1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship

The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1986 Final Tournament was held in Yugoslavia. It also served as the European qualification for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryYugoslavia
Dates11–15 October
Teams8
Final positions
Champions East Germany (3rd title)
Runners-up Italy
Third place West Germany
Fourth place Scotland
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored22 (2.2 per match)
1984
1988

Teams edit

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Quarterfinals edit

East Germany  2 – 0  Yugoslavia
Thomas Ritter   48'
Rico Steinmann   53'
Attendance: 2000
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
Scotland  1 – 0  Bulgaria
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)
Italy  2 – 1  Belgium
Referee: Gunther Habermann (East Germany)
West Germany  3 – 0  Romania
Referee: Frans van den Wijngaert (Belgium)

Semifinals edit

Places 5-8 edit

Bulgaria  1 – 0  Belgium
Referee: Dragisa Komadinic (Yugoslavia)
Yugoslavia  5 – 0  Romania
Igor Berecko
Miladinov
Branko Brnović
Davor Šuker
Nermin Vazda
Referee: Dimitar Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

Places 1-4 edit

East Germany  1 – 0  West Germany
Referee: Kenneth Hope (Scotland)
Italy  1 – 0  Scotland
Referee: Ion Craciunescu (Romania)

Third place match edit

West Germany  1 – 0  Scotland
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

Final edit

East Germany  3 – 1  Italy
Referee: Lajos Nemeth (Hungary)


 1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship 
 
East Germany
Third title

Qualification to World Youth Championship edit

The six best performing teams qualified for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

See also edit

External links edit