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2019 UEFA European Under 21 Championship

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Dates
  
Summer 2019

Venue(s)
  
6 (in 6 host cities)

Host country
  
Italy (with San Marino)

Teams
  
12 (from 1 confederation)

The 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship will be the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (25th edition if the Under-23 era is also included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament will be hosted in Italy and San Marino in mid-2019, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 9 December 2016 in Nyon, Switzerland.

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A total of 12 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1996 eligible to participate.

Same as previous Under-21 Championships that were held one year prior to the Olympics, this tournament will serve as European qualifying for the Olympic football tournament, with the top teams of the tournament (number of teams to be confirmed) qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament, where they will be represented by their under-23 national teams with maximum of three overage players allowed.

Hosts

The Italian Football Federation confirmed that Italy would bid to host the tournament in 2019, which also involved the San Marino Football Federation. Hosts Italy and San Marino were announced at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 9 December 2016.

Qualification

All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Italy qualifying automatically (the other co-hosts San Marino will not qualify automatically), the other 54 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 11 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition, which will take place from March 2017 to November 2018, consists of two rounds:

  • Qualifying group stage: The 54 teams are drawn into nine groups of six teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the four best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) advance to the play-offs.
  • Play-offs: The four teams are drawn into two ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last two qualified teams.

    • Qualified teams

    The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

    Note: All appearance statistics include only U-21 era (since 1978).

    Venues

    On 9 December 2016, Italian Football Federation pre-selected venues (included two inside San Marino territory):

  • Stadio Renato Dall'Ara in Bologna, Italy
  • Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Stadio Dino Manuzzi in Cesena, Italy
  • Stadio Friuli in Udine, Italy
  • San Marino Stadium in Serravalle, San Marino
  • New multi-purpose sports stadium in Dogana, San Marino

    • References

    2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Wikipedia
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