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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Northern Ireland |
| Dates | Cancelled Original schedule: 19 July – 1 August 2020 First revised schedule: 7–14 October 2020 (group stage) 11–14 November 2020 (knockout stage) Second revised schedule: November 2020 (group stage) March 2021 (knockout stage) Third revised schedule: March 2021 |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
← 2019 | |
The 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2020) was scheduled to be the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (69th 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. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was initially postponed, rescheduled and was cancelled in October 2020.[1]
Northern Ireland, which last hosted the tournament in 2005,[2][3] was selected as host by UEFA on 9 December 2016.[4]
As in previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament was due to act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives. Following the cancellation of the tournament, UEFA instead nominated the top five ranked countries in the qualifying round coefficient ranking.[5]
- ^ "Under-19 EURO: new schedule". UEFA.com. 13 August 2020.
- ^ "NI to host European U-19 Championship". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Northern Ireland to host UEFA European Under-19 Championship in 2020".
- ^ "Armenia and Northern Ireland to stage U19 EURO". UEFA.com. 9 December 2016.
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