The 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 4th staging of the
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the UEFA Under-21 Championship or simply the Euro Under-21, is a biennial football competition contested by the European men's under-21 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Since 1992, the comp ...
. The qualifying stage spanned two years (1982–84) and had 30 entrants.
Albania
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,
Iceland
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and
Wales
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competed in the competition for the first time.
England U-21s won the competition for the second time running.
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 third-place playoff.
Qualifying stage
Draw
The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of
UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying tournament with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:
* Groups 1, 2 and 4 included the same nations
* Group 3 did not include
Luxembourg
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(moved to Group 8)
* Group 5 did not include
Sweden (moved to Group 8)
* Group 6 did not include
Northern Ireland
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* Group 7 did not include
Malta
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and
Republic of Ireland
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* Group 8 composed of
Sweden (moved from Group 5),
Luxembourg
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(moved from Group 3) and
France
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(who did not participate in senior Euro qualification)
Qualified teams
:
1 Bold indicates champion for that year
Squads
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1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads
This article displays the squads for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Although teams could have a maximum of three older players, the remaining squad members had to have been born on or after 1 January 1960. Players in bold have late ...
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Knockout stages
References
External links
Results Archive''at uefa.com''
''at rsssf.com
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UEFA
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UEFA
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1984 in youth association football