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2007 Final Tournament was held in

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from 2 to 13 May 2007. Top-five teams (two best places from each group plus winner of playoff between third-placed teams) qualified for the

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. Players born after 1 January 1990 could participate in this competition.

Qualifications

There were separate rounds of qualifications being held before the Final Tournament. #

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Teams

* (host) * * * * * * *

Match Officials

A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament. ;Referees * Alan Black * Andrea de Marco *Dejan Filipovic * Jan Jílek * George Vadachkoria * Bülent Yıldırım ;Assistant referees * Jan-Peter Aravirta * Andrei Bodean * Alan Camilleri * Nikolai Karakolev * Arnis Lemkins * Radoslaw Siejka * Magnus Sjöblom * Zsolt Attila Szpisjak ;Fourth officials * Karim Saadouni * Gaëtan Simon

Squads

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

5th place playoff

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

;3 goals * Victor Moses * Toni Kroos ;2 goals *

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* Thibault Bourgeois *

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* Daley Blind *

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;1 goal * Christian Benteke * Eden Hazard *

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* Danny Rose *

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* Richard Sukuta-Pasu * Kolbeinn Sigþórsson * Patrick van Aanholt * Nacer Barazite *

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* Luis Pedro * Georginio Wijnaldum * Dani Aquino * Ignacio Camacho *

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* Dmytro Korkishko * Serhiy Shevchuk ;Own goals *

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(for Belgium)

Golden Player

2007: Bojan Krkić
uefa.com, accessed 16 June 2009.

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