| 2013 m. Europos U-19 futbolo čempionatas | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Lithuania |
| Dates | 20 July – 1 August |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 3 (in 3 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Serbia (1st title) |
| Runners-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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The2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 12th edition of theUEFA European Under-19 Championship, since its reclassification from an under-18 tournament in 2002, and the 62nd since the tournament was created in 1948. It was hosted inLithuania from 20 July to 1 August 2013, in three cities. Only players born after 1 January 1994 were eligible to participate.
The qualification matches began in September 2012 and concluded in June 2013, with seven teams joining theLithuanian hosts in the final tournament.Spain were the two-time defending champions, after defeatingGreece in the final of theprevious edition, but were eliminated byFrance in the semi-finals. In the final, France were beaten 1–0 bySerbia.
Eight national associations showed interest in hosting the final tournament, but only Lithuania, Germany, Hungary, and Slovenia reached the final bidding stage. On 4 October 2010, Lithuania were announced as the hosts in a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee inMinsk,Belarus.[1][2]
The final round matches were held in three stadium venues located in three Lithuanian cities:[3]
| Stadium | Location | Capacity | Matches | Ref |
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| Alytus Stadium | Alytus | 3,748 | 4 group matches and 1 semi-final | [4] |
| Darius and Girėnas Stadium | Kaunas | 9,280 | 4 group matches and 1 semi-final | [5] |
| ARVI Football Arena | Marijampolė | 6,250 | 4 group matches and the final | [6] |
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.[7]
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 inNyon, Switzerland. According to the UEFA under-19 national team coefficient ranking,[8] the top three teams –Spain,Serbia andTurkey – 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 around-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.[9]
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)[10] – 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.[11]
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament:[12]
| Country | Qualified as | Previous appearances in final tournament1 only U-19 era (since 2002) |
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| Lithuania | Hosts | 0 (debut) |
| France | Winner ofGroup 1 | 6 (2003,2005,2007,2009,2010,2012) |
| Serbia | Winner ofGroup 2 | 5 (20052,2007,2009,2011,2012) |
| Portugal | Winner ofGroup 3 | 5 (2003,2006,2007,2010,2012) |
 Spain | Winner ofGroup 4 | 9 (2002,2004,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012) |
| Netherlands | Winner ofGroup 5 | 1 (2010) |
 Georgia | Winner ofGroup 6 | 0 (debut) |
 Turkey | Winner ofGroup 7 | 4 (2004,2006,2009,2011) |
UEFA named sixreferees and eightassistant referees to officiate matches at the final tournament. Additionally, two referees from the host nation were chosen asfourth officials.[13]
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The draw for the group stage was held on 14 June 2013 inKaunas, at theTown Hall, and was conducted by the UEFA Youth and Amateur Football Committee chairman,Jim Boyce, who was assisted by final tournament ambassadorsVaida Česnauskienė andMarius Stankevičius.[15] The eight finalists were drawn into two groups of four teams and played matches against each other in around-robin system. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.[12]
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied:[16]
If two teams are tied after having met in the last round of the group stage, their final ranking is determined instead by apenalty shoot-out. This method is only valid when determining which team qualifies for the next round or for another competition.[16]
All times are inEastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).[17]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Portugal | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | |
| 3 | Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | Lithuania(H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 2–3 | Netherlands |
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Artimavičius 38'Sirgėdas 83' | Report | Achahbar 10',29' Vloet 90+6' |
| Portugal | 4–2 | Lithuania |
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| Lopes 8' Petrauskas 45' (o.g.)Figueiredo 51' (pen.)Mané 65' | Report | Sirgėdas 53',90+2' |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Serbia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | France | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | |
| 3 | Turkey | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | Georgia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 |
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 29 July –Alytus | ||||||
| Serbia (p) | 2 (3) | |||||
| 1 August –Marijampolė | ||||||
| Portugal | 2 (2) | |||||
| Serbia | 1 | |||||
| 29 July –Kaunas | ||||||
| France | 0 | |||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||
| France (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||
| Serbia | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Portugal |
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| Đurđević 6' Gaćinović 85' | Report | B. Silva 55' Guedes 79' |
| Penalties | ||
Pavlovski Milinković-Savić  Meleg Gaćinović Mitrović | 3–2 | IéHortaGuedesRafaTeixeira |
Džiugas Petrauskas (against Portugal)Aleksandar MitrovićGratas Sirgėdas,Anass Achahbar,Alexandre Guedes[18]| Name | Goals Scored | Assists | Minutes played |
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| Gratas Sirgėdas | 3 | 0 | 141 |
| Anass Achahbar | 3 | 0 | 255 |
| Alexandre Guedes | 3 | 0 | 390 |
After the final, the UEFA technical team selected 23 players to integrate the "team of the tournament".[19][20]
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