The 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship finals which were due to be held in Northern Ireland have been cancelled.
The decision to call off the tournament was made by the UEFA Executive Committee who cited the "current unresolved epidemiological situation in Europe and resulting travelling difficulties".
The finals were originally to have been staged in Belfast, Ballymena, Lurgan and Portadown from July 19 to August 1.
It was then postponed until November and then pushed back again to the spring of 2021.
The competition was due to be a qualifier to the FIFA Under-20 World Cup - which is scheduled to take place in May 2021.
In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, UEFA confirmed that the five slots reserved for European teams in the competition be allocated to the teams occupying the top five positions in the UEFA qualifying round coefficient ranking for the 2019-20 season.
Those teams are England, France, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal.
