1984 European Under-18 Football Championship

The 4th U-18 European Football Championship was held from May 25 to June 3, 1984 in the Soviet Union . The winner was Hungary with a 3: 2 victory on penalties over the hosts . The DDR difference as well as the Switzerland of the preliminary round. The Federal Republic of Germany , like defending champions France and Austria, could not qualify.

The last time the tournament was held with 16 teams. The UEFA slashed the number of participants to eight teams for the next tournament. Furthermore, the tournament should only be held every two years in the future.

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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 losers in the semi-finals played for third place.

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Greece	Bulgaria	GDR	Switzerland
Ireland	Denmark	England	Spain
Portugal	Italy	Luxembourg	Czechoslovakia
Scotland	Poland	Soviet Union (host)	Hungary

Teams from German-speaking countries

GDR

The DFV Juniors qualified for the first time for the U-18 European Championship, which has been held since 1981. Most recently, the GDR, who played host to the tournament in 1980 without qualifying for sport , took part in a final round of the continental championship four years ago in the previous European Championship, the UEFA junior tournament. The East German U-18s last qualified for this kind of unofficial European championship in 1975.

The squad, consisting of players born in 1965 and 1966, was the only DFV team in the tournament's history to win the friendship youth competitions in late summer . In qualifying group 6 for the European Championship, which only consists of the Swedish juniors and the GDR team, the East Germans achieved a 5: 3 overall victory (3: 1 at home and 2: 1 away). According to the GDR football specialist magazine fuwo - Die neue Fußballwoche , this selection year had not lost in twelve games as U-18s before the European Championship since it was formed the previous summer (six wins, six draws). Among the 17 players initially nominated, nine players already had top division experience in the men's division. This also applied to Holger Fandrich, who came on as substitute in the second game against Luxemburg, who was nominated for the injured Sven Förster shortly before he left for the USSR .

Matthias Lindner, Andreas Thom, Heiko Bonan, Olaf Marschall, Ulf Kirsten and Thomas Doll later played from the squad for the national team of the workers 'and farmers' state. After reunification , Thom, Marschall, Kirsten and Doll also wore the jersey of the all-German national team .

DFV contingent

player	society	Calls	Gates
Detlef Hartmann	FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder	1	-
Marco Kostmann	BFC Dynamo	3	-
Frank Mappes	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	3	-
Torsten Wude	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-
Udo Fankhänel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	-
Uwe Lüdtke	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	2	-
Ronald Szepanski	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	1	1
Matthias Lindner	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	3	2
Andreas Thom	BFC Dynamo	3	-
Heiko Bonan	1. FC Magdeburg	3	-
Peter Kunzmann	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	1	-
Holger Fandrich	BFC Dynamo	1	-
Thomas Grether	BFC Dynamo	1	-
Olaf Marshal	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	2	-
Ulf Kirsten	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	1
Lutz Wienhold	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	-
Thomas Doll	FC Hansa Rostock	3	1

• Trainer: Frank Engel

BR Germany

The DFB juniors (five plus points) failed their Italian peers (eight points) in qualification group 8 and took second place ahead of Austria (two points).

Venues

The games of the tournament were played in the cities of Kiev , Leningrad , Minsk and Moscow .

Preliminary round

Group A

All games took place in Leningrad.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Ireland	3	2	1	0	007: 300	+4	05: 10
2.	Scotland	3	1	1	1	004: 500	−1	03: 30
3.	Portugal	3	1	0	2	006: 700	−1	02: 40
4th	Greece	3	1	0	2	003: 500	−2	02: 40

May 25, 1984
Ireland	-	Scotland	3-0
Greece	-	Portugal	1: 3
May 27, 1984
Ireland	-	Greece	1: 1
Scotland	-	Portugal	3: 1
May 29, 1984
Ireland	-	Portugal	3: 2
Scotland	-	Greece	1: 1

Group B

Group B games were played in Kiev.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Poland	3	3	0	0	003-000	+3	06-00
2.	Bulgaria	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	03: 30
3.	Italy	3	2	0	1	003: 200	+1	04: 20
4th	Denmark	3	0	1	2	002: 600	−4	01: 50

May 25, 1984
Bulgaria	-	Denmark	2: 2
Poland	-	Italy	1-0
May 27, 1984
Bulgaria	-	Poland	0: 1
Denmark	-	Italy	0: 3
May 29, 1984
Bulgaria	-	Italy	1-0
Denmark	-	Poland	0: 1

Group C

Group C games took place in Moscow.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	007: 100	+6	05: 10
2.	England	3	2	0	1	004: 200	+2	04: 20
3.	GDR	3	1	1	1	005: 200	+3	03: 30
4th	Luxembourg	3	0	0	3	000:110	−11	00: 60

May 25, 1984
England	-	GDR	1: 1
Soviet Union	-	Luxembourg	5-0
May 27, 1984
England	-	Soviet Union	1: 1
GDR	-	Luxembourg	4-0
May 29, 1984
England	-	Luxembourg	2-0
GDR	-	Soviet Union	0: 1

Group D

Minsk was the venue for the Group D games.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Hungary	3	3	0	0	006-000	+6	06-00
2.	Spain	3	1	1	1	003: 400	−1	03: 30
3.	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	003: 500	−2	03: 30
4th	Switzerland	3	0	0	3	002: 500	−3	00: 60

May 25, 1984
Czechoslovakia	-	Hungary	0: 3
Switzerland	-	Spain	1: 2
May 27, 1984
Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland	2: 1
Hungary	-	Spain	2-0
May 29, 1984
Czechoslovakia	-	Spain	1: 1
Hungary	-	Switzerland	1-0

Final round

Semifinals

June 1, 1984 in Moscow ( Dynamo Stadium )
Ireland	-	Soviet Union	1: 2
June 1, 1984 in Moscow ( Torpedo Stadium )
Poland	-	Hungary	0: 2

Game for third place

June 3, 1984 in Moscow ( Central Stadium )
Poland	-	Ireland	2: 1

final

June 3, 1984 in Moscow (Central Stadium)
Hungary	-	Soviet Union	0: 0 a.d., 3: 2 i. E.

decisions

Hungary is U-18 European champions for the first time.

The winning eleven: Petry - Pinter, Haaz, Szelpal, Keller - Deak, E. Kovacs, Oravecz (Zsivoczky) - Vincze, K. Kovacs, Zsinka

Pinter, Zsivoczky, E. Kovacs / Chudoshilow, Iwanauskas scored the goals on penalties.

In addition to Hungary, Bulgaria, England, Ireland, Poland and the Soviet Union qualified for the 1985 World Youth Championship .

Web links

• 1984 U-18 European Championship on rsssf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: You have the skills - now prove it! In: fuwo - The new football week . May 22, 1984, pages 12/13.