UEFA U19 European Championship - Women

The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, commonly known as the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, is an annual continental tournament for the under-19 women’s national teams of UEFA member associations. Founded in 1997 as an under-18 competition, it was restructured into an under-19 event in 2002. While the championship is a standalone competition that crowns a champion, the tournaments held in odd-numbered years also serve as the region's FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers.

The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship takes place in the summer (June or July) and features eight teams divided into two groups of four. All participants, including the host nation, compete in a qualifying tournament, although the host is automatically qualified regardless of the outcome. The group stage follows a single round-robin format, with each team playing every other side in their group once. The top two countries from each group advance to the knockout stage.

The knockout stage consists of a semifinal and final, both played in a single-elimination format (the winner progresses to the next round, loser crashes out). The inaugural season is the exception, with France and Denmark locking horns in the 1998 final and the latter triumphing 4-3 on aggregate over two legs.

After the 2023 decision to expand the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup from 16 to 24 teams, UEFA was allocated five slots, with this tournament qualifying the four semifinalists and the winner of a playoff between the two third-placed teams from the group stage in odd-numbered years.

Spain, Germany, and France have dominated this competition, winning all but three of the first ten editions, with Germany securing half of those titles. Spain excelled between 2017 and 2024, claiming victory in five out of six tournaments, with France winning once during that period.