U-19 European Football Championship 2004

U-19 European Football Championship 2004
2004 UEFA Under 19 Championship
Number of nations	8  (of 52 applicants)
European champion	Spain (3rd title)
venue	Switzerland
Opening game	July 13, 2004
Endgame	July 24, 2004
Games	15th
Gates	43  (⌀: 2.87 per game)
Top scorer	Ali Öztürk Łukasz Piszczek (4 goals)

The 20th UEFA European Under-19 Championship was in the period from 13. bis 24. July 2004 in Switzerland held. The winner was Spain with a 1: 0 victory over Turkey . Germany and defending champion Italy were eliminated in third place after the preliminary round, the host team made it to the semi-finals, Austria could not qualify.

mode

The eight qualified teams are divided into two groups of four teams each. Within the groups, each team plays each other once. The first two in the group contest the semi-finals. The semi-final winners reach the final. In addition to the semi-finalists, the group third also qualified for the Junior World Cup in 2005 .

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

•  Belgium : Glenn Verbauwhede , Antony Spinosa , Nico Van Der Linden , Thomas Vermaelen , Nicolas Lombaerts , Dickson Agyeman , Jonathan Legear , Jurgen Raeymaeckers , Björn Vleminckx , Faris Haroun , Luwamo Garcia , Olivier Werner , Michael Lacroix , Jan Wuytens , Gregory Rondeux , Killian Overmeire , Prince Asubonteng , Stijn De Smet - Team Principal : Marc Van Geersom .
•  Germany : René Adler ( Bayer 04 Leverkusen ), Marcell Jansen ( Borussia Mönchengladbach ), Michael Stegmayer ( FC Bayern Munich ), Marvin Matip ( VfL Bochum ), Nicky Adler ( TSV 1860 Munich ), Stephan Bork ( FC Schalke 04 ), Paul Thomik (FC Bayern Munich), Andreas Ottl (FC Bayern Munich), Mario Gómez ( VfB Stuttgart ), Michael Delura (FC Schalke 04), Christian Gentner (VfB Stuttgart), Florian Fromlowitz ( 1. FC Kaiserslautern ), Raphael Schaschko (VfB Stuttgart ), Oliver Hampel ( Hamburger SV ), Enis Alushi ( 1. FC Cologne ), Lukas Sinkiewicz (1. FC Cologne), Alexander Huber (Eintracht Frankfurt), Ashkan Dejagah ( Hertha BSC ) - team principal: Dieter Eilts .
•  Italy (defending champion): Emiliano Viviano , Devis Nossa , Francesco Battaglia , Antonio Nocerino , Michele Canini , Andrea Coda , Cristian Antonio Agnelli , Daniele Galloppa , Andrea Alberti , Riccardo Montolivo , Tonino Sorrentino , Gianluca Curci , Andrea Masiello , Matteo Teoldo , Lorenzo Carotti , Simone Bentivoglio , Liborio Bongiovanni , Riccardo Meggiorini - Team Principal: Paolo Berrettini .
•  Poland : Łukasz Fabiański , Piotr Celeban , Grzegorz Bartczak , Klaudiusz Latkowski , Sebastian Madera , Marcin Tarnowski , Tomasz Szczepan , Marcin Smolinski , Marcin Kowalczyk , Sławomir Peszko , Łukasz Piszczek , Marcin Juszczyk , Piotr Stawowy , Lukasz Żyrkowski , Gregorz Szymanek , Jakub Błaszczykowski , Lukasz Jasinski , Michal Ilkow - Team Principal : Andrzej Zamilski .
•  Switzerland (host): Swen König , Stefan Iten , Arnaud Bühler , Johan Djourou , Veroljub Salatić , Blerim Džemaili , Valon Behrami , Reto Ziegler , Goran Antic , Fabrizio Zambrella , Slaviša Dugić , Diego Würmli , Henry Siqueira-Barras , Sandro Burki , Michael Diethelm , Miloš Malenović , Guilherme Afonso , Christian Schlauri - Team Principal: Pierre-André Schürmann .
•  Spain : Gabriel Ribas , Sergio Ramos , Javier Garrido , Alexis , Fernando Amorebieta , Iñaki Bergara , Juanfran Torres , Borja Valero , Roberto Soldado , Victor Casadesus Castaño , David Silva , Francisco Chica , Manuel Fernandez Muniz , Miguel Robusté , Raúl Albiol , Rubén de la Red , Joan Tomas Campasol , Jaime Gavilán - Team Principal: José Armando Ufarte Ventoso .
•  Turkey : Serkan Kırıntılı , Hakan Aslantaş , Orhan Şam , Mehmet Ozan Tahtaisleyen , Ergün Teber , Zafer Şakar , Olcan Adın , Sezer Öztürk , Kerim Zengin , Selçuk İnan , Ali Öztürk , Sener Özcan , Burak Yilmaz , Emre Aygün , Sinan Turan , Cafercan Aksu , Onur Çubukçu , Adnan Tugçin Kadioglu - Team principal: Gündüz Tekin Onay .
•  Ukraine : Oleksiy Prokhorov , Maxym Trusevich , Dmytro Chygrynskiy , Anatolyj Kyzuta , Oleksandr Yatsenko , Serhej Roschok , Andrej Proschyn , Oleksandr Aliyev , Aleksandr Stnyk , Artem Milevskiy , Oleksandr Hladkyy , Ivan Kotenko , Konstantyn Kravchenko , Hryhorij Jarmasch , Dmytryj Worobej , Volodymyr Samborskiy , Aleksandr Maksymow , Bohdan Schust - Team Principal: Pavlo Jakowenko .

Venues

The games were played in the cities of Aarau , Freiburg im Üechtland , Kriens , Lausanne and Nyon .

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Switzerland	3	1	2	0	003: 100	+2	05
2.	Ukraine	3	1	2	0	001-000	+1	05
3.	Italy	3	1	1	1	005: 200	+3	04th
4th	Belgium	3	0	1	2	000: 600	−6	01

July 13, 2004 in Aarau
Switzerland	-	Italy	1: 1
July 13, 2004 in Kriens
Belgium	-	Ukraine	0-0
July 15, 2004 in Kriens
Italy	-	Ukraine	0: 1
July 15, 2004 in Aarau
Switzerland	-	Belgium	2-0
July 18, 2004 in Aarau
Italy	-	Belgium	4-0
July 18, 2004 in Kriens
Ukraine	-	Switzerland	0-0

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	3	3	0	0	010: 300	+7	09
2.	Turkey	3	1	1	1	007: 700	± 0	04th
3.	Germany	3	1	1	1	004: 500	−1	04th
4th	Poland	3	0	0	3	005:110	−6	00

July 13, 2004 in Friborg
Germany	-	Spain	0: 3
July 13, 2004 in Lausanne
Poland	-	Turkey	3: 4
July 15, 2004 in Lausanne
Spain	-	Turkey	3: 2
July 15, 2004 in Friborg
Germany	-	Poland	3: 1
July 18, 2004 in Friborg
Turkey	-	Germany	1: 1
July 18, 2004 in Lausanne
Spain	-	Poland	4: 1

Final round

Semifinals

July 21, 2004 in Friborg
Switzerland	-	Turkey	2: 3 a.d.
July 21, 2004 in Lausanne
Spain	-	Ukraine	2: 2 n.V., 4: 1 i. E.

final

July 24, 2004 in Nyon
Turkey	-	Spain	0: 1

decisions

Spain became European U-19 champions for the third time. In addition to Spain and the host Netherlands , Germany , Italy , Switzerland , Spain , Turkey and Ukraine qualified for the 2005 World Junior Cup .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UEFA.com: Under-19 European Championship 2003-2004 (accessed 3 December 2008)

Web links

• Official website of UEFA for the 2004 European Championship
• U-18 European Championship 2004 on rsssf.com