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Turkey national under 19 football team

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Appearances
  
4 (first in 2004)

Head coach
  
Feyyaz Uçar

Best result
  
Runners-up: 2004

Location
  
Turkey

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Association
  
Turkish Football Federation

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The Turkey national under-19 football team is the national under-19 football team of Turkey and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, held every year. The Under-19 UEFA tournament originally began as the FIFA Junior Tournament between 1948-54. It has since been renamed a number of times, most notably referred to as the UEFA European U-18 Championship between 1981-2001. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948. In addition, every even year, the top six teams from the respective UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship compete in the FIFA U-20 World Cup the following year.

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UEFA European U-19 Championship record*

*The tournament originally began in 1948 and has had a number of different names. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948. **Draws include knockout matches decided by penalty shoot-out. ***Silver background colour indicates that Turkey finished as runner-up. Q - Denotes qualified for the FIFA U-20 World Cup held the following year.

Individual awards

In addition to team victories, Turkish players have won individual awards at UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.

*Award was shared with other players.

Current squad

The following players were called up to participate in the Friendly match against  Hungary on 23 April 2014.

References

Turkey national under-19 football team Wikipedia