UEFA youth tournament

The UEFA youth tournament (off. International Youth Tournament ) was a competition held from 1948 to 1980 for youth teams of the European football associations. From 1948 to 1954, the most important youth tournament in Europe was organized by FIFA and from 1955 by UEFA , founded in 1954 . All players up to the age of 18 were eligible to participate, but not those who had already signed a professional contract. From 1981 the competition was continued by the UEFA under the name "Junior European Championship" . The DFB first took part in the tournament with a junior national team in 1953 , but could not win a tournament until 1980. Only in 1954 and 1972 did the DFB youth reach the finals. In contrast, the representation of the DFV from the GDR entered the list of winners twice in 1965 and 1970. The youth of England proved to be the most successful, winning eight tournaments alone, including a hat trick between 1971 and 1973. With four successful participations, the Soviet Union followed in second place, Bulgaria with three triumphs in third place the winners list. In 1955 and 1956, only the group winners were played in Italy and Hungary, respectively, there was no final.

history

When FIFA first hosted the youth tournament in London in April 1948 - the teams were housed in the Royal Air Force camp in Kent - eight teams took part in the tournament, including the four island teams from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. The canal neighbors Belgium and the Netherlands had traveled from the European mainland, as well as Austria and Italy from Central and Southern Europe. Participants from Northern and Eastern Europe were completely absent. At the second event in April 1949 in the Netherlands, France was added; all nine A youth teams were housed together in a school in Zeist . The immediately victorious newcomer received a relatively simple, engraved metal plaque after the final. The last time the international youth meeting was held in Spain in 1952 was a "small circle" with only six participants. When the DFB made its debut with its youth national team in the tournament in Belgium in 1953, the competition had overcome its initial difficulties and, in addition to the DFB, Saarland, Hungary - but Yugoslavia had already represented the socialist countries in France in 1951 - and Argentina. In 1954 and 1965, the European youth football met in Germany. The DFB team moved into the final in 1954 with goal scorer Uwe Seeler and in 1965 finished fifth in a field of 23 participants with defender Berti Vogts . After the GDR youth made their debut in 1954, other teams from the Eastern Bloc, including Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia, recognized the opportunity to present their youngsters to the international public through the UEFA youth tournament. In 1955 and 1956 no tournament winners were played, after the group matches the tournaments in Italy and Hungary were over. The friendly character of the encounters, the international exchange of ideas and the understanding between peoples should not be impaired by the overly strong focus of the competition concept of the finals. DFB official Hermann Joch commented on these experiences from the 1955 tournament in Italy in the "1956 Yearbook" with the following words:

“ For this reason alone, the effort with which those in charge of the Italian Football Association tried to change the form of the tournament from that of a competition to the exclusive form of a youth encounter can only be rated as a platonic idea. [...] In this respect, Italy was a disappointment or at least a confirmation of the opinion of the game system that had been formed before the days in Montecatini, for the advocates of the new idea, but also for all those who had come to study the new competition mode. [...] A proof for the fallacy of the organizers this time is presented from a completely different, unexpected side: it wasn't about anything, it wasn't about points ... but the games were still harder and more dogged than in both of them last tournaments we attended. The Platonic form of events has not been able to create any change here. "

Before the 1963 tournament in England, the number of participants was regulated for the first time by qualifying games to 16 teams - in 1964 and 1965, however, two more tournaments were held with 24 and 23 national teams respectively - before the number of participants was fixed at 16 teams from 1966 to 1980.

The ranking of the most successful countries participating in the UEFA tournament clearly speaks for the quality of youth work in English professional football and the correctness of the centralized approach in the socialist countries. The "professional apprentice" system used in England during the UEFA tournament - young people required to train as an apprentice in professional football by the league clubs directly from school (from the age of 15) - the English had the great advantage in the European youth competition that they were the only country able to employ "full professionals" because 17-year-olds on the island were able to sign professional contracts after just two years of training. If you add the world and European championship tournaments in senior football from 1950 to 1980 as a continuation and completion of youth football, the originally clear picture becomes cracked. The English juniors prevailed with their superior strength, robustness and combat strength, which they had acquired in the daily training routine of the junior departments in the professional clubs. In senior football, this recipe was only partially successful. He succeeded in winning the title in 1966 at the home World Cup and two years later at the European Championships in Italy in 1968, it was enough for third place. The successes in the UEFA tournament could not be transferred to senior football. The "broad phalanx" of the Eastern Bloc in the junior area behind England is also not reflected in the World and European Championships. The USSR only reached the semi-finals at the 1966 World Cup and the first two events at the European Championships distort the picture with a first and second place. In 1960 and 1964 the EM was not yet established, the competition was held as the "European Cup of Nations". In 1960, only 17 of the 31 associations affiliated to UEFA at the time took part. Only the third tournament, from June 5 to 10, 1968 in Italy, was officially hosted by UEFA. Physical superiority and competitive toughness from the motherland of football and centralized framework conditions aimed at rapid success in the youth field from the eastern UEFA associations, guaranteed no further development in senior football and thus no comparable successes.

At the tournaments in 1960, 1971 and 1975 there were three direct international matches at the UEFA youth tournament between the youth teams of the associations of the DFB and the DFV. At the first meeting in Austria, the teams parted 1: 1 in Linz. In Czechoslovakia in 1971 the DFV representation prevailed as defending champion in Veseli na Morave with 3-1 goals - Jürgen Pommerenke scored twice - against the team of DFB youth coach Herbert Widmayer , before the DFB-Elf in 1975 at the tournament in Switzerland on May 9th in Wettingen the revenge was successful with the same result.

The line-up of the two German teams on April 20, 1960 at the UEFA tournament in Austria:
FRG : Werner Pfeifer (TuS Meerbeck) / from 49. M. Udo Cieslik (Spandauer SV); Dieter Kurrat (Borussia Dortmund), Jürgen Neumann (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Arno Cramer (FC Schalke 04); Hermann Marchl (Vfl Marburg), Stefan Reisch (1. FC Nuremberg); Kurt Haseneder (1. FC Nürnberg), Karl-Heinz Bente (Eintracht Gelsenkirchen), Hans-Otto Peters (Union Ohligs), Gerhard Elfert (Arminia Hannover), Jürgen Koch (Westfalia Herne)
GDR : Hans-Georg Moldenhauer (SC Aufbau Magdeburg ); Gerhard Prautzsch (SG Dynamo Dresden), Peter Gießner (SC Lokomotive Leipzig), Rolf Starost (SC Dynamo Berlin); Manfred Kupferschmied (SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg), Herbert Pankau (SC Empor Rostock); Arno Zerbe (SC Rotation Leipzig), Günther Schmahl (SC Lokomotive Leipzig), Klaus Heydenreich (Empor Wurzen West), Peter Ducke (SC Motor Jena), Günter Preißler (ASK Vorwärts Leipzig)

On May 9, 1975 the two teams competed in the following formation:
FRG : Harry Schmid (Kickers Offenbach); Manfred Günther (VfB Stuttgart), Horst Weyerich (1. FC Nürnberg), Reiner Lange (SV Darmstadt 98), Hannes Salewski (Schalke 04); Wilfried Hannes , Gert Engels (both Düren 99), Klaus Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf); Winfried Stradt (Eintracht Frankfurt), Peter Sommer , Werner Dorok (both 1. FC Nürnberg)
GDR : Reinhard Schwerdtner (BFC Dynamo); Man (locomotive Leipzig); Andreas Treske (Leipzig locomotive), Norbert Trieloff (BFC Dynamo), Uwe Bloch (Hansa Rostock); Norbert Nachtweih (HFC Chemie, 54th Andreas Bornschein - Leipzig locomotive), Jürgen Reske (Rot-Weiß Erfurt), Roland Jüngling (BFC Dynamo, 67th Burghard Pingel - HFC Chemie); Frank Eitemüller (FC Karl-Marx-Stadt), Martin Iffarth (Rot-Weiß Erfurt), Uwe Grüning (1. FC Magdeburg) Goals : 0: 1 Reske, 1: 1 summer, 2: 1 Allofs, 3: 1 summer

An "eternal" point of contention was the birth details of the players by the associations of the tournament participants. According to the announcement, each participating country had to send UEFA a player list with exact, officially certified details of their date of birth at least 15 days before the start of the tournament. The regulations stipulated that a player who does not have a proper ID "will not be allowed to participate in the tournament". The deadline for the players' birthdays was August 1st. At the 1971 tournament in Czechoslovakia there was an incident precisely about this that cast a bad light on those responsible at UEFA. After the DFB juniors had prevailed in qualifying with a 1-0 away win in Macerata against Italy, they first met the organizer in the group stage at the tournament in Czechoslovakia on May 22 and parted with a 0-0 Draw. At the same time, the GDR prevailed against Greece with 5: 1 goals. This encounter was preceded by a suspension of three Greek players by UEFA because they had outgrown the age groups intended for UEFA tournaments. Two days later, on May 24th, the three Greeks were suddenly eligible to play again against the DFB team. The Widmayer squad lost 2: 4 goals against the Hellas Juniors. The Greeks had only given the players' years of birth at the registration deadline, but nothing that would have said about August 1st. However, UEFA allowed them.

First participations

Until 1956 there was always at least one national soccer team that took part in the finals for the first time. The highest number of first-time participants was reached in 1948 with the first edition. Below is a list of the first-time participants, each with the flags and names valid at the time. In addition to Argentina, which participated in 1953 and 1954, only European teams participated in the years when the tournament was organized by FIFA.

year	First time participant
1948	Belgium	England	Ireland	Italy
	Netherlands	Northern Ireland	Austria	Wales
1949	France	Scotland
1950	Luxembourg	Switzerland
1951	Yugoslavia
1952	Spain
1953	Argentina	BR Germany	Saarland	Turkey
	Hungary
1954	GDR	Portugal
1955	Bulgaria	Poland	Romania	Czechoslovakia
1956	Greece
1957 to 1961	No first-time participants
1962	Soviet Union
1963	Sweden
1964 to 1968	No first-time participants
1969	Malta
1970	Finland	Norway
1971 and 1972	No first-time participants
1973	Denmark
1974	Iceland
1975 to 1980	No first-time participants

• Teams in bold were tournament winners when they first entered a final round (no tournament winners were determined in 1955 and 1956).
• Teams in italics were the hosts when they first entered a final tournament.

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Game for third place
		winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
1948	England	England	3: 2	Netherlands	Belgium	3: 1	Italy
1949	Netherlands	France	4: 1	Netherlands	Belgium	5-0	Northern Ireland
1950	Austria	Austria	3: 2	France	Netherlands	6-0	Luxembourg
1951	France	Yugoslavia	3: 2	Austria	Belgium	1-0	Northern Ireland
1952	Spain	Spain ( 1 )	0-0	Belgium	Austria	5: 5 (drawing of lots)	England
1953	Belgium	Hungary	2-0	Yugoslavia	Turkey	3: 2	Spain
1954	Germany	Spain ( 1 )	2: 2	BR Germany	Argentina	1-0	Turkey
1955	Italy	no finals ( 2 )
1956	Hungary	no finals ( 3 )
1957	Spain	Austria	3: 2	Spain	France	0-0	Italy
1958	Luxembourg	Italy	1-0	England	France	3-0	Romania
1959	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	1-0	Italy	Hungary	6: 1	GDR
1960	Austria	Hungary	2: 1	Romania	Portugal	2: 1	Austria
1961	Portugal	Portugal	4-0	Poland	BR Germany	2: 1	Spain
1962	Romania	Romania	4: 1	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	1: 1 (drawing of lots)	Turkey
1963	England	England	4-0	Northern Ireland	Scotland	4: 2	Bulgaria
1964	Netherlands	England	4-0	Spain	Portugal	3: 2	Scotland
1965	Germany	GDR	3: 2	England	Czechoslovakia	4: 1	Italy
1966	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union / Italy	0: 0 a.d. (two winners)		Yugoslavia	2-0	Spain
1967	Turkey	Soviet Union	1-0	England	Turkey	1: 1 (drawing of lots)	France
1968	France	Czechoslovakia	2: 1	France	Portugal	4: 2	Bulgaria
1969	GDR	Bulgaria	1: 1 a.d. (drawing of lots)	GDR	Soviet Union	1-0	Scotland
1970	Scotland	GDR	1: 1 a.d. (drawing of lots)	Netherlands	Scotland	2-0	France
1971	Czechoslovakia	England	3-0	Portugal	GDR	1: 1 (5: 3 as new)	Soviet Union
1972	Spain	England	2-0	BR Germany	Poland	0: 0, 6: 5 n.e.	Spain
1973	Italy	England	3: 2 a.d.	GDR	Italy	1-0	Bulgaria
1974	Sweden	Bulgaria	1-0	Yugoslavia	Scotland	1-0	Greece
1975	Switzerland	England	1: 0 a.d.	Finland	Hungary	2: 2 (n.E.)	Turkey
1976	Hungary	Soviet Union	1-0	Hungary	Spain	3-0	France
1977	Belgium	Belgium	2: 1	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	7: 2	BR Germany
1978	Poland	Soviet Union	3-0	Yugoslavia	Poland	3: 1	Scotland
1979	Austria	Yugoslavia	1-0	Bulgaria	England	0: 0 (4: 3 n.E.)	France
1980	GDR	England	2: 1	Poland	Italy	3-0	Netherlands

¹ tournament winner because of the better goal difference in the group stage. ² No final round was played in order to “avoid excessive competition”. Group winners: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Romania ³ No final round was played in order to “avoid excessive competition”. Group winners: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Romania

Ranking of the most successful nations

rank	country	winner	2nd place	3rd place	4th Place
1	England	8th	3	1	1
2	Soviet Union	4th	0	2	1
3	Bulgaria	3	2	0	3
4th	Yugoslavia	2	4th	1	0
5	Spain	2	2	1	4th
6th	GDR	2	2	1	1
7th	Italy	2	1	3	2
8th	Hungary	2	1	2	0
9	Austria	2	1	1	0
10	France	1	2	2	4th
11	Portugal	1	1	3	0
11	Belgium	1	1	3	0
13	Romania	1	1	0	1
14th	Czechoslovakia	1	0	2	0

Special framework conditions in the DFB area

The first official international match of the A-Juniors of the DFB took place on March 31, 1953 in Liège in the group game against Argentina as part of the competition, which was then still called the FIFA Junior Tournament. There could be no question of a concentration of performance in the youth sector, as until 1963 the top performance in the senior division of the DFB was represented by the regional football leagues South, Southwest, West, North and the city league Berlin (West) with their contract player status. Regional A-Junior championships were only held in Berlin and southern Germany in 1953. No championship was played in West Germany from 1952 to 1959, in North Germany only from 1956 and in the Southwest not until 1963, in the year of the end of the Oberliga era as a German top performance. The first German A-Juniors championship was not held until 1969. The final on July 13, 1969 in Saarbrücken was won by the VfL Bochum youth team with 5: 3 goals against 1. FC Saarbrücken . In the DFV, on the other hand, youth championships were held from 1951 and the youth cup winners' competition from 1952. Before the very late introduction of the German A-Junior Championship in 1969, the A-Junior Country Cup of the regional associations, which was introduced in 1953, contributed more to the screening of the youth team. But the introduction of the A-Junior Championship from the 1968/69 round onwards could not yet be described as a really effective aid for the selection process for the DFB-UEFA youth teams. From 1969 to 1980, all twelve UEFA tournaments took place in May, the finals of the German A-Juniors took place eleven times in July and once in June during the same period. The finals for the German championship in the upper league era from 1954 to 1962 (before the respective world championship tournaments), which are comparable in the broadest sense, always took place before the world championship tournaments for reasons of sport and could therefore be used as the last form check and pointer to select the world championship drivers become. This did not apply to the DFB youth. The 1969 UEFA tournament in the GDR is an example of this. From May 18th to 22nd, the then DFB youth team played their three group matches against Bulgaria (later tournament winner against the GDR), France and Spain. The team around the later Bundesliga soccer players Jürgen Sobieray , Rolf Rüssmann , Klaus Scheer , Klaus Beverungen , Franz Hiller , Uli Hoeneß and Paul Breitner were eliminated with 2: 4 points . From the first German A junior champions VfL Bochum - final on July 13, 1969 - none of the players belonged to the DFB line-up for the UEFA tournament. For goalkeeper Jörg Daniel and field players Hans-Günter Etterich , Klaus-Peter Kerkemeier and especially Hans-Jürgen Köper , winning the title came too late. The German championship of the Bochumers was not a "flash in the pan", the VfL youth celebrated the championship title in 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1970 in the regional association West. In the next few years, the performance promotion in the youth division of the DFB continued. In 1970, the DFB hired Herbert Widmayer, a DFB coach with the special field of responsibility of the youth national team , for the first time , who ended his work for reasons of age at the 1978 tournament in the Soviet Union and was then replaced by the former Bundesliga coach Dietrich Weise . In previous years, the selection of young people fell into the remit of the assistants - Dettmar Cramer (1953–59), Helmut Schön (1960–63), Dettmar Cramer (1964–66), Udo Lattek (1967–69) - of the national coach. In 1977 the German championship of the B-youths was introduced as a substructure for the A-Juniors and in the mid-1990s (1995/96 and 1996/97) the first step on the way to the concentration of performance in youth performance football with A-Juniors regional leagues took place. From the 2003/04 season, the concentration was continued and for the first time in regional A-Juniors Bundesliga championship rounds.

As an example of the attitude and approach in the first two decades of the UEFA tournament from the perspective of German football, excerpts from the report of the then responsible DFB coach Helmut Schön after the tournament in Portugal in 1961 - the DFB team took third place - listed:

“ In the late summer of each year, talent scouting begins on a broad basis. In counties and districts, selection teams are set up, which play the state winner in a competition. Our association sports instructors observe these games with a critical eye and unite the best players from them to form national teams and finally to select the regional association. From five teams from North, West, South, South-West and Berlin, who play the youth country cup of the German Football Association, the group of players is finally formed, who will play a few auditions in February and March and finally an international match before the tournament performs. [...] We do not want to assess the results measured in points and goals too important at these tournaments, but on the other hand we do not forget the great value that participation in this youth meeting has for our youngsters and thus for German football. The participation of a German selection of young people should and must always be under the thought that our aim is not to be successful by all means. It is important for us to meet with youth representatives from other countries, to exchange ideas and to form friendly bonds, but we also see this tournament as an opportunity to familiarize our most talented young people with international football in good time, to give them experiences and to give them the To provide an incentive to train yourself further by observing the performance of others and to improve your own skills. Let us not forget that over the years the participants in these major tournaments have developed into excellent players for our club and country teams. "

In addition to the lack of concentration of performance in youth football until the mid-1990s, the normal club membership of the players in those decades was also a peculiarity that was not comparable to the leading nations in the UEFA tournament. Parents, school and vocational training always took precedence, once that was completed, it was possible to speak of a change of club to a large club in the regional area. In his report on the Portugal tournament in 1961, Schön also lists the club names of the 16 Portugal drivers:

Sepp Maier (Bayern Munich), Horst Sundermann (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen), Karl-Heinz Wirth (Hamborn 07), Lothar Hensel (SV Sodingen), Bernd Patzke (Minerva 93 Berlin), Klaus German (Hasper SV), Heinz-Rüdiger Voß (TuS Hiltrup), Rolf Kahn (Karlsruher SC), Horst Grieben (Germania Schnelsen), Fritz Boyens (Preetzer TSV), Reinhard Libuda (Schalke 04), Wolfgang Overath (SV Siegburg 04), Rainer Waberski (Heider SV), Gerhard Elfert (SV Arminia Hannover), Horst Wild (Karlsruher SC), Claus Vogler (Hamburger SV).

The players from Bayern Munich, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Hamborn 07, Karlsruher SC, Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV grew up in their hometowns and belonged to the youth departments of the top division of the time. Patzke, Voss, Boyens, Overath, Waberski and Elfert only switched to clubs in the upper league when they entered the senior division, as was still the case back then. Voss and German played in the national school team against England in 1958 , as was the case with the Siegburg talent Wolfgang Overath in two games against England in 1959. After the A-youth, the change to the leading club in the region was usually made. The career stages of the later national players Schnellinger, Netzer, Vogts, Bonhof, Wolfgang Weber, Breitner, Hoeneß, Kapellmann, Nigbur, Pirrung, Rüssmann, Geye, Kargus, Körbel, Schumacher, Stielike and Zaczyk underline this statement.

The cited basic values ​​in youth football of the then DFB junior coach Dietrich Weise , which he postulated in relation to youth work after analyzing the FIFA anniversary game between Argentina and the Netherlands on May 22, 1979 in Bern, even show at the end of the era UEFA youth tournaments still have special DFB peculiarities:

“ [...] One question should be asked at the beginning: What are we playing for? Certainly for the victory, for the championship, even with the youngest and especially in the higher age and performance classes. But first and foremost, in all striving for instant success, there must be the demand to learn what was presented so splendidly in this game between Holland and Argentina. It must not be the case that our youngsters learn to win rather than play - as an English coach once put it years ago when the press over in the press was discussing the causes of a disappointing period for the national team. In the youth sector we need, in addition to the self-evident - but unfortunately too often neglected - basis of technology and the right tactical behavior, the willingness to take risks and the active willingness of everyone to share responsibility. Because not only top football expects them from the growing youth players. And we still have a lot to learn and practice in this area. We have to emulate good role models and stop less positive developments. "

As usual, the responsible DFB trainer, Dietrich Weise, struggled with the annual scheduling problems in preparation for the 33rd and final UEFA tournament in May 1980 in the GDR: final phase in the Bundesliga and national youth championships, upcoming examination dates in school and at work, multiple workloads in the youth and senior sector, first contracts. Alfred Finkbeiner, chairman of the DFB youth committee and member of the UEFA youth committee, commented on the inconsistent development of young talent:

“ That is a long experience. Talents that we noticed at the age of 16 play many times better at 17 than later at 18. "This is often explained by overloading in vocational training and school, in clubs and in selection teams. "

In the qualification, the DFB-Jugend had switched off Luxembourg and had it at the tournament in Group C in Pirna, Gommern and Braunsbreda with the eventual finalists Poland (2: 3), Finland (6: 2) and Romania (0: 1) had to do. With 2: 4 points, the Weise team took third place in the group behind the unbeaten Poles (6: 0 points) and Romania (4: 2 points), ahead of the Finns with no points. Overall, the performance of the German team was disappointing. The Düsseldorf center forward Thiele scored four goals. The last game of a DFB team in the history of the UEFA tournament was played by the A-Juniors on May 20, 1980 in Braunsbreda in a 4-3-3 formation against Romania with the following line-up:

Ralf Collmann (1. FC Saarbrücken); Ralf Sievers (Lüneburger SK), Michael Nushöhr (Ulm 1846), Thomas Siewert (Schalke 04), Martin Trieb (FC Augsburg); Günther Schäfer (VfB Stuttgart), Harald Kügler (Schalke 04), Michael Opitz (Schalke 04) /57.M. Reinhold Mathy (Bayern Munich); Helmut Winklhofer (Bayern Munich), Günter Thiele (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Axel Brummer (1. FC Kaiserslautern) / 57. M. Leo Bunk (FC Augsburg). In the two previous group games, Alois Reinhardt (1. FC Nürnberg) and Ralf Loose (Borussia Dortmund) were also used.

Tournament player of the DFB teams

List of youth national players of the DFB who have represented the German colors at the UEFA tournament since their first participation in 1953 and then successfully performed in the senior division - in the top football leagues until 1962/63, regional football leagues (1963/64 to 1973 / 74), as well as in the 2nd Bundesliga (from 1974/75) and Bundesliga (from 1963/64) - have claimed:

• 1953: Hermann Hannes , Hans Beste , Gerhard Scholz , Uwe Seeler , Klaus Stürmer , Ernst-Günter Habig , Eckehard Feigenspan , Karl Hoffmann , Jürgen Werner , Rudi Mattheus , Ulrich Muhl , Louis Buderus
• 1954: Manfred Eglin , Norbert Wels , Hans Schmidt, Karl Hoffmann , Johannes Mecke , Günter Jäger , Wolfgang Reichmann , Siegfried Wagner , Hermann Nuber , Ernst-Günter Habig , Uwe Seeler , Heinz Simmer , Ludwig Landerer , Ulrich Muhl , Uwe Strothfang , Dieter Örgel , Klaus Gullasch
• 1955: Franz-Josef Sarna , Hans Reichert, Horst Zimmermann , Klaus Fritzinger , Winfried Micke , Heinz Kempf , Ludwig Landerer , Herbert Kurwan , Willi Koslowski , Hans Nowak , Rudolf Kölbl , Horst Jesih , Dieter Backhaus
• 1956: Hans Jäger, Vitus Sauer , Hans Lechner , Horst Zimmermann , Friedrich Blum , Dieter Buschmann , Winfried Micke , Walter Schmidt , Horst Meyer , Werner Olk , Manfred Berz , Helmut Laszig , Reinhold Wischnowsky , Marian Foitzik
• 1957: Fritz Kosar , Rolf Bierhoff , Fritz Pott , Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Winfried Mittrowski , Egon Horst , Werner Schneider , Johann Sabath , Günter Herrmann , Reinhold Wischnowsky , Siegfried Gast , Günter Wohlgemuth , Peter Grosser , Otto Keller
• 1958: Peter Kunter , Wolfgang Höfig , Friedel Rausch , Fritz Hempler , Norbert Stoll , Ernst Kuster , Willibert Kremer , Willi Langemann , Jürgen Sundermann , Wolfgang Solz , Dieter Nasdalla , Heinz Winterling , Konrad Heidner
• 1959: Peter Kunter , Kurt Kraus , Anton Regh , Karl-Heinz Bente , Hubert Stapelfeldt , Heinz Godyla , Jürgen Neudorf , Ernst Kreuz jun. , Werner Ipta , Gustav Flachenecker , Alfred Heiß , Udo Nix , Jürgen Wähling
• 1960: Werner Pfeifer , Holger Rupprecht , Dieter Kurrat , Arnold Cramer , Karl-Heinz Bente , Jürgen Neumann , Hermann Marchl , Hans-Otto Peters , Gerhard Elfert , Stefan Reisch , Kurt Haseneder , Jürgen Koch
• 1961: Sepp Maier , Karl-Heinz Wirth , Bernd Patzke , Klaus Germann, Heinz-Rüdiger Voß , Rolf Kahn , Wilhelm Friedrich Boyens , Wolfgang Overath , Rainer Waberski , Gerhard Elfert , Horst Wild , Reinhard Libuda
• 1962: Sepp Maier , Karl-Heinz Wirth , Wilfried Fricke , Dieter Strauss , Wolfgang Weber , Rolf Kahn , Klaus Beckfeld , Karl-Heinz Bechmann , Horst Stockhausen , Reinhard Libuda , Wolfgang Overath , Rainer Waberski , Horst Wild , Gerd Saborowski
• 1963: Peter Löwer , Wolfgang Mühlschwein , Walter Müller, Jürgen Rumor , Ferdinand Heidkamp , Josef Weilbächer , Uwe Kleina , Helmut Sandmann , Klaus Zaczyk , Udo Glaser , Willi Dürrschnabel , Günter Netzer , Gerfried Krallert
• 1964: Dirk Krüssenberg , Dieter Stolze , Berti Vogts , Franz Beckenbauer , Georg Jung , Werner Waddey , Detlef Kemena , Dieter Schollbach , Ulrich Kallius , Udo Glaser , Dieter Reh , Werner Grau
• 1965: Norbert Nigbur , Heiner Schmieh , Berti Vogts , David Scheu , Detlef Kemena , Horst Köppel , Walter Bechtold , Ludwig Bründl , Dieter Schollbach , Egon Köhnen , Alfred Kohlhäufl , Karl-Heinz Kamp , Heinz Reinhard , Manfred Mattes , Volker Rapp
• 1966: Norbert Nigbur , Egon Köhnen , Günter Keifler , David Scheu , Hermann Bredenfeld , Heiner Schmieh , Horst Köppel , Karl-Heinz Handschuh , Rainer Budde , Heinz Flohe , Friedhelm Strzelczyk , Dieter Schollbach , Hans-Jürgen Hellfritz
• 1967: Gerhard Heinze , Horst Bertram , Ewald Schäffner , Günter Keifler , Bernd Martin , Egon Schmitt , Josef Pirrung , Rainer Zobel , Roland Weidle , Jürgen Fuhrmann , Herbert Höbusch , Klaus Brakelmann , Helmut Roth , Reinhold Ballmann
• 1968: Rolf Birkhölzer , Erwin Braun , Heinz Koch , Helmut Roth , Amand Theis , Reiner Geye , Hans-Josef Kapellmann , Hubert Genz , Winfried Schäfer , Johannes Riedl , Rudolf Koch , Werner Pöhler
• 1969: Bernd Schrage, Jürgen Sobieray , Klaus Hommrich , Emil Krause , Dieter Ungewitter , Rolf Rüssmann , Franz Hiller , Paul Breitner , Uli Hoeneß , Klaus Scheer , Klaus Beverungen , Kurt-Jürgen Lorenz , Herbert Liedtke
• 1970: Bernd Schrage, Peter Reichel , Hartmut Huhse , Paul Breitner , Helmut Miehe , Lothar Skala , Uli Hoeneß , Rainer Bonhof , Klaus Beverungen , Volker Graul , Günter Dalaker, Heinz Ridderbusch , Willi Schuster
• 1971: Rudi Kargus , Harald Konopka , Manfred Kaltz , Hans-Dieter Seelmann , Hartmut Huhse , Ronald Worm , Gernot Rohr , Paul Holz , Walter Krause , Michael Sziedat , Jürgen Glowacz , Peter Lübeke , Hans-Dieter Schmitz, Norbert Heßling
• 1972: Helmut Roleder , Rainer Blechschmidt , Georg Bosbach , Peter Krobbach , Karl-Heinz Körbel , Herbert Hein , Ronald Worm , Kurt Eigl , Dieter Müller , Bernd Dürnberger , Wolfgang Kraus , Herbert Neumann , Günter Selke
• 1973: Hugo Robl, Uli Stielike , Karl-Heinz Körbel , Horst Bender , Heinz Wilhelmi , Benno Möhlmann , Bernd Thiele , Rüdiger Abramczik , Egon Bihn , Norbert Ivangean , Uwe Erkenbrecher
• 1974: Not lost in the tournament / qualification games against Romania: Horst Dreher , Hans-Jürgen Salewski , Richard Mamajewski , Bernd Thiele , Bernd Förster , Helmut Nickel, Karl Del'Haye , Rüdiger Abramczik , Franz Michelberger , Gerd Strack , (coach Herbert Widmayer had to without his suspended Libero Bernd Thiele in the second qualifying game)
• 1975: Harry Schmid , Horst Weyerich , Manfred Günther , Rainer Lange , Gert Engels , Hans-Jürgen Salewski , Wilfried Hannes (father Hermann was goalkeeper of the first DFB junior national team in 1953) , Klaus Allofs , Winfried Stradt , Hans-Jürgen Gede , Werner Dorok , Peter Sommer , Ulrich Bittcher , ( Karlheinz Förster could not take part in the tournament due to a suspension)
• 1976: Harry Schmid , Dietmar Klinger , Norbert Dörmann , Karlheinz Förster , Gerhard Busch , Klaus Augenthaler , Ulrich Bittcher , Rudi Bommer , Ronald Borchers , Rudi Gores , Peter Stichler , Hans-Dieter Wacker , Werner Dorok
• 1977: Walter Junghans , Andreas Karow , Bernd Dierßen , Holger Willmer , Wolfgang Patzke , Ludger van de Loo , Dietmar Grabotin , Harry Klein , Lutz Gerresheim , Herbert Demange , Michael Geiger , Uwe Höfer , Michael Harforth , Werner Dreßel , (tournament without a captain and Libero Norbert Dörmann )
• 1978: Uwe Greiner , Thomas Kruse , Thomas Siewert , Bernd Gorski , Bernd Schuster , Michael Geiger , Thomas Kroth , Ralf Dusend , Thomas Allofs , Ralf Augustin , Thomas Remark , Karl-Heinz Bührer , Dieter Allig , (captain and playmaker Bernd Dierßen because of a meniscus operation failed)
• 1979: Peter Wienen , Norbert Schlegel , Winfried Geier , Jochen Müller , Jonny Otten , Michael Geiger , Lothar Matthäus , Markus Mohren , Fred Schaub , Theo Schneider , Thomas Brunner , Stephan Engels , Dieter Wohlfarth , Thomas Siewert
• 1980: Ralf Collmann , Ralf Sievers , Alois Reinhardt , Martin Trieb , Ralf Loose , Reinhold Mathy , Harald Kügler , Michael Opitz , Leo Bunk , Günter Thiele , Michael Nushöhr , Helmut Winklhofer , Axel Brummer , Günther Schäfer , Thomas Siewert / (3rd Tournament participation)

Tournament games and placements of the DFB teams

• 1953: Argentina (3: 2), Spain (1: 5), England (1: 3), Luxembourg (2: 3); 8. Tournament ground
• 1954: Saarland (6: 1), Northern Ireland (6: 1), England (2: 2); 1st group place; Turkey (2: 1, HF), Spain (2: 2, final); 2nd tournament site
• 1955: Portugal (0: 0), Italy (0: 1); 2nd group place
• 1956: Hungary (0-0), Bulgaria (1-0), England (1: 2); 2nd group place
• 1957: Italy (0: 2), Turkey (1: 2); 3rd group place
• 1958: Austria (2: 1), Czechoslovakia (3: 1), Belgium (2: 2), Italy (1: 1); 2nd group place
• 1959: Yugoslavia (1: 0), Bulgaria (0: 2), Netherlands (1: 0); 2nd group place
• 1960: Turkey (1: 0), Hungary (1: 1), GDR (1: 1); 2nd group place
• 1961: Belgium (4-0), Romania (0-0), Netherlands (3-0); 1st group place; Poland (1: 2, HF), Spain (2: 1); 3. Tournament ground
• 1962: Portugal (1: 1), Belgium (1: 1), Romania (0: 3); 4. Group place
• 1963: Greece (2: 7), Scotland (2: 1), Switzerland (2: 1); 2nd group place
• 1964: Sweden (2: 1), Netherlands (1: 3); 3rd group place
• 1965: Luxembourg (11: 0), Greece (4: 1); 1st group place; Czechoslovakia (0: 0), Netherlands (2: 1), Hungary (2: 1); 5. Tournament ground
• 1966: Netherlands (2: 1), Scotland (0: 1), Spain (1: 3); 3rd group place
• 1967: France (0: 1), Austria (2: 1), Hungary (3: 1); 3rd group place
• 1968: Italy (2: 1), Yugoslavia (0: 1), Czechoslovakia (1: 3); 4. Group place
• 1969: Bulgaria (0: 1), France (0: 1), Spain (2: 1); 2nd group place
• 1970: Wales (3: 2), Switzerland (2: 1), Netherlands (1: 2); 2nd group place
• 1971: Czechoslovakia (0: 0), Greece (2: 4), GDR (1: 3); 4. Group place
• 1972: Soviet Union (4: 0), Scotland (0: 1), Hungary (3: 2); 1st group place; Spain (2: 2 SnE, HF); England (0-2, final); 2nd tournament site
• 1973: Norway (2: 1), Romania (0: 1), Italy (0: 1); 3rd group place
• 1974: No tournament participation; failed in qualification to Romania
• 1975: GDR (3: 1), Finland (1: 1), Soviet Union (0: 4); 3rd group place
• 1976: Finland (2: 1), France (0: 3), Czechoslovakia (3: 2); 2nd group place
• 1977: Yugoslavia (2: 1), France (0: 0), Ireland (1: 1); 1st group place; Bulgaria (1: 3, HF); Soviet Union (2: 7); 4. Tournament ground
• 1978: Scotland (0: 1), Italy (5: 3), Portugal (0: 1); 3rd group place
• 1979: Malta (5: 0), Czechoslovakia (0: 2), England (0: 2); 3rd group place
• 1980: Poland (2: 3), Finland (6: 2), Romania (0: 1); 3rd group place

1954 and 1972 finals of the DFB teams

• 1954: In the year of the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland (June 16 to July 4), the DFB hosted the FIFA tournament in April. The German team competed in the group stage in Wuppertal, Bonn, Hagen and Gelsenkirchen against competitors from Saarland (6: 1), Northern Ireland (6: 1), Hungary (2: 0) and England (2: 2) and won the first place. In the semifinals there was a 2-1 win against Turkey in Gelsenkirchen on April 17th and the team led by striker Uwe Seeler was in the final. The final took place on April 19 in Cologne against Spain. The game ended 2-2 in a draw after extra time. With two hits, Uwe Seeler expanded his tournament account to 12 hits. Spain was declared the tournament winner due to the "better" goal difference after the division process from the semi-finals (1-0 win against Argentina).

The DFB-Elf contested the final in the following formation: Eglin; Hoffmann, Schmidt; Mecke, Jäger, Nuber; Wagner, Habig, Seeler, Muhl, Simmer

In the course of the tournament goalkeeper Wels and field players Örgel, Reichmann, Stothfang, Landerer and Gullasch were also used.

• 1972: In the year of the European Football Championship 1972 in Belgium (14-18 June), the UEFA youth tournament was held in Spain in May. Herbert Widmayer, the responsible DFB junior coach, had nominated the following squad for the tournament:

Helmut Roleder, Harald Schumacher, Karl-Heinz Körbel, Herbert Hein, Friedhelm Schwarze, Kurt Eigl, Werner Schneider (for the injured Peter Hidien), Wolfgang Kraus, Rainer Blechschmidt, Bernhard Dürnberger, Heinz-Dieter Kaster (later Dieter Müller), Ronald Worm, Georg Bosbach, Peter Krobbach, Günter Selke and Herbert Neumann.

At the start of the 25th tournament, the Widmayer protégés won a 4-0 win against the favored team of the USSR in Valencia on May 13th. Left winger Bernd Dürnberger from ESV Freilassing scored all four goals for captain Wolfgang Kraus' team . The second group game on May 15 in Castellon was lost with 0-1 goals against Scotland. Four minutes before the end of the game, goalkeeper Roleder had slipped a wide flank ball and Birmingham City striker Burns headed high into the far corner. The last group game on May 17th in Gandia against Hungary brought the decision. After goals from Ronald Worm (2) and Günter Selke, the German team prevailed with 3-2 goals and finished first with Scotland and Hungary thanks to the better goal difference (all three teams had 4: 2 points). In the semifinals, the team met hosts Spain on May 20th in Barcelona, ​​who had prevailed in Group D against Italy, Romania and Malta. Dürnberger brought the DFB team 1-0 lead in the first minute of the game, but the tournament host took a 2-1 lead through Botella in the 51st minute. Center forward Kaster scored the 2-2 equalizer after a one-two with Worm in the 65th minute. Since it remained 2-2 in extra time, the final had to be determined by a penalty shootout. All German shooters - Dürnberger, Eigl, Krobbach, Blechschmidt, Körbel - transformed and goalkeeper Roldeder stood out against the Spanish penalty shooters and thus the penalty decision ended 5-3 for Germany. Two days later, on May 22nd, it was noticeable that the young German players were losing their strength in the final against defending champions England. In front of 20,000 spectators in Barcelona the English prevailed with goals from Thompson and Buckley with 2-0 goals and the DFB-Elf had to be content with second place. At the end of his career at the DFB, coach Widmayer described this year 1953/54 as the best in his term of office.

The German final formation on May 22, 1972 in Barcelona:

Roleder; Blechschmidt, Krobbach, Körbel, Bosbach; Kraus, Worm, Eigl; Selke (63. Werner Schneider), Kaster, Dürnberger

Tournament participation of the GDR Football Association (DFV)

Football in the GDR was organized by the football section of the German Sports Committee until 1958 . In 1952, the football section was incorporated into FIFA and in 1954 was one of the founding members of UEFA. This year the GDR took part in the junior tournament for the first time. In 1958, the German Football Association DFV was founded in place of the football section.

The GDR was involved in 18 of the 33 competitions and organized the tournament itself in 1969 and 1980. In 1964, the DFV team was prevented from participating in the tournament because the Allied Travel Office of NATO refused to issue visas for the Netherlands, a late consequence of the Berlin Wall and the resulting sanctions. The later successful players such as Jürgen Croy , Harald Irmscher , Wolfgang Seguin and Manfred Zapf were affected .

In 1965 and 1970, the DFV team emerged victorious from the tournament. There are also two 2nd places (1969, 1973) and a 3rd place (1971). For the GDR sports management, the tournament, like all international competitions in popular sports, was of particular importance in the struggle for state recognition. The junior national team therefore received special support with increasing duration. So in 1968/69 a junior league was set up parallel to the GDR league . In addition, talented youth players were delegated to the football clubs as part of the talent review . In almost all cases, this went hand in hand with sport-specific training at the state 's children's and youth sports schools. In addition, successful coaches such as Rudolf Krause and Bernd Stange were used for the junior selection.

Numerous later GDR national players emerged from the DFV tournament teams, including Joachim Streich (102 A international matches), Hans-Jürgen Dörner (100), Peter Ducke (68) and Jürgen Sparwasser (53).

Tournament player of the DFV teams

The following players, who were later successful in the GDR Oberliga and in the national team, took part in the tournaments (in brackets, Oberliga games / international games):

• 1954: Hilmar Ahnert (213), Horst Kohlen (138/1), Peter Kalinke (231/7), Hans-Joachim Otto (138)
• 1955: no participation
• 1956: Harald Fritzsche (Tor, 182/8); Konrad Dorner (141/2), Waldemar Mühlbächer (218/17), Hermann Stöcker (185/6), Albrecht Strohmeyer (206), Harald Wehner (259/1)
• 1957: Werner Drews (268/2), Dieter Erler (290/47), Werner Gase (177), Wilfried Klingbiel (156/6), Günter Kubisch (237/1), Heinz Marx (223), Klaus Schwanke (81 ), Albert Strohmeyer, Harald Wehner
• 1958: Jürgen Heinsch (gate, 176/7), Horst Weigang (gate, 234/12); Bernd Bauchspieß (264/1), Werner Drews, Werner Gase, Dieter Lange (203), Heinz Marx, Werner Okupniak (97)
• 1959: Horst Weigang (gate); Wolfgang Barthels (221/2), Manfred Geisler (318/15), Helmut Hergesell (200), Rainer Nachtigall (159/11), Jürgen Nöldner (285/30), Horst Walter (179/1)
• 1960: Hans-Georg Moldenhauer (Tor, 111); Peter Ducke (352/68), Peter Gießner (313), Manfred Kupferschmied (127), Herbert Pankau (257/25), Gerhard Prautzsch (92), Arno Zerbe (242/1)
• 1961 no participation
• 1962: Freimuth Bott (Tor, 95); Jörg Ohm (111), Hans-Jürgen Naumann (165/1), Michael Polywka (27 OL, 99 Bundesliga), Hartmut Rentzsch (247), Wolfgang Wruck (135/6)
• 1963: no participation
• 1964: No participation because the West Berlin Travel Office refused entry to the Netherlands
• 1965: The GDR was the tournament winner, in the final in Essen on April 25 against England (3: 2) the following team played:

Jürgen Croy (372/94) - Frank-Rainer Withulz (149), Peter Sykora (138), Volker Benes (3) - Peter Müller (268), Roland Krauss (58) - Rainer Schlutter (235/5), Hans- Jürgen Kreische (234/50), Jürgen Sparwasser (271/53), Klaus-Peter Stein (68), Roland Nowotny (223); in the preliminary round matches: Manfred Lienemann (143)

• 1966: Ulrich Schulze (Tor, 152/1), Gerd Brunner (75), Frank Ganzera (133/13), Dieter Leuschner (145), Roland Nowotny, Jürgen Sparwasser, Detlef Weber (78), Frank-Rainer Withulz
• 1967: Dieter Schneider (Tor, 279/3), Franz Egel (248), Gerhard Brümmer (77), Ludwig Posorski (15), Manfred Briebach (3), Ralf Schulenberg (131/3), Gotthard Zölfl (14)
• 1968: Dieter Schneider, Detlef Enge (91), Lothar Kurbjuweit (357/66), Erhard Mosert (91/1), Frank Weisse (11), Volkmar Neubert (82), Hartmut Rauschenbach (114), Rainer Rohde (135) , Gerd Schellenberg (320/3), Gotthard Zölfl
• 1969 (2nd place): Jürgen Achtel , Detlef Enge, Hans-Jürgen Dörner , Lothar Kurbjuweit, Dietmar Labes (113), Joachim Müller , Eberhard Mosert, Jürgen Pommerenke (301/57), Joachim Streich , Konrad Weise , Gotthard Zölfl
• In 1970 the GDR won the tournament for the second time. The following team won in Glasgow on May 23 after a 1-1 draw against the Netherlands and drawing lots:

Bernd Jakubowski (Tor, 219) - Albert Krebs - Detlef Enge, Konrad Weise, Wolfgang Filohn (48) - Gerd Kische (181/63), Jürgen Pommerenke ( Frank Richter , 133/7), Joachim Fritsche (278/14), Reinhard Häfner (391/58) - Klaus Decker (278/3; Rainer Rohde), Joachim Müller; in the preliminary round matches: Waldemar Köppe (70), Wolfgang Schmidt (269)

• 1971 (3rd place): Bernd Jakubowski (goal); Wolfgang Altmann (325), Waldemar Köppe, Eckart Märzke (153), Klaus Müller (100/2), Jürgen Pommerenke, Detlef Robitzsch (140), Udo Schmuck (236/7), Rüdiger Schnuphase (320/45), Axel Tyll (233/4)
• 1972 did not qualify
• 1973 (2nd place): Lothar HOME (281/9), Martin Hoffmann (256/66), Dieter Kühn (294/13), Detlef Raugust (226/3), Hans-Jürgen Riediger (193/41), Andreas Roth (196), Hartmut Schade (198/31), Klaus Schröder (152), Gerd Weber (156/35), Eckardt Alms (2), Mathias Donix (4)
• 1974: Gert Brauer (270/4), Lutz Eigendorf (100 OL, 61 Bundesliga), Lothar home, Wolfgang Ihle (178), Roland Jüngling (119), Hans-Jürgen Kinne (177), Dieter Kühn, Michael Mischinger (181 ), Hans-Jürgen Riediger, Andreas Roth, Gerd Weber
• 1975: Frank Eitemüller (178), Martin Iffarth (233), Andreas Bornschein (80/1), Roland Jüngling, Jörg Klimpel (60), Norbert Nachtweih (35 OL, 325 Bundesliga), Burkhard Pingel (159), Norbert Trieloff ( 281/18), Andreas Treske (71), Ulrich Oevermann (92), Reinhard Schwerdtner (60)
• 1976: not qualified
• 1977: not qualified
• 1978: not qualified
• 1979: not qualified
• 1980: Uwe Bredow (194), Peter Englisch (25), Rainer Ernst (203/56), Falko Götz (40 OL, 242 Bundesliga), Damian Halata (267/4), Andreas Rath (57), Lutz Radtke (100 ), Frank Rillich (112), Carsten Sänger (225/16), Gerd Seifert (106), Andreas Zachhuber (67)

Jürgen Pommerenke has reached the podium three times with the DFV team in three tournaments - 1969 to 1971. 1969 2nd, 1970 1st and 1971 3rd place. He is listed as the sole record holder in the 1973 UEFA anniversary book.

Tournament games of the DFV teams

date Venue opponent result 1954 in the Federal Republic of Germany 11 April Neukirchen-Vluyn France 3: 1 April 14th Aachen Argentina 0: 2 April 15th Herzogenrath Netherlands 1: 1 April 18 Neuwied Yugoslavia 1: 3 20th of April Euskirchen Belgium 3: 2 1956 in Hungary March 29 Tatabánya Turkey 1: 1 March 31 Kecskemét Czechoslovakia 1: 1 2nd of April Eger Greece 1: 1 1957 in Spain April 14th Gijón Italy 0: 2 April 16 Oviedo Turkey 1: 2 1958 in Luxembourg 7th of April Neunkirchen England 0: 1 9th April Luxembourg Spain 1: 2 1959 in Bulgaria March 23 Dimitrovgrad France 3: 1 March 31 Chirvan Czechoslovakia 0: 1 2nd of April Plovdiv Poland 5: 1 4. April Sofia Bulgaria 0: 3 Small finale April 6th Sofia Hungary 1: 6 1960 in Austria April 16 Vienna Hungary 0: 2 April 18 St. Polten Turkey 0: 1 20th of April Linz Germany 1: 1 1962 in Romania April 21 Cluj Greece 3: 2 April 23 Cluj Czechoslovakia 1: 3 April 25 Cluj Soviet Union 4: 1 1965 in Germany April 15th Schwenningen Portugal 2: 1 April 19th Offenburg Austria 7-0 April 21 Rheydt Netherlands 3-0 April 23 Oberhausen Czechoslovakia 2: 1 final April 25 eat England 3: 2 1966 in Yugoslavia May 21 Belgrade Bulgaria 1: 1 23. May Vrac Yugoslavia 1: 2 25. May Kragujevac Portugal 0: 2 1967 in Turkey 5th of May Ankara Turkey 0: 1 May 7th Bolu Soviet Union 0-0 May 9 Ankara Sweden 2: 1 1968 in France 7th of April Toulon Greece 1: 1 9th April Monaco Hungary 1: 4 11 April Toulon France 3: 4

date Venue opponent result 1969 in the GDR May 18 Karl Marx City Czechoslovakia 1-0 May 20th Hall Malta 10-0 May 22 Magdeburg England 4-0 May 24th Karl Marx City Scotland 2: 1 final May 26 Leipzig Bulgaria 1: 1 after extension drawing lots for Bulgaria 1970 in Scotland May 16 Falkirk Turkey 1-0 May 18 Falkirk Belgium 2-0 May 20th Edinburgh Romania 0-0 23. May Ayr France 1: 1 * final 25. May Glasgow Netherlands 1: 1 * * after extension of the drawing of lots for the GDR 1971 in Czechoslovakia May 22 Ostrau Greece 5: 1 May 24th Vsetín Czechoslovakia 2: 2 May 26 Veseli Germany 3: 1 28th of May Prague Portugal 1: 2 Small finale 30th May Prague Soviet Union 1: 1 5: 1 n.e. 1973 in Italy 31. May Montecatini Austria 1: 1 2th of June Lucca Scotland 3: 1 June 4th Pistola Czechoslovakia 3: 2 June 7th Montecatini Bulgaria 1-0 final June 10th Florence England 2: 3 a.d. 1974 in Sweden May 22 Ystad Poland 1-0 May 24th Sjöbö Yugoslavia 0: 1 May 26 Ystad Turkey 2-0 1975 in Switzerland May 9 Wettingen Germany 1: 3 May 11th to bathe Soviet Union 1-0 May 13th Aarau Finland 1: 1 1980 in the GDR May 18 Weissenfels Bulgaria 0: 1 May 20th Torgau France 2-0 May 22 Magdeburg Netherlands 0-0

Tournament players from other participating countries

• Belgium :

Third in 1948: Robert Maertens (Antwerp FC), Marcel Dries (Berchem Sport), Henri Coppens (Beerschot AC); Overall line-up is not yet in front of
third 1949: Henri Thellin (standard couch); Total line-up is not before
third 1951: Line-up is not before
second 1952: Line-up is not yet
first 1977: Ronny Martens (RSC Anderlecht) and Eddy Voordekker (KFC Diest) scored the goals for a 2-1 victory in the final against Bulgaria
Other players who made selections in the senior division: Pierre Hanon (1953; Anderlechtois), Guillaume Raskin (1954; Patria Tongeren), Jean Nicolay (1955; Standard Liege), Joseph Jurion (1955; Anderlechtois), Marcel Paeschen (1955; Standard Liege), Jean Trappeniers (1960; Anderlechtois), Paul Van Himst (1960; Anderlechtois), Roger Claessen (1960; Standard Liege), Wilfried Puis (1960; Anderlechtois), Raoul Lambert (1963; RFC Brugeois), Nicolas Dewalque ( 1964; Standard Liege), Leon Jeck (1965; Standard Liege)

• Bulgaria :

First in 1959: Nedeltscho Radev, Toschko Georgiev, Georgi Grigorov, Dimitar Manasiev, Rumentscho Goranov, Ivan Simeonov, Stefan Parvanov, Slavtscho Stoilov, Michailov, Krasimir Borisov, Georgi Denev, Pavel Panov, Georgi Iliev, Plamen Ygebotierter, Damievjan Viert.
1963: Georgievjanoviert is not before
fourth 1968: Pavel Panov; Total line-up is not before
first 1969: line-up is not before
fourth 1973: line-up is not before
first 1974: Kostadinow; Kasserow, Enthev, Mitow, Ilijew; Isakidis, Sdrawkow, Todorow; Manolow, Metodijew, Jontschew
Runner-up 1977: The line-up is not before
runner-up 1979: Tenew; Dawidkow, Georgiev, Blangew, Grekow; Sadakow, Naidenow (60th Kostow), Bezinski; Dragolow (60th Ivanov), Kurdow, Eranossian
Other players who came to select missions in the senior sector: Dimitar Yakimov (1959); Georgi Asparuchow , Dobromir Jetchev, Alexander Schalamanov (1960); Petar Jekov, Stoyan Yordanov (1962); Atanas Michailov (1966, 1967); Bojil Kolev (1967); Pavel Panov (1968)

• England :

- Winning teams from 1948, 1963, 1964, 1971–1973, 1975, 1980–1948
: Maurice Moorcroft ; Donald Toase , George Rankin ; Roy Saunders , Albert Leake , H. Dodkins; Dennis Brickley , E. Morris, N. Darwin, Keith Bannister , Phil Giles
1963: John Cowen ; Leonard Badger , Bernard Shaw ; Tommy Smith , Lew Chatterley , Ron Harris ; Graham French , Jon Sammels (Arsenal), George Jones (Bury), John Sissons , Ray Whittaker , David Pleat (Nottingham), Martin Britt (West Ham Utd), David Roper (Bradford City), John Charles (West Ham Utd), David Sadler (Manchester Utd)
1964: Peter Springett ; Mick Wright , Bobby Noble ; Howard Kendall , Barrie Wright , John Hollins ; Harry Redknapp , Peter Knowles , David Sadler, John Sissons, Don Rogers
1971: Ron Tilsed ; Alan Dugdale , Mike Dillon ; Bobby Parker , Don Shanks , Mick McGuire ; Martyn Busby , John Ayris , Trevor Francis , Peter Eastoe , Steve Daley , JM McDonagh, JT Watson, MG Munro, Paul Bradshaw , T. Philipps
1972: Graham Moseley ; J. Gidman, John Lewis ; Kevin Beattie , K. Lock, M. Buckley; Paul Bradshaw , Trevor Francis, Steve Cammack , Phil Thompson , Alan Green , B. Little, B. Siddall, P. Thompson, J. Impey
1973: Barry Siddall ; John McLaughlin , John Lewis , Steve Powell , Keeley, John Peddelty , Tony Morley ( Steve Phillips ), Brian Hornsby , Ray Hankin ( John Impey ), David Price , Barry Donaghy
1975: John Middleton ; Smith, John Sparrow , Ray Wilkins , Steve Wicks , Bryan Robson , Mark Nightingale ( Alan Curbishley ), John Trewick ( Tommy Langley ), Keith Bertschin , Glenn Hoddle , Peter Barnes
1980: Mark Kendall , Neil Banfield , David Barnes , Andy Peake ( Terry Gibson ), Tommy Caton , Steve MacKenzie , Terry Connor ( Tommy English ), Mark Hateley , Gary Mabbutt , Clive Allen (?), Colin Pates
Runner-up 1965: Barnett; Wright, Burkett; Glover, Bill Brindley , Smith; Morgan, Bond, Peter Osgood , Vincent, Allen
Tournament players 1967: Peter Shilton , Brian Kidd
Third 1979: John Lukic (Leeds United); Bruce (Gillingham), Ormsby (Aston Villa), Dennis (Birmingham City), James (Portsmouth); Steve MacKenzie (Crystal Palace), Proctor (Middlesbrough), Paul Allen (West Ham United); Burke (Nottingham) / 71 .: Buchanan (Leicester), McDermot (Arsenal), Shaw (Aston Villa) / 60 .: Clive Allen (Queens Park Rangers)

• Finland :

1974: Isohno; Naaskivi, Loustarinen, Paulainen, Vaitinen; Rasanen, Rosenberg, Rautemaa; Lapalainen, Tupasela, Pyykka, Mordman
Runner-up 1975: Peter Lindholm , Valtanen (Tor); Matti Koskinen, Laamanen, Matti Lahtinen, Vesa Pulliainen , Jarmo Ilola (defense); Lappalainen, Antti Ronkainen , Arto Uimonen , Kurkela, Heikki Ropponen (midfield); Heinonen, Leo Houtsonen , Islmail, Harri Lindholm, Petri Uimonen (attack)

• France :

In France, too, the tournament has been a suitable “stage” since the first participation (1949), on which young players could present themselves and recommend themselves to professional clubs if they were still playing in the youth team of an amateur club until then. Since around the mid-1960s and especially since the nationwide introduction of mandatory training centers for professional clubs in the 1970s, the number of A-youth national players from such "small clubs" as ES Bully, ES Piennes, US Auchel, SO Pont-de- Chéruy or ASCA Wittelsheim almost back to zero.

In the most successful tournaments of the French, the players named below were in the respective line-up, with players with their first name later playing in the highest French division . Only then, if they are also linked, have they completed a three-digit number of them, or they were in a final for the Coupe de France ; later senior national players are also marked with a superscript ^(N) .

Winner 1949: Jean Beraudo (Cannes), Antoine Bonifaci ^(N) (Nice), Pierre Boulet (RC Paris), Capton (Trouville), Flament (Lille), Jacques Foix ^(N) (Mont-de-Marsan), Fournet- Fayard (Pont-de-Chéruy), Guhel (Angers), Jean-Claude Kuhnapfel (Metz), Francis Méano ^(N) (Aix), Joseph Piatek (Lille), Salvadeo (Épernay), René Sergent (CA Paris), Vigier (RC Paris), Jean Vincent ^(N) (Auchel)

Second 1950: Pierre Bernard ^(N) (Castres), Antoine Bonifaci ^(N) (Nice), Stéphane Bruey ^(N) (RC Paris), Louis Carra (RC Paris), Gérard Coutant (Stade Français Paris), Bernard Delcampe (Reims ), Fournet-Fayard (Pont-de-Chéruy), Raoul Giraudo (Aix), Pierre Grillet ^(N) (Orange), Guhel (Angers), Michel Leblond ^(N) (Reims), Toussaint Léandri (Cannes), Pérou ( Reims), Jacques Rousseau (Angers), Jean Saupin (Angers)

Third in 1957: Robert Herbin ^(N) (Cavigal Nice), Daniel Éon ^(N) (Nantes), Paul Sauvage ^(N) (Guéret), Arbousset (Nîmes), Régis Bruneton (Marseille), Silvio Croci (Piennes), Émile Deplanque (Avion), Denis Devaux ^(N) (Besançon), Jean Giovanelli (Marseille), Arnoldo Granella (Nice), Michel Lafranceschina (Grenoble), Marcel Le Borgne (Lyon), Malard (RC Paris), Paul Sadat (RC Paris) , Michel Sénéchal (Bruay), Jean-Pierre Turci (Giraumont), Vendeman (Stade Français Paris), Ziack (Longwy)

Third in 1958: Émile Deplanque (Lens), Alain Dessons (Chalon-sur-Saône), Kakiel (Wittelsheim), Rigolet (RC Paris), Jean Deloffre ^(N) (Lens), Jean-Pierre Destrumelle (Rouen), Bernard Stakowiak ( Bully), Robert or Jean-Pierre Verdier (RC Paris), Robert Bérard (Aix), Jean Djorkaeff ^(N) (Lyon), Philippe Poulain (Rouen), Marcel Le Borgne (Lyon), Gilbert Oster (Strasbourg), Claude Dubaële (Reims), Giocomi (Nice), Jean Grabowski (Lens)

Second in 1968: Daniel Bernard (Saint-Étienne), Amalberti (Cannes), Alain Jeanton (Besançon), Alain Rizzo (Nice), Éric Lhôte (Henin-Liétard), Serge Chiesa ^(N) (Montferrand), Daniel Leclercq (Valenciennes) , Patrick Parizon ^(N) (Saint-Étienne), André Guttierez (Sochaux), Philippe Goubet (Bordeaux), Christian Dalger ^(N) (Toulon), Jean-François Jodar ^(N) (Reims), Hugues Buffat (Monaco), Serge Dellamore (Sedan), Alain Maccagno (Marseille), Bernard Maccio (Monaco)

Fourth 1970: Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes ^(N) (Nantes), Gérard Gili (Marseille), Bernard Boissier ^(N) (Nîmes), Bernard Gardon ^(N) (Nantes), Louis Becker (Pierrots Strasbourg), Antoine Gianquinto ( Lille), François Bracci ^(N) (Marseille), Raymond Domenech ^(N) (Lyon), Claude Arribas (Nantes), Pierre Neubert (Valenciennes), Alain Giresse ^(N) (Bordeaux), Jean Marc Giachetti (Valenciennes), Gilbert Carrié (Rouen), Jacques Santini (Saint-Étienne), Christian Sarramagna ^(N) (Saint-Étienne), Dahmane (Mulhouse)

Fourth 1976: Dominique Leclerc (Lens), Michel Ettore (Metz), Daniel Nicoud (Nice), Jean Marc Pilorget (Paris SG), Victorio Mastroïanni (Lens), Claude Reder (Strasbourg), André Barral (Monaco), Félix Lacuesta ( Saint-Étienne), Philippe Jeannol (Nancy), Thierry Tusseau ^(N) (Nantes), Baptiste Gentili (Nice), Moussa Bezaz (Sochaux), Dominique Bortolotti (Troyes), Thierry Meyer (Sochaux), Guy Mauffroy (Reims), Bernard Zénier ^(N) (Metz)

Fourth 1979: Marc Lévy, José Anigo , Didier Heymann, Christian Zajaczkowski , Jacky Bonnevay , Lopez, William Ayache ^(N) , Louis Marcialis , Jean-Claude Lemoult ^(N) , Dominique Bijotat ^(N) , José Touré ^(N) , Yannick Stopyra ^(N) , Gérard Buscher ^(N)

• Greece :

Georges Skrekis (1964, 1965), Spyros Pomonis (1965), D. Chatziioannoglou (1965), Charalambos Intzoglou (1967), Georges Karafeskos (1967), Demetra Synetopoulos (1967), Basile Moraitelis (1967), Georges Dedes (1967) , Charis Grammos (1967), George Coudas (1967), Costas Papaioannou (1967), Basile Constandinou (1967, 1968), Georges Vlachos (1967, 1968), Athanase Angelis (1967, 1968), Costas Athanasopoulos (1967, 1968) , Costas Eletherakis (1967, 1968), Georges Delikaris (1967, 1968), Stavros Sarafis (1967, 1968), Anthimos Kapsis (1968), Stefanos Theodoridis (1968, 1970), Jean Gounaris (1968, 1970), Georges Fakis ( 1970)

• Ireland :

P. Mulligan (Chelsea FC), T. O'Connor (Dundalk FC), R. Treacy (Charlton), E. Rogers (Charlton), J. Conway (Fulham)

• Iceland :

1974: Magnusson; Thordarsson, Gudmonsson, Gudlagusson, Valgerisson; Eliasson, Sveinsson, Kristifinsson, Gislasson; Larusson, Bjornsson, Thomasson

• Italy :

Organizers and group winners 1955: Recagno, Ghirardello, Gino Stacchini , Selvi, Castellazzi, Benedetti, Baccari, Caglioni, Cometti, Danelon, Frateschi, Tosi, Carlo Mattrel , Pedemonte, Paolani, Macaccaro, Giorgio Bartolini
1956: Sergio Castelletti , Romano Fogli , Aristide Guarneri ; Overall line-up is not before
fourth in 1957: Bruno Nicolè ; The total line-up is not yet ahead of the
first in 1958: Enrico Albertosi , Selvi, Giovanni Galeone , Bruno Baveni , Bruno Bolchi , Rivara, Renna, Sandro Salvadore , Mario Corso , Cassani, Oltremari, Corazza, Carlo Volpi , Claudio Guglielmoni , Tommasini, Alberto Novelli , Mario Trebbi
Second 1959: Pierluigi Cera , Giacinto Facchetti ; The entire line-up is not before
1960: Giacinto Facchetti, Roberto Rosato ; Total line-up is not before
1961: Giancarlo De Sisti , Sandro Mazzola Total line-up is not before
1962: Roberto Boninsegna ; The entire line-up is not before
1963: Luigi Riva ; Total line-up is not before
fourth 1965: Pierino Prati ; The full line-up is not yet available.
First 1966: Adriano Zanier ; Botti, Fedele; Vignando, Maurizio Turone , Sergio Santarini ; Nevio Scala , Angelo Paina , Petrini, Russo, Vastini, Franzoni, Galuzzi, Cenci, Colletta, Massa, Bongiorrti, Selvi
Third 1973: Franco Tancredi ; Graziano Bini , Michele De Nadai , Pier Giuseppe Mosti , Martin; Francesco Rocca , Agostino Di Bartolomei (55th Torresani), Donati; D′Amico, Claudio Desolati , Cesati (60th Chiarenza)
Third in 1980: There is no entry yet

• Yugoslavia :

First in 1951: Blagoja Vidinić , Stanić, Rora, Ninoslav Kapamadžija , Lazarevski, Perić, Radivoje Ognjanović , Milan Ljubenović , Miloš Milutinović , Dragoljub Župac , Luka Lipošinović
Second 1953: Entry is not before
second 1962: Poklepovic; Pavlovic, Kovacevic; Rasovic, Gracianin, Skrbic; Radosav, Milosavijesic, Kovac, Feric, Corn
Third 1966: A detailed list is not yet available (including Radomir Vukčević )
Second 1974: Vlak; Radelias, Vuikov (41st Janianin), Vraneć, Popović; Vavaković, Sestić, Salov; Krinciar, Jukić, Kostić
Second 1978: Mrkun; Janković, Juricko, Milovanović, Rumora; Mehmed Baždarević (58th Smajić), Ivan Gudelj , Icin; Elzner, Stanic, Mlinarić
First 1979: Ivan Pudar ; Caplijc, Bosko Djurovski , Lazić, Dzanić; Ivan Gudelj, Radulović, Mehmed Baždarević; Bogdanović (48th Stojance Zlatanovski ), Zdravko Čakalić (70th Malinkovic), Senad Merdanović

• Netherlands :

Second 1948: WJ Hendriks; (John?) Huguenin; The total line-up is not before
runner-up in 1949: MA Bennaars, JA Klaassens, FJ Louer; Total line-up is not before
third. 1950: MA Bennaars, JHG Boskamp, ​​JA Klaassens, P. van der Kuil, FJ Louer; The total line-up is not before
1951: JW vd Hoek, Piet van der Kuil ; The entire line-up is not before
1952: AAM Brusselers; Total line-up is not before
1953: Jan Blom, JH Kraay, RJP Kreijermaat; Total line-up is not before
1954: PJ Fransen, JH Kraay, total line-up is not before
1957: F. Bouwmeester, PDG Romeijn, PG de Vries; The entire line-up is not before
1958: F. Bouwmeester, MWTh. Laseroms, PDG Romeijn; The entire line-up is not before
1959: P. van der Merwe; The entire line-up is not before
1960: P. van der Merwe, DC Schrijvers; The total line-up is not before
1961: Piet Keizer , TP van Leeuwen; The entire line-up is not before
1962: W. Doesburg , P. Giesen, HLAA Vriens, H. Warnas; The entire line-up is not before
1963: P. Giesen, JT Klijnjan, LSW Verdonk; Total line-up is not before
1964: WMLJ van der Kuijlen ; Total line-up is not before
1965: Johan Cruyff , Wim Jansen , WMLJ van der Kuijlen; Total line-up is not before
second in 1970: C. Hildebrand, T. Jongens, D. Visser, L. Barth, Bert van Marwijk , Wim Rijsbergen , W. Mulder, Johnny Rep , Johan Neeskens , W. Bleyenberg, H. Eeden ; René van de Kerkhof
Fourth 1980: Not yet available

• Northern Ireland :

1948: T. Casey, Billy Bingham
1949: Jimmy McIlroy
1951: Harry Gregg
1953: HH Barr, MJ Hill
1954: S. Wilson
1955: D. Dougan, R. Braithwaite, J. Parke
1963: Pat Jennings , Sam Todd , Dave Clements , Vic McKinney , Eric Ross , John Napier , HN McCurley, M. McClelland, JP Nicholl, T. Corbett, Richie Warburton , Dennis Guy , Jim Stokes , Syd Patterson, T. McKeown, Shaun Dunlop

• Austria :

First 1950: Sturm (Wienerberg); Kessler (Rapid), Kortenhof (WSC); Medveth (Vienna), Iglauer (Austria), Swoboda (Austria); Mühlböck (Forward Steyr), Miessler (WSC), Wallner (Vienna), Baumgartner (Austria), Müllner (Simmering). The only later senior national player was Franz Swoboda , and Erich Medveth, Karl Miessler, Wilhelm Wallner and Leopold Baumgartner also made considerable careers in the first division.
Runner-up 1951: The line-up is not before the
third. 1952: The line-up is not before the
first 1957: Kraushofer (Vienna); Osicka (Prater), Glechner (Rapid), Puffer (LASK); Nikischer (Wacker), Skocik (Rapid); Lahner (Vienna), Nemec (Helfort), Tautscher (Rosenthal), Öllerer (ASK Salzburg), Schilling (Admira). Three later A-Internationals with Walter Glechner , Walter Skocik and Horst Nemec . Karl Nikischer, Johann Lahner and Norbert Schilling also made top division careers.
Fourth 1960: Zickbauer (Simmering), Kral (Austria), Reiter (Wr.Neustadt), Koller (Post-Admira Linz), Vanura (VÖEST), Peter Vargo (Austria), Lenzinger (Rapid), Herzog (Wacker), Kumhofer (Rapid), Friedrich Rafreider (Dornbirn), Stark (Austria), Aust (Vienna), Krutz, Trieb
Other tournament players who later became A-International: Erich Hof (1953, 1954), Rudolf Flögel (1958), Gernot Fraydl (1958 ), Kurt Jara (1969)

• Portugal :

Third 1960: Line-up is not yet available
First 1961: Melo (Academica de Coimbra), Amandio (Club 2nd Division), Carrico (Vitoria de Setubal), Nogueira, Oliveira Duarte (Academica de Coimbra), Moreira, Rui (FC Porto) , Crispim (Academica de Coimbra) Serafim (Academica de Coimbra; four-time goalscorer in the final), Nunes (Club 2nd Division), António Simões (Benfica Lisbon), Peres (Sporting Lisbon)
Third 1964: The line-up is not yet
third 1968: Not yet available for
runners-up 1971: Fifalgo; Franque, Casquina (72nd Almeida), Pereira, Jaime; Sheuttan, Alexandre (41st Rodolfo), Rui Jordão ; Gregorio, Eurico, Armando

• Romania :

1955: Vasile Anghel (Voința Bucharest)
1956: Vasile Anghel (Voința Bucharest)
Fourth 1958: Not present before
second 1960: Not present before
first 1962: Vasile Suciu ; Alexandru Pall , Aurel Măndoiu ; Dumitru Popescu , Mircea Petescu , Constantin Jamaischi ; C. Matei, Emil Dumitriu , Florea Voinea , László Gergely , Ion Haidu . Also in the line-up: Stere Adamache , Sorin Avram - trainers: Nicolae Dumitrescu and Gheorghe Ola
1974: Dumitru Moraru (Metalul Bucharest, Steaua Bucharest); Nicolae Negroiu (Rapid Bucharest, Automatica Alexandria), Cristian Boldici (Universitatea Craiova, Șoimii Sibiu), Viorel Popa (Liceul de fotbal Bacău, SC Bacau), Mario Agiu (Steaua “23 August” Bucharest, Olimpia Satu Mare); Cornel Elisei (Liceul de fotbal Bacău, SC Bacău), Ionel Augustin (Dinamo Bucharest), Gheorghe Hurloi (Universitatea Cluj), Marin Sabau (Minerul Baia Mare), Mircea Leac (UTA Arad); Victor Pițurcă (Universitatea Craiova, Dinamo Slatina), Clement Șurenghin (Steaua “23 August” Bucharest), Petre Grosu (Sportul Studențesc), Cristian Vrînceanu (Dinamo Bucharest) - trainers: Constantin Ardeleanu and Vasile Zavoda

• Scotland :

1963: Edward Colquhoun (Sheffield Utd), Robert Ferguson (West Ham Utd), George Graham (Arsenal), Peter Lorimer (Leeds Utd), Thomas MacLean (Glasgow Rangers)
1964: Robert Clark (Aberdeen), James McCalliog (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
1965: William Johnston (Glasgow Rangers), Francis Munro (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
1967: Martin Buchan (Aberdeen), William Carr (Coventry City), William Jardine (Glasgow Rangers)
1969: Alfred Conn (Glasgow Rangers), Thomas Craig (Sheffield Wednesday ), Kenny Dalglish (Celtic), Asa Hartford (West Bromwich Albion), Edward Kelly (Arsenal), Keith McCrae (Motherwell)
1970: John Brownlie (Hibernian), Alan Rough (Partick Thistle)
Third 1974: Barklay; Burley, Dick, Dowie, Fowler; Gray, McAndrew, McNab; McCarty, O'Hara, Payne, Thomas

• Spain :

First 1952: Garcia, Joaquin Basora , Duro, Jarque, Marguregui, Enrique Collar , Ventura, Uria, Caceres, Pegenaute, Roth, Campa
Fourth 1953: Not available yet
First 1954: Benito Joanet, Jaime Simo, Fernando Olivella , Juan Luis Arriola, Luis Munoz, Carlos Botana, Emilio Alvarez, Jose Antonio Martin, Carlos Cela, Juan Allende, Vicente Polo
Second 1957: Mendez, Valle, Meya, Lasa, Egea, Cantero, Vall, Pais, Balasch, Chuzo, Torre
Fourth 1961: The line-up is not before
runner-up 1964: Rodri (Miguel Reina); Rivera, Diaz; Nando, Torrens, Dioni; Lavandera, Gonzalo, Marti, Antonio Ariete, Ramon
Fourth 1966: Entry is not before
Fourth 1972: Jesus Zabala; Total line-up is not yet in
third place 1976: Line-up is not yet available
Other tournament players: Antonio Gento (1958), Jesus Glaria (1960), José Antonio Zaldúa (1960), Carles Rexach (1965), Juan Manuel Asensi (1967, 1968 ), Jose Antonio Barrios (1967)

• Czechoslovakia :

Third 1962: not present yet
third 1963: not present
first 1968: Miroslav Kovařík ; Pavel Melichar , Šach, Hromádka, Vincent Němček (Semsch), Karel Ženíšek , Přemysl Bičovský , Vladimír Onufrák (Netrefa), Zdeněk Konečný , Juraj Řádek , Milan Albrecht - trainers: Vladimír Mirka

• Turkey :

Third 1953: Seyfi Talay , Gökçen Dinçer , Günay Kayalar , Vedat Dömeke , Necdet Çoruh , Akgün Kaçmaz , Metin Erman , Ercan Ertuğ , Fikri Elma , Erol Topayan , Coşkun Taş , Kahraman Başar - Coach: Cihat Arman
Fourth 1954: Varol Ürkmez , Tayyar Cavcav , Nihat Çapalar , Güngör Tetik , Ergun Ercins , Erol Topayan, Coşkun Dağlıoğlu , Metin Oktay , Yıldırak the , Ahmet Deniz , Ali Soydan , Orhan Erkmen , Güngör Salman , Yüksel Alkan , Necdet Elmasoğlu , Aydın Milli , Erdoğan Gürhan , Seref Has - Coach: Cihat Arman
Fourth 1962: Not present before
third. 1967: Not present before
fourth. 1975: Not present before

• Hungary :

First 1953: Irtási, Monok, Bukovi, Hajdu, Szabo, Magymate, Istvan Szimcsak II, Kornyei, Lajos Tichy , Pal Várhidi, Tibor Pal, Domonkos, Karacsonyi, Balogh
organizer and group winners in 1956: Imre MATESZ, Laszlo Povazsai
Third 1959: Flórián Albert , Iván Menczel (Olympic champion 1968) , Ernö Solymosi , Kálmán Sovari, Kálmán Ihász; Total line-up is not ahead of the
first 1960: György Száger, Emil Künsztler (two goalkeepers); Iván Menczel, László Kürtösi, Benö Káposzta, Kálmán Mészöly, Kálmán Ihász (Captain), Sándor Faliszek, Mihály Kékesi, Béla Nagy, János Farkas, József Krajcsi, Lajos Galambos, Arpad Gál, József Muzslai, Antal Dunai II .; Trainer: Sándor Kapocsi; Formation of the group game on April 18, 1960 in St. Pölten against the DFB youth (1: 1) Künsztler; Menczel, Kürtösi; Káposzta, Kálmán Mészöly (61 internationals, 1961–1971) , Kálmán Ihász (27 internationals, 1962–1969) ; Faliszek, Kékesi, Nagy, János Farkas (33 internationals, 1961–1969) , Krajcsi
Third in 1975: the line-up is not before
second 1976: Kiss; Giron, Toma, Fejes, Mater; Farkas, Gyimesi, Porogi (54th Hegedüs); Tokar, Peter (58th Koroknai), Vincze

• USSR :

First 1966: O. Ivanov; G. Ianec, L. Morozov; R. Chohonelidze, M. Shargelashvili, A. Teslev; V. Kurilov, G. Shalimov, B. Bektashev, M. Gershkovich, G. Nodia, S. Docenko, Y. Degtiarev, A. Chumakov, A. Grebnev, E. Liadin, R. Safarov
First 1967: L. Shmuts, A. Popov, A. Borovikov, R. Chohonelidze, Y. Patrikeev, P. Kandeladze, A. Tarosh, Y. Dektiarev, V. Dolbonosov, J. Kurkin, A. Avernianov, A. Masliaev, G. Nodia, N. Imolnikov, V. Kuznezov, V. Galushko
Third 1969: Not present before
fourth 1971: Not present before
first 1976: Novikow; Kryachko, Parsadanyan, Bondaryev, Bereznov; Andrij Bal , Volodymyr Bessonow , Vitali Darasselia ; Higujatulin (69th Aljukow), Hapsaliss, Nastaschew
Third 1977: Not available yet
First 1978: Tschanow; Januschewski, Shachatrian, Golownia, Najdenko (41st Ovchinnikov); Dumanski, Olifirenko, Ponomarjew (63rd Gallaba); Zubenko, Gurinowitsch, Taran

literature

• Hohensee / Huber / Matheja / Schütz: Kicker-Almanach 2007. Copress-Verlag, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-7679-0903-0 .
• Heimann / Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag Munich, 1988, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 , pp. 406-417.
• German Football Association (Ed.): Football Yearbook 1980. Limpert-Verlag, ISBN 3-7853-1304-7 .
• German Football Association (Hrsg.): Football yearbook 1962. Limpert-Verlag, publisher number 6171.
• Hans Körfer: Football on a long journey, the international games of the year. Limpert-Verlag, 1961, publisher number 6135.
• German Football Association (Hrsg.): Football yearbook 1956. Limpert-Verlag, publisher number 5542.
• German Football Association (Ed.): Annual report 1956/57. Bundestag: June 27, 1957.
• Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA): 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament. Anniversary publication, Bern 1973.

Web links

• rsssf.com: list of tournament winners since 1948 (English)
• A historical article
• Report on the Hungarian winning team from 1960

Individual evidence

1. ^ FA Brockhaus GmbH: Der Sport Brockhaus, 1989, p. 566.
2. ↑ Stanley Rous in 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972. P. 22.
3. ↑ In Fédération Française de Football (ed.): 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o. O. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2 , p. 78/79, there are also photos of the trophy and a picture in which all nine participating teams pose together in front of their accommodation.
4. ^ Hermann Joch: in the 1956 football yearbook, p. 22.
5. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 36, May 5, 1975, "England und seine Profilehrlinge", pp. 24/25; three-part series with the first and second reports on April 21 and 28, 1975.
6. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 43, May 27, 1971, p. 22.
7. ↑ Kicker-Almanach 2007, Copress-Verlag, 2006, pp. 586/587.
8. ↑ Kicker-Almanach 2007, p. 566.
9. ↑ Horn / Weise: Das große Lexikon des DDR-Fußball, 2004, pp. 422 and 427/428.
10. ↑ Helmut Schön: in Hans Körfer: Football on a large journey, pp. 136–148.
11. ↑ DFB (Ed.): Fußball-Jahrbuch 1980, p. 14.
12. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 34, April 28, 1980, p. 36.
13. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 41, May 22, 1980, p. 4.
14. ↑ Heimann / Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989, pp. 406-417.
15. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 38, May 8, 1972, p. 15.
16. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 43, May 25, 1972, p. 15.
17. ↑ Hanns Lenske, Enzyklopädie des DDR-Fußball, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2007, p. 100 et al
18. ↑ Hanns Lenske, Encyclopedia of GDR Football, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2007, pp. 232 and 245
19. ↑ 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, p. 155.
20. ↑ UEFA: 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, p. 190.
21. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Federația Română de Fotbal: Anuarul fotbalului românesc (1973–1974). Editura Sport-Turism, Bucharest, 1976, pp. 316-320.
22. ↑ UEFA: 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, p. 191.
23. ↑ Union des Associations Européenes de Football (UEFA): 25th anniversary of the UEFA youth tournament, anniversary publication, Bern 1973, p. 112.
24. ↑ 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament. P. 187.
25. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin, No. 37, May 8, 1975, p. 20.
26. ^ After Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 431; like all later French squads, added from Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
27. ^ ^{A b} Jean Fournet-Fayard did not make it to first division appearances later; he was president of the French Football Association from 1985 to 1993 .
28. ↑ Source from 1950: Mundial Football 77-78: Les internationaux Français Juniors. Pp. 457-459.
29. ↑ The fact that in 1970, Santini and Domenech, two later French national coaches, Giresse, a foreign national coach, and Arribas, the son of an ex-national French coach, were in the squad remained a unique peculiarity.
30. ^ After Copress yearbook 1979/1980, ISBN 3-7679-0138-2 , p. 147.
31. ↑ UEFA: 25th years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, pp. 195/196.
32. ↑ UEFA: 25th years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, p. 198.
33. ^ Johan Derksen et al., Het Nederlands Elftal 1905-1989. De historie van Oranje. Weekbladpers BV / Voetbal International, Amsterdam 1989, ISBN 90-236-7211-9 , p. 315.
34. ↑ UEFA: 25th years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, pp. 198/199.
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38. ↑ Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 29 .
39. ↑ UEFA: 25 years of the UEFA youth tournament 1948–1972, p. 192.
40. ↑ March 17, 1953, Milliyet, p. 5.
41. ↑ April 11, 1953, Milliyet, p. 5.
42. ↑ April 16, 1954, Milliyet, p. 1.
43. ↑ May 13, 1954, Milliyet, Sayfa 5: "Genç milli takım antrnörü Cihat Arman istifa etti".
44. ↑ Sport-Magazin, 17 / A, April 19, 1960, p. 11.
45. ^ Karl-Heinz Huba (Ed.): Jahrbuch des Fußballs 1978, Copress-Verlag, Munich 1978, p. 159.