2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Bids

Eight national associations showed interest in hosting the final tournament, but only Lithuania, Germany, Hungary, and Slovenia reached the final bidding stage. On 4 October 2010, Lithuania were announced as the hosts in a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Minsk, Belarus.

Venues

The final round matches were held in three stadium venues located in three Lithuanian cities:

Qualification

Main article: 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite qualification

Qualification for the final tournament occurred in two phases: a qualifying round and an elite round. During these rounds, 51 national teams competed to determine the seven teams that would join the automatically qualified host nation, Lithuania.

The qualifying round was played between 26 September and 26 November 2012, following a draw that took place on 29 November 2011 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. According to the UEFA under-19 national team coefficient ranking, the top three teams – Spain, Serbia and Turkey – were given a bye to the elite round, whereas the remaining 48 teams were divided into two pots and drawn into 12 groups of four teams. Each group included two teams from both pots and was contested as a round-robin tournament, hosted in the country of one of the teams. The group winners and runners-up, along with the best third-placed team, qualified for the next round.

The elite round was played between 22 May and 11 June 2012 and was contested by the 25 teams advancing from the qualifying round plus the three teams which received byes. The draw took place on 5 December 2012 at the UEFA headquarters and allocated the 28 teams – previously arranged into four seeding pots according to their qualifying round coefficient (teams with bye were automatically seeded in the first pot) – into seven groups of four. Each group was contested similarly to the qualifying round, with the seven group winners securing qualification for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament:

:1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year. :2 As Serbia and Montenegro

Match officials

UEFA named six referees and eight assistant referees to officiate matches at the final tournament. Additionally, two referees from the host nation were chosen as fourth officials. ;Referees

• BLR Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
• BIH Emir Alečković (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• ENG Michael Oliver (England)
• GER Felix Zwayer (Germany)
• ISR Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
• SWE Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden) ;Assistant referees
• AZE Mubariz Hashimov (Azerbaijan)
• IRL Dermot Broughton (Ireland)
• CYP Stelios Nikita (Cyprus)
• DEN Derya Oguz (Denmark)
• GRE Michael Karsiotis (Greece)
• MLT Mitchell Scerri (Malta)
• MNE Nikola Razić (Montenegro)
• NOR Leif Erik Opland (Norway) ;Fourth officials
• LTU Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
• LTU Sergejus Slyva (Lithuania)

Squads

Main article: 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 14 June 2013 in Kaunas, at the Town Hall, and was conducted by the UEFA Youth and Amateur Football Committee chairman, Jim Boyce, who was assisted by final tournament ambassadors Vaida Česnauskienė and Marius Stankevičius. The eight finalists were drawn into two groups of four teams and played matches against each other in a round-robin system. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied:

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
4. If two teams are still tied after criteria 1–3 have been applied, the criteria are reapplied on those teams. If the tie is not broken, criteria 5–8 are applied;
5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
7. Fair play conduct of the teams (final tournament);
8. Drawing of lots.

If two teams are tied after having met in the last round of the group stage, their final ranking is determined instead by a penalty shoot-out. This method is only valid when determining which team qualifies for the next round or for another competition.

All times are in Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Group A

Sirgėdas Vloet

L. Silva Horta

Petrauskas Figueiredo Mané Achahbar Vadillo Vico

Group B

Mitrović

Benzia

Niyaz Şahin Kacharava

Knockout stage

Bracket

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Semifinals

Gaćinović Guedes Milinković-Savić Meleg Gaćinović Mitrović Horta Guedes Rafa Teixeira

Conte

Final

Goalscorers

;3 goals

• NED Anass Achahbar
• LTU Gratas Sirgėdas
• POR Alexandre Guedes

;2 goals

• FRA Yassine Benzia
• FRA Adrien Hunou
• NED Rai Vloet
• SRB Andrija Luković
• ESP Iker Hernández
• ESP Sandro Ramírez
• TUR Okan Deniz
• TUR Recep Niyaz

;1 goal

• FRA Antoine Conte
• GEO Avto Endeladze
• GEO Nika Kacharava
• LTU Lukas Artimavičius
• NED Mimoun Mahi
• POR Tobias Figueiredo
• POR Ricardo Horta
• POR Rony Lopes
• POR Carlos Mané
• POR Bernardo Silva
• POR Leandro Silva
• SRB Uroš Đurđević
• SRB Mijat Gaćinović
• SRB Dejan Meleg
• SRB Aleksandar Mitrović
• SRB Marko Pavlovski
• ESP José Rodríguez
• ESP Álvaro Vadillo
• ESP Fede Vico
• TUR Enver Cenk Şahin
• TUR İbrahim Yılmaz

;Own goals

• LTU Džiugas Petrauskas (against Portugal)

Awards

• Golden Player: SRB Aleksandar Mitrović
• Golden Boot: LTU Gratas Sirgėdas, Anass Achahbar, Alexandre Guedes

Team of the Tournament

After the final, the UEFA technical team selected 23 players to integrate the "team of the tournament".

;Goalkeepers

• GEO Bacho Mikava
• SRB Predrag Rajković
• ESP Alfonso Herrero ;Defenders
• FRA Antoine Conte
• FRA Aymeric Laporte
• POR Tobias Figueiredo
• POR Rafa
• SRB Miloš Veljković
• ESP Héctor Bellerín
• ESP Borja López ;Midfielders
• FRA Anthony Martial
• FRA Adrien Rabiot
• NED Bilal Başaçıkoğlu
• NED Rai Vloet
• POR Bernardo Silva
• SRB Marko Pavlovski
• ESP José Rodríguez
• ESP Álvaro Vadillo
• TUR Recep Niyaz ;Forwards
• FRA Yassine Benzia
• LTU Gratas Sirgėdas
• POR Hélder Costa
• SRB Aleksandar Mitrović

Notes

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