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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 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.

[edit] Qualification

See 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification

[edit] The Finals

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

[edit] Venues

[edit] 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.

[edit] Finals Groups

[edit] Group A

Group A		P	W	L	F	A	Pts
1	France	3	3	0	6	0	9
2	Serbia and Montenegro	3	1	2	2	3	3
3	Portugal	3	1	2	1	3	3
4	Germany	3	1	2	1	4	3

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

[edit] Group B

Group B		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Ukraine	3	2	0	1	4	3	6
2	Netherlands	3	1	1	1	3	3	4
3	Italy	3	1	1	1	4	4	4
4	Denmark	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
24 May2006 Wednesday	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
26 May2006 Friday	Denmark Kahlenberg 48'	1-1 details	Netherlands Huntelaar 38'	Aveiro
29 May2006 Monday	Netherlands de Ridder 73'	1-0 details	Italy	Aveiro
29 May2006 Monday	Denmark Kahlenberg 43'	1-2 details	Ukraine Fomin 31' Milevskiy 84'	Águeda

[edit] 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

[edit] Final

4 June 2006	Netherlands	3-0	Ukraine	Estádio do Bessa, Porto Referee: Martin Hansson
	Huntelaar 11', 43' (pen.) Hofs 90'	(Report)		Estádio do Bessa, Porto Referee: Martin Hansson

[edit] Result

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

[edit] Player awards

Top Goalscorers

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