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The UEFA European Under-21 Championship is a biennial football (held once every two years) tournament which is competed by the European men's under-21 national teams of the UEFA member associations. 

 Since 1978, the UEFA European Under-21 Championship has been contested in its current form with Yugoslavia emerging as inaugural champions. 

 Before the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, there was an Under-23 Challenge Cup which was held from 1967 to 1970.  

 Later in 1972, a UEFA European Under-23 Championship was started with Czechoslovakia winning the first edition. Hungary won the second edition in 1974 before the Soviet Union clinched it in 1976. 

 UEFA later reduced the age limit to 21 for the 1978 UEFA European Championship. 

 Also known as the UEFA Under-21 Championship or the Euro Under-21, the football competition has served as the UEFA qualification tournament for the Summer Olympics since 1992. 

 Spain and Italy are the most decorated teams in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship history, having won five titles each.  

 Germany and England are next in terms of the most UEFA European Under-21 Championship triumphs. They've both won it three times, while the likes of Russia, and Netherlands have won it twice each. 

 The UEFA European Under-21 Championship Trophy 

The UEFA European Under-21 Championship Trophy (pictured above on the left) was created by craftsmen on the Venetian island of Murano. The central glass vase is finished with brass, nickel, and 24-carat gold.

The original trophy, which is used for the official presentation ceremony at the final, remains in UEFA's keeping at all times. A full-size replica is awarded to the winning association.

Each association that competes in the final tournament will receive a commemorative plaque, while 35 gold medals are presented to the winning team and 35 silver medals to the runners-up. The teams beaten in the semi-finals will each receive 35 bronze medals.

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 The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, commonly known as the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, is an annual continental tournament for the under-19 women’s national teams of UEFA member associations. Founded in 1997 as an under-18 competition, it was restructured into an under-19 event in 2002. While the championship is a standalone competition that crowns a champion, the tournaments held in odd-numbered years also serve as the region's FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers. 

 The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship takes place in the summer (June or July) and features eight teams divided into two groups of four. All participants, including the host nation, compete in a qualifying tournament, although the host is automatically qualified regardless of the outcome. The group stage follows a single round-robin format, with each team playing every other side in their group once. The top two countries from each group advance to the knockout stage. 

 The knockout stage consists of a semifinal and final, both played in a single-elimination format (the winner progresses to the next round, loser crashes out). The inaugural season is the exception, with France and Denmark locking horns in the 1998 final and the latter triumphing 4-3 on aggregate over two legs. 

 After the 2023 decision to expand the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup from 16 to 24 teams, UEFA was allocated five slots, with this tournament qualifying the four semifinalists and the winner of a playoff between the two third-placed teams from the group stage in odd-numbered years.
Spain, Germany, and France have dominated this competition, winning all but three of the first ten editions, with Germany securing half of those titles. Spain excelled between 2017 and 2024, claiming victory in five out of six tournaments, with France winning once during that period. 

Source Information: https://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/international/uefa-championship-u19-women/

 In 1985 and 1993, the winners of the prior UEFA European Championship and Copa America tournaments played in the Artemio Franchi Cup (also known as the European/South American Nations Cup), a one-off match organized by UEFA and CONMEBOL.

 It was the national team equivalent to the former version of the Intercontinental Cup based on the club level, which was played between the winners of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League and the Copa Libertadores. France won the 1985 Artemio Franchi Cup in Paris, while Argentina won the 1993 match in their home city of Mar del Plata. However, the competition was discontinued for an extended period.

 The Artemio Franchi Cup can also be considered to be a precursor of the FIFA Confederations Cup too. 

 On 12 February 2020, UEFA and CONMEBOL signed a renewed memorandum of understanding in order to enhance cooperation between the two organizations. As part of the agreement, a joint UEFA–CONMEBOL committee examined the possibility of staging European–South American intercontinental matches, for both men's and women's football and across various age groups. This saw the rebirth of the Artemio Franchi Cup tournament in the modern football era as the Finalissima competition. 

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