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Republic of Ireland U19

Club · Ireland · UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification

«The Boys in Green»

27 Matches

11 wins

6 draws

10 losses

41–32 Goals

+9 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Form L W L D D L

What the record does show is a side that has spent decades circling a trophy it last held before most of its current players were born.

The team's competitive history traces to 1948 and the inaugural UEFA Junior Tournament, the forerunner of today's European Under-19 Championship. Under the old Under-18 format, Ireland won the title in 1998 and followed it with third place in 1999. Since the competition was reshaped as the Under-19 Championship in 2002, the results have flattened out: fourth place that first year, then semi-final finishes in 2011 and 2019, but no final.

The squad trains at the Football Association of Ireland's National Training Centre in Abbotstown, moving between grounds such as Eamonn Deacy Park in Galway and Turner's Cross in Cork for matches, since the team has no ground of its own to call home. What it does have is a production line: the 2010–11 squad alone sent Robbie Brady, Jeff Hendrick, Shane Duffy, John Egan and Matt Doherty into senior international football, and more recent call-ups have included Gavin Bazunu and Troy Parrott. Declan Rice passed through the same age group before switching allegiance to England, a reminder that not every player developed here stays tied to the green shirt.

What the team has not done, across more than two decades of the current championship format, is get past a semi-final.

Latest results

All matches

31 Mar	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Italy U19 H	1:2	L
28 Mar	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Scotland U19 H	3:3	D
25 Mar	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Poland U19 A	1:1	D
18 Nov 2025	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Netherlands U19 A	2:4	L
15 Nov 2025	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Cyprus U19 H	1:0	W
12 Nov 2025	UEFA U19 Championship - Qualification	Kazakhstan U19 H	0:1	L