2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Europees kampioenschap dames onder 19 2023
Championnat d'Europe féminin des moins de 19 ans 2023
U-19-Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2023
Tournament details
Host countryBelgium
Dates18–30 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Spain (5th title)
Runners-up Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored47 (3.13 per match)
Attendance15,149 (1,010 per match)
Top scorer(s)France Louna Ribadeira
(4 goals)
Best player(s)France Louna Ribadeira[1]
2022
2024

The 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was the 20th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Belgium hosted the tournament on 18–30 July.[2] It was the first women's final tournament held in Belgium.[3] A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate.

Similar to the previous editions held in odd-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia as the UEFA representatives. However, on 4 October 2023, after the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, a new fifth spot was allocated to UEFA and the winner of a play-off between the group stage third-placed teams would take this fifth spot.[4][5]

Spain were the defending champions and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final.

  1. ^ "Louna Ribadeira named 2023 Women's Under-19 EURO Player of the Tournament". UEFA.com. 4 August 2023.
  2. ^ "2022/23 Women's U19 EURO round 2 draw". UEFA. 7 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Belgium, Lithuania, Belarus to host WU19 EURO in 2023, 2024, 2025". UEFA. 19 April 2021.
  4. ^ "U19 Frauen: Traum von Kolumbien-WM lebt".
  5. ^ "Ísland í umspil um sæti í lokakeppni HM U20".