UEFA WOMEN'S UNDER-19 CHAMPIONSHIP

The 'UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship' is a competition in women's football for European national teams of players under 19 years of age. It is also a FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship qualifying competition. National under-19 teams whose countries belong to the European governing body UEFA can register to enter the competition.
The competition began in the 1997-98 season as an under-18 event; it became an under-19s event from the 2001-02 season. The Championship has 2 phases: the qualifying phase open to all eligible nations, and the finals phase which is composed of 8 qualifying teams. The finals themselves are composed of two groups of four teams; each team plays the others in the group. The winner of each group after the 3 matches plays the runner-up of the opposing group in a semi-final, with the winner contesting the final.

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Winners of previous championships

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Winners of previous championships

'Year'	'Host'	'Winner'	'Score'	'Runner-up'
1998 ''Details''	Two-legged final	Denmark	'2 - 0' '2 - 3'	France
1999 ''Details''	Sweden	Sweden	'2 - 1'	Germany
2000 ''Details''	France	Germany	'4 - 2'	Spain
2001 ''Details''	Norway	Germany	'3 - 2'	Norway
2002 ''Details''	Sweden	Germany	'3 - 1'	France
2003 ''Details''	Germany	France	'2 - 0'	Norway
2004 ''Details''	Finland	Spain	'2 - 1'	Germany
2005 ''Details''	Hungary	Russia	'2 - 2' '6 - 5' (penalties)	France
2006 ''Details''	Switzerland	Germany	'3 - 0'	France
2007 ''Details''	Iceland	Germany	'2 - 0 aet'	England
2008 ''Details''	France
2009 ''Details''	Belarus

See also

★ International competitions in women's football

External links

★ UEFA - Women's Under-19 homepage