# 2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship

The 2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the 19th edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. It was the last under-16 championship, before changing the name as under-17 championships. England hosted the championship, during 22 April – 6 May. Players born on or after 1 January 1984 were eligible to participate in this competition. 16 teams entered the competition, and Spain defeated France in the final to win the competition for the sixth time.

## Match officials

| Country | Referee | Assistant referees | Fourth officials | Matches refereed |
| Belarus | None | Vyacheslav Bykov | None | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Siniša Zrnić | None | None | Italy–Switzerland (Group C) |
| Bulgaria | Dimitar Dimitrov | None | None | Romania–Spain (Group A) England–Switzerland (Group C) Scotland–Croatia (Group D) |
| Croatia | None | Tomislav Petrović | None | |
| Czech Republic | None | Miroslav Zlámal | None | |
| England | Andy D'Urso | David Babski Carl Bassingdale Glenn Turner | Richard Beeby Mark Clattenburg Keith Hill | France–Croatia (Group D) Spain–Italy (Quarter-final) France–Spain (Final) |
| Greece | Athanasios Briakos | None | None | Spain–Germany (Group A) Poland–Russia (Group B) |
| Hungary | None | Robert Kispál | None | |
| Iceland | Kristinn Jakobsson | None | None | Croatia–Finland (Group D) England–Germany (Quarter-final) |
| Israel | Alon Yefet | None | None | Turkey–Russia (Group B) France–Scotland (Group D) Turkey–Croatia (Quarter-final) Spain–Croatia (Semi-final) |
| Norway | None | Steinar Holvik | None | |
| Poland | Grzegorz Gilewski | None | None | Spain–Belgium (Group A) Switzerland–Hungary (Group C) England–France (Semi-final) |
| Portugal | None | Paulo Ribeiro | None | |
| Romania | Alexandru Tudor | None | None | Not known |
| Seychelles | Eddy Maillet | None | None | France–Russia (Quarter-final) |
| South Africa | None | Lazarus Matela | None | |
| Sweden | Martin Hansson | None | None | Russia–Netherlands (Group B) Scotland–Finland (Group D) Croatia–England (Third place play-off) |
| Switzerland | None | Francesco Buragina | None | |
| Yugoslavia | None | Vitomir Simović | None | |

## Group stage
### Group A

| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 6 |
| Germany | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 6 |
| Belgium | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | –2 | 6 |
| Romania | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 13 | –11 | 0 |
| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 |
| Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 3 |

### Group B

| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Turkey | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 6 |
| Russia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 5 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 |
| Poland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | –3 | 1 |

### Group C

| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| England | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 |
| Italy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 4 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | –1 | 4 |
| Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | –1 | 3 |

### Group D

| Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| France | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | +11 | 9 |
| Croatia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | –2 | 3 |
| Finland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | –9 | 0 |

## Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 29 April – Sunderland | 29 April – Sunderland | | | |
| Spain (p) | 1 (4) | | | |
| Spain (p) | 1 (4) | 3 May – Middlesbrough | 3 May – Middlesbrough | | |
| Italy | 1 (3) | 3 May – Middlesbrough | 3 May – Middlesbrough | |
| Italy | 1 (3) | Spain | 3 | |
| 30 April – Scunthorpe | 30 April – Scunthorpe | | Spain | 3 | |
| 30 April – Scunthorpe | 30 April – Scunthorpe | Croatia | 0 | |
| Turkey | 0 | Croatia | 0 | |
| Turkey | 0 | | | | 6 May – Sunderland | 6 May – Sunderland |
| Croatia | 2 | | | | 6 May – Sunderland | 6 May – Sunderland |
| Croatia | 2 | | | | France | 0 |
| 29 April – Middlesbrough | 29 April – Middlesbrough | | | | | France | 0 |
| 29 April – Middlesbrough | 29 April – Middlesbrough | | | | Spain | 1 |
| England (p) | 1 (5) | | | | Spain | 1 |
| England (p) | 1 (5) | 3 May – Newcastle | 3 May – Newcastle | | | |
| Germany | 1 (3) | 3 May – Newcastle | 3 May – Newcastle | | | |
| Germany | 1 (3) | England | 0 | | | |
| 30 April – York | 30 April – York | | England | 0 | | | |
| 30 April – York | 30 April – York | France | 4 | | Third place | Third place |
| France | 2 | France | 4 | | Third place | Third place |
| France | 2 | | | | 6 May – Durham | 6 May – Durham |
| Russia | 0 | | | | 6 May – Durham | 6 May – Durham |
| Russia | 0 | | | | Croatia | 4 |
| | | | | | England | 1 |

### Final
## Statistics
### Goalscorers
#### 7 goals

* Fernando Torres

#### 6 goals

* Florent Sinama Pongolle

#### 5 goals

* Anthony Le Tallec

#### 3 goals

* Erdal Kılıçaslan
* Piotr Trochowski
* József Kanta
* Francesco Lodi
* Giampaolo Pazzini

#### 2 goals

* Wouter Vandendriessche
* Ivan Grivičić
* Niko Kranjčar
* Glen Johnson
* Sébastien Grax
* Mourad Meghni
* Youssef Sofiane
* Ralf de Haan
* Jaime Gavilán
* Cédric Tsimba

#### 1 goal

* Maxence Coveliers
* Kristof Goessens
* Hrvoje Čale
* Mario Grgurović
* Drago Papa
* Dejan Prijić
* Igor Ružak
* Eddie Johnson
* Cherno Samba
* Steven Schumacher
* John Welsh
* Tommi Peltonen
* Baldo di Gregorio
* Alexander Laas
* Oliver Madejski
* Patrick Ochs
* David Odonkor
* Christian Petereit
* Mihály Horváth
* Zsolt Müller
* Mauro Belotti
* Paolo Facchinetti
* Marek Wasicki
* Rareş Tudor Oprea
* Gabriel Velcovici
* Anatoli Gerk
* Craig Beattie
* Paul McLaughlin
* Graham Weir
* Guillem Bauzà
* Melli
* Miguel Flaño
* Senel
* Joël Gasche
* Dündar Denizhan
* Sabri
* Sezgin Yilmaz