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 hosts the tournament on 18–30 July. It is the first women's final tournament to be held in Belgium A total of eight teams are playing 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.
Spain were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final.
52 (out of 55) UEFA nations entered the qualifying competition, with the hosts Belgium also competing despite already qualifying automatically, and seven teams would qualify for the final tournament at the end of round 2 to join the hosts. The draw for round 1 was held on 31 May 2022, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
The final draw was held on 26 April 2023, 10:00 CET, at the headquarters of the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) in Tubize, Belgium.
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 44.01).
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. 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.
In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 20.01 and 20.02):
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).
There were 47 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.13 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
The following awards were given after the tournament:
After the tournament, the Under-19 Team of the Tournament was selected by the UEFA Technical Observer panel.
The following five teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.
Winner qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
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