Host country Finland Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities) | Dates Summer 2018 | |
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation) | ||
The 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (67th 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. Finland, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, will host the tournament.
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A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acts as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top teams of the tournament (number of teams to be confirmed) will qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup as the UEFA representatives.
Qualification
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time), and with the hosts Finland qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2018.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).