Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was initially postponed, rescheduled and was cancelled in October 2020.

[4] As in previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament was due to act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

The top five teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives.

[6] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been postponed until further notice.

[10][11] On 16 September 2020, UEFA announced that the tournament would be played in March 2021 in straight knock-out format, consisting of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, final, and play-off matches to decide the fifth team to qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.