2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship

The final round of the 14 U-19 Football Championship Women was held in the period from May 30 to June 11, 2011 in Italy. Eight teams came first in a group stage into two groups and then in the knockout system against each other. Game were eligible players who were born on 1 January 1992 or later. It was played in the cities of Bellaria -Igea Marina, Cervia, Forli and Imola in Emilia -Romagna. The tournament served as a qualifier for the U -20 World Cup 2012 in Japan. The top four teams qualified for the World Cup. With the semi-finals, Germany, Italy, Norway and Switzerland were able to qualify. The winner was the German team with a 8-1 record win in the final against Norway.

• 4.1 Semi-finals
• 4.2 final

• 5.1 squads 5.1.1 first qualifying round
• 5.1.2 second qualifying round

Qualification

Italy qualified automatically as hosts. The remaining 45 reported national teams were divided into eleven groups of four teams each. Germany received a wild card for the first qualifying round. The group winners and runners- automatically reached the second qualifying round. Then there were the best group third parties. However, only the respective results were used against the group winners and runners- For the determination of the best third. The first qualifying round was held in autumn 2010. The 23 remaining teams plus Germany were divided into the second qualifying round on six groups of four teams each. The six group winners and best runners qualified for the final tournament in Italy. The tournaments of the second qualifying round were held in spring 2011. Title holders France and England, second in the last European Championship, could not qualify. England failed to Norway, France to the Netherlands.

Mode

In the final round of the eight teams formed two groups of four teams each. In the group stage, each team played in the group once against each other. For a victory, there were three points for a draw one point. After completion of the group matches, the group winners and runners-up qualified for the semifinals.

In case of equality of several teams in the group stage of the positions were initially determined based on the greater number of points from the matches. Was this the same, initially, the goal difference and then the number of goals scored was compared in direct encounters. Would then have been on par still two or more teams, goal difference in all matches and then the number of goals scored in total would have been compared as the next criteria. The final criterion would be the Fair Play rankings. In Group A, thus the decision was made to rank 2 on goal difference from all games in favor of Switzerland, in group B it was crucial for 3rd place, but had no impact on the further course of the tournament.

From the semi-finals in the tournament knock-out system was continued. Games that ended tied at the end of normal time, would have been extended by two times ten minutes. If after extra been found no winner, the decision would have been felled in the penalty shootout. The regular time for all games was twice 45 minutes. All knockout matches were decided in the regular season.

Preliminary round

The draw for the final tournament was held in Cervia on April 14, 2011. All games were kicked off by 17 clock CEST.

Group A

Group B

Final round

Semifinal

Final

The German team

Squad

Germany coach Maren Meinert nominated for the finals following squad:

First qualifying round

The German team received a bye.

Second qualifying round

The German team arrived in Carmarthen and Llanelli (Wales ) to the teams of Iceland, Turkey and Wales.

Best scorers

Referees

The matches of the European Championship were led by six referees. These were supported by eight assistant referees and fourth officials two. The final was led by the Portuguese Sandra Braz Bastos, who stood by Sian Massey (England) Angela Kyriakou ( Cyprus) and the fourth official Pernilla Larsson ( Sweden ) to the side.