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National squads of the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Players in bold have now been capped at full International level.

Group A

 France

Head coach: René Girard

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Jérémy Gavanon	(1983-09-20)20 September 1983 (aged 22)		Marseille
2	3MF	Lucien Aubey	(1984-05-24)24 May 1984 (aged 21)		Toulouse
3	2DF	Jean-Michel Badiane	(1983-05-09)9 May 1983 (aged 23)		Paris Saint-Germain
4	2DF	Jérémy Berthod	(1984-04-24)24 April 1984 (aged 22)		Lyon
5	2DF	Grégory Bourillon	(1984-07-01)1 July 1984 (aged 21)		Rennes
6	2DF	François Clerc	(1983-04-18)18 April 1983 (aged 23)		Lyon
7	3MF	Olivier Veigneau	(1985-07-16)16 July 1985 (aged 20)		Monaco
8	3MF	Jacques Faty	(1984-02-25)25 February 1984 (aged 22)		Rennes
9	3MF	Bacary Sagna	(1983-02-14)14 February 1983 (aged 23)		Auxerre
10	2DF	Lassana Diarra	(1985-03-10)10 March 1985 (aged 21)		Chelsea
11	4FW	Julien Faubert	(1983-08-01)1 August 1983 (aged 22)		Bordeaux
12	1GK	Steve Mandanda	(1985-03-28)28 March 1985 (aged 21)		Le Havre
13	4FW	Yoann Gourcuff	(1986-07-11)11 July 1986 (aged 19)		Rennes
14	3MF	Rio Mavuba	(1984-03-08)8 March 1984 (aged 22)		Bordeaux
15	2DF	Jérémy Toulalan	(1983-09-10)10 September 1983 (aged 22)		Nantes
16	3MF	Mathieu Flamini	(1984-03-07)7 March 1984 (aged 22)		Arsenal
17	3MF	Bryan Bergougnoux	(1983-01-12)12 January 1983 (aged 23)		Toulouse
18	4FW	Jimmy Briand	(1985-08-02)2 August 1985 (aged 20)		Rennes
19	2DF	Yoan Gouffran	(1986-05-25)25 May 1986 (aged 19)		Caen
20	3MF	Anthony Le Tallec	(1984-10-03)3 October 1984 (aged 21)		Liverpool
21	4FW	Florent Sinama Pongolle	(1984-10-20)20 October 1984 (aged 21)		Liverpool
22	1GK	Simon Pouplin	(1985-05-28)28 May 1985 (aged 20)		Rennes

 Germany

Head coach: Dieter Eilts

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Michael Rensing	(1984-05-14)14 May 1984 (aged 22)		Bayern Munich
2	2DF	Moritz Volz	(1983-01-21)21 January 1983 (aged 23)		Fulham
3	2DF	Malik Fathi	(1983-10-29)29 October 1983 (aged 22)		Hertha BSC
4	2DF	Marvin Matip	(1985-09-25)25 September 1985 (aged 20)		1. FC Köln
5	2DF	Markus Brzenska	(1984-05-25)25 May 1984 (aged 21)		Borussia Dortmund
6	2DF	Christian Schulz	(1983-04-01)1 April 1983 (aged 23)		Werder Bremen
7	4FW	Ioannis Masmanidis	(1983-03-09)9 March 1983 (aged 23)		Arminia Bielefeld
8	3MF	Matthias Lehmann	(1983-05-28)28 May 1983 (aged 22)		1860 Munich
9	4FW	Stefan Kießling	(1984-01-25)25 January 1984 (aged 22)		1. FC Nürnberg
10	4FW	Christian Eigler	(1984-01-01)1 January 1984 (aged 22)		Greuther Fürth
11	4FW	Nando Rafael	(1984-01-10)10 January 1984 (aged 22)		Borussia Mönchengladbach
12	1GK	Patrick Platins	(1983-04-19)19 April 1983 (aged 23)		VfL Wolfsburg
13	4FW	Patrick Helmes	(1984-03-01)1 March 1984 (aged 22)		1. FC Köln
14	3MF	Gonzalo Castro	(1987-06-01)1 June 1987 (aged 18)		Bayer Leverkusen
15	3MF	Alexander Meier	(1983-01-17)17 January 1983 (aged 23)		Eintracht Frankfurt
16	3MF	Roberto Hilbert	(1984-10-16)16 October 1984 (aged 21)		Greuther Fürth
17	2DF	Patrick Ochs	(1984-05-14)14 May 1984 (aged 22)		Eintracht Frankfurt
18	3MF	Peter Niemeyer	(1983-11-22)22 November 1983 (aged 22)		Twente
19	3MF	Eugen Polanski	(1986-03-17)17 March 1986 (aged 20)		Borussia Mönchengladbach
20	2DF	Lukas Sinkiewicz	(1985-10-09)9 October 1985 (aged 20)		1. FC Köln
21	1GK	Florian Fromlowitz	(1986-07-02)2 July 1986 (aged 19)		1. FC Kaiserslautern
22	3MF	Sascha Riether	(1983-03-23)23 March 1983 (aged 23)		SC Freiburg

 Portugal

Head coach: Agostinho Oliveira

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Bruno Vale	(1983-04-08)8 April 1983 (aged 23)		Porto
2	2DF	Nélson	(1983-06-10)10 June 1983 (aged 22)		Benfica
3	3MF	Raul Meireles	(1983-03-17)17 March 1983 (aged 23)		Porto
4	2DF	José Semedo	(1985-01-11)11 January 1985 (aged 21)		Sporting CP
5	2DF	Pedro Ribeiro	(1983-01-25)25 January 1983 (aged 23)		Porto
6	2DF	Zé Castro	(1983-01-13)13 January 1983 (aged 23)		Académica de Coimbra
7	4FW	Ricardo Quaresma (captain)	(1983-09-26)26 September 1983 (aged 22)		Porto
8	3MF	Manuel Fernandes	(1986-02-05)5 February 1986 (aged 20)		Benfica
9	4FW	Hugo Almeida	(1984-05-23)23 May 1984 (aged 22)		Porto
10	3MF	João Moutinho	(1986-09-08)8 September 1986 (aged 19)		Sporting CP
11	3MF	Diogo Valente	(1984-09-23)23 September 1984 (aged 21)		Boavista
12	1GK	Paulo Ribeiro	(1984-03-06)6 March 1984 (aged 22)		Porto
13	2DF	Rolando	(1985-08-31)31 August 1985 (aged 20)		Belenenses
14	3MF	Custódio	(1983-05-24)24 May 1983 (aged 22)		Sporting CP
15	2DF	Nuno Morais	(1984-01-29)29 January 1984 (aged 22)		Chelsea
16	3MF	Bruno Amaro	(1983-02-17)17 February 1983 (aged 23)		Penafiel
17	4FW	Silvestre Varela	(1985-02-02)2 February 1985 (aged 21)		Sporting CP
18	3MF	Nani	(1986-11-17)17 November 1986 (aged 19)		Sporting CP
19	4FW	Ricardo Vaz Tê	(1986-10-01)1 October 1986 (aged 19)		Bolton Wanderers
20	4FW	Lourenço	(1983-06-05)5 June 1983 (aged 22)		Sporting CP
21	4FW	Filipe Oliveira	(1984-05-27)27 May 1984 (aged 21)		Marítimo
22	1GK	Daniel Fernandes	(1983-09-25)25 September 1983 (aged 22)		PAOK

 Serbia and Montenegro

Head coach: Dragomir Okuka

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Vladimir Stojković (captain)	(1983-07-28)28 July 1983 (aged 22)		Red Star Belgrade
2	2DF	Branislav Ivanović	(1984-02-22)22 February 1984 (aged 22)		Lokomotiv Moscow
3	2DF	Duško Tošić	(1985-01-19)19 January 1985 (aged 21)		Sochaux
4	3MF	Nemanja Rnić	(1984-09-30)30 September 1984 (aged 21)		Partizan
5	2DF	Milan Stepanov	(1983-04-02)2 April 1983 (aged 23)		Trabzonspor
6	2DF	Milan Biševac	(1983-08-31)31 August 1983 (aged 22)		Red Star Belgrade
7	3MF	Nenad Milijaš	(1983-04-30)30 April 1983 (aged 23)		Red Star Belgrade
8	4FW	Boško Janković	(1984-03-01)1 March 1984 (aged 22)		Red Star Belgrade
9	4FW	Mirko Vučinić	(1983-10-01)1 October 1983 (aged 22)		Lecce
10	3MF	Simon Vukčević	(1986-01-29)29 January 1986 (aged 20)		Saturn Ramenskoe
11	3MF	Miloš Pavlović	(1983-11-27)27 November 1983 (aged 22)		Voždovac
12	1GK	Aleksandar Jović	(1986-03-05)5 March 1986 (aged 20)		Zeta
13	2DF	Marko Lomić	(1983-09-13)13 September 1983 (aged 22)		Partizan
14	3MF	Stefan Babović	(1987-01-07)7 January 1987 (aged 19)		Partizan
15	3MF	Dejan Milovanović	(1984-01-21)21 January 1984 (aged 22)		Red Star Belgrade
16	4FW	Đorđe Rakić	(1985-10-31)31 October 1985 (aged 20)		OFK Beograd
17	3MF	Miloš Krasić	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 21)		CSKA Moscow
18	2DF	Dušan Basta	(1984-08-18)18 August 1984 (aged 21)		Red Star Belgrade
19	3MF	Ivan Todorović	(1983-07-29)29 July 1983 (aged 22)		Zeta
20	4FW	Milan Purović	(1985-05-07)7 May 1985 (aged 21)		Red Star Belgrade
21	4FW	Igor Burzanović	(1985-08-25)25 August 1985 (aged 20)		Budućnost Podgorica
22	1GK	Miroslav Vujadinović	(1983-04-22)22 April 1983 (aged 23)		Budućnost Podgorica

Group B

 Denmark

Head coach: Flemming Serritslev

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard	(1983-05-23)23 May 1983 (aged 23)	17	0	Hertha BSC
2	2DF	Michael Jakobsen	(1986-01-02)2 January 1986 (aged 20)	10	0	AaB
3	2DF	Leon Andreasen	(1983-04-23)23 April 1983 (aged 23)	20	5	Werder Bremen
4	2DF	Daniel Agger	(1984-12-12)12 December 1984 (aged 21)	7	3	Liverpool
5	2DF	Martin Pedersen	(1983-10-09)9 October 1983 (aged 22)	27	0	AaB
6	3MF	Rasmus Würtz (captain)	(1983-09-18)18 September 1983 (aged 22)	26	0	AaB
7	3MF	Martin Bergvold	(1984-02-20)20 February 1984 (aged 22)	11	2	Copenhagen
8	3MF	Jacob Sørensen	(1983-02-12)12 February 1983 (aged 23)	16	2	AaB
9	4FW	Jonas Kamper	(1983-05-03)3 May 1983 (aged 23)	36	3	Brøndby
10	3MF	Thomas Kahlenberg	(1983-03-20)20 March 1983 (aged 23)	23	7	Auxerre
11	4FW	Morten Rasmussen	(1985-01-31)31 January 1985 (aged 21)	17	8	Brøndby
12	2DF	Jakob Poulsen	(1983-07-07)7 July 1983 (aged 22)	16	1	Heerenveen
13	3MF	Niki Zimling	(1985-04-19)19 April 1985 (aged 21)	1	0	Esbjerg
14	2DF	Henrik Kildentoft	(1985-03-18)18 March 1985 (aged 21)	7	0	Brøndby
15	2DF	Frank Hansen	(1983-02-23)23 February 1983 (aged 23)	9	0	Esbjerg
16	1GK	Theis F. Rasmussen	(1984-07-12)12 July 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Vejle
17	2DF	Jonas Troest	(1985-03-04)4 March 1985 (aged 21)	19	0	Hannover 96
18	3MF	Mikkel Thygesen	(1984-10-22)22 October 1984 (aged 21)	8	1	Midtjylland
19	4FW	Johan Absalonsen	(1985-09-16)16 September 1985 (aged 20)	7	1	Brøndby
20	4FW	Simon Busk Poulsen	(1984-10-07)7 October 1984 (aged 21)	7	0	Midtjylland
21	4FW	Nicklas Bendtner	(1988-01-16)16 January 1988 (aged 18)	1	2	Arsenal
22	1GK	Jesper Hansen	(1985-03-31)31 March 1985 (aged 21)	0	0	Nordsjælland

 Italy

Head coach: Claudio Gentile

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Federico Agliardi	(1983-02-11)11 February 1983 (aged 23)		Palermo
2	2DF	Alessandro Potenza	(1984-03-08)8 March 1984 (aged 22)		Internazionale
3	2DF	Cesare Bovo (c)	(1983-01-14)14 January 1983 (aged 23)		Roma
4	3MF	Marco Donadel	(1983-04-21)21 April 1983 (aged 23)		Fiorentina
5	2DF	Andrea Mantovani	(1984-06-22)22 June 1984 (aged 21)		Chievo
6	2DF	Giorgio Chiellini	(1984-08-14)14 August 1984 (aged 21)		Juventus
7	4FW	Simone Pepe	(1983-08-30)30 August 1983 (aged 22)		Udinese
8	2DF	Michele Canini	(1985-06-05)5 June 1985 (aged 20)		Cagliari
9	4FW	Rolando Bianchi	(1983-02-15)15 February 1983 (aged 23)		Reggina
10	3MF	Davide Biondini	(1983-01-24)24 January 1983 (aged 23)		Reggina
11	4FW	Gianpaolo Pazzini	(1984-08-02)2 August 1984 (aged 21)		Fiorentina
12	1GK	Antonio Mirante	(1983-07-08)8 July 1983 (aged 22)		Juventus
13	2DF	Andrea Coda	(1985-04-25)25 April 1985 (aged 21)		Empoli
14	3MF	Marino Defendi	(1985-08-19)19 August 1985 (aged 20)		Atalanta
15	2DF	Giuseppe Scurto	(1984-01-05)5 January 1984 (aged 22)		Chievo
16	2DF	Damiano Ferronetti	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 21)		Parma
17	3MF	Pasquale Foggia	(1983-06-03)3 June 1983 (aged 22)		Milan
18	3MF	Riccardo Montolivo	(1985-01-18)18 January 1985 (aged 21)		Fiorentina
19	4FW	Raffaele Palladino	(1984-04-17)17 April 1984 (aged 22)		Juventus
20	3MF	Alessandro Rosina	(1984-01-31)31 January 1984 (aged 22)		Torino
21	3MF	Paolo Sammarco	(1983-03-17)17 March 1983 (aged 23)		Chievo
22	1GK	Gianluca Curci	(1985-07-12)12 July 1985 (aged 20)		Roma

 Netherlands

Head coach: Foppe de Haan

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Kenneth Vermeer	(1986-01-10)10 January 1986 (aged 20)		Ajax
2	2DF	Paul Verhaegh	(1983-09-01)1 September 1983 (aged 22)		Vitesse
3	2DF	Gijs Luirink	(1983-09-12)12 September 1983 (aged 22)		Groningen
4	2DF	Ramon Zomer	(1983-04-13)13 April 1983 (aged 23)		Twente
5	2DF	Urby Emanuelson	(1986-06-16)16 June 1986 (aged 19)		Ajax
6	3MF	Stijn Schaars (captain)	(1984-01-11)11 January 1984 (aged 22)		AZ
7	4FW	Romeo Castelen	(1983-05-03)3 May 1983 (aged 23)		Feyenoord
8	3MF	Nicky Hofs	(1983-05-17)17 May 1983 (aged 23)		Feyenoord
9	4FW	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	(1983-08-12)12 August 1983 (aged 22)		Ajax
10	3MF	Ismaïl Aissati	(1988-08-16)16 August 1988 (aged 17)		PSV
11	4FW	Daniël de Ridder	(1984-03-06)6 March 1984 (aged 22)		Celta Vigo
12	3MF	Haris Medunjanin	(1985-03-08)8 March 1985 (aged 21)		AZ
13	4FW	Patrick Gerritsen	(1987-03-13)13 March 1987 (aged 19)		Twente
14	4FW	Collins John	(1985-10-17)17 October 1985 (aged 20)		Fulham
15	4FW	Fred Benson	(1984-04-10)10 April 1984 (aged 22)		Vitesse
16	2DF	Dwight Tiendalli	(1985-10-21)21 October 1985 (aged 20)		Utrecht
17	2DF	Ron Vlaar	(1985-02-16)16 February 1985 (aged 21)		Feyenoord
18	2DF	Arnold Kruiswijk	(1984-11-02)2 November 1984 (aged 21)		Groningen
19	2DF	Edson Braafheid	(1983-04-08)8 April 1983 (aged 23)		Utrecht
20	3MF	Demy de Zeeuw	(1983-05-26)26 May 1983 (aged 22)		AZ
21	1GK	Michel Vorm	(1983-10-20)20 October 1983 (aged 22)		Utrecht
22	1GK	Remko Pasveer	(1983-11-08)8 November 1983 (aged 22)		Twente

 Ukraine

Head coach: Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Andriy Pyatov	(1984-06-28)28 June 1984 (aged 21)		Vorskla Poltava
2	2DF	Oleksandr Romanchuk	(1984-10-21)21 October 1984 (aged 21)		Dynamo Kyiv
3	2DF	Mykola Ischenko	(1983-03-09)9 March 1983 (aged 23)		Karpaty Lviv
4	2DF	Dmytro Nevmyvaka	(1984-03-19)19 March 1984 (aged 22)		Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
5	2DF	Oleksandr Yatsenko (captain)	(1985-02-24)24 February 1985 (aged 21)		Dynamo Kyiv
6	2DF	Dmytro Chyhrynskyi	(1986-11-07)7 November 1986 (aged 19)		Shakhtar Donetsk
7	4FW	Maksym Feschuk	(1985-11-25)25 November 1985 (aged 20)		Karpaty Lviv
8	4FW	Oleksandr Aliyev	(1985-02-03)3 February 1985 (aged 21)		Dynamo Kyiv
9	3MF	Adrian Pukanych	(1983-06-22)22 June 1983 (aged 22)		Shakhtar Donetsk
10	4FW	Artem Milevskyi	(1985-01-12)12 January 1985 (aged 21)		Dynamo Kyiv
11	4FW	Ruslan Fomyn	(1986-03-02)2 March 1986 (aged 20)		Shakhtar Donetsk
12	1GK	Oleksandr Rybka	(1987-04-10)10 April 1987 (aged 19)		Dynamo Kyiv
13	3MF	Serhiy Pylypchuk	(1984-11-26)26 November 1984 (aged 21)	2	Spartak Nalchik
14	3MF	Yevhen Cheberyachko	(1983-06-19)19 June 1983 (aged 22)		Arsenal Kyiv
15	2DF	Hryhoriy Yarmash	(1985-01-04)4 January 1985 (aged 21)		Dynamo Kyiv
16	4FW	Ivan Kryvosheyenko	(1984-05-11)11 May 1984 (aged 22)	0	Illychivets Mariupol
17	2DF	Taras Mykhalyk	(1983-10-28)28 October 1983 (aged 22)		Dynamo Kyiv
18	3MF	Oleksiy Hodin	(1983-02-02)2 February 1983 (aged 23)		Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
19	3MF	Oleksandr Maksymov	(1985-02-13)13 February 1985 (aged 21)		Kharkiv
20	3MF	Oleksandr Sytnyk	(1985-01-02)2 January 1985 (aged 21)		Dynamo Kyiv
21	3MF	Andriy Oberemko	(1984-03-18)18 March 1984 (aged 22)		Kharkiv
22	1GK	Yevhen Shyryayev	(1984-02-22)22 February 1984 (aged 22)		Chornomorets Odesa

Footnotes

1. Jérémy Gavanon: on loan at Clermont (FRA)
2. Aubey capped for Congo
3. Faty capped for Senegal
4. Faubert capped for Martinique
5. Anthony Le Tallec: on loan at Sunderland (ENG) August 2005 – May 2006
6. Florent Sinama-Pongolle: on loan at Blackburn Rovers (ENG) January–May 2006
7. Matip capped for Cameroon
8. Kießling agreed to join Bayer Leverkusen after the tournament
9. Nando Rafael capped for Angola
10. Polanski capped for Poland
11. Bruno Vale: on loan at Estrela da Amadora
12. Semedo: on loan at Feirense
13. Nuno Morais: on loan at Marítimo
14. Silvestre Varela: on loan at Vitória de Setúbal
15. Lourenço capped for Angola
16. Lourenço: on loan at União de Leiria
17. Stojković agreed to join Nantes after the tournament
18. Vučinić also capped for Montenegro
19. Vukčević also capped for Montenegro
20. Purović capped for Montenegro
21. Burzanović capped for Montenegro
22. Martin Pedersen: on loan at SønderjyskE (DEN)
23. Jacob Sørensen: on loan at SønderjyskE (DEN)
24. Alessandro Potenza: on loan to Mallorca
25. Cesare Bovo: joint ownership by Palermo and Roma.
26. Andrea Mantovani: koint-ownership by Juventus and Chievo.
27. Simone Pepe: joint ownership by Palermo and Udinese
28. Michele Canini: joint-ownership by Atalanta and Cagliari
29. Antonio Mirante: on loan at Siena
30. Andrea Coda: joint owner-ship by Empoli and Udinese.
31. Giuseppe Scurto: joint-ownership by Roma and Chievo
32. Damiano Ferronetti: joint-ownership of Roma nad Parma.
33. Pasquale Foggia: on loan at Ascoli
34. Riccardo Montolivo: joint-ownership of Fiorentina and Atalanta
35. Raffaele Palladino: on loan at Livorno
36. Alessandro Rosina: joint ownership of Parma and Torino.
37. Paolo Sammarco: joint-ownership of Milan and Chievo
38. Aissati capped for Morocco
39. Medunjanin capped for Bosnia and Herzegovina
40. Michel Vorm: on loan at Den Bosch
41. Olexandr Romanchuk: on loan at Arsenal Kyiv
42. Olexandr Yatsenko: on loan at Kharkiv
43. Oleksandr Aliyev: on loan at Metalurh Zaporizhya
44. Adrian Pukanych: on loan at Illychivets Mariupol
45. Ruslan Fomin: on loan at Metalist Kharkiv
46. Hrihoriy Yarmash: on loan at Vorskla Poltava
47. Oleksiy Hodin: on loan at Tavriya Simferopol

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