Holders England Community Lions will play France at the FK

Radnicki Stadium, Belgrade on Saturday (kick off 6pm, local time) to decide the winners of the 2024 European U19s Championship. It is a repeat of the 2022 decider in Italy which the Lions won 14-12, however, in the previous tournament – also held in the Serbian capital in 2018 – the French emerged victorious 26-24.

England qualified with a 52-4 win over Ukraine in the first semi final, posting nine tries, Marcus Geener and Daniel Knott both with doubles, on another swelteringly hot day. «The scoreline doesn’t represent the hard work the Ukrainians put into that game,» said England U19s head coach Gary Hewer.

It was extremely tough and they never stopped coming at us, they really dug deep and caused us several threats.

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