U-19 European Football Championship 2008

U-19 European Football Championship 2008
UEFA Under 19 Championship 2008
Number of nations	8  (of 52 applicants)
European champion	Germany (2nd title)
venue	Czech Republic
Opening game	July 14, 2008
Endgame	July 26, 2008
Games	15th
Gates	37  (⌀: 2.47 per game)
Top scorer	Tomáš Necid (4 goals)

The 24th U-19 European Championship took place from July 14th to 26th, 2008 in the Czech Republic . The defending champion was Spain , which defeated Greece 1-0 in the 2007 final. In contrast to Austria and Switzerland, Germany qualified for the finals. It won the tournament 3-1 over Italy and was the first time since 1992 to win a junior tournament. The top scorer of the tournament was the Czech Tomáš Necid . The Germans Lars Bender and Sven Bender were honored as the golden players of the tournament.

mode

Apart from the automatically qualified host Czech Republic, all 52 European associations took part in the qualification for the final round. The first qualifying round was played in 13 groups of four, with one association from each group hosting a tournament in which each team competed once against each other in the group. The two best placed in each group and the two best third in the group qualified for the second qualifying round ("elite round"), which was played in seven groups of four in the same mode. The group winners reached the finals alongside the Czech Republic.

The final round in the Czech Republic was played in two groups of four teams each. The first two in the group contested the semi-finals, the semi-final winners reached the final. In addition to the semi-finalists, the two group thirds also qualified for the U-20 World Cup in Egypt in 2009 .

Attendees

The following teams took part in the tournament:

•  Bulgaria : Ivan Karadschow , Zwetomir Panov , Miltscho Makendschiew , Daniel Slatkow , Kristian Usunow , Aleksandar Kirov , Mikhail Aleksandrov , Stefan Welew , Radoslaw Vasilev , Daniel Dimov , Branimir Kostadinov , Petar Dentschew , Kostadin Gadschalow , Todor Kolev , Ivan Tatschew , Ismail Isa Mustafa , Momchil Tsvetanov , Atanas Sechirow - Supervisor: Michail Madanski .
•  Germany : Ron-Robert Zieler , Dennis Diekmeier , Stefan Reinartz , Ömer Toprak , Florian Jungwirth , Lars Bender , Sven Bender , Marcel Risse , Danny Latza , Timo Gebhart , Richard Sukuta-Pasu , Savio Nsereko , Tom Mickel , Mario Vrancic , Bastian Oczipka , Rahman Soyudoğru , Björn Kopplin , Deniz Naki - Supervisors: Horst Hrubesch .
•  England : David Button , Jason Steele , Jack Cork , Joe Mattock , Dan Gosling , James Tomkins , Krystian Pearce , Scott Sinclair , Kieran Gibbs , Daniel Sturridge , Freddie Sears , Danny Rose , Ryan Bertrand , Victor Moses , Jamie Chandler , Fabian Delph , Benjamin Mee , Tope Obadeyi - Supervisor: Brian Eastick .
•  Greece : Dean Bouzanis , Nikos Barboudis , Vasilios Lampropoulos , Kyriakos Papadopoulos , Nikos Boutzikos , Savvas Gentsoglou , Sotiris Ninis , Michalis Kyrgias , Eleftherios Matsoukas , Sotiris Stratakis , Michalis Pavlis , Nikos Babaniotis , Leonidas Argyropoulos , Vangelis Galanis , Stergios Psianos , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Thodoros Karapetsas , Apostolos Giannou - Supervisor: Alexis Alexiou .
•  Italy : Vincenzo Fiorillo , Matteo Darmian , Matteo Bruscagin , Silvano Raggio Garibaldi , Massimiliano Tagliani , Matteo Gentili , Alberto Paloschi , Andrea Mazzarani , Stefano Okaka , Fernando Forestieri , Umberto Eusepi , Carlo Pinsoglio , Giovanni Formiconi , Michelangelo Albertazzi , Andrea Poli , Giacomo Bonaventura , Domenico Marchetti , Fabio Zamblera - Supervisor: Francesco Rocca .
•  Spain (defending champions): David de Gea , César Azpilicueta , José María Antón , César Ortiz , Mikel Sanjosé , Ignacio Camacho Barnola , Daniel Parejo , Aarón Ñíguez , Jordi Alba , Daniel Aquino , Emilio Nsue , Tomás Mejías , Víctor Ruiz Torre , Manuel Castellano , Álvaro Domínguez , Miguel Ángel Luque , Iván Bolado , Fran Mérida - Supervisors: Gines Melendez .
•  Czech Republic (host): tomáš vaclík , Miroslav Štěpánek , January Polák , Martin Zeman , Jan Hable , Roman Brunclík , Jan Vošahlík , January Moravek , Tomáš Nuc , Tomáš Necid , Libor Kozák , Petr Reinberk , Jan Lecjaks , Radim Řezník , Jakub Heidenreich , Michal Bárta , Petr Wojnar , Lukáš Mareček - Supervisors: Jakub Dovalil .
•  Hungary : Péter Gulácsi , Attila Busai , Zsolt Korcsmár , Dániel Lengyel , András Debreceni , András Gál , Vladimir Koman , András Simon , Krisztián Németh , Márk Nikházi , László Szabó , Péter Pokorni , Adrián Szekeres , Ádám Présinger , Bence Iszlai , Bálint Bajner , András Gosztonyi , Olivér Nagy - Supervisor: Tibor Sisa .

Venues

The European Championship was played in the following stadiums :

• Štruncovy Sady Stadium ( Pilsen )
• Na Litavce Stadium ( Příbram )
• Městský stadium Mladá Boleslav ( Mladá Boleslav )
• Střelnice Stadium ( Jablonec nad Nisou )
• U-Nisy Stadium ( Liberec )
• Viktoria Stadium ( Prague )

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	3	0	0	007: 200	+5	09
2.	Hungary	3	2	1	0	003: 200	+1	07th
3.	Spain	3	1	0	2	005: 300	+2	03
4th	Bulgaria	3	0	0	3	000: 800	−8	00

July 14, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. in Prague
Bulgaria	-	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 1)
July 14, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in Pilsen
Germany	-	Spain	2: 1 (1: 0)
July 17th, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Příbram
Spain	-	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 0)
July 17th, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. in Pilsen
Germany	-	Bulgaria	3: 0 (2: 0)
July 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. in Příbram
Hungary	-	Germany	1: 2 (0: 1)
July 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. in Prague
Spain	-	Bulgaria	4: 0 (2: 0)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	3	1	2	0	005: 400	+1	05
2.	Czech Republic	3	1	1	1	005: 400	+1	04th
3.	England	3	1	1	1	003: 200	+1	04th
4th	Greece	3	0	2	1	001: 400	−3	02

July 14, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. in Jablonec
Czech Republic	-	England	2: 0 (0: 0)
July 14, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in Mladá Boleslav
Greece	-	Italy	1: 1 (1: 0)
July 17th, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Liberec
Czech Republic	-	Greece	0-0
July 17th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. in Jablonec
England	-	Italy	0-0
July 20, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Mladá Boleslav
Italy	-	Czech Republic	4: 3 (1: 1)
July 20, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in Liberec
England	-	Greece	3: 0 (0: 0)

Final round

Semifinals

July 23, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. in Pilsen
Italy	-	Hungary	1: 0 (0: 0)
July 23, 2008 at 8:15 p.m. in Mladá Boleslav
Germany	-	Czech Republic	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1)

final

Germany		Italy
	final July 6, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in Jablonec nad Nisou ( Střelnice Stadium ) Result: 3: 1 (1: 0) Spectators: 4,100 Referee: William Collum ( Scotland )
	Ron-Robert Zieler - Björn Kopplin , Stefan Reinartz , Florian Jungwirth , Dennis Diekmeier - Lars Bender (66th Ömer Toprak ), Sven Bender - Marcel Risse (39th Danny Latza ), Deniz Naki (89th Bastian Oczipka ) - Timo Gebhart - Richard Sukuta-Pasu Trainer: Horst Hrubesch	Vincenzo Fiorillo - Matteo Darmian , Matteo Gentili , Massimiliano Tagliani , Matteo Bruscagin - Andrea Mazzarani , Silvano Garibaldi - Andrea Poli (46th Giacomo Bonaventura ), Fernando Forestieri (78th Umberto Eusepi ) - Alberto Paloschi (59. Fabio Zamblera ) - Stefano Okaka Coach: Francesco Rocca
	1: 0 Lars Bender (24th) 2: 0 Sukuta-Pasu (61st) 3: 1 Gebhart (79th)	2: 1 Garibaldi (78th)
	Jungwirth (34th), Gebhart (80th), Kopplin (90th + 1 ')	Gentili (11th), Bonaventura (47th), Fiorillo (80th), Tagliani (82th)
	Jungwirth (36th)	Gentili (69.)

Web links

• Official website of UEFA for the European Championship 2008
• U-18 European Championship 2008 on rsssf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. T German U19 celebrates European Championship title ( Memento from July 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at sport.ard.de, July 26, 2008
2. ↑ UEFA.com: Under-19 European Championship 2007-2008 (accessed 3 December 2008)