2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Venues

|Hungary The final tournament matches were held in four stadium venues located in four cities:

Qualification

Main article: 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying round, 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite round

Qualification for the final tournament occurred in two phases: a qualifying round and an elite round. During these rounds, 53 national teams competed to determine the seven teams that would join the automatically qualified host team, Hungary.

The qualifying round was played between 6 September and 19 November 2013, following a draw that took place on 5 December 2012 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. According to the UEFA under-19 national team coefficient ranking, the top seeded team, Spain, was given a bye to the elite round, whereas the remaining 52 teams were divided into two pots and drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group included two teams from both pots and was contested as a round-robin tournament, hosted by one of the group 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 24 May and 10 June 2014 and was contested by the 27 teams advancing from the qualifying round plus Spain. The draw took place on 28 November 2013 at the UEFA headquarters and allocated the 28 teams – previously arranged into four seeding pots according to their qualifying round coefficient (Spain 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 Only counted appearances for under-19 era (bold indicates champion for that year, while italic indicates hosts) :2 As Serbia and Montenegro

Squads

Main article: 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads

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

• SCO Kevin Clancy (Scotland)
• ESP Xavier Fernández (Spain)
• NOR Tore Hansen (Norway)
• ALB Enea Jorgji (Albania)
• SUI Stephan Klossner (Switzerland)
• ROU István Kovács (Romania) ;Assistant referees
• AZE Yashar Abbasov (Azerbaijan)
• KAZ Yevgeniy Belskiy (Kazakhstan)
• BEL Laurent Conotte (Belgium)
• ENG Darren England (England)
• DEN Henrik Larsen (Denmark)
• IRL Wayne McDonnell (Ireland)
• CZE Ivo Nádvorník (Czech Republic)
• ISL Gylfi Már Sigurðsson (Iceland) ;Fourth officials
• HUN Tamás Bognár (Hungary)
• HUN Mihály Fábián (Hungary)

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 19 June 2014 at the Pancho Arena in Felcsút, and was conducted by the UEFA Youth and Amateur Football Committee chairman, Jim Boyce, who was assisted by former Hungary national team coach and final tournament ambassador Kálmán Mészöly.

The eight finalists were drawn into two groups of four teams (as hosts, Hungary were seeded in group A), where they played matches against each other in a round-robin system. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.

;Tie-breaking If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were 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; If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 4 to 7 were applied. |Superior goal difference in all group matches; |Higher number of goals scored in all group matches; |Respect Fair play ranking of the teams in question (final tournament); |Drawing of lots. If only two teams were tied (according to criteria 1–7) after having met in the last match of the group stage, their ranking would be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Group A

2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Silva Blutsch Michorl

Grillitsch Grubeck Silva Martins

Balogh Baldé

Group B

2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Syhre

Stark Jović

Knockout stage

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

Bracket

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Semifinals

Stendera Öztunalı Mukhtar

Silva Guzzo Podstawski Rodrigues Zdjelar Ristić Jokić Milinković-Savić

Final

Goalscorers

;6 goals

• GER Davie Selke

;5 goals

• POR André Silva

;2 goals

• AUT Sinan Bytyqi
• AUT Florian Grillitsch
• GER Hany Mukhtar
• POR Marcos Lopes
• SRB Nemanja Maksimović

;1 goal

• AUT Markus Blutsch
• AUT Valentin Grubeck
• AUT Peter Michorl
• GER Levin Öztunalı
• GER Niklas Stark
• GER Marc Stendera
• GER Anthony Syhre
• HUN Norbert Balogh
• HUN Zsolt Kalmár
• HUN Bence Mervó
• HUN Szabolcs Varga
• ISR Dor Hugi
• POR Gelson Martins
• POR Tomás Podstawski
• POR Romário Baldé
• POR Ivo Rodrigues
• SRB Luka Jović
• SRB Staniša Mandić
• UKR Mykyta Burda
• UKR Vyacheslav Tankovskyi

Team of the tournament

;Goalkeepers

• POR André Moreira
• UKR Bohdan Sarnavskyi ;Defenders
• GER Kevin Akpoguma
• SER Srđan Babić
• POR Domingos Duarte
• POR João Nunes
• GER Niklas Stark
• SER Vukašin Jovanović ;Midfielders
• HUN Zsolt Kalmár
• GER Hany Mukhtar
• GER Levin Öztunali
• POR Tomás Podstawski
• GER Marc Stendera
• BUL Radoslav Tsonev
• ISR Michael Ohana ;Forwards
• POR Gelson Martins
• AUT Florian Grillitsch
• GER Davie Selke

Source: UEFA Technical Report

Golden player: GER Davie Selke

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