2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads

Those marked in bold have now been capped at full International level.

Group 1 edit

England edit

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Paul Robinson	15 October 1979			Leeds United
2	2DF	Luke Young	19 July 1979	17	1	Charlton Athletic
3	2DF	Paul Konchesky	15 May 1981	15	0	Charlton Athletic
4	3MF	Sean Davis	20 September 1979	12	1	Fulham
5	2DF	Martin Taylor	9 November 1979	1	0	Blackburn Rovers
6	2DF	Gareth Barry	23 February 1981	27	2	Aston Villa
7	3MF	David Dunn	27 December 1979	20	3	Blackburn Rovers
8	3MF	Jonathan Greening	2 January 1979	17	3	Middlesbrough
9	4FW	Malcolm Christie	11 April 1979	11	3	Derby County
10	4FW	Jermain Defoe	7 October 1982			West Ham United
11	3MF	Jermaine Pennant	15 January 1983	24	0	Arsenal
12	2DF	Chris Riggott	1 September 1980	9	0	Derby County
13	1GK	Stuart Taylor	28 November 1980	3	0	Arsenal
14	3MF	David Prutton	12 September 1981	25	0	Nottingham Forest
15	3MF	Jermaine Jenas	18 February 1983	9	0	Newcastle United
16	3MF	Scott Parker	13 October 1980	11	0	Charlton Athletic
17	3MF	Alan Smith	28 October 1980	10	3	Leeds United
18	2DF	Zat Knight	2 May 1980	4	0	Fulham
19	4FW	Peter Crouch	30 January 1981	6	1	Aston Villa
20	4FW	Bobby Zamora	16 January 1981	6	0	Brighton & Hove Albion
21	4FW	Shola Ameobi^[1]	12 October 1981	20	7	Newcastle United
22	1GK	Stephen Bywater	7 June 1981	6	0	West Ham United

Italy edit

Head coach: Claudio Gentile^[2] Caps and age as of 17 May 2002, before the start of the tournament

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Generoso Rossi	3 January 1979 (age 23)	12	0	Venezia
2	2DF	Daniele Bonera	31 May 1981 (age 20)	12	0	Brescia
3	2DF	Gianpaolo Bellini	27 March 1980 (age 22)	12	0	Atalanta
4	2DF	Matteo Ferrari	5 December 1979 (age 22)	23	3	Internazionale^[3]
5	2DF	Paolo Cannavaro	26 June 1981 (age 20)	3	0	Parma^[4]
6	3MF	Massimo Donati	26 March 1981 (age 21)	13	1	Milan
7	3MF	Marco Marchionni	22 July 1980 (age 21)	14	2	Parma
8	3MF	Matteo Brighi	14 February 1981 (age 21)	7	0	Juventus^[5]
9	4FW	Massimo Maccarone	6 September 1979 (age 22)	11	8	Empoli
10	3MF	Andrea Pirlo (c)	19 May 1979 (age 22)	36	15	Milan
11	4FW	Emiliano Bonazzoli	20 January 1979 (age 23)	14	7	Parma
12	1GK	Vitangelo Spadavecchia	25 November 1982 (age 19)	0	0	Bari
13	2DF	Paolo Castellini	25 March 1979 (age 23)	8	0	Torino
14	2DF	Dario Dainelli	9 June 1979 (age 22)	1	0	Brescia^[6]
15	2DF	Stefano Lucchini	2 October 1980 (age 21)	10	0	Ternana
16	2DF	Cesare Natali	5 April 1979 (age 23)	0	0	Atalanta
17	3MF	Manuele Blasi	17 August 1980 (age 21)	2	0	Perugia
18	3MF	Fabio Gatti	4 January 1982 (age 20)	1	0	Perugia
19	3MF	Giampiero Pinzi	11 March 1981 (age 21)	2	0	Udinese
20	4FW	Andrea Caracciolo	18 September 1981 (age 20)	0	0	Brescia
21	4FW	Vincenzo Iaquinta	21 November 1979 (age 22)	8	1	Udinese
22	1GK	Ivan Pelizzoli	18 November 1980 (age 21)	7	0	Roma

Portugal edit

Head coach: Agostinho Oliveira

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Sérgio Leite	16 August 1979			Boavista
2	2DF	Briguel	8 March 1979			Marítimo
3	2DF	Vasco Faisca	27 August 1980			Vicenza
4	2DF	Tonel	13 April 1980			Académica de Coimbra
5	2DF	Jorge Ribeiro	9 November 1981			Benfica
6	3MF	Ednilson^[7]	25 September 1982			Benfica
7	3MF	Cândido Costa	30 May 1981			Porto
8	3MF	Hugo Viana	15 January 1983			Sporting CP
9	4FW	Hélder Postiga	2 August 1982			Porto
10	3MF	Paulo Costa	5 December 1979			Reggina
11	4FW	Filipe Teixeira	2 October 1980			Istres
12	1GK	Márcio Santos	5 May 1979			Académica de Coimbra
13	2DF	Bruno Alves	27 November 1981			Farense
14	3MF	Alhandra	5 March 1979			Académica de Coimbra
15	4FW	Ariza Makukula	4 March 1981	14	3	Nantes
16	3MF	Tiago	2 May 1981			Braga
17	3MF	Pedro Mendes	26 February 1979			Vitória de Guimarães
18	4FW	António Semedo	1 June 1979			Estrela da Amadora
19	3MF	Neca	31 December 1979			Belenenses
20	2DF	Miguel	4 January 1980			Benfica
21	2DF	Paulo Ferreira	18 January 1979			Vitória de Setúbal
22	1GK	Ivo	4 November 1980			Salgueiros

Switzerland edit

Head coach: Bernard Challandes

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Nicolas Beney	14 September 1980			Sion
2	2DF	Rémo Meyer	12 November 1980	22	1	Lausanne
3	2DF	Ludovic Magnin	20 April 1979			Lugano
4	3MF	Stéphane Grichting	30 March 1979			Sion
5	2DF	Stephan Keller	31 May 1979	4	0	Zürich
6	3MF	Roman Friedli	13 March 1979	20	0	Aarau
7	3MF	Elvir Melunović	17 July 1979	29	4	Grasshopper
8	2DF	Reto Zanni	9 February 1980	23	1	St. Gallen
9	4FW	Daniel Gygax	28 August 1981			Aarau
10	3MF	Ricardo Cabanas	17 January 1979			Grasshopper
11	4FW	Alexander Frei	15 July 1979			Servette
12	1GK	Thierry Bally	9 September 1979			Luzern
13	2DF	Mario Eggimann	24 January 1981			Aarau
14	2DF	Luca Denicola	17 April 1981	7	0	Grasshopper
15	2DF	Alain Rochat	1 February 1983			Yverdon Sport
16	3MF	Pascal Oppliger	1 April 1980			Neuchâtel Xamax
17	3MF	Ivan Previtali	22 October 1979			Kriens
18	3MF	Mario Raimondi	10 July 1980	4	0	Thun
19	4FW	Johann Berisha	6 September 1979	12	1	Young Boys
20	4FW	Rainer Bieli	22 February 1979			St. Gallen
21	4FW	André Muff	28 January 1981	27	8	Luzern
22	1GK	Reto Bolli	2 March 1979			Schaffhausen

Group 2 edit

Belgium edit

Head coach: Jean-François de Sart

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Jean-François Gillet	31 May 1979	Bari
2	2DF	Wouter Vrancken	3 February 1979	Racing Genk
3	2DF	Jonas De Roeck	20 December 1979	Royal Antwerp
4	2DF	Birger Maertens	6 April 1980	Club Brugge
5	2DF	Vincent Lachambre	6 November 1980	Roda JC
6	3MF	Sven Vandenbroeck	22 September 1979	Roda JC
7	3MF	Davy Theunis	28 January 1980	Beveren
8	3MF	Kevin Van Dessel	9 April 1979	Roda JC
9	4FW	Björn De Wilde	1 May 1979	Eendracht Aalst
10	4FW	Tom Soetaers	21 July 1980	Roda JC
11	3MF	Christophe Grégoire	20 April 1980	Mouscron
12	1GK	Olivier Renard	24 May 1979	Standard Liège
13	2DF	Stefan Teelen	10 April 1979	Racing Genk
14	2DF	Önder Turacı^[8]	14 July 1981	La Louviere
15	3MF	Tim Reigel	28 October 1980	Eendracht Aalst
16	4FW	Thomas Chatelle	31 March 1981	Racing Genk
17	3MF	Peter Delorge	14 April 1980	Sint-Truidense
18	3MF	Gonzague Vandooren	19 August 1979	Standard Liège
19	3MF	Grégory Dufer	19 December 1981	Charleroi
20	3MF	Koen Daerden	8 March 1982	Racing Genk
21	4FW	Stein Huysegems	16 June 1982	Lierse
22	1GK	Cliff Mardulier	22 September 1982	Lierse

Czech Republic edit

Head coach: Miroslav Beránek

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Jaroslav Drobný	18 October 1979	Panionios
2	2DF	Martin Jiránek	25 May 1979	Reggina
3	2DF	Martin Horák	16 September 1980	Sigma Olomouc
4	3MF	Petr Voříšek	19 March 1979	Teplice
5	2DF	Zdeněk Grygera	14 May 1980	Sparta Prague
6	2DF	Václav Drobný	9 September 1980	Chmel Blšany
7	3MF	David Kobylík	27 June 1981	Sigma Olomouc
8	4FW	Milan Baroš	28 October 1981	Liverpool
9	3MF	Lukáš Zelenka	5 October 1979	Sparta Prague
10	3MF	Štěpán Vachoušek	26 July 1979	Teplice
11	3MF	Michal Pospíšil	3 May 1979	Sparta Prague
12	4FW	Tomáš Jun	17 January 1983	Sparta Prague
13	3MF	Karel Piták	28 January 1980	Hradec Králové
14	2DF	David Rozehnal	5 July 1980	Sigma Olomouc
15	3MF	Jan Polák	14 March 1981	Brno
16	1GK	Petr Čech	20 May 1982	Sparta Prague
17	2DF	Tomáš Hübschman	4 September 1981	Sparta Prague
18	4FW	Libor Žůrek	2 November 1979	Baník Ostrava
19	4FW	Rudolf Skácel	17 July 1979	Hradec Králové
20	3MF	Radoslav Kováč	27 November 1979	Sigma Olomouc
21	3MF	Tomáš Hrdlička	17 February 1982	Slavia Prague
22	1GK	Aleš Chvalovský	29 May 1979	Chmel Blšany

France edit

Head coach: Raymond Domenech

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Mickaël Landreau	14 May 1979	Nantes
2	2DF	Anthony Réveillère	10 November 1979	Rennes
3	2DF	Julien Escudé	17 August 1979	Rennes
4	2DF	Jean-Alain Boumsong	14 December 1979	Auxerre
5	3MF	Mathieu Berson	23 February 1980	Nantes
6	2DF	Jérémie Bréchet	14 August 1979	Lyon
7	3MF	Olivier Sorlin	9 April 1979	Montpellier
8	3MF	Julien Sablé	11 September 1980	Saint-Étienne
9	4FW	Sidney Govou	27 July 1979	Lyon
10	3MF	Steed Malbranque	6 January 1980	Fulham
11	4FW	Péguy Luyindula	25 May 1979	Lyon
12	2DF	Sylvain Armand	1 August 1980	Nantes
13	4FW	Pierre-Alain Frau	15 April 1980	Sochaux
14	2DF	Matthieu Delpierre	26 April 1981	Lille
15	2DF	Philippe Mexès	30 March 1982	Auxerre
16	1GK	Damien Gregorini	2 March 1979	Marseille
17	2DF	David Di Tommaso	6 October 1979	Sedan
18	3MF	Benoît Pedretti	12 November 1980	Sochaux
19	3MF	Camel Meriem	18 October 1979	Sochaux
20	3MF	Lionel Mathis	4 October 1981	Auxerre
21	4FW	Cyril Chapuis	21 March 1979	Marseille
22	1GK	Rémy Vercoutre	26 June 1980	Montpellier

Greece edit

Head coach: Andreas Michalopoulos

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Stefanos Kotsolis	5 June 1979	Panathinaikos
2	3MF	Christos Patsatzoglou	19 March 1979	Olympiacos
3	2DF	Kostas Louboutis	10 June 1979	Aris
4	3MF	Konstantinos Katsouranis	21 June 1979	Panachaiki
5	2DF	Efstathios Tavlaridis	25 January 1980	Arsenal
6	2DF	Sotirios Kyrgiakos	23 July 1979	Panathinaikos
7	4FW	Ioannis Amanatidis	3 December 1981	Greuther Fürth
8	2DF	Giourkas Seitaridis	4 June 1981	Panathinaikos
9	4FW	Dimitrios Papadopoulos	20 October 1981	Burnley
10	3MF	Giorgos Theodoridis	3 July 1980	Aris
11	4FW	Georgios Kazantzis	2 February 1979	Aris
12	1GK	Giannis Liourdis	22 February 1979	Paniliakos
13	2DF	Evangelois Nastos	13 September 1980	PAOK
14	2DF	Giorgos Kyriazis	28 February 1980	Iraklis
15	4FW	Angelos Charisteas	9 February 1980	Aris
16	1GK	Nikolaos Anastasopoulos	5 August 1979	Skoda Xanthi
17	3MF	Pantelis Kafes	24 June 1978	PAOK
18	4FW	Dimitris Salpingidis	10 August 1981	PAOK
19	2DF	Minas Pitsos	8 October 1980	OFI Crete
20	3MF	Anestis Agritis	16 April 1981	Egaleo
21	3MF	Lambros Vangelis	2 February 1982	Siena
22	2DF	Spyros Vallas	26 August 1981	Skoda Xanthi

Footnotes edit

^ Ameobi capped for Nigeria
^ "No place for Cassano". UEFA. 2 May 2002. Archived from the original on 8 September 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2009.
^ Matteo Ferrari: on loan at Parma.
^ Paolo Cannavaro: on loan at Hellas Verona.
^ Matteo Brighi: on loan at Bologna.
^ Dario Dainelli: on loan at Hellas Verona.
^ Ednilson capped for Guinea-Bissau
^ Turacı capped for Turkey

[1] Ameobi capped for Nigeria

[2] "No place for Cassano". UEFA. 2 May 2002. Archived from the original on 8 September 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2009.

[3] Matteo Ferrari: on loan at Parma.

[4] Paolo Cannavaro: on loan at Hellas Verona.

[5] Matteo Brighi: on loan at Bologna.

[6] Dario Dainelli: on loan at Hellas Verona.

[7] Ednilson capped for Guinea-Bissau

[8] Turacı capped for Turkey

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