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The 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2018) is 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.

A total of eight teams are playing 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 five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland as the UEFA representatives, besides Poland who qualified automatically as hosts.

In the final, which was played on 29 July, France defeated Ukraine 2–0.

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 competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took 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).

Final draw
The final draw was held on 30 May 2018, 12:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Vaasa City Hall in Vaasa, Finland. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Finland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.

Venues
The tournament will take place in Vaasa and Seinäjoki.

Match officials
A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.


 * Referees
 * 🇦🇹 Manuel Schüttengruber
 * 🇧🇪 Jonathan Lardot
 * 🇵🇱 Bartosz Frankowski
 * Andrew Dallas
 * 🇪🇸 Juan Martinez Munuera
 * Sandro Schärer


 * Assistant referees
 * 🇧🇦 Damir Lazić
 * Bojan Zobenica
 * Daniel Norgaard
 * 🇪🇪 Aron Härsing
 * 🇮🇸 Bryngeir Valdimarsson
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Cerei
 * 🇸🇪 Joakim Nilsson
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ian Bird


 * Fourth officials
 * 🇫🇮 Ville Nevalainen
 * 🇫🇮 Petri Viljanen

Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 39).

Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 5 June 2018.

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The third-placed teams enter the FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off.

In the group stage, teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01 and 16.02):
 * Tiebreakers
 * 1) Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 2) Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 3) Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 4) If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
 * 5) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 6) Goals scored in all group matches;
 * 7) Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
 * 8) Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
 * 9) UEFA coefficient for the qualifying round draw;
 * 10) Drawing of lots.

All times are local, EEST (UTC+3).

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off
Winner qualifies for 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup
The following six teams from UEFA qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Poland which qualified as hosts.


 * 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

 * 7 goals


 * 🇫🇷 Amine Gouiri


 * 4 goals
 * 🇫🇷 Nabil Alioui
 * 🇺🇦 Serhiy Buletsa
 * 3 goals


 * 🇫🇷 Rafik Guitane
 * Miguel Luís
 * Francisco Trincão


 * 1 goal


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Brereton
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Elliot Embleton
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Japhet Tanganga
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Marcus Tavernier
 * 🇫🇮 Eetu Vertainen
 * 🇫🇮 Saku Ylätupa
 * 🇫🇷 Mickaël Cuisance
 * 🇫🇷 Moussa Diaby
 * 🇫🇷 Myziane Maolida
 * 🇮🇹 Christian Capone
 * 🇮🇹 Davide Frattesi
 * 🇮🇹 Moise Kean
 * 🇮🇹 Gianluca Scamacca
 * 🇮🇹 Nicolò Zaniolo
 * 🇳🇴 Tobias Borchgrevink Børkeeiet
 * 🇳🇴 Erik Botheim
 * 🇳🇴 Erling Braut Håland
 * 🇳🇴 Jens Petter Hauge
 * 🇳🇴 Eman Markovic
 * Mesaque Dju
 * João Filipe
 * José Gomes
 * Domingos Quina
 * 🇹🇷 Metehan Güçlü
 * 🇹🇷 Güven Yalçın
 * 🇺🇦 Vladyslav Supriaha
 * 🇺🇦 Heorhii Tsitaishvili

Source: UEFA.com