The 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1988–90), had 30 entrants. San Marino competed for the first time. USSR U-21s won the competition.
The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + two 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.
Qualifying stage
Draw The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations: Groups 1 and 2 featured the same nations Group 3 did not include Iceland (moved to Group 4) Group 4 did not include Wales, but included Iceland (moved from Group 3) Group 5 did not include Cyprus (moved to Group 6) Group 6 did not include Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Malta, but included Cyprus (moved from Group 5) Group 7 did not include Switzerland (moved to Group 8) Group 8 composed of Switzerland (moved from Group 7), Italy and San Marino (both of whom did not participate in World Cup qualification)
Qualifying Group 1PWDLFAPts165011641026303876362139145461143113 Bulgaria 2–1 Romania Greece 2–2 Denmark Romania 2–0 Greece Denmark 1–3 Bulgaria Bulgaria 6–0 Denmark Greece 1–0 Romania Romania 2–1 Bulgaria Denmark 3–0 Greece Bulgaria 2–0 Greece Denmark 1–2 Romania Romania 1–2 Denmark Greece 0–2 Bulgaria qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 2PWDLFAPts164201021026411105936123410446015181 Poland 0–0 Albania England 1–1 Sweden Albania 0–2 Sweden Albania 1–2 England England 2–0 Albania Sweden 4–0 Poland England 2–1 Poland Sweden 1–0 England Sweden 1–0 Albania Poland 1–3 England Poland 1–1 Sweden Albania 0–1 Poland qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 3PWDLFAPts1641112592631286736123684461234114 Soviet Union 2–2 Austria Austria 3–0 Turkey Turkey 3–2 East Germany East Germany 0–0 Turkey Soviet Union 1–0 East Germany Turkey 0–3 Soviet Union East Germany 2–0 Austria Austria 0–2 Soviet Union East Germany 3–2 Soviet Union Turkey 1–1 Austria Soviet Union 2–0 Turkey Austria 0–1 East Germany qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 4PWDLFAPts164201021026231117736123694461144133 Finland 0–3 West Germany Iceland 1–1 Netherlands Finland 2–1 Iceland West Germany 2–0 Netherlands Netherlands 0–1 West Germany Finland 1–1 Netherlands Iceland 1–1 West Germany Iceland 4–0 Finland West Germany 2–0 Finland Netherlands 2–3 Iceland West Germany 1–1 Iceland Netherlands 2–1 Finland qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 5PWDLFAPts16411104926321117836123374461147133 Norway 1–1 Scotland France 2–0 Norway Scotland 0–2 Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 2–2 France Scotland 2–3 France France 0–1 Yugoslavia Norway 0–1 Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 4–1 Scotland Norway 1–1 France Yugoslavia 0–1 Norway France 3–1 Scotland Scotland 2–0 Norway qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 6PWDLFAPts143013162421121534013031 Cyprus 0–0 Hungary Cyprus 0–1 Spain Hungary 1–0 Cyprus Spain 1–0 Cyprus Hungary 1–0 Spain Spain 1–0 Hungary qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 7PWDLFAPts1632110582624073836222666460241102 Czechoslovakia 0–3 Belgium Portugal 1–1 Belgium Czechoslovakia 4–0 Luxembourg Portugal 1–0 Luxembourg Belgium 1–1 Czechoslovakia Luxembourg 0–0 Belgium Belgium 1–1 Portugal Czechoslovakia 1–0 Portugal Luxembourg 0–3 Portugal Belgium 1–0 Luxembourg Portugal 0–3 Czechoslovakia Luxembourg 1–1 Czechoslovakia qualify as group winners Qualifying Group 8PWDLFAPts1431050724211815340040120 Switzerland 0–0 Italy San Marino 0–5 Switzerland San Marino 0–2 Italy Italy 1–0 Switzerland Switzerland 3–0 San Marino Italy 2–0 San Marino qualify as group winners
Qualified teams Country Qualified as Previous appearances in tournament1 Group 1 winner 1 (1978) Group 2 winner 1 (1986) Group 3 winner 2 (1980, 1982) Group 4 winner 1 (1982) Group 5 winner 3 (1978, 1980, 1984) Group 6 winner 4 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988) Group 7 winner 3 (1978, 1980, 1988) Group 8 winner 6 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988) 1 Bold indicates champion for that year
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Final
First leg
Second leg
Goalscorers
3 goals Davor Šuker Andriy Sydelnykov
2 goals
Giovanni Stroppa Kennet Andersson Tomas Brolin Ulrik Jansson Igor Shalimov Igor Dobrovolskiy Alen Bokšić
1 goal
Horst Siegl Christian Hochstätter Pierluigi Casiraghi Marco Simone Fernando Hierro Ricardo Mendiguren Stefan Rehn Dmitriy Chugunov Igor Kolyvanov Andrey Kanchelskis Sergey Kiryakov Aleksandr Mostovoi Zvonimir Boban Robert Jarni Robert Prosinečki
Own goal Andriy Bal (playing against West Germany) Miroslav Đukić (playing against Italy)
References
External links Results Archive at uefa.com RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com