UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
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| Founded | 1997 |
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| Region | Europe (UEFA) |
| Number of teams | Maximum of 54 (qualifying round) 24 (elite round) 8 (finals) |
| Current champions |
 France (4th title) |
| Most successful team(s) |
 Germany (6 titles) |
 2016 tournament
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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. National under-19 teams whose countries belong to the European governing body UEFA can register to enter the competition.
In odd years the tournament is also a FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualifying competition. The tournament began in the 1997–98 season as an under-18 event and became an under-19s event from the 2001–02 season, it is held yearly. The Championship has 3 phases: the qualifying phase open to all eligible nations, the elite phase featuring the group winners and runners-up from the qualifying phase, 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.
Since 2002 the finals had eight teams with two groups of four teams, semi finals and the final.
All finals so far.
Since the 2002 edition, the Golden Player Award has been given to the most valuable player of the tournament.
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