# 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 15th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. In December 2005, Portugal was selected to host the finals of the competition, which took place from 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 8 February 2006.

## The Finals

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

### Venues

* Estádio Municipal de Águeda, Águeda
* Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro
* Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos
* Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga
* Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães
* 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 |

#### 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 |

### Knockout stage

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

#### Final

| 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 ||
| GK | 1 | Andriy Pyatov |
| DF | 15 | Hryhoriy Yarmash | 38' |
| DF | 6 | Dmytro Chyhrynskyi |
| 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 Milevskyi |
| FW | 11 | Ruslan Fomin | | 46' |
| Substitutions: ||
| FW | 7 | Maksym Feshchuk | 59' | 46' |
| FW | 8 | Oleksandr Aliyev | | 46' |
| Coach: ||
| Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko ||
* Assistant referees:
* Fredrik Nilsson (Sweden)
* Roger East (England)
* Fourth official:
* Howard Webb (England)

## Goalscorers

4 goals
* Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
3 goals
* Thomas Kahlenberg
* Nicky Hofs
2 goals
* Bryan Bergougnoux
* Ruslan Fomin
* Artem Milevskyi
1 goal
* Leon Andreasen
* Rasmus Würtz
* Julien Faubert
* Yoan Gouffran
* Rio Mavuba
* Florent Sinama Pongolle
* Jérémy Toulalan
* Eugen Polanski
* Rolando Bianchi
* Giorgio Chiellini
* Raffaele Palladino
* Alessandro Potenza
* Gijs Luirink
* Daniël de Ridder
* João Moutinho
* Branislav Ivanović
1 own goal
* Bruno Vale (against France)
* Zé Castro (against Serbia and Montenegro)