frýdek-Místek	Karviná	Opava	Ostrava
Stadion Stovky	Městský Stadion	Mestský Fotbalovy Stadion	Městský Stadion	Stadion Bazaly
Capacity: 2,400	Capacity: 4,833	Capacity: 7,758	Capacity: 15,123	Capacity: 10,039

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 43.01).^[7]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02):^[7]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to that subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
Higher position in the qualification round 2 league ranking

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).^[8]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7	Knockout stage
2	France	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	5	Knockout stage
3	Italy	3	1	1	1	7	5	+2	4
4	Czech Republic (H)	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

27 June 2022