The 2026 UEFA European Under-19 Championship will be the 23rd edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (73rd edition if the Under-18 and Junior era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Wales, which were selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023, will host the tournament. A total of 8 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 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 four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan as the UEFA representatives besides Azerbaijan who automatically qualified as co-host, with the fifth-placed team advancing to the intercontinental play-off series.
Upon being awarded the tournament in 2023, the Football Association of Wales anticipated that the tournament would be hosted in 5 venues (Bangor, Colwyn Bay, Deeside, Denbigh and Wrexham), with a later release no longer stating Deeside or Colwyn Bay as a venue, and replacing it with Caernarfon. Colwyn Bay was named as a training ground for the tournament.. In November 2025, a test event was organised, which involved matches in Denbigh, Wrexham, and Rhyl, the latter not among the initial five named locations but will act as a training venue.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.
The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup including Azerbaijan which qualified as co-host. while one team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.