1986 European Under-18 Football Championship

The 5th U-18 European Football Championship was held in Yugoslavia from October 11 to 15, 1986 . The GDR won the title with a 3-1 win over Italy . The Federal Republic of Germany took third place. Defending champions Hungary , like Austria and Switzerland, could not qualify for the finals.

mode

For the first time, the tournament was played with only eight teams. The mode with a knockout system was also new. Since after the qualification, which started in 1984, the final round was not played until October 1986, well after the end of the 1985/86 season, the players had already outgrown the A-youth and were now only eligible to play in the men's area. The contemporary trade press in East and West, examples being fuwo - the new football week and kicker sports magazine , reported on the tournament in Batschka under the title Junior European Championship (U-19) or U-19 European Championship .

Because the competition was held for the first time over two years, players born in 1966 could also be used in the qualification - in the GDR these were, for example, Frank Edmond , Mario Röser and Hilmar Weilandt and in the Federal Republic of Stefan Reuter and Olaf Janßen . Due to the late staging of the final round, qualification for the U-18 European Championship in 1988 had already started in October 1986 .

The eight qualified teams played for the title in a knockout system. The winners of the quarter-finals reached the semi-finals, the winners the final. The semi-final losers contested the game for third place. The losers of the quarter-finals played for two free places for the Junior World Cup in 1987 . The semi-finalists also qualified for the World Cup.

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

Belgium  Bulgaria  GDR  BR Germany

Italy  Yugoslavia  Romania  Scotland

Teams from German-speaking countries

GDR

After some successes in the previous competition, the UEFA youth tournament, the DFV's selection qualified for the finals of the European Junior Championship for the second time in a row after 1984 . After leaving the group stage two years earlier in the Soviet Union , the GDR juniors became European champions on their second appearance. The coach Eberhard Vogel , who had taken over this position from Walter Fritzsch in 1985 , and his colleague Wilfried Gröbner were able to fall back on the talents born in 1967 to 1969, some of whom attracted attention a little later in the GDR top division football. For Rico Steinmann and Matthias Sammer, the success even resulted in a first senior national team appearance on November 19, 1986 against none other than the reigning European champions France . The other careers of the players were very different: Matthias Sammer was European champion and footballer of the year in Europe in 1996. Herzog and Schuster later also reached the GDR A-selection and the Bundesliga. Ritter came to a record-breaking short DFB selection career. Saager, Barylla, Neitzel, Minkwitz, Hiemann and Jähnig also made the leap into professional football after the fall of the Berlin Wall . Marco Köller is an example of a failed talent, he became a social case. Mayk Zimmermann, Uwe Amstein and Jörg Prasse left no traces in the upper leagues. Apart from Kruse, Barylla and Zimmermann, all players also belonged to the DFV squad, which took 3rd place at the 1987 Junior World Championships in Chile.

DFV contingent

player	society	Calls	Gates
Holger Hiemann	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	-
Uwe Amstein	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	3	-
Karsten Neitzel	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-
Dirk Schuster	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	-
Thomas Ritter	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	1
Marco Köller	BFC Dynamo	3	1
Rico Steinmann	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	1
Stefan Minkwitz	1. FC Magdeburg	3	-
Jörg Prasse	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-
Matthias Sammer	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	1
Uwe Jähnig	SG Dynamo Dresden	2	-
André Barylla	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	3	-
Hendrik Herzog	BFC Dynamo	1	-
Mayk carpenter	BSG Shipping / Rostock Port	1	-
Axel Kruse	FC Hansa Rostock	3	2
Ingo Saager	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	-	-

• Trainer: Eberhard Vogel

BR Germany

The preparation of the DFB juniors was marked in particular by the hiccups around Andreas Möller , which Eintracht Frankfurt did not want to release and which the DFB then blocked for the Bundesliga game between Frankfurt and FC Bayern Munich , which was held parallel to the tournament . Also missing from the squad in Yugoslavia were Knut Reinhardt (injured) and Marcel Witeczek (teaching examination), who were part of the German U20 squad the following year for the silver medal in Chile . After six wins in the qualification as well as the two successes against Romania at the beginning and Scotland in the small final , Berti Vogts' team only lost the duel in the semifinals against the U-19s of the GDR just 0: 1.

DFB squad

player	society	Calls	Gates
Uwe Brunn	1. FC Cologne	3	-
Jürgen Luginger	Fortuna Dusseldorf	3	-
Gunther Metz	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2	-
Hans-Jürgen Heidenreich	1. FC Nuremberg	3	1
Frank Haun	1. FC Kaiserslautern	3	-
Alexander Strehmel	VfB Stuttgart	3	-
Thorsten Wörsdörfer	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2	-
Henrik Eichenauer	Waldhof Mannheim	3	1
Adrian Spyrka	Borussia Dortmund	3	-
Detlev Dammeier	Hannover 96	2	1
Oliver Bierhoff	FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3	1
Maurice Banach	1. FC Cologne	2	-
Thomas Wichterich	1. FC Cologne	1	-
Martin Schneider	FC Bayern Munich	2	-
Walter Laubinger	Hamburger SV	2	-
Rainer Dinkhoff	FC Bayern Munich	-	-

• Trainer: Berti Vogts

Venues

The games were played in the cities of Bačka Topola , Čantavir , Kula , Sombor , Subotica and Zenta .

The tournament

Quarter finals

October 11, 1986 in Subotica
GDR	-	Yugoslavia	2-0
October 11, 1986 in Bačka Topola
Scotland	-	Bulgaria	1-0
October 11, 1986 in Sombor
Italy	-	Belgium	2: 1
October 11, 1986 in Kula
BR Germany	-	Romania	3-0

World Cup qualification

October 13, 1986 in Zenta
Bulgaria	-	Belgium	1-0
October 13, 1986 in Čantavir
Yugoslavia	-	Romania	5-0

Semifinals

October 13, 1986 in Sombor
GDR	-	BR Germany	1-0
October 13, 1986 in Bačka Topola
Italy	-	Scotland	1-0

Game for third place

October 15, 1986 in Subotica
BR Germany	-	Scotland	1-0

final

The GDR U-18 European football champions on October 15, 1986.

pairing	GDR - Italy
Result	3: 1 (2: 1)
date	October 15, 1986
Stadion	Gradski , Subotica 1,000 spectators
referee	Lajos Németh (Hungary)
Gates	0: 1 Stefano Impallomeni (17th) 1: 1 Axel Kruse (30th) 2: 1 Matthias Sammer (42nd) 3: 1 Marco Köller (81st)
GDR	Holger Hiemann ; Karsten Neitzel ; André Barylla ; Thomas Ritter ; Dirk Schuster ; Jörg Prasse (89th Hendrik Herzog ); Rico Steinmann ; Marco Koeller ; Stefan Minkwitz ; Axel Kruse (68th Uwe Jähnig ); Matthias Sammer
Italy	Daniele Limonta ; Mirco Omiccioli , Alberto Rivolta (74th Francesco Zanoncelli), Andrea Rocchigiani , Mario Manzo ; Giovanni Piacentini , Stefano Impallomeni , Marco Carrara (46th David Fiorentini ); Luca Giunchi , Gianluigi Lentini , Massimo Ciocci

decisions

In addition to the European champions of the GDR, Bulgaria, the FR of Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia and Scotland qualified for the 1987 World Youth Championship .

Web links

European U-18 Championship 1986 at RSSSF (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: Teamwork with excellent individualists. In: fuwo - The new football week . Oct 21, 1986, p. 9.
2. ↑ Werner Schilling: Still a strong team. In: kicker sports magazine . Oct. 9, 1986, p. 16.