The 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1988–90), had 30 entrants. San Marino competed for the first time. USSR U-21s won the competition. The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + two groups of 3). The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or 3rd-place playoff. Qualifying stage Draw The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations: Groups 1 and 2 featured the same nations Group 3 did not include Iceland (moved to Group 4) Group 4 did not include Wales, but included Iceland (moved from Group 3) Group 5 did not include Cyprus (moved to Group 6) Group 6 did not include Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Malta, but included Cyprus (moved from Group 5) Group 7 did not include Switzerland (moved to Group 8) Group 8 composed of Switzerland (moved from Group 7), Italy and San Marino (both of whom did not participate in World Cup qualification) Qualified teams 1 Bold indicates champion for that year Knockout stage Quarter-finals First leg Second leg Semi-finals First leg Second leg Final First leg Second leg Goalscorers 3 goals Davor Šuker Andriy Sydelnykov 2 goals Giovanni Stroppa Kennet Andersson Tomas Brolin Ulrik Jansson Igor Shalimov Igor Dobrovolskiy Alen Bokšić 1 goal Horst Siegl Christian Hochstätter Pierluigi Casiraghi Marco Simone Fernando Hierro Ricardo Mendiguren Stefan Rehn Dmitriy Chugunov Igor Kolyvanov Andrey Kanchelskis Sergey Kiryakov Aleksandr Mostovoi Zvonimir Boban Robert Jarni Robert Prosinečki Own goal Andriy Bal (playing against West Germany) Miroslav Đukić (playing against Italy) References External links Results Archive at uefa.com RSSSF Results Archive ''at rsssf.com UEFA European Under-21 Championship UEFA UEFA 1990 in youth association football