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The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2018) was the 17th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (21st edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Switzerland, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament,[1] which took place between 18 and 30 July 2018.[2]
| U-19-Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen 2018 Championnat d'Europe féminin de football des moins de 19 ans 2018 Campionato europeo femminile Under-19 di calcio 2018 | |
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| Host country | Switzerland |
| Dates | 18–30 July |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Spain (3rd title) |
| Runners-up |  Germany |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 15 |
| Goals scored | 33 (2.2 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Dajan Hashemi Paulina Krumbiegel Lynn Wilms Andrea Norheim Olga Carmona Alisha Lehmann Géraldine Reuteler(2 goals each) |
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A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.
Spain were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final, and became the first nation to win the women's under-17 and under-19 titles in the same year.[3]
A total of 49 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered a competitive women's national team tournament for the first time), and with the hosts Switzerland qualifying automatically, the other 48 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament.[4] The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.[5]
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.[6]
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
| Team | Method of qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
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| Switzerland | Hosts | 8th | 2016 (semi-finals) | Semi-finals (2009, 2011) |
| Norway | Elite round Group 1 winners | 12th | 2016 (group stage) | Runners-up (2003, 2008, 2011) |
| Germany | Elite round Group 2 winners | 15th | 2017 (semi-finals) | Champions (2002, 2006, 2007, 2011) |
 France | Elite round Group 3 winners | 14th | 2017 (runners-up) | Champions (2003, 2010, 2013, 2016) |
| Spain | Elite round Group 4 winners | 13th | 2017 (champions) | Champions (2004, 2017) |
| Netherlands | Elite round Group 5 winners | 8th | 2017 (semi-finals) | Champions (2014) |
| Denmark | Elite round Group 6 winners | 7th | 2015 (group stage) | Semi-finals (2002, 2006, 2012) |
 Italy | Elite round Group 7 winners | 7th | 2017 (group stage) | Champions (2008) |
The final draw was held on 23 April 2018, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the Stufenbau in Ittigen, Switzerland.[7] The eight teams (including the Elite round Group 1 winners whose identity was known at the time of the draw) were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Switzerland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.
The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, a group West (Biel/Bienne, Yverdon-les-Bains) and a group East (Wohlen, Zug).[8]
| Yverdon-les-Bains | Biel/Bienne | Wohlen | Zug | |
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| Stade Municipal | Tissot Arena | Stadion Niedermatten | Herti Allmend Stadion | |
| Capacity: 5,165 | Capacity: 5,200 | Capacity: 3,616 | Capacity: 4,707 | |
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A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.[6]
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Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 41).[5]
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 30 April 2018.[9]
The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.
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 17.01 and 17.02):[5]
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Norway |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6[a] | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Spain |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6[a] | |
| 3 | Switzerland (H) |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 4 | France |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0–2 | Spain |
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| Norway | 1–3 | Switzerland |
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| France | 1–2 | Spain |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Denmark |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6[a] | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Germany |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6[a] | |
| 3 | Netherlands |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6[a] | |
| 4 | Italy |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
| Germany | 1–0 | Denmark |
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| Netherlands | 1–0 | Germany |
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| Denmark | 3–1 | Netherlands |
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| Italy | 0–2 | Germany |
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In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[5]
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 27 July – Biel/Bienne | ||||||
| Norway | 0 | |||||
| 30 July – Biel/Bienne | ||||||
| Germany | 2 | |||||
| Germany | 0 | |||||
| 27 July – Biel/Bienne | ||||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||
| Denmark | 0 | |||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||
There were 33 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match.
2 goals
1 goal
Sara Holmgaard Janni Thomsen Lina Boussaha Ella Palis Jessy Roux Nicole Anyomi Melissa Kössler Anna-Lena Stolze Arianna Caruso Rebecca Doejaaren Nance van der Meer Kayleigh van Dooren Sophie Haug Runa Lillegård Teresa Abelleira Athenea del Castillo María Llompart Rosa Márquez Chantal WyserSource: UEFA.com[10]
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (and an additional nine substitutes):[11]
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Substitutes:
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