UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

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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. It is also a FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship 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.

[edit] Winners of previous championships

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1998 Details	Two-legged final	Denmark	2 - 0 2 - 3	France
1999 Details	Sweden	Sweden	2 - 1	Germany
2000 Details	France	Germany	4 - 2	Spain
2001 Details	Norway	Germany	3 - 2	Norway
2002 Details	Sweden	Germany	3 - 1	France
2003 Details	Germany	France	2 - 0	Norway
2004 Details	Finland	Spain	2 - 1	Germany
2005 Details	Hungary	Russia	2 - 2 6 - 5 (penalties)	France
2006 Details	Switzerland	Germany	3 - 0	France
2007 Details	Iceland	Germany	2 - 0 aet	England
2008 Details	France
2009 Details	Belarus
2009 Details	Macedonia