2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

{{Infobox international football competition

| tourney_name = UEFA European Under-21 Championship

| year = 2002

| other_titles = U-21-Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2002
Championnat d'Europe de football espoirs 2002
Campionato europeo di calcio Under-21 2002
Campiunadis Europeans da ballape U21 2002

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| size =

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| country = {{flag|Switzerland}}

| dates = 16–28 May

| num_teams = 8 (finals)
47 (qualifying)

| venues = 4

| cities = 4

| champion_other = {{fbu|21|CZE}}

| count = 1

| second_other = {{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

| matches = 15

| goals = 35

| attendance = 174195

| top_scorer = {{flagicon|ITA}} Massimo Maccarone (3 goals)

| player = {{flagicon|CZE}} Petr Čech

| prevseason = 2000

| nextseason = 2004

}}

UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2002 was the 13th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Switzerland between 16 and 28 May 2002.

Czech Republic U-21s won the competition for the first time.

Qualification

The 47 national teams were divided into nine groups (one group of four, five groups of 5, and three groups of 6). The records of the nine group runners-up were then compared. The top seven joined the nine winners in a play-off for the eight finals spots. One of the eight qualifiers was then chosen to host the remaining fixtures.

Venues

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colspan="2"\| Switzerland
Zürich ! Basel
Hardturm \| St. Jakob-Park
Capacity: 17,666 \| Capacity: 37,500
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Geneva !Lausanne
Charmilles Stadium \|Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Capacity: 9,250 \| Capacity: 15,700

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colspan="2"| Switzerland

Zürich

! Basel

Hardturm

| St. Jakob-Park

Capacity: 17,666

| Capacity: 37,500

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{{Location map~|Switzerland|lat=46.204390|long=6.143157|label=Geneva|position=bottom}}

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Geneva

!Lausanne

Charmilles Stadium

|Stade Olympique de la Pontaise

Capacity: 9,250

| Capacity: 15,700

Squads

Matches

=Group stage=

==Group A==

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style="background:#cfc" \|align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|ITA}} \|3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
style="background:#cfc" \|align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|SUI}} \|3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|POR}} \|3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|ENG}} \|3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

{{football box

|date=17 May 2002

|time=20:15

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|ENG}}

|score=2–1

|team2={{fbu|21|SUI}}

|goals1=Defoe {{goal|3}}
Crouch {{goal|53}}

|goals2=Frei {{goal|58}}

|stadium=Hardturm, Zürich

|attendance=15,000

|referee=Attila Hanacsek (Hungary)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68953--england-vs-switzerland/ Report]

}}

{{football box

|date=17 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|ITA}}

|score=1–1

|team2={{fbu|21|POR}}

|goals1=Bonazzoli {{goal|57}}

|goals2=Postiga {{goal|48}}

|stadium=St. Jakob-Park, Basel

|attendance=10,100

|referee=Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68952--italy-vs-portugal/ Report]

}}

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{{football box

|date=20 May 2002

|time=17:00

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|POR}}

|score=0–2

|team2={{fbu|21|SUI}}

|goals1=

|goals2=Cabanas {{goal|60|pen.}}
Frei {{goal|73}}

|stadium=Hardturm, Zürich

|attendance=16,066

|referee=Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68955--portugal-vs-switzerland/ Report]

}}

{{football box

|date=20 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|ITA}}

|score=2–1

|team2={{fbu|21|ENG}}

|goals1=Maccarone {{goal|58||84}}

|goals2=Barry {{goal|64}}

|stadium=St. Jakob-Park, Basel

|attendance=12,980

|referee=Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68954--italy-vs-england/ Report]

}}

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{{football box

|date=22 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|SUI}}

|score=0–0

|team2={{fbu|21|ITA}}

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium=St. Jakob-Park, Basel

|attendance=30,000

|referee=Jacek Granat (Poland)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68956--switzerland-vs-italy/ Report]

}}

{{football box

|date=22 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|POR}}

|score=3–1

|team2={{fbu|21|ENG}}

|goals1=Teixeira {{goal|7}}
Makukula {{goal|20|pen.}}
Viana {{goal|69}}

|goals2=Smith {{goal|43}}

|stadium=Hardturm, Zürich

|attendance=5,640

|referee=Erol Ersoy (Turkey)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68957--portugal-vs-england/ Report]

}}

==Group B==

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style="background:#cfc" \|align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|FRA\|1974}} \|3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9
style="background:#cfc" \|align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|CZE}} \|3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4
align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|BEL}} \|3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|GRE}} \|3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

{{football box

|date=16 May 2002

|time=19:00

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|FRA|1974}}

|score=2–0

|team2={{fbu|21|CZE}}

|goals1=Govou {{goal|41}}
Sorlin {{goal|45}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Les Charmilles, Geneva

|attendance=5,500

|referee=Erol Ersoy (Turkey)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68959--france-vs-czechia/ Report]

}}

{{football box

|date=16 May 2002

|time=20:00

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|GRE}}

|score=1–2

|team2={{fbu|21|BEL}}

|goals1=Gittas {{goal|90+2}}

|goals2=Daerden {{goal|33}}
Soetaers {{goal|83}}

|stadium=Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

|attendance=1,950

|referee=Jacek Granat (Poland)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68958--greece-vs-belgium/ Report]

}}

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{{football box

|date=19 May 2002

|time=16:00

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|BEL}}

|score=0–1

|team2={{fbu|21|CZE}}

|goals1=

|goals2=Jiránek {{goal|19}}

|stadium=Les Charmilles, Geneva

|attendance=2,015

|referee=Felix Tangawarima (Zimbabwe)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68961--belgium-vs-czechia/ Report]

}}

{{football box

|date=19 May 2002

|time=16:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|GRE}}

|score=1–3

|team2={{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

|goals1=Patsatzoglou {{goal|84}}

|goals2=Armand {{goal|37}}
Frau {{goal|40||61}}

|stadium=Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

|attendance=8,815

|referee=Franz-Xaver Wack (Germany)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68960--greece-vs-france/ Report]

}}

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{{football box

|date=21 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|CZE}}

|score=1–1

|team2={{fbu|21|GRE}}

|goals1=Grygera {{goal|36|pen.}}

|goals2=Kyriazis {{goal|69}}

|stadium=Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

|attendance=1,150

|referee=Attila Hanacsek (Hungary)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68962--czechia-vs-greece/ Report]

}}

{{football box

|date=21 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|BEL}}

|score=0–2

|team2={{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

|goals1=

|goals2=Daerden {{goal|74|o.g.}}
Luyindula {{goal|86}}

|stadium=Les Charmilles, Geneva

|attendance=7,179

|referee=Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/68963--belgium-vs-france/ Report]

}}

=Knockout stage=

{{Round4

|team-width=170

|25 May – Basel|{{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}|2|{{fbu|21|SUI}}|0

|25 May – Zürich|{{fbu|21|CZE}} (a.e.t.)|3|{{fbu|21|ITA}}|2

|28 May – Basel|{{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}|0 (1)|{{fbu|21|CZE}} (p)|0 (3)

}}

==Semi-finals==

{{football box

|date=25 May 2002

|time=18:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|FRA|1974}}

|score=2–0

|team2={{fbu|21|SUI}}

|goals1=Malbranque {{goal|62}}
Sorlin {{goal|70}}

|goals2=

|stadium=St. Jakob-Park, Basel

|attendance=26,900

|referee=Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/69591--france-vs-switzerland/ Report]

}}

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{{football box

|date=25 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|CZE}}

|score=3–2

|aet=yes

|team2={{fbu|21|ITA}}

|goals1=Rozehnal {{goal|1}}
Pospíšil {{goal|83}} {{golden goal|99}}

|goals2=Pirlo {{goal|86|pen.}}
Maccarone {{goal|90+4}}

|stadium=Hardturm, Zürich

|attendance=10,500

|referee=Franz-Xaver Wack (Germany)

|report=[https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/69592--czechia-vs-italy/ Report]

}}

==Final==

{{football box

|date=28 May 2002

|time=20:30

|team1={{fbu-rt|21|FRA|1974}}

|score=0–0

|aet=yes

|team2={{fbu|21|CZE}}

|goals1=

|goals2=

|penaltyscore=1–3

|penalties1=Meriem {{pengoal}}
Frau {{penmiss}}
Escudé {{penmiss}}
Boumsong {{penmiss}}

|penalties2={{pengoal}} Pospíšil
{{pengoal}} Grygera
{{pengoal}} Skácel

|stadium=St. Jakob-Park, Basel

|attendance=20,400

|referee=Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)

|report=https://www.uefa.com/under21/match/69599--france-vs-czechia/

}}

width=25\|	width=25\|
width="100%" \|valign="top" width="50%"\| {\| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
GK	1	Mickaël Landreau
DF	2	Anthony Réveillère	{{yel\|33}}
DF	4	Jean-Alain Boumsong
DF	6	Jérémie Bréchet
DF	3	Julien Escudé
MF	10	Steed Malbranque		{{suboff\|64}}
MF	18	Benoît Pedretti
MF	5	Mathieu Berson	{{yel\|77}}	{{suboff\|87}}
MF	7	Olivier Sorlin
FW	11	Péguy Luyindula
FW	9	Sidney Govou		{{suboff\|76}}
colspan=3\|Substitutions:
MF	19	Camel Meriem		{{subon\|64}}
FW	13	Pierre-Alain Frau		{{subon\|76}}
MF	8	Julien Sablé		{{subon\|87}}
colspan=3\|Coach:
colspan=4\|{{flagicon\|FRA\|1974}} Raymond Domenech

|valign="top"|

|valign="top" width="50%"|

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style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center
GK	16	Petr Čech
DF	17	Tomáš Hübschman
DF	2	Martin Jiránek		{{suboff\|33}}
DF	14	David Rozehnal
DF	5	Zdeněk Grygera
MF	13	Karel Piták	{{yel\|89}}
MF	8	Lukáš Zelenka		{{suboff\|81}}
MF	4	Petr Voříšek
MF	19	Rudolf Skácel
FW	9	Milan Baroš		{{suboff\|38}}
FW	10	Štěpán Vachoušek
colspan=3\|Substitutions:
MF	20	Radoslav Kováč		{{subon\|33}}
MF	11	Michal Pospíšil		{{subon\|38}}
MF	15	Jan Polák		{{subon\|81}}
colspan=3\|Coach:
colspan=4\|{{flagicon\|CZE}} Miroslav Beránek

width=50% style="font-size:90%"

Assistant referees:

Markku Tiensuu (Finland)

Martin Balko (Slovakia)

Fourth official:

Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

Goalscorers

3 goals

{{flagicon|ITA}} Massimo Maccarone

2 goals

{{flagicon|CZE}} Michal Pospíšil
{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Pierre-Alain Frau
{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Olivier Sorlin
{{flagicon|SUI}} Alexander Frei

1 goal

{{flagicon|BEL}} Koen Daerden
{{flagicon|BEL}} Tom Soetaers
{{flagicon|CZE}} Zdeněk Grygera
{{flagicon|CZE}} Martin Jiránek
{{flagicon|CZE}} David Rozehnal
{{flagicon|ENG}} Gareth Barry
{{flagicon|ENG}} Peter Crouch
{{flagicon|ENG}} Jermain Defoe
{{flagicon|ENG}} Alan Smith

1 goal, cont.

{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Sylvain Armand
{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Sidney Govou
{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Péguy Luyindula
{{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Steed Malbranque
{{flagicon|GRE}} Xenofon Gittas
{{flagicon|GRE}} Giorgos Kyriazis
{{flagicon|GRE}} Christos Patsatzoglou
{{flagicon|ITA}} Emiliano Bonazzoli
{{flagicon|ITA}} Andrea Pirlo
{{flagicon|POR}} Ariza Makukula
{{flagicon|POR}} Hélder Postiga
{{flagicon|POR}} Filipe Teixeira
{{flagicon|POR}} Hugo Viana
{{flagicon|SUI}} Ricardo Cabanas

Own goals

{{flagicon|BEL}} Koen Daerden (for France)

External links

[http://www.uefa.com/under21/season=2002/matches/intro.html Results Archive]{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} at UEFA.com
[https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/europe-u21.html RSSSF Results Archive] at rsssf.com

Category:UEFA European Under-21 Championship tournaments

Category:International association football competitions hosted by Switzerland

UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Under-21 Championship

Category:May 2002 sports events in Europe

Under-21 Championship

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align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|POR}} \|3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
align="left"\|{{fbu\|21\|ENG}} \|3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3