| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 14 March – 17 October |
| Teams | 30 (from 1 confederation) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Soviet Union (2nd title) |
| Runners-up | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Yugoslavia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 98 |
| Goals scored | 235 (2.4 per match) |
| Attendance | 103,414 (1,055 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Andriy Sidelnikov Davor Šuker (3 goals each) |
| Best player(s) | Davor Šuker[1] |
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)
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Qualified teams
| Country | Qualified as | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
|---|---|---|
 Bulgaria | Group 1 winner | 1 (1978) |
 Sweden | Group 2 winner | 1 (1986) |
| Soviet Union | Group 3 winner | 2 (1980, 1982) |
 Germany | Group 4 winner | 1 (1982) |
| Yugoslavia | Group 5 winner | 3 (1978, 1980, 1984) |
 Spain | Group 6 winner | 4 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988) |
 Czechoslovakia | Group 7 winner | 3 (1978, 1980, 1988) |
 Italy | Group 8 winner | 6 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988) |
- 1 Bold indicates champion for that year
Knockout stage
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||||||
| Italy
| 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Spain
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Italy
| 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia (a)
| 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Bulgaria
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Soviet Union
| 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Soviet Union (a.e.t.)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| West Germany
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Soviet Union
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Sweden
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Sweden
| 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Quarter-finals
First leg
| Yugoslavia | 2–0 | Bulgaria |
|---|---|---|
Prosinečki  32'Bokšić 79' |
Report |
| Soviet Union | 1–1 | West Germany |
|---|---|---|
| Shalimov 66' |
Report | Bal 9' (o.g.) |
Second leg
| Spain | 1–0 | Italy |
|---|---|---|
| Mendiguren 77' |
Report |
| Bulgaria | 0–1 | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Šuker 13' |
| West Germany | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | Soviet Union |
|---|---|---|
| Hochstätter 37' |
Report | Chugunov 67' Sydelnykov 115' |
Semi-finals
First leg
| Yugoslavia | 0–0 | Italy |
|---|---|---|
| Report |
Second leg
| Soviet Union | 2–0 | Sweden |
|---|---|---|
| Kolyvanov 27' Kiryakov 47' |
Report |
Final
First leg
| Yugoslavia | 2–4 | Soviet Union |
|---|---|---|
| Šuker 21' Jarni 64' |
Report | Sydelnykov 9', 49' Chernyshov 42'Dobrovolskiy 84' |
Second leg
| Soviet Union | 3–1 | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|---|
| Dobrovolskiy 10' Mostovoi 46'Kanchelskis 76' |
Report | Bokšić 80' |
Goalscorers
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goal
- Andriy Bal (playing against West Germany)
- Miroslav Đukić (playing against Italy)
References
- ↑ "1990: Davor Šuker". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 June 1990. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
External links
- Results Archive at uefa.com
- RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com
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