2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

[tetsujin1979]

The squad for the first round of qualifiers for the 2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was announced a few weeks ago, which is a little strange - usually the squads for underage qualification tournaments are announced the same week that the qualifiers kick off

uefa.com Women's Under-19
2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Qualification
2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Qualification Round 1
2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Qualification Round 1 Group A3
2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Qualification Round 2
2025 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship Qualification Round 2 Group A6

[tetsujin1979]

Won the opening game against Bulgaria 2-0, which should be enough to qualify for the second round. Last year, three points was enough to get out of all but two of the first round qualifying groups

Match review: https://www.fai.ie/latest/report-wu19-2-0-bulgaria/

Playing Finland on Saturday, who lost their opening game 1-0 to Norway

[ForzaForth]

Interesting statistic from the Bulgaria game according to the UEFA website was the yellow card count which was seven for Bulgaria and none for Ireland.

[ForzaForth]

Ireland U19 beat Finland 3-1 this morning. Two goals for Keira Sena and one for Lia O'Leary.

[tetsujin1979]

That's the team definitely through to league A in the second qualifying round

[tetsujin1979]

Lost the final group game 1-0 to Norway, so finish second in the table
https://www.uefa.com/api/v1/linkrules/match/2040946/

[tetsujin1979]

Eve O'Carroll, who was selected for the U18 friendlies in October against Belgium - https://www.fai.ie/latest/wu19s-sele...ainst-belgium/ - but was not in the squad for the qualifiers, made her debut for Man City Women in the Women's Super League today.

At 17 years of age, she must be the youngest Irish player to appear in the league?

<EDIT>

Did some checking, if this list of Irish players in the WSL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...lic_of_Ireland - is accurate, then former underage player Harriet Lambe is the current youngest Irish player to appear in the competition. She was 16 when she made her debut for Yeovil against Liverpool in January 2018.

[tetsujin1979]

The draw for the second round was made last week, and we've been drawn against France(top seeds, scored 16 and conceded none in the first round), Serbia, and Wales