1990 European Under-16 Football Championship

Apolda Arnstadt Bad Langensalza bad Salzungen Eisenach Elsterberg Erfurt Gera Heiligenstadt Ilmenau Koelleda Leinefelde Praise stone Mulhouse Nordhausen Rudolstadt Ruhla Sömmerda Sondershausen Tambach-Dietharz Weida Weimar Zeulenroda

Venues for the European Championship

The 8th U-16 European Football Championship was held in the GDR (in today's Thuringia ) from May 17 to 27, 1990 and was the only UEFA tournament in the GDR. Winner was Czechoslovakia by a 3: 2-victory after extension beyond Yugoslavia . The host arbitration as well as the Federal Republic of after the first round.

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The 16 qualified teams were divided into four groups of four teams each. Within the groups, each team played each other once. The group winners reached the semifinals. The semi-final winners reached the final, the semi-final losers played for third place.

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

Belgium  Denmark  GDR (host)  BR Germany  France  Yugoslavia  Northern Ireland  Poland

Portugal (defending champion)  Scotland  Sweden  Spain  Czechoslovakia  Turkey  Hungary  Cyprus

Teams from German-speaking countries

DFV selection player society Christian Habeck FC Hansa Rostock Gunnar Grundmann SG Dynamo Dresden Sebastian Müller FC Berlin Ulf Liebich FC Berlin Dirk Stichert 1. FC Union Berlin Thomas Bleck FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder Uwe Ehlers FC Hansa Rostock Bernd Schneider FC Carl Zeiss Jena Roland Wendt FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder Jens Kitzing FC Berlin Sven Kaiser 1. FC Union Berlin René Müller FC Hansa Rostock Recardo leeches FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt Mark Zimmermann FC Carl Zeiss Jena Torsten Bernhardt FC Berlin Riccardo Baich FC Hansa Rostock Trainer: Horst Slaby

DFB selection player society Uwe Gospodarek Bayern Munich Dimo guard VfB Oldenburg Markus Schwiderowski Schalke 04 Michael Keckeisen VfB Stuttgart Torsten Lieberknecht VfL Neustadt Maik Jekabsons Eutin 08 Sven Neumann 1. FC Kaiserslautern Guido Jörres 1. FC Cologne Werner Protzel Bayern Munich Jens Nowotny SC Friedrichsthal Stefan Thiele Borussia Dortmund André Breitenreiter Hannover 96 Thomas Sobotzik VfB Stuttgart Horst Buettner Schalke 04 Thomas Reis VfB Stuttgart Marcel Greve Concordia Hamburg Trainer: Bernd Stöber

Venues

The junior European championship took place in the districts of Erfurt and Gera . With the exception of the now Saxon city ​​of Elsterberg, all of the venues are located in what is now Thuringia . The games were played in the cities of Apolda , Arnstadt , Bad Langensalza , Bad Salzungen , Eisenach , Elsterberg , Erfurt , Gera , Heiligenstadt , Ilmenau , Kölleda , Leinefelde , Lobenstein , Mühlhausen , Nordhausen , Rudolstadt , Ruhla , Sömmerda , Sondershausen , Tambach-Dietharz , Weida , Weimar and Zeulenroda .

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	1	0	007: 400	+3	05: 10
2.	Denmark	3	2	0	1	010: 300	+7	04: 20
3.	Northern Ireland	3	1	0	2	003: 800	−5	02: 40
4th	Turkey	3	0	1	2	002: 700	−5	01: 50

May 17, 1990, Leinefelde
Denmark	-	Turkey	3-0
May 17, 1990, Arnstadt
Portugal	-	Northern Ireland	2: 1
May 19, 1990, Eisenach
Denmark	-	Northern Ireland	6-0
May 19, 1990, Sondershausen
Portugal	-	Turkey	2: 2
May 21, 1990, Weimar
Northern Ireland	-	Turkey	2-0
May 21, 1990, Mühlhausen
Portugal	-	Denmark	3: 1

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Poland	3	2	1	0	006: 100	+5	05: 10
2.	Sweden	3	1	2	0	006: 300	+3	04: 20
3.	Cyprus	3	1	0	2	002: 600	−4	02: 40
4th	Hungary	3	0	1	2	002: 600	−4	01: 50

May 17, 1990, Koelleda
Poland	-	Cyprus	3-0
May 17, 1990, Tambach
Sweden	-	Hungary	2: 2
May 19, 1990, Erfurt
Cyprus	-	Hungary	2-0
May 19, 1990, Nordhausen
Poland	-	Sweden	1: 1
May 21, 1990, Heiligenstadt
Sweden	-	Cyprus	3-0
May 21, 1990, Bad Salzungen
Hungary	-	Poland	0: 2

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	0	005-000	+5	05: 10
2.	BR Germany	3	1	2	0	006: 200	+4	04: 20
3.	France	3	0	2	1	002: 400	−2	02: 40
4th	Scotland	3	0	1	2	002: 900	−7	01: 50

May 17, 1990, Bad Langensalza
France	-	Scotland	1: 1
May 17, 1990, Ruhla
BR Germany	-	Czechoslovakia	0-0
May 19, 1990, Apolda
Czechoslovakia	-	France	2-0
May 19, 1990, Sömmerda
BR Germany	-	Scotland	5: 1
May 21, 1990, Sondershausen
BR Germany	-	France	1: 1
May 21, 1990, Ilmenau
Czechoslovakia	-	Scotland	3-0

Group D

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	004-000	+4	06-00
2.	Spain	3	2	0	1	004: 200	+2	04: 20
3.	GDR	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01: 50
4th	Belgium	3	0	1	2	001: 400	−3	01: 50

May 17, 1990, Gera
Yugoslavia	-	Belgium	2-0
May 17, 1990, Elsterberg
Spain	-	GDR	3: 1
May 19, 1990, Weida
Yugoslavia	-	GDR	1-0
May 19, 1990, Lobenstein
Spain	-	Belgium	1-0
May 21, 1990, Rudolstadt
GDR	-	Belgium	1: 1
May 21, 1990, Zeulenroda
Yugoslavia	-	Spain	1-0

Final round

	Semifinals				final
	May 24, 1990, Sömmerda
	Yugoslavia	4th
	Poland	1
					May 27, 1990, Erfurt
					Czechoslovakia	3 n.
					Yugoslavia	2 V.
					Game for third place
	May 24, 1990, Nordhausen				May 27, 1990, Erfurt
	Czechoslovakia	0 (5) 1			Poland	3
	Portugal	0 (3)			Portugal	2

¹ win on penalties

The U-16 national team of Czechoslovakia thus became European football champions for the U16 / U17 juniors for the first time. It remained the only title for this team.

The winning eleven: Hyll - Kowar, Sulek, Repka, Cieslar, Vomacka (Roub), Vitava, Berger, Cizek, Penska, Matejka (Ungvölgyi)

Penska, Berger, Cizek / Pantelic, Stanojevic scored the goals.

Web links

• Erik Garin, Julio Bovi Diogo: European U-16 Championship 1990. In: rsssf.com (June 28, 2006).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fuwo 19/1990 of May 8, 1990, p. 13
2. ↑ Kicker Sportmagazin No. 40 of May 14, 1990, p. 28
3. ↑ Junior European Championship in football. In: Neues Deutschland from May 17, 1990, p. 7.