2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
The final round of the 28 U-19 European Championship took place from July 3 to July 15, 2012 in Estonia instead. She also served as a qualifier for the U-20 World Cup 2013 in Turkey. The top six teams qualify for the World Cup.
- 4.1 Group A
- 4.2 Group B
- 5.1 Semi-finals
- 5.2 final
Qualification
The qualification for the tournament was held in two stages. In the first qualifying round followed by a second, called Elite round, round. Estonia was directly qualified as hosts. England, France and Spain were set for the elite round. All the other teams had to go through the full qualification.
First qualifying round
The first qualifying round was held between November 15, 2011 of 21 September 2011. Twelve groups of four teams playing in the tournament among themselves for the positions, ie each team played only once against the other three. Each group played their six group games from within a few days, one of the participating countries acted as hosts. The group winners and runners as well as the best group third qualified for the elite round.
The German team played in Group 7 The games were held in Northern Ireland against the local National Team as well as against Belarus and Montenegro. Following significant victories against Northern Ireland ( 5-1 ) and Montenegro ( 2-0) could against Belarus a backlog of 0:3 at half time still to be compensated for a 3-3. This was enough for the group.
The Austrian team hosted the group 12 after a 3-0 win against Malta but 0-0 draw against Albania and Denmark could only be achieved in each case. So you took second place behind group winners Denmark, which was sufficient for a place in the elite round.
The Swiss team played in Group 6, which fought out their games in Macedonia. In addition to the local team continues participated Ukraine and Kazakhstan. She could beat Macedonia 3-0 and reached against Kazakhstan a clear 2-0 victory. Ukraine played against these two opponents with identical results. The Switzerland game against Ukraine ended 1-1, so both teams reached 7 points and a goal balance of 5 gates. The group winner was determined by a penalty shootout, the Ukraine 5-3 could decide for themselves. Switzerland was a second group but also qualified for the elite round.
Elite Round
The elite round was end of May 2012 discharged for similar mode in groups of four, which in turn was an team hosts. The seven group winners qualified for participation in the final round.
The German team played in Serbia in Group 3 A 2-2 draw against the hosts, a 1-1 draw against Romania and a 3-0 win against Hungary sufficed but only for second place. Serbia qualified for the final tournament.
Austria played in Croatia in Group 5 after a 2-2 draw against the hosts and a 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, they lost in the final group game of the team from Georgia with 1:2, which one was out in third in the group.
The Swiss team was defeated in Group 2, who played in England, initially Montenegro 0-3. A 2-0 win over Slovenia in their second group game preserved the chances to win the group, but after a 0-1 defeat against England, the team only reached the third place.
Participant
28 U-19 National Team participated in the Elite round. Hosts Estonia was set as the only team automatically for the finals. Thus, there were seven additional seats to the seven group winners in the elite round forgive. The following teams have qualified ( qualification path in brackets):
- Estonia Estonia ( host )
- France France (Elite group 1)
- England England (Elite Group 2)
- Serbia Serbia (Elite Group 3 )
- Portugal Portugal (Elite Group 4 )
- Greece Greece (Elite Group 5 )
- Croatia Croatia (Elite Group 6 )
- Spain (Elite Group 7 )
Venues
The final round of matches were played in three cities ( staadion Haapsalu ) in Haapsalu, Rakvere ( Rakvere staadion ), as well as in the capital Tallinn ( Lilleküla staadion and Kadrioru staadion ).
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was played in two groups of four teams. The two group winners and runners-up qualified for the semifinals. In case of equal first chose the direct comparison and then the goal difference over the ranking. The groups have been drawn on June 6, 2012 in Tallinn. The first three teams in each group qualify for the U-20 World Cup 2013.
Group A
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Group B
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Final round
Semifinal
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Final
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Top scorers
In addition, 20 players came with one goal.
Scorer of the overall competition ( including Qualif. ) Was the Portuguese Betinho with a total of 10 goals.