The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1986 Final Tournament was held in Yugoslavia. It also served as the European qualification for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Quarterfinals

East Germany 2 – 0 Yugoslavia
Thomas Ritter 48'
Rico Steinmann 53'
Attendance: 2000
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
Scotland 1 – 0 Bulgaria
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)
Italy 2 – 1 Belgium
Referee: Gunther Habermann (East Germany)
West Germany 3 – 0 Romania
Referee: Frans van den Wijngaert (Belgium)

Semifinals

Places 5-8

Bulgaria 1 – 0 Belgium
Referee: Dragisa Komadinic (Yugoslavia)
Yugoslavia 5 – 0 Romania
Igor Berecko 35'
Miladinov 48'
Branko Brnović 53' (pen.)
Davor Šuker 58'
Nermin Vazda 87'
Report
Referee: Dimitar Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

Places 1-4

East Germany 1 – 0 West Germany
Referee: Kenneth Hope (Scotland)
Italy 1 – 0 Scotland
Referee: Ion Craciunescu (Romania)

Third place match

West Germany 1 – 0 Scotland
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

Final

East Germany 3 – 1 Italy
Axel Kruse 30'
Matthias Sammer 42'
Marco Köller 81'
Stefano Impallomeni 17'
Referee: Lajos Németh (Hungary)


 1986 UEFA European Under-18 Championship 

East Germany
Third title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The six best performing teams qualified for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.

See also

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