Association | Turkish Football Federation | ||
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Head coach | Şenol Ustaömer | ||
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First international | |||
Turkey 2–0 Slovakia 25 April 1999 | |||
Biggest win | |||
Turkey 10–0 San Marino Belgium, 10 October 2004 | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Portugal 6–1 Turkey Tbilisi Georgia, 29 May 2015 | |||
European Championship | |||
Appearances | 7 (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 and 1954. It has since been renamed a number of times, most notably referred to as the UEFA European U-18 Championship between 1981 and 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 five teams from the respective UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship compete in the FIFA U-20 World Cup the following year.