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2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Campeonato Europeu de Futebol Sub-21 de 2006
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	23 May – 4 June
Teams	8 (finals) 51 (qualifying)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (1st title)
Runners-up	Ukraine
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	34 (2.27 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
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2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 15th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. On 25 December 2005, Portugal was selected to host the finals of the competition, which took place 23 May–4 June 2006. The tournament was won by the Netherlands, who beat Ukraine 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

The Finals

The finals took place between 23 May and 4 June 2006 in Portugal.

Venues

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  Estádio Municipal de Águeda, Águeda
  


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  Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro
  


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  Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos
  


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  Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga
  


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  Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães
  


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  Estádio do Bessa, Porto
  

Squads

Players born after 1 January 1983 were eligible to play.

Matches

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9
Serbia and Montenegro	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
Portugal	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
Germany	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	3

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ukraine	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Italy	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Denmark	3	0	2	1	5	6	−1	2

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Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	1 June – Braga
	France	2
					4 June – Porto
	Netherlands (a.e.t.)	3
					Netherlands	3
	1 June – Aveiro
					Ukraine	0
	Ukraine (p)	0 (5)
	Serbia and Montenegro	0 (4)

Semi-finals

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Final

NETHERLANDS: GK 1 Kenneth Vermeer DF 16 Dwight Tiendalli DF 17 Ron Vlaar  74' DF 3 Gijs Luirink DF 5 Urby Emanuelson MF 10 Ismaïl Aissati  78' MF 20 Demy de Zeeuw MF 6 Stijn Schaars MF 8 Nicky Hofs FW 9 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar FW 7 Romeo Castelen  69' Substitutions: FW 11 Daniël de Ridder  69' DF 4 Ramon Zomer  78' Coach: Foppe de Haan

UKRAINE: GK 1 Andriy Pyatov DF 15 Hryhoriy Yarmash  38' DF 6 Dmytro Chygrynskiy DF 5 Oleksandr Yatsenko  42' DF 2 Oleksandr Romanchuk  26'  77' MF 17 Taras Mykhalyk MF 18 Oleksiy Hodin  46' MF 14 Yevhen Cheberyachko MF 19 Oleksandr Maksymov FW 10 Artem Milevskiy FW 11 Ruslan Fomin  46' Substitutions: FW 7 Maksym Feshchuk  59'  46' FW 8 Oleksandr Aliyev  46' Coach: Alexei Mikhailichenko

Assistant referees: Fredrik Nilsson (Sweden) Roger East (England) Fourth official: Howard Webb (England)

Goalscorers

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

External links

• 
  Results Archive at UEFA.com at Archive.is (archived July 10, 2012)


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  RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com