U20 EURO
Belarus 2009
Welcome to the tournament for the best players aged under 20 in Europe.
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 Cup 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.
City Life : Minsk
Minsk is the capital of Belarus and where the final of the U20 EURO will be held. We have all the information you need to help you find your way or know more about the tournament.
Check here to see all about the city called Minsk.
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Footballgirl Education !
Here are some very good words and phrases to get you ready for the U20 European Championships in JUNE 2009. Footballgirl.com will help us all through the coming months with the basic Belarussian words.
Second qualifying round 23 - 28 April 2009
Portugal’s draw with Norway in October gave them the last place available for the next round. Italy and Germany are the favourites to take the trophy again in July 2009.
Here is the list of the next 24 teams in the race for the EURO U19 finals in Belarus.
Check here to see who made it into the November 19th draw.
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Here are the dates of the next rounds of the EURO U20
· Second qualifying round 23 - 28 April 2009
· Final tournament - Group stage 13 - 19 July 2009
· Semi-finals 22 July 2009
· Final 25 July 2009
There are 3 stages to these glorious U20 EURO before we find the champions of the tournament which Italy won in Tours, France 2008. The stages are the qualifying 1 round which is followed by a break in the winter before the qualifying 2 round.
Qualifying 1 round
11 groups – 4 teams in each group ( 1 venue, small tournament )
Top 2 teams from the group go through.
The 3rd team with the best score from their games, against the top 2 teams go through.
-That makes 23 teams.
-24 with Germany.
Qualifying 2 round
6 groups – 4 teams in each group
The group winners and the runners-up team with the best record against the sides first and third in their pool join hosts Belarus in the finals
Finals - BeLarus
2 groups – 4 teams in each group
Each team plays each other once
Semi-final
Top two from each group
Final
Winners of the semi-final…then we have the champions!!