1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship explained

Tourney Name:	1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Dates:	14 March – 17 October
Confederations:	1
Num Teams:	30
Count:	2
Matches:	98
Goals:	235
Attendance:	103414
Player:	Davor Šuker^[1]
Prevseason:	1988
Nextseason:	1992

The 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1988–90), had 30 entrants. San Marino competed for the first time. USSR U-21s won the competition.

The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + two groups of 3). The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or 3rd-place playoff.

Qualifying stage

Draw

The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:

• Groups 1 and 2 featured the same nations
• Group 3 did not include Iceland (moved to Group 4)
• Group 4 did not include Wales, but included Iceland (moved from Group 3)
• Group 5 did not include Cyprus (moved to Group 6)
• Group 6 did not include Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Malta, but included Cyprus (moved from Group 5)
• Group 7 did not include Switzerland (moved to Group 8)
• Group 8 composed of Switzerland (moved from Group 7), Italy and San Marino (both of whom did not participate in World Cup qualification)

Qualifying Group 1 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 align=center width="50" 5 align=center width="50" 0 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 16 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 10 2 6 3 0 3 8 7 6 3 6 2 1 3 9 14 5 4 6 1 1 4 3 11 3

Bulgaria 2–1 Romania Greece 2–2 Denmark Romania 2–0 Greece Denmark 1–3 Bulgaria Bulgaria 6–0 Denmark Greece 1–0 Romania Romania 2–1 Bulgaria Denmark 3–0 Greece Bulgaria 2–0 Greece Denmark 1–2 Romania Romania 1–2 Denmark Greece 0–2 Bulgaria qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 2 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 2 align=center width="50" 0 align=center width="50" 10 align=center width="50" 2 align=center width="50" 10 2 6 4 1 1 10 5 9 3 6 1 2 3 4 10 4 4 6 0 1 5 1 8 1

Poland 0–0 Albania England 1–1 Sweden Albania 0–2 Sweden Albania 1–2 England England 2–0 Albania Sweden 4–0 Poland England 2–1 Poland Sweden 1–0 England Sweden 1–0 Albania Poland 1–3 England Poland 1–1 Sweden Albania 0–1 Poland qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 3 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 12 align=center width="50" 5 align=center width="50" 9 2 6 3 1 2 8 6 7 3 6 1 2 3 6 8 4 4 6 1 2 3 4 11 4

Soviet Union 2–2 Austria Austria 3–0 Turkey Turkey 3–2 East Germany East Germany 0–0 Turkey Soviet Union 1–0 East Germany Turkey 0–3 Soviet Union East Germany 2–0 Austria Austria 0–2 Soviet Union East Germany 3–2 Soviet Union Turkey 1–1 Austria Soviet Union 2–0 Turkey Austria 0–1 East Germany qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 4 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 2 align=center width="50" 0 align=center width="50" 10 align=center width="50" 2 align=center width="50" 10 2 6 2 3 1 11 7 7 3 6 1 2 3 6 9 4 4 6 1 1 4 4 13 3

Finland 0–3 West Germany Iceland 1–1 Netherlands Finland 2–1 Iceland West Germany 2–0 Netherlands Netherlands 0–1 West Germany Finland 1–1 Netherlands Iceland 1–1 West Germany Iceland 4–0 Finland West Germany 2–0 Finland Netherlands 2–3 Iceland West Germany 1–1 Iceland Netherlands 2–1 Finland qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 5 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 10 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 9 2 6 3 2 1 11 7 8 3 6 1 2 3 3 7 4 4 6 1 1 4 7 13 3

Norway 1–1 Scotland France 2–0 Norway Scotland 0–2 Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 2–2 France Scotland 2–3 France France 0–1 Yugoslavia Norway 0–1 Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 4–1 Scotland Norway 1–1 France Yugoslavia 0–1 Norway France 3–1 Scotland Scotland 2–0 Norway qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 6 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 3 align=center width="50" 0 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 3 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 2 4 2 1 1 2 1 5 3 4 0 1 3 0 3 1

Cyprus 0–0 Hungary Cyprus 0–1 Spain Hungary 1–0 Cyprus Spain 1–0 Cyprus Hungary 1–0 Spain Spain 1–0 Hungary qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 7 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 6 align=center width="50" 3 align=center width="50" 2 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 10 align=center width="50" 5 align=center width="50" 8 2 6 2 4 0 7 3 8 3 6 2 2 2 6 6 6 4 6 0 2 4 1 10 2

Czechoslovakia 0–3 Belgium Portugal 1–1 Belgium Czechoslovakia 4–0 Luxembourg Portugal 1–0 Luxembourg Belgium 1–1 Czechoslovakia Luxembourg 0–0 Belgium Belgium 1–1 Portugal Czechoslovakia 1–0 Portugal Luxembourg 0–3 Portugal Belgium 1–0 Luxembourg Portugal 0–3 Czechoslovakia Luxembourg 1–1 Czechoslovakia qualify as group winners

Qualifying Group 8 P W D L F A Pts align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 4 align=center width="50" 3 align=center width="50" 1 align=center width="50" 0 align=center width="50" 5 align=center width="50" 0 align=center width="50" 7 2 4 2 1 1 8 1 5 3 4 0 0 4 0 12 0

Switzerland 0–0 Italy San Marino 0–5 Switzerland San Marino 0–2 Italy Italy 1–0 Switzerland Switzerland 3–0 San Marino Italy 2–0 San Marino qualify as group winners

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearances in tournament^1
	Group 1 winner	1 (1978)
	Group 2 winner	1 (1986)
	Group 3 winner	2 (1980, 1982)
	Group 4 winner	1 (1982)
	Group 5 winner	3 (1978, 1980, 1984)
	Group 6 winner	4 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988)
	Group 7 winner	3 (1978, 1980, 1988)
	Group 8 winner	6 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

First leg

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Second leg

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Semi-finals

First leg

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Second leg

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Final

Second leg

Goalscorers

3 goals

• • Davor Šuker Andriy Sydelnykov

2 goals

• Giovanni Stroppa
• Kennet Andersson
• Tomas Brolin
• Ulrik Jansson
• Igor Shalimov
• Igor Dobrovolskiy
• Alen Bokšić

1 goal

• Horst Siegl
• Christian Hochstätter
• Pierluigi Casiraghi
• Marco Simone
• Fernando Hierro
• Ricardo Mendiguren
• Stefan Rehn
• Dmitriy Chugunov
• Igor Kolyvanov
• Andrey Kanchelskis
• Sergey Kiryakov
• Aleksandr Mostovoi
• Zvonimir Boban
• Robert Jarni
• Robert Prosinečki

Own goal

• Andriy Bal (playing against West Germany)
• Miroslav Đukić (playing against Italy)

External links

• Results Archive at uefa.com
• RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1990: Davor Šuker. UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 June 1990. 29 June 2015.