2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

The 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 12th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, since its C from an under-18 tournament in 2002, and the 62nd since the tournament was created in 1948. It was hosted in Lithuania from 20 July to 1 August 2013, in three cities. Only players born after 1 January 1994 were available to participate.

2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

2013 m. Europos U-19 futbolo čempionatas
Tournament details
Host country	Lithuania
Dates	20 July – 1 August
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Serbia (1st title)
Runner-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	47 (3.13 per match)
Attendance	56,169 (3,745 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gratas Sirgėdas Anass Achahbar Alexandre Guedes (3 goals)
Best player	Aleksandar Mitrović
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The qualification matches began in September 2012 and ended in June 2013, with seven teams joining the Lithuanian hosts in the final tournament. Spain were the two-time defending champions, after defeating Greece in the final of the previous edition, but were eliminated and defeated by France in the semi-finals. In the final, France were beaten 1–0 by Serbia.

Venues and stadiums

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Alytus

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Location map of the final tournament host cities

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

Stadium	Location	Capacity	Matches	Ref
Alytus Stadium	Alytus	3,748	4 group matches and 1 semi-final
Darius and Girėnas Stadium	Kaunas	9,280	4 group matches and 1 semi-final
ARVI Football Arena	Marijampolė	6,250	4 group matches and the final

Qualification

Main pages: Qualifying round and Elite round

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:

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearances in final tournament1 only U-19 era (since 2002)
Lithuania	Hosts	0 (debut)
France	Winner of Group 1	6 (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012)
Serbia	Winner of Group 2	5 (20052, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012)
Portugal	Winner of Group 3	5 (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012)
Spain	Winner of Group 4	9 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Netherlands	Winner of Group 5	1 (2010)
Georgia	Winner of Group 6	0 (debut)
Turkey	Winner of Group 7	4 (2004, 2006, 2009, 2011)

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 Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus) Emir Alečković (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Michael Oliver (England) Felix Zwayer (Germany) Orel Grinfeld (Israel) Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)

Assistant referees Mubariz Hashimov (Azerbaijan) Dermot Broughton (Ireland) Stelios Nikita (Cyprus) Derya Oguz (Denmark) Michael Karsiotis (Greece) Mitchell Scerri (Malta) Nikola Razić (Montenegro) Leif Erik Opland (Norway)

Fourth officials Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania) Sergejus Slyva (Lithuania)

Squads

Main page: 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads

Group stage

2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship teams and final classification

The draw for the group stage was held on 14 June 2013 in Kaunas, at the Town Hall, and was run 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

20 July 2013 18:30	Lithuania	2–3	Netherlands	Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas Attendance: 7,436 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Artimavičius  38' Sirgėdas  83'	Report	Achahbar  10', 29' Vloet  90+6'

20 July 2013 21:15	Spain	1–0	Portugal	ARVI Arena, Marijampolė Attendance: 2,900 Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
	Ramírez  19'	Report

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23 July 2013 16:30	Netherlands	1–4	Portugal	Alytus Stadium, Alytus Attendance: 3,170 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
	Vloet  90+1'	Report	Guedes  32', 89' L. Silva  73' Horta  87'

23 July 2013 18:30	Lithuania	0–2	Spain	Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas Attendance: 8,900 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
		Report	Hernández  6', 74'

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26 July 2013 21:00	Portugal	4–2	Lithuania	Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas Attendance: 8,075 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
	Lopes  8' Petrauskas  45' (o.g.) Figueiredo  51' (pen.) Mané  65'	Report	Sirgėdas  53', 90+2'

26 July 2013 21:00	Netherlands	2–3	Spain	Alytus Stadium, Alytus Attendance: 3,618 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
	Mahi  36' Achahbar  90+1' (pen.)	Report	Ramírez  68' Vadillo  81' Vico  83'

Group B

20 July 2013 17:00	Serbia	2–1	Turkey	ARVI Arena, Marijampolė Attendance: 450 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
	Luković  17' Mitrović  54'	Report	Niyaz  88'

20 July 2013 19:00	Georgia	0–0	France	Alytus Stadium, Alytus Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Emir Alečković (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
		Report

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23 July 2013 18:30	Serbia	1–0	Georgia	ARVI Arena, Marijampolė Attendance: 1,100 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
	Meleg  74'	Report

23 July 2013 20:45	Turkey	1–2	France	Alytus Stadium, Alytus Attendance: 1,915 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Yılmaz  87' (pen.)	Report	Hunou  6' Benzia  64'

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26 July 2013 16:30	France	1–1	Serbia	Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas Attendance: 1,228 Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
	Hunou  31'	Report	Pavlovski  77'

26 July 2013 16:30	Turkey	4–2	Georgia	ARVI Arena, Marijampolė Attendance: 950 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
	Deniz  16', 18' Niyaz  58' Şahin  80'	Report	Endeladze  3' Kacharava  50'

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	29 July – Alytus
	Serbia (p)	2 (3)
	Portugal	2 (2)
					1 August – Marijampolė
					Serbia	1
					France	0
	29 July – Kaunas
	Spain	1
	France (aet)	2

Semifinals

29 July 2013 16:30	Serbia	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	Alytus Stadium, Alytus Attendance: 3,280 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
	Đurđević  6' Gaćinović  85'	Report	B. Silva  55' Guedes  79'
		Penalties
	Pavlovski Milinković-Savić Meleg Gaćinović Mitrović	3–2	Ié Horta Guedes Rafa Teixeira

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29 July 2013 21:00	Spain	1–2 (a.e.t.)	France	Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas Attendance: 4,436 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
	Rodríguez  27' (pen.)	Report	Benzia  29' Conte  105'

Final

1 August 2013 21:45	France	0–1	Serbia	ARVI Football Arena, Marijampolė Attendance: 6,211 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
		Report	Luković  57'

Goalscorers

3 goals

• Anass Achahbar
• Gratas Sirgėdas
• Alexandre Guedes

2 goals

• Yassine Benzia
• Adrien Hunou
• Rai Vloet
• Andrija Luković
• Iker Hernández
• Sandro Ramírez
• Okan Deniz
• Recep Niyaz

1 goal

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

Own goals

• Džiugas Petrauskas (against Portugal)

Awards

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

Name	Goals Scored	Assists	Minutes played
Gratas Sirgėdas	3	0	141
Anass Achahbar	3	0	255
Alexandre Guedes	3	0	390

Team of the Tournament

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

Goalkeepers Bacho Mikava Predrag Rajković Alfonso Herrero

Defenders Antoine Conte Aymeric Laporte Tobias Figueiredo Rafa Miloš Veljković Héctor Bellerín Borja López

Midfielders Anthony Martial Adrien Rabiot Bilal Başaçıkoğlu Rai Vloet Bernardo Silva Marko Pavlovski José Rodríguez Álvaro Vadillo Recep Niyaz

Forwards Yassine Benzia Gratas Sirgėdas Hélder Costa Aleksandar Mitrović

Other websites

• UEFA.com