U-19 European Football Championship 2007

U-19 European Football Championship 2007
UEFA Under 19 Championship 2007
Number of nations	8  (of 52 applicants)
European champion	Spain (5th title)
venue	Austria
Opening game	July 16, 2007
Endgame	July 27, 2007
Games	15th
Gates	42  (⌀: 2.8 per game)
Top scorer	Änis Ben-Hatira Konstantinos Mitroglou (3 each)

The U-19 European Football Championship 2007 was held from July 16 to 27, 2007 as the 23rd  U-19 European Football Championship in Austria . The winner was defending champion Spain with a 1-0 win against Greece . The German junior team failed in the semi-finals, hosts Austria were eliminated in the preliminary round. The Switzerland failed to qualify for the tournament itself.

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The eight qualified teams were divided into two groups of four teams each. Within the groups, each team played each other once. The first two in the group contested the semi-finals. The semi-final winners reached the final.

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

•  Germany : Martin Männel ( Energie Cottbus ), Daniel Schwaab ( SC Freiburg ), Arne Feick (Energie Cottbus), Benedikt Höwedes ( FC Schalke 04 ), Alexander Eberlein ( TSV 1860 Munich ), Sergej Evljuskin ( VfL Wolfsburg ), Jérôme Boateng ( Hertha BSC ), Sidney Sam ( Hamburger SV ), Dennis Schmidt ( Bayer 04 Leverkusen ), Änis Ben-Hatira (Hamburger SV), Max Kruse ( Werder Bremen ), Manuel Konrad (SC Freiburg), Sebastian Tyrała ( Borussia Dortmund ), Christian Sauter ( VfB Stuttgart ), Nils Petersen ( FC Carl Zeiss Jena ), Mesut Özil (FC Schalke 04), Kim Falkenberg (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Ralf Fährmann (FC Schalke 04) - Supervisor: Frank Engel .
•  France : Johann Carrasso , William Vainqueur , Paul Baysse , Garry Bocaly , Guillaume Borne , Jean-Alain Fanchone , Étienne Capoue , Malaury Martin , Rudy Gestede , Bakary Sako , Steve Pinau , Frédéric Nimani , Granddi Ngoyi , Kévin Monnet-Paquet , Damien Plessis , Simon Pontdemé , Quentin Othon , Jean-Yves Mvoto - Supervisor: Guy Ferrier .
•  Greece : Ilias Vouras , Michalis Boukouvalas , Vasilios Apostolopoulos , Sokratis , Manolis Moniakis , Georgios Siakas , Sotiris Ninis , Georgios Ioannidis , Athanasios Papazoglou , Andreas Lambropoulos , Konstantinos Mitroglou , Kyriakos Stratilatis , Vasilis Koutsianikoulis , Vasileios Pliatsikas , Anastasios Papazoglou , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Elini Dimoutsos , Dimitris Siovas - Supervisor: Nikos Nioplias .
•  Austria (host): David Schartner ( SV Seekirchen 1945 ), Georg Margreitter ( LASK Linz ), René Seebacher ( FC Kärnten ), Dominic Pürcher ( Sturm Graz ), Christian Ramsebner ( Austria Vienna ), Julian Baumgartlinger ( TSV 1860 Munich ), Haris Bukva ( Austria Kärnten ), Daniel Beichler (Sturm Graz), Marc Sand (FC Kärnten), Christoph Mattes ( SC Heerenveen ), Manuel Salomon ( FC Lustenau ), Thomas Hinum (Austria Kärnten), Michael Glauninger ( Grazer AK ), Clemens Walch ( FC Red Bull Salzburg ), Peter Hackmair ( SV Ried ), Marko Arnautović ( FC Twente Enschede ), Rubin Okotie (Austria Wien), Michael Zaglmair (LASK Linz) - Supervisor: Hermann Stadler .
•  Portugal : Hugo Ventura , Luis Portela , Miguel Ângelo Marques Granja ("Bura"), Daniel Carriço , Ruben Lima , João Paulo Neto Martins , Andre Monteiro , André Castro , Daniel João Santos Candeias , Fábio Paim , João Mendes Gonçalves , Marco António Garcia Pinto , Stélvio Rosa da Cruz , Ivan Santos , Tiago Pinto , Romeu Ribeiro , Orlando Sá , Yago Fernández - Supervisors: Edgar Borges .
•  Russia : Sergei Borodin , Artem Pershin , Ruslan Kambolow , Ruschan Chasjanow , Sergei Goljatkin , Andrei Kuznetsov , Ruslan Balow , Kirill Kurochkin , Artyom Dsjuba , Pavel Mamayev , Sergei Pesjakow , Valery Sokolov , Igor Smolnikow , Alexander Salugin , Andrei Ivanov , Nikita Andreev , Vladimir Djadjun - Supervisor: Rawil Sabitow .
•  Serbia : Branislav Danilović , Nenad Adamovic , Nemanja Zlatkovic , Miloš Karišik , Jagoš Vuković , Nikola Gulan , Ljubomir Fejsa , Miloš Bosančić , Rodoljub Marjanović , Miralem Sulejmani , Dušan Tadić , Zivko Zivkovic , Zoran Milovac , Ivan Radovanovic , Dragomir Vukobratović , Milos Zivanovic , Nenad Sreckovic , Nenad Marinković - Supervisor: Zvonko Živković .
•  Spain : Issac Jiménez , Víctor David Diaz Miguel , Javier Cantero , Javier Modrego Casado , Ion Echaide , Ángel Montoro , César Azpilicueta , Javi Martínez , Emilio Nsue López , Aarón Ñíguez , Carlos Coto , Pablo Gil , Sergio Asenjo , Mikel Sanjose. , Daniel Parejo . , Daniel Parejo , Carlos Martínez Aibar , Jose Zamora , Jesús Berrocal - Supervisors: Juan Santisteban .

Venues

The games were played in the following four Upper Austrian cities: Linz ( municipal stadium , 12,735 seats), Pasching ( Waldstadion , 7,870 seats), Ried im Innkreis ( Fill Metallbau Stadium , 7,708 seats) and Steyr ( forward stadium , 7,630 seats).

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	3	1	2	0	003: 100	+2	05
2.	Greece	3	1	2	0	002: 100	+1	05
3.	Portugal	3	1	1	1	003: 200	+1	04th
4th	Austria	3	0	1	2	001: 500	−4	01

July 16, 2007 at 5:15 p.m. in Linz
Greece	-	Portugal	1: 0 (0: 0)
July 16, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Linz
Austria	-	Spain	0: 2 (0: 0)
July 18, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in Steyr
Spain	-	Portugal	1: 1 (0: 0)
July 18, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Pasching
Austria	-	Greece	1: 1 (0: 1)
July 21, 2007 at 6 p.m. in Ried
Portugal	-	Austria	2: 0 (0: 0)
July 21, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in Linz
Spain	-	Greece	0-0

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	007: 500	+2	07th
2.	France	3	1	2	0	006: 300	+3	05
3.	Serbia	3	0	3	0	010:100	± 0	03
4th	Russia	3	0	1	2	004: 900	−5	01

July 16, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in Steyr
Germany	-	Russia	3: 2 (2: 0)
July 16, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in Ried
France	-	Serbia	5: 2 (2: 2)
July 18, 2007 at 5:15 p.m. in Pasching
Russia	-	Serbia	2: 6 (1: 2)
July 18, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Ried
Germany	-	France	1: 1 (1: 0)
July 21, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Pasching
Serbia	-	Germany	2: 3 (1: 0)
July 21, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Steyr
Russia	-	France	0-0

Final round

Semifinals

July 24, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. in Steyr
Germany	-	Greece	2: 3 (1: 1)
July 24, 2007 at 8:30 p.m. in Pasching
Spain	-	France	0: 0 a.d., 4: 2 i. E.

final

July 27, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Linz
Spain	-	Greece	1: 0 (1: 0)

decisions

Spain became European U-19 champions for the fifth time.

Web links

• Official website of UEFA for the 2007 European Championship
• U-18 European Championship 2007 on rsssf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UEFA.com: Under-19 European Championship 2006-2007 (accessed December 3, 2008)