1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship

1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Yugoslavia
Dates	11–15 October
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	East Germany (3rd title)
Runners-up	Italy
Third place	West Germany
Fourth place	Scotland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	22 (2.2 per match)
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The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1986 Final Tournament was held in Yugoslavia. It also served as the European qualification for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

•  Belgium
•  Bulgaria
•  East Germany
•  West Germany
•  Italy
•  Romania
•  Scotland
•  Yugoslavia (host, but still qualified)

Quarterfinals

11 October 1986 (1986-10-11)

East Germany	2 – 0	Yugoslavia
Thomas Ritter 48' Rico Steinmann 53'

Subotica

Attendance: 2000

Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

11 October 1986 (1986-10-11)

Scotland	1 – 0	Bulgaria

Bačka Topola

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

11 October 1986 (1986-10-11)

Italy	2 – 1	Belgium

Sombor

Referee: Gunther Habermann (East Germany)

11 October 1986 (1986-10-11)

West Germany	3 – 0	Romania

Kula

Referee: Frans van den Wijngaert (Belgium)

Semifinals

Places 5-8

13 October 1986 (1986-10-13)

Bulgaria	1 – 0	Belgium

Senta

Referee: Dragisa Komadinic (Yugoslavia)

13 October 1986 (1986-10-13)

Yugoslavia	5 – 0	Romania
Igor Berecko Miladinov Branko Brnović Davor Šuker Nermin Vazda

Čantavir

Referee: Dimitar Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

Places 1-4

13 October 1986 (1986-10-13)

East Germany	1 – 0	West Germany

Sombor

Referee: Kenneth Hope (Scotland)

13 October 1986 (1986-10-13)

Italy	1 – 0	Scotland

Backa Topola

Referee: Ion Craciunescu (Romania)

Third place match

15 October 1986 (1986-10-15)

West Germany	1 – 0	Scotland

Subotica

Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

Final

15 October 1986 (1986-10-15)

East Germany	3 – 1	Italy

Subotica

Referee: Lajos Nemeth (Hungary)

1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
East Germany Third title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The six best performing teams qualified for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

•  Bulgaria
•  East Germany
•  West Germany
•  Italy
•  Scotland
•  Yugoslavia

See also

• 1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship qualifying

External links

• Results by RSSSF
• DDR-YUG match report
• YUG-ROM match report