Association | Turkish Football Federation |
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Head coach | Feyyaz Uçar |
First international | |
Turkey 2–0 Slovakia 25 April 1999 |
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Biggest win | |
Turkey 10–0 San Marino Belgium, 10 October 2004 |
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Biggest defeat | |
Ukraine 4–0 Turkey Kiev, 6 July 2004 |
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European Championship | |
Appearances | 4 (first in 2004) |
Best result | Runners-up: 2004 |
The Turkey national under-19 football team is the national under-19 football team of Turkey and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, held every year. The Under-19 UEFA tournament originally began as the FIFA Junior Tournament between 1948-54. It has since been renamed a number of times, most notably referred to as the UEFA European U-18 Championship between 1981-2001. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948. In addition, every even year, the top six teams from the respective UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship compete in the FIFA U-20 World Cup the following year.
In addition to team victories, Turkish players have won individual awards at UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.
The following players were called up to participate in the Friendly match against Hungary on 23 April 2014.