2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship

2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
UEFA U21-EM 2011 (Danish)
Tournament details
Host country	Denmark
Dates	11 June – 25 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (3rd title)
Runners-up	Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	36 (2.25 per match)
Attendance	101,955 (6,372 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Adrián López (5 goals)
Best player	Juan Mata
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UEFA U-21 Championship 2011 was the 18th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Football Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011.

The Danish bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee on 10 December 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1] This bid defeated the other bid from Israel.

Qualification for the final tournament took place between March 2009 and October 2010.

Spain won their third title after defeating Switzerland 2–0 in the final.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Host selection

Sign in Viborg. (Photo: Lars Schmidt)

The organisation of the event was initially contested by only two bids: Denmark and Israel. The bids were submitted on 15 June 2008.^[4]

The bids were inspected between June and September 2008, and a report was given to the National Team Competition Committee in October. The committee discussed the bids on 27 November 2008 and issued a recommendation to the UEFA Executive Committee, who decided on 10 December 2008 that Denmark would host the finals.^[1]^[4]

[edit] Qualification

Main article: 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification

The draw for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualifying round took place in Århus on 4 February 2009. The qualifying draw determined the makeup of ten groups. Ten groups were formed in the qualifying draw including two sections of six sides and eight of five, as teams chase 7 finals places alongside host Denmark. The seeding pots are formed on the basis of former performance in the tournament. All groups contained one nation from the first five pots and two sections also included a team from Pot 6. The six European federations that have qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup (Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain and England) were each drawn in one of the six groups of five teams.

[edit] 2012 Summer Olympics and Great Britain team

Main article: Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic football team

The tournament was used as the European qualifying tournament for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with the top teams qualifying for London 2012. The four British federations entered the qualification process as single entities, but are not eligible to qualify for the Olympics. If one or more British teams had qualified for the Championship, and to pass the first round, play-off games would be played (like in 2007 when Italy and Portugal faced for the last place in the Olympics). As Great Britain is the host nation for the 2012 Olympics, it is entitled to an automatic place in the competition. This caused controversy as in the Olympics, Great Britain competes as a single unified country, as opposed to the four individual nations in football. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all logged public objections to the idea of a GB team at the Olympics, fearing that it would jeopardise their independent status in UEFA and FIFA. A compromise was reached in 2009 whereby England would field a team for the tournament, while the other three would not participate, but not object to England's involvement.^[5]

[edit] List of qualified teams

The following 8 teams qualified for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship

[edit] Venues

The tournament venues were all located in Jutland, at already existing stadiums in Aarhus, Aalborg, Herning and Viborg.

On 20 September 2010 it was announced that Aarhus Stadion would host the final. Further Aalborg Stadion was confirmed as the venue for the opening match and the eventual Olympic qualifying play-off. The semifinals were played at Herning Stadium and Viborg Stadion.^[6] It was also published that Denmark would play all of its matches in Aalborg and Aarhus.^[7]

Aarhus	Aalborg	Herning	Viborg
Aarhus Stadion	Aalborg Stadion	Herning Stadium	Viborg Stadion
56°7′55″N 10°11′47″E / 56.13194°N 10.19639°E / 56.13194; 10.19639 (NRGi Park)	57°3′5.4″N 9°53′56.76″E / 57.0515°N 9.8991°E / 57.0515; 9.8991 (Energi Nord Arena)	56°7′1″N 8°57′6″E / 56.11694°N 8.95167°E / 56.11694; 8.95167 (MCH Arena)	56°27′21.23″N 9°24′7.43″E / 56.4558972°N 9.4020639°E / 56.4558972; 9.4020639 (Viborg Stadion)
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 10,500	Capacity: 9,600	Capacity: 9,566

Aarhus Aalborg Herning Viborg

[edit] Format

Andy, the mascot. (Photo: Lars Schmidt)

The final tournament consisted of two groups of four, with the top two from each progressing to the semifinals where it becomes a knockout competition. In the finals held a year before a summer Olympic Games the championship also serves as qualification for the Olympic Football Tournament.

Players were eligible for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship if they were born on or later than 1 January 1988.^[8]

[edit] Seeding

The draw for the final tournament took place on 9 November 2010 at Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre in Aalborg.^[9]

Similar to former tournaments, the games in each group are to be held at just two stadia. For the draw, the finalists were divided into three seeding pots, based on average points per game in the qualifying phase, with each group having one team from pot 1 and 2, and two teams from pot 3. Denmark, as hosts, were seeded first automatically.^[10]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Denmark (assigned to A1) Czech Republic (assigned to B1)	Spain Iceland	England Switzerland Belarus Ukraine

[edit] Squads

For more details on this topic, see 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squads.

Squads for the 2011 Euro U-21 Championship consisted of 23 players, as in the previous tournament in 2009. Only players born on or after the 1st of January, 1988 were eligible to play.

[edit] Referees

In April 2011 UEFA published a list of referees, assistant referees and fourth officials to officiate at the tournament. All of the referees are either Premier Category 1-referees or Category 2-referees, respectively the second highest and third highest tier of international referees. All referees are appointed because they are deemed to be future elite referees, thus they are all between 31 and 38 years old and therefore adhere to the U21 philosophy of being the tournament of the stars of tomorrow.^[11]

Referees

Robert Schörgenhofer
Paolo Tagliavento
Marijo Strahonja
Aleksandar Stavrev
Milorad Mažić
Markus Strömbergsson

Fourth officials

Kenn Hansen
Liran Liany

[edit] Tiebreakers

As in Under-21 Euro 2009: If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.

Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question
Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question
Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question
If, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two or more teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5) and 6) will apply
Results of all group matches:
1. Superior goal difference
2. Higher number of goals scored
3. Fair play conduct
Drawing of lots

[edit] Group stage

The draw took place on 9 November 2010 in Aalborg, Denmark.^[12] The first round saw the eight teams divided into two groups of four teams. Each group was a round-robin, where each teams plays one game against every other team in their group. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and no points for a defeat. The teams finishing first and second in each group qualified for the semifinals.

[edit] Group A

In group A tie-breakers were needed to break down the three point tie with Belarus, Denmark and Iceland. Belarus advanced due to a better goal difference in the matches between those three.^[13]

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	3	3	0	6	0	+6	9
Belarus	3	1	2	3	5	−2	3
Iceland	3	1	2	3	5	−2	3
Denmark	3	1	2	3	5	−2	3

3 Way Tie-Breaker

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus	2	1	1	3	2	+1	3
Iceland	2	1	1	3	3	0	3
Denmark	2	1	1	3	4	–1	3

All times are UTC+2.

11 June 2011 18:00	Belarus	2 – 0	Iceland	Aarhus Stadion, Aarhus Attendance: 2,815 Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)
	Varankow 77' (pen.) Skavysh 87'	Report

11 June 2011 20:45	Denmark	0 – 1	Switzerland	Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg Attendance: 9,678 Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)
		Report	Shaqiri 48'

14 June 2011 18:00	Switzerland	2 – 0	Iceland	Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg Attendance: 1,903 Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)
	Frei 1' Emeghara 40'	Report

14 June 2011 20:45	Denmark	2 – 1	Belarus	Aarhus Stadion, Aarhus Attendance: 18,152 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)
	Eriksen 22' Jørgensen 71'	Report	Baha 20'

18 June 2011 20:45	Iceland	3 – 1	Denmark	Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg Attendance: 9,308 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
	Sigþórsson 58' Bjarnason 60' Valgarðsson 90+2'	Report	Kadrii 81'

18 June 2011 20:45	Switzerland	3 – 0	Belarus	Aarhus Stadion, Aarhus Attendance: 1,604 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Mehmedi 6' (pen.), 43' Feltscher 90+3'	Report

[edit] Group B

Czech players after Bořek Dočkal's 2–0 goal against Ukraine (Photo: Viborg Municipality)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
England	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
Ukraine	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

All times are UTC+2.

12 June 2011 18:00	Czech Republic	2 – 1	Ukraine	Viborg Stadion, Viborg Attendance: 4,251 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
	Dočkal 49', 56'	Report	Bilyi 87'

12 June 2011 20:45	Spain	1 – 1	England	Herning Stadium, Herning Attendance: 8,046 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Herrera 14'	Report	Welbeck 88'

15 June 2011 18:00	Czech Republic	0 – 2	Spain	Viborg Stadion, Viborg Attendance: 4,662 Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)
		Report	Adrián 27', 47'

15 June 2011 20:45	Ukraine	0 – 0	England	Herning Stadium, Herning Attendance: 3,495 Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)
		Report

19 June 2011 20:45	England	1 – 2	Czech Republic	Viborg Stadion, Viborg Attendance: 5,262 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)
	Welbeck 76'	Report	Chramosta 89' Pekhart 90+4'

19 June 2011 20:45	Ukraine	0 – 3	Spain	Herning Stadium, Herning Attendance: 3,302 Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)
		Report	Mata 10', 72' (pen.) Adrián 27'

[edit] Knockout stage

[edit] Knockout map

Semi-finals			Final

22 June – Herning
Switzerland (a.e.t.)	1
Czech Republic	0

			25 June – Aarhus
			Switzerland	0
			Spain	2


			Olympic play-off
22 June – Viborg		25 June - Aalborg
Spain (a.e.t.)	3	Czech Republic	0
Belarus	1		Belarus	1

[edit] Semifinals

22 June 2011 18:00	Spain	3 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Belarus	Viborg Stadion, Viborg Attendance: 7,521 Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Adrián 89', 105' Jeffrén 113'	Report	Varankow 38'

22 June 2011 21:00	Switzerland	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Czech Republic	Herning Stadium, Herning Attendance: 5,038 Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)
	Mehmedi 114'	Report

[edit] Olympic play-off

25 June 2011 15:00	Czech Republic	0 – 1	Belarus	Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg Attendance: 870 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
		Report	Filipenko 88'

[edit] Final

25 June 2011 20:45	Switzerland	0 – 2	Spain	Aarhus Stadion, Aarhus Attendance: 16,110 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)
		Report	Herrera 41' Thiago 81'


SWITZERLAND:
GK	1	Yann Sommer (c)
RB	2	Philippe Koch
CB	15	Timm Klose
CB	5	Jonathan Rossini
LB	23	Gaetano Berardi	61'
DM	6	Fabian Lustenberger	16'
RM	10	Xherdan Shaqiri
CM	14	Granit Xhaka		67'
CM	9	Fabian Frei		54'
LM	7	Innocent Emeghara		53'
CF	11	Admir Mehmedi
Substitutions:
FW	19	Mario Gavranović		53'
MF	18	Amir Abrashi		54'
MF	4	Pajtim Kasami		67'
Coach:
Pierluigi Tami


SPAIN:
GK	13	David de Gea	90+4'
RB	12	Martín Montoya
CB	20	Alberto Botía
CB	3	Álvaro Domínguez
LB	17	Dídac Vilà
DM	4	Javi Martínez (c)	77'
RM	10	Juan Mata
CM	19	Thiago Alcântara
CM	18	Ander Herrera		90'
LM	22	Iker Muniain		85'
CF	7	Adrián López		80'
Substitutions:
FW	6	Jeffrén Suárez		80'
MF	8	Daniel Parejo		85'
MF	11	Diego Capel		90'
Coach:
Luis Milla

Man of the Match:
Thiago Alcântara (Spain)

Assistant referees:
Damien MacGraith (Republic of Ireland)
Vytautas Šimkus (Lithuania)
Fourth official:
Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

[edit] Goalscorers

5 goals

Adrián López

3 goals

Admir Mehmedi

2 goals

Danny Welbeck

1 goal

[edit] Team of the Tournament

The UEFA Technical Team was charged with naming a squad composed of the 23 best players over the course of the tournament. The group of nine analysts watched every game at the tournament before making their decision after the final. Spain, with seven, have most players in team.^[14]

UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
David de Gea	Chris Smalling	Christian Eriksen	Admir Mehmedi
Yann Sommer	Kyle Walker	Marcel Gecov	Xherdan Shaqiri
Tomáš Vaclík	Dídac Vilà	Ander Herrera	Adrián López
	Timm Klose	Javi Martínez	Juan Mata
	Jonathan Rossini	Thiago Alcántara	Kolbeinn Sigthórsson
	Yaroslav Rakitskiy	Mikhail Sivakov	Daniel Sturridge
	Nicolai Boilesen
	Ondřej Čelůstka

[edit] Media

[edit] Broadcasting

Country/area	Broadcaster(s)	Source
Belarus	Belteleradio	^[15]
Belgium	Telenet	^[15]
Brazil	Globosat	^[15]
Brunei	Astro SuperSport	^[15]
Bulgaria	Nova Sport (Bulgaria)	^[15]
Canada	TSN (8 matches) TSN2 (9 matches)	^[16]
Chile	Telecanal (some matches)	^{[citation needed]}
Czech Republic	Česká televize	^[15]
Denmark	TV 2 (5 matches) TV 2 Sport (8 matches) TV 2 Zulu (2 matches)	^[15]
France	Direct8	^[15]
Germany	Eurosport	^[15]
Iceland	RÚV	^[15]
Indonesia	RCTI Indovision	^[15]
Israel	Sport 1 Sport 1 HD	^[15]
Ireland	Sky Sports	^{[citation needed]}
Italy	RAI	^[15]
Japan	TV Asahi	^[17]
Latin America (except Brazil)	Televideo Services	^[15]
Malaysia	Astro SuperSport	^[15]
Mexico	OTI	^[15]
Middle East and North Africa List of countries Algeria Bahrain Comoros Djibouti Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian Authority Libya Mauritania Morocco Qatar K.S.A. Somalia Sudan Syria Tunisia U.A.E. Yemen	Al Jazeera Sports +4, +10 Al Jazeera Sports HD1	^[18]
Norway	Viasat Fotball	^[15]
Portugal	Sport TV	^[15]
South Africa	Supersport International	^[15]
Spain	Cuatro (Spain's matches) La Siete	^[19]
Sweden	Viasat	^[20]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	^[15]
Thailand	MCOT	^{[citation needed]}
Ukraine	ICTV Football TV Сhannel	^[15]
Guatemala	Trecevision Canal 11	^[15]
United Kingdom	Sky Sports 1/Sky Sports HD1	^[21]
Venezuela	Meridiano	^[15]