2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship

The UEFA U-21 Championship 2006 began in August 2004. On December 15, 2005, Portugal was selected to host the finals of the competition, which took place May 23 - June 4, 2006. The tournament was won by the , who beat 3-0 in the final.

The finals tournament featured two groups of four, with the winners and runners up of each group going through to the semi-finals.
The draw for the finals groups took place on February 8, 2006.

Qualification

See 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification

The Finals

The finals took place May 23 - June 42006 in Portugal.

Venues

• Estádio Municipal de Águeda, Águeda
• Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro
• Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos
• Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga
• Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães
• Estádio do Bessa, Porto

Squads

For the complete list of players, see 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squads.

Players born after 1 January 1983 were eligible to play.

Finals Groups

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Group A

Group A		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1		3	3	0	0	6	0	9
2		3	1	0	2	2	3	3
3		3	1	0	2	1	4	3
4		3	1	0	2	1	3	3

23 May2006 Tuesday	Portugal	0-1 details	France Vale og 41'	Braga
	Serbia & Montenegro	0-1 details	Germany Polanski 61'	Barcelos
25 May2006 Thursday	Portugal	0-2 details	Serbia & Montenegro Zé Castro og 17' Ivanović 65'	Barcelos
	France Sinama-Pongolle 45' Gouffran 71' Mavuba 75'	3-0 details	Germany	Guimarães
28 May2006 Sunday	Germany	0-1 details	Portugal Moutinho 90+4'	Guimarães
	France Bergougnoux 33' Toulalan 54'	2-0 details	Serbia & Montenegro	Braga

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Group B

Group B		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1		3	2	0	1	4	3	6
2		3	1	1	1	3	3	4
3		3	1	1	1	4	4	4
4		3	0	2	1	5	6	2

24 May2006 Wednesday	Italy Potenza 16' Palladino 61' Bianchi 90'	3-3 details	Denmark Würtz 21' Kahlenberg 33' Andreasen 41	Aveiro
	Ukraine Milevskiy 39' pen Fomin 51'	2-1 details	Netherlands Luirink 90+2'	Águeda
26 May2006 Friday	Italy Chiellini 90+3'	1-0 details	Ukraine	Águeda
	Denmark Kahlenberg 48'	1-1 details	Netherlands Huntelaar 38'	Aveiro
29 May2006 Monday	Netherlands de Ridder 73'	1-0 details	Italy	Aveiro
	Denmark Kahlenberg 43'	1-2 details	Ukraine Fomin 31' Milevskiy 84'	Águeda

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Semi-finals

1 June2006 Thursday	A1: France Faubert 51' Bergougnoux 85'	2-3 details	B2: Netherlands Hofs 6' Huntelaar 38' Hofs 107'	Braga
	B1: Ukraine	0-0aet 5-4 pens details	A2: Serbia & Montenegro	Aveiro

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Final

4 June2006 Thursday	Netherlands Huntelaar 11', 43' pen Hofs 90'	3-0 details	Ukraine	Porto

Result

2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Winners
Netherlands 1st Title

Player awards

Top Goalscorers

Name	Country	Matches	Goals
Klaas Jan Huntelaar		5	4
Thomas Kahlenberg		3	3
Nicky Hofs		5	3
Artem Milevskiy		5	2
Ruslan Fomin		5	2
Bryan Bergougnoux		4	2
Jérémy Toulalan		4	1
Rio Antonio Mavuba		4	1
Yohan Gouffran		4	1
Julien Faubert		4	1
Eugen Polanski		3	1
Rolando Bianchi		3	1
Giorgio Chiellini		3	1
Raffaele Palladino		3	1
Alessandro Potenza		3	1
Florent Sinama-Pongolle		4	1
Rasmus Würtz		3	1
Leon Andreasen		3	1
Daniël de Ridder		5	1
Gijs Luirink		5	1
João Moutinho		3	1
Branislav Ivanović		4	1

UEFA Team of the Tournament

External links

• Results Archive at uefa.com
• RSSSF Results Archive ''at rsssf.com