UEFA_U-21_Championship_1986
1986 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
International football competition
The 1986 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 5th staging of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship. The qualifying stage spanned two years (1984–86), had 29 entrants. Spain U-21s won the competition after a penalty shootout, the first in the U-21 competition's history.
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Dates | 12 March – 29 October |
Teams | 29 (from 1 confederation) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Spain (1st title) |
Runners-up | Italy |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 92 |
Goals scored | 249 (2.71 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Gianluca Vialli (4 goals) |
Best player(s) | Manuel Sanchis[1] |
← 1984 1988 → |
The 29 national teams were divided into eight groups (five groups of 4 + three groups of 3). The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or 3rd-place playoff.
Draw
The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:
- Group 1 did not include Belgium (moved to Group 8)
- Group 2 did not include Malta
- Group 3 did not include Northern Ireland
- Group 4 did not include Luxembourg (moved to Group 8)
- Group 5 featured the same nations
- Group 6 did not include Republic of Ireland
- Group 7 did not include Wales
- Group 8 composed of Belgium (moved from Group 1), Luxembourg (moved from Group 4) and Italy (who did not participate in World Cup qualification)
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Qualified teams
Country | Qualified as | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
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Poland | Group 1 winner | 2 (1982, 1984) |
Sweden | Group 2 winner | 0 (Debut) |
England | Group 3 winner | 4 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984) |
France | Group 4 winner | 2 (1982, 1984) |
Hungary | Group 5 winner | 2 (1978, 1980) |
Denmark | Group 6 winner | 1 (1978) |
Spain | Group 7 winner | 2 (1982, 1984) |
Italy | Group 8 winner | 4 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984) |
- 1 Bold indicates champion for that year
See 1986 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||||||
Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Hungary | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
Hungary | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Spain | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
France | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Spain | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Spain | 1 | 2 | 3 (3) | ||||||||||||||
Italy | 2 | 1 | 3 (0) | ||||||||||||||
Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
England | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
England | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Italy | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Sweden | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Italy | 1 | 2 | 3 |
- "1986: Manuel Sanchís". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2 June 1986. Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.