2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryBelarus
DatesCancelled (originally 21 July – 2 August)
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
← 2020
2022 →

The 2021 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2021) was originally to be held as the 20th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (24th 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. Belarus were originally to host the tournament between 21 July and 2 August 2021.[1] A total of eight teams were originally to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2002 eligible to participate.[2] On 23 February 2021, UEFA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3]

Same as previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament would have acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica as the UEFA representatives. With the cancellation of the tournament, the UEFA Executive Committee nominated the four teams with the highest coefficient ranking at the time for the qualifying draw (Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands) as UEFA representatives for the World Cup.

France would have been the defending champions, having won the last tournament held in 2019, with the 2020 edition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[4] For that reason, UEFA announced on 23 February 2021 that this tournament was also cancelled.[3]

  1. ^ "Belarus, Czech Republic to host WU19 EURO in 2021 and 2022". UEFA.com. 24 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, 2020/21". UEFA. 13 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "2020/21 Women's U19 EURO cancelled". UEFA.com. 23 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Updated UEFA competitions calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.