1988 European Under-18 Football Championship

The sixth U-18 Football Championship was in the period from 22. bis 27. July 1988 in Czechoslovakia held. It was the first UEFA tournament in Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union was victorious with a 3-1 win over Portugal on penalties . Defending champion GDR was third. The Federal Republic of Germany , like Austria and Switzerland, could not qualify.

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The eight qualified teams played for the title in a knockout system . The quarter-final winners reach the semi-finals, the semi-final winners the final. The semi-final losers play for third place. The quarter-final losers play for two free places for the 1989 World Youth Championship . The semi-finalists also qualify for the World Cup.

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

Denmark  German Democratic Republic (defending champion)  Netherlands  Norway

Portugal  Soviet Union  Spain  Czechoslovakia (host)

Teams from German-speaking countries

GDR

The GDR juniors, the successors to the victorious class around Matthias Sammer , Axel Kruse and Rico Steinmann from autumn 1986, competed as defending champions. Uwe Jähnig had already been part of the squad at the EM two years ago . Once again, after successfully qualifying, he won a medal, this time the bronze one. After the opening win against Denmark (2-0) and the clear semi-final defeat against the Soviet Union (0-3), the team supervised by Lothar Priebe and Rudolf Krause won the game for place 2-0 against Spain. In addition to Jähnig, the trade journal fuwo gave “further top marks for Schulze, Kern and Fuchs.” With Steffen Freund, one of the players became a national team player for the DFB after reunification . The core of the team, many of which, in addition to Freund, became professional footballers after the fall of the Berlin Wall , also represented the DFV at the U-20 World Cup the following winter.

DFV contingent

player	society	Calls	Gates
Frank Schulze	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-
Mario Kern	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	-
Mike Werner	FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder	2	-
Thomas Grabow	BFC Dynamo	3	-
Torsten Raspe	HFC chemistry	3	-
Steffen Karl	HFC chemistry	3	-
Dirk Stammann	BFC Dynamo	3	-
Lars Hermel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	1
Stefan Marx	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	1	-
Thomas Strecker	BFC Dynamo	1	-
Steffen friend	BSG Stahl Brandenburg	1	-
Uwe Jähnig	SG Dynamo Dresden	3	1
Henri Fuchs	FC Hansa Rostock	3	2
Nico Niedziella	1. FC Magdeburg	3	-
Jürgen Rische	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	2	-
Heiko Jobst	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	-	-

• Trainer: Lothar Priebe

BR Germany

The DFB Juniors (eight plus points) just failed in qualification group 1 to Portugal (nine points). The players used in the German U-18s in the preliminary round included Nils Schmäler , Olaf Schmäler , Gerhard Poschner , Sven Scheuer and Marcus Feinbier .

Venues

The game was played in the towns of Frýdek-Místek , Kopřivnice , Opava and Vsetín .

The tournament

Quarter finals

July 22, 1988 in Frydek Mistek
GDR	-	Denmark	2-0
July 22, 1988 in Opava
Spain	-	Czechoslovakia	1-0
July 22, 1988 in Vsetín
Soviet Union	-	Norway	4: 2
July 22, 1988 in Koprivnice
Portugal	-	Netherlands	3-0

World Cup qualification

July 24, 1988 in Vsetín
Norway	-	Denmark	1: 1 n.V., 5: 4 i. E.
July 24, 1988, Koprivnice
Czechoslovakia	-	Netherlands	1-0

Semifinals

July 24, 1988 in Opava
Portugal	-	Spain	2-0
July 24, 1988 in Frydek Mistek
Soviet Union	-	GDR	3-0

Game for third place

July 27, 1988 in Frydek Mistek
GDR	-	Spain	2-0

final

July 27, 1988 in Frydek Mistek
Soviet Union	-	Portugal	3: 1

decisions

The Soviet Union is the first time U-18 European champions.

The Siegerelf: storage Paget - Bejenar, Benko, Tabunow, Asadow, Musch sealed Inca ( Tetradse ) Popovich, Kasimov , Tymoshenko, Salenko , Kirijakow ( Nikiforov )

Tymoshenko, Nikiforov, Salenko / João Pinto scored the goals on penalties.

In addition to the Soviet Union, the GDR, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Czechoslovakia qualified for the 1989 World Youth Championship .

Web links

• U-18 European Championship 1988 on rsssf.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: Jähnig, who is experienced in the final round, was our trump card at the tournament. In: fuwo - The new football week . Aug 2, 1988, p. 4.
2. ↑ Manfred Binkowski: With EM courage for a World Cup place and medal. In: fuwo - The new football week . July 19, 1988, pages 12/13.