Turkey national under-19 football team

Turkey Under-19s

Association	Turkish Football Federation
Head coach	Şenol Ustaömer
First colours Second colours
First international
Turkey 2–0 Slovakia 25 April 1999
Biggest win
Turkey 10–0 San Marino Belgium, 10 October 2004
Biggest defeat
Portugal 6–1 Turkey Tbilisi, 29 May 2015
European Championship
Appearances	7 (first in 2004)
Best result	Runners-up: 2004

The Turkey national under-19 football team is the national under-19 football team of Turkey and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation. The team competes in the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, held every year. The Under-19 UEFA tournament originally began as the FIFA Junior Tournament between 1948 and 1954. It has since been renamed a number of times, most notably referred to as the UEFA European U-18 Championship between 1981 and 2001. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948. In addition, every even year, the top five teams from the respective UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship compete in the FIFA U-20 World Cup the following year.

Competitive record

UEFA European U-19 Championship record*

Edition	Round	MP	W	D**	L	GF	GA
2002	Qualifying round	–	–	–	–	–	–
2003	First qualifying round	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004	Runner-upQ	5	2	1	2	10	10
2005	Qualifying round	–	–	–	–	–	–
2006	Group stage	3	0	1	2	9	12
2007	Elite round	3	1	1	1	3	3
2008	Elite round	3	1	0	2	2	7
2009	Group stage	3	0	1	2	2	4
2010	Elite round	3	2	0	1	6	4
2011	Group stage	3	1	1	1	4	3
2012	Elite round	3	1	0	2	6	6
2013	Group stage	3	1	0	2	6	6
2014	Elite round	3	2	1	0	7	5
2015	Elite round	3	0	0	3	2	13
2016	Elite round	3	2	1	0	7	3
2017	Elite round	3	1	1	1	2	2
2018	Group stage	3	0	0	3	2	9
2019	Elite round	3	0	1	2	3	8
2020	Cancelled
2021	Cancelled
2022	To be determined

*The tournament originally began in 1948 and has had a number of different names. The tournament was renamed as the UEFA European U-19 Championship in 2002, but importantly the overall statistics are collated from 1948.

**Draws include knockout matches decided by penalty shoot-out.

***Silver background colour indicates that Turkey finished as runner-up.

Q - Denotes qualified for the FIFA U-20 World Cup held the following year.

Individual awards

In addition to team victories, Turkish players have won individual awards at UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.

Year	Top Goalscorer
2004*	Ali Öztürk
2006*	İlhan Parlak

*Award was shared with other players.

Results and fixtures

  Win   Draw   Loss

2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Main article: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Qualifiers

Main article: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification

Elite Round – Group 1

Main article: 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification § Group 1_2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Israel	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Final tournament
2	Hungary (H)	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	4
3	Scotland	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
4	Turkey	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

Updated to match(es) played on 26 March 2022. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host

Turkey v Israel

26 March 2022 (2022-03-26) 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification#Elite round	Turkey	1–3	Israel	ETO Park, Győr, Hungary
16:00	Elmaz 42' (pen.)	Report	Turgeman 32', 35' Edri 66'	Referee: Mohammed Al-emara (Finland)

Current squad

The following players were called up to participate against Italy in a friendly game on 9 February 2022.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
12	1GK	Kağan Moradaoğlu	(2003-01-10) 10 January 2003			Trabzonspor
23	1GK	Ramazan Özkanlı	(2003-01-25) 25 January 2003			Kasımpaşa
13	2DF	Seyhan Yiğit	(2003-06-30) 30 June 2003			1.FC Nürnberg
17	2DF	Kazımcan Karataş	(2003-01-16) 16 January 2003			Altay
20	2DF	Ahmet Gülay	(2003-01-13) 13 January 2003			Alanyaspor
4	2DF	Emin Bayram	(2003-04-02) 2 April 2003			Boluspor
	2DF	Abdullah Şahindere	(2003-01-14) 14 January 2003			Gençlerbirliği
	2DF	Ahmetcan Kaplan	(2003-08-26) 26 August 2003			Trabzonspor
	2DF	Ruhan Arda Aksoy	(2003-03-31) 31 March 2003			Fenerbahçe
3	2DF	Yunus Emre Çift	(2003-09-01) 1 September 2003			Samsunspor
	2DF	Rojan Sarıbaş	(2003-07-30) 30 July 2003			FC Carl Zeiss Jena
7	3MF	Tuğbey Akgün	(2003-04-09) 9 April 2003			Bursaspor
6	3MF	Bartuğ Elmaz	(2003-02-19) 19 February 2003			Galatasaray
15	3MF	Süleyman Cebeci	(2003-01-05) 5 January 2003			Trabzonspor
	3MF	Sarper Çağlar	(2003-01-31) 31 January 2003			Turgutluspor
	3MF	Yiğit Emre Çeltik	(2003-04-07) 7 April 2003			Fortuna Sittard
	3MF	Emre Demir	(2004-01-15) 15 January 2004			Kayserispor
	3MF	Fatih Yiğit Şanlıtürk	(2003-01-01) 1 January 2003			Fenerbahçe
	3MF	Metin Emre Karaal	(2003-01-15) 15 January 2003			Başakşehir
	4FW	Koray Dağ	(2003-05-17) 17 May 2003			SC Paderborn 07
9	4FW	Eren Aydın	(2003-02-12) 12 February 2003			Niğde Anadolu FK
19	4FW	Metehan Altunbaş	(2003-01-07) 7 January 2003			Juniors OÖ

See also

• Turkey national football team
• Turkey national under-21 football team
• Turkey national under-20 football team
• Turkey national under-19 football team
• Turkey national under-17 football team
• Turkey national youth football team