The 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2024) was the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (71st edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Northern Ireland hosted the tournament from 15 to 28 July 2024. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2005 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament will act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the UEFA representatives.
Italy were the defending champions, having beaten Portugal 1âÂÂ0 in the 2023 final, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Spain.
Northern Ireland was appointed as the host for the tournament by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 19 April 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
The tournament was hosted in 3 venues.
A total of 6 Referees, 8 Assistants and 2 Fourth Officials were selected for the tournament.
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
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Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
The UEFA Technical Observer team announced the team of the tournament.