1981 UEFA European Under-18 Championship

The first U-18 Football Championship was held in the period from May 25 to June 3, 1981 in the Federal Republic of Germany. While the German team became European champion with a 1-0 victory over Poland, Austria was eliminated in the first round, while Switzerland as well as the GDR for the final round will not qualify.

  • 4.1 Group A
  • 4.2 Group B
  • 4.3 Group C
  • 4.4 Group D
  • 5.1 Semi-finals
  • 5.2 Match for third place
  • 5.3 final
  • 5.4 The German team in the final

Mode

The 16 qualified teams were divided into four groups of four teams each. Within the groups played each team once against each other. The group winners reached the semi-finals. The winners of those ties contest the final, the losers play for third place.

Participant

At the tournament the following teams participated:

Teams from German-speaking

DFB

Venues

All matches of the European Championship took place in different cities in North Rhine -Westphalia. These were: Aachen, Arnsberg, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düren, Dusseldorf, Emmerich, Erkenschwick, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Grevenbroich, Gütersloh, Hagen, Hamm, Herford, Cologne, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Lüdenscheid, Mönchengladbach, Münster, Oberhausen, Remscheid, Rheine and victories.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Final round

Semifinal

Match for third place

Final

The German team in the final

Rüdiger Vollenborn, Ulf Quaisser ( 88, Joachim Goldstein ), Klaus Theiss, Anton Schmid Kunz, Ralf Falk Mayer, Ingo Aulbach, Thomas Brunner, Ralf Loose, Holger Anthes, Thomas Herbst, Roland Wohlfarth. Scorer to 1:0: Holger Anthes ( 68 )

Ralf Falkenmayer Eintracht Frankfurt Michael Zorc FSV Frankfurt Herbert Waas Leo Bunk France Italy
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