UEFA European Under-21 Championship

The **UEFA European Under-21 Championship** is a football competition that happens every two years. It is played by the European men's under-21 national teams of the member associations of UEFA.

Italy and Spain have won the trophy more times than anyone else. They have won five times each. Spain are also the current champions.

### Under-23 championships

Held only three times before it was relabelled by UEFA.

|rowspan=2 width="5%"|Year|rowspan=2 width="10%"|Host|width="1%" rowspan=5 bgcolor=ffffff||colspan=3|Final|width="1%" rowspan=5 bgcolor=ffffff||colspan=3 rowspan=2|Losing semi-finalists|rowspan=2 width="4%"|Number of teams|
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|1972|_Home-and-away basis_|****|**2–2** / **3–1** **5–3** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (23)|||||||
|1974|_Home-and-away basis_|****|**2–3** / **4–0** **6–3** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (21)|||||||
|1976|_Home-and-away basis_|****|**1–1** / **2–1** **3–2** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (23)|||||||

### Under-21 championships

|rowspan=2 width="5%"|Year|rowspan=2 width="10%"|Host|width="1%" rowspan=25 bgcolor=ffffff||colspan=3|Final|width="1%" rowspan=25 bgcolor=ffffff||colspan=3 rowspan=2|Losing semi-finalists (or third place match)|rowspan=2 width="4%"|Number of teams|
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|1978|_Home-and-away basis_||**1–0** / **4–4** **5–4** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (24)|||||||
|1980|_Home-and-away basis_||**0–0** / **1–0** **1–0** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (25)|||||||
|1982|_Home-and-away basis_||**3–1** / **2–3** **5–4** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (26)|||||||
|1984|_Home-and-away basis_||**1–0** / **2–0** **3–0** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (30)|||||||
|1986|_Home-and-away basis_||**1–2** / **2–1** **3–3** on aggregate 3–0||colspan=3|and|8 (29)|||||||
|1988|_Home-and-away basis_||**0–0** / **3–0** **3–0** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (30)|||||||
|1990|_Home-and-away basis_||**4–2** / **3–1** **7–3** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (30)|||||||
|1992|_Home-and-away basis_||**2–0** / **0–1** **2–1** on aggregate||colspan=3|and|8 (32)|||||||
|1994|||**1–0**|||**2–1**||8 (32)||||||
|1996|||**1–1** **4–2**|||**1–0**||8 (44)||||||
|1998|||**1–0**|||**2–0**||8 (46)||||||
|2000|||**2–1**|||**1–0**||8 (47)||||||
|2002|||**0–0** **3–1**||colspan=3|and|8 (47)|||||||
|2004|||**3–0**|||**3–2**||8 (48)||||||
|2006|||**3–0**||colspan=3|and|8 (51)|||||||
|2007|||**4–1**||colspan=3|and|8 (51)|||||||
|2009|||**4–0**||colspan=3|and|8 (52)|||||||
|2011|||**2–0**|||**1–0**||8 (53)||||||
|2013|||**4–2**||colspan=3|and|8 (53)|||||||
|2015||||**0–0 4–3**||colspan=3|and|8 (53)||||||
|2017|||**1–0**||colspan=3|and|12 (53)|||||||
|2019|||**2–1**||colspan=3|and|12 (55)|||||||
|2021|||||colspan=3||16 (55)|||||||

### Performances by countries

Only under-21 championships are included in the table.
|width=200|Team|width=200|Winners|width=200|Runners-up|width=120|Third-place|width=120|Fourth-place|width=120|Semi-finalists|width=120|Total (Top Four)|
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|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|5 (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2019)|3 (1984, 1996, 2017)|2|||align=center|10|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|5 (1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)|2 (1986, 2013)|||5|align=center|12|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|2 (2009, 2017)|2 (1982, 2019)|||1|align=center|5|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|2 (1982, 1984)|1 (2009)|||6|align=center|9|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|2 (2006, 2007)|||1|2|align=center|5|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|2 (1980, 1990)||||1|align=center|3|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|1 (1988)|1 (2002)|1|1|2|align=center|6|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|1 (2015)|1 (1992)||1|2|align=center|5|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|1 (2002)|1 (2000)||1||align=center|3|||||
|bgcolor=gold||bgcolor=gold|1 (1978)|1 (1990)|||2|align=center|4|||||
|||2 (1994, 2015)|1|||align=center|3|||||||
|||2 (2004, 2007)|||1|align=center|3|||||||
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|||2 (1988, 1998)||||align=center|2|||||||
|||1 (2011)|||1|align=center|2|||||||
|||1 (2006)||||align=center|1|||||||
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### Participating details

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|style="text-align:left;"||•|QF|SF|QF|•|QF|•|SF|•|4th|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|•|
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- Legend

- – Champions
- – Runners-up
- – Third place
- – Fourth place
- – Semi-finalists

- QF – Quarter-finals
- GS – Group stage
- TBD – To be decided
- q – Qualified
-  — Hosts

- <span style="border:1px solid gray"> • </span> – Did not qualify
- <span style="border:1px solid gray"> × </span> – Did not enter
- <span style="border:1px solid gray"> **×** </span> – Withdrew before qualification / Banned

- Notes
- <sup>1</sup> Includes results representing Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro.
- <sup>2</sup> Includes results representing East Germany and West Germany.
- <sup>3</sup> Includes results representing Soviet Union and CIS
- <sup>4</sup> Includes results representing Czechoslovakia

## Other websites

- The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.
- UEFA European U-21 Championship at _uefa.com_

## Infobox (football tournament)

- **name**: UEFA European Under-21 Championship
- **founded**: 1978
- **region**: Europe (UEFA)
- **number of teams**: 55 (total)
16 (finals)
- **website**: [https://www.uefa.com/under21/ Official website]
- **current**: 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship