The 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the fifth edition of UEFA's European Under-17 Football Championship. Luxembourg hosted the championship, during 3–14 May. Russia defeated the Czech Republic in the final to win the competition for the first time. Players born after 1 January 1989 could participate in this competition.
Squads
Is for 17 and younger normally Between late May to early June
Qualifying There were two qualifying rounds.
Venues Ettelbruck Luxembourg Hesperange Stade Am Deich Stade Josy Barthel Stade Alphonse TheisCapacity: 2,020Capacity: 8,022Capacity: 3,058 Grevenmacher Mondorf-les-Bains Dudelange Op Flohr Stadion Stade John Grün Stade Jos NosbaumCapacity: 550Capacity: 3,500Capacity: 2,558
Teams
(host)
Match Officials A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.
Referees William Collum Thomas Einwaller Hannes Kaasik Björn Kuipers Alexey Kulbakov Aleksandar Stavrev
Assistant referees José Bolinhas Edward King Igor Krmar Vesselin Dobrianov Manuel Navarro Dag Roger Nebben Cem Șatman Tomas Somolani
Fourth officials Albert Toussaint Luc Wilmes
Group stage
Group A TeamsGPWDLGFGAGDPtsStatus3300121+119Advanced to the semifinals32013306 310243+133003113−120
Group B TeamsGPWDLGFGAGDPtsStatus321080+87Advanced to the semifinals321052+37 301227−51301228−61
Knockout stage
Semifinals
Third Place Playoff
Final
Goalscorers Team#PlayersGoals20Bojan59Manuel Fischer510Tomáš Necid510Aarón39Krisztián Németh214Rubén Ramos29Aleksandr Prudnikov211Tomáš Pekhart22Sergei Morozov118José Hermosa19Miralem Pjanić110Toni Kroos118Raphael Lorenz111Veljko Vuković111Cristian Vergara18Marcos Gullón17Vladimir Koman110Márk Nikházi117Mauricio Aquino117Darko Karadžić110Igor Gorbatenko17Yevgeny Korotayev113Stefan Reinartz117Petr Wojnar116Mehdi Carcela17Jan Vošahlík118Aleksandr Marenich1Total Goals: 46 ( 1 own goals ); Match Played: 16
Golden Player
Toni Kroos, uefa.com, accessed 16 June 2009.
References
RSSSF.com
External links Luxembourg 2006 magazine from UefaU17.com