1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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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)

Qualified teams

1 Bold indicates champion for that year

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

First leg

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)

References

External links
Results Archive at uefa.com
RSSSF Results Archive ''at rsssf.com

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1990 in youth association football