The European Athletics U20 Championships is a biennial outdoor athletics competition for European athletes.
It is one of European Athletics' oldest competitions, first held in 1970 after three editions of the unofficial European Junior Games which started in 1964.
Usually held in the second half of July since 1993, it attracts more than 1000 competitors to the the four-day event. The most recent edition was held in Tallinn, Estonia in 2021 and the next European Athletics U20 Championships will be in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in the summer of 2023.