1998 UEFA European Under-18 Championship squads

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1998 UEFA European Under-18 Championship squads - Wikipedia

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The following is the list of football players selected for the 1998 European under-18 championship played in Cyprus.

Each national team submitted a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers.

Ages are correct as of the start of the tournament, 19 July 1998. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.

Group A

Germany

Head coach: Rainer Bonhof

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Timo Hildebrand	(1979-04-05)5 April 1979 (aged 19)	VfB Stuttgart
2	2DF	Martin Forkel	(1979-07-22)22 July 1979 (aged 18)	Greuther Fürth
3	2DF	Manuel Benthin	(1979-03-03)3 March 1979 (aged 19)	Hamburger SV
4	2DF	Marcel Rapp	(1979-04-16)16 April 1979 (aged 19)	Karlsruher SC
5	3MF	Fabian Ernst (Captain)	(1979-05-30)30 May 1979 (aged 19)	Hannover 96
6	3MF	Andreas Voss	(1979-02-27)27 February 1979 (aged 19)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
7	4FW	Christian Timm	(1979-02-27)27 February 1979 (aged 19)	Borussia Dortmund
8	2DF	Thorsten Schramm	(1979-02-19)19 February 1979 (aged 19)	MSV Duisburg
9	3MF	Andreas Gensler	(1979-08-13)13 August 1979 (aged 18)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
10	3MF	Sebastian Deisler	(1980-01-05)5 January 1980 (aged 18)	Borussia Mönchengladbach
11	3MF	Wolf-Manuel Majunke	(1979-02-10)10 February 1979 (aged 19)	VfB Stuttgart
12	1GK	Stefan Wessels	(1979-02-28)28 February 1979 (aged 19)	Bayern Munich
13	2DF	Thomas Lechner	(1979-01-09)9 January 1979 (aged 19)	1. FC Kaiserslautern
14	3MF	Sebastian Kehl	(1980-02-13)13 February 1980 (aged 18)	Hannover 96
15	3MF	Silvio Pätz	(1979-07-11)11 July 1979 (aged 19)	Rot-Weiß Erfurt
16	4FW	Enrico Kern	(1979-03-12)12 March 1979 (aged 19)	Erzgebirge Aue
17	2DF	Gregor Kapitza	(1979-08-09)9 August 1979 (aged 18)	1. FC Köln
18	3MF	Tobias Schäper	(1979-10-24)24 October 1979 (aged 18)	Borussia Dortmund

Group B

Croatia

Head coach: Martin Novoselac

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Stipe Pletikosa (Captain)	(1979-01-08)8 January 1979 (aged 19)	Hajduk Split
2	2DF	Goran Sablić	(1979-08-04)4 August 1979 (aged 18)	Hajduk Split
3	3MF	Dalibor Tukser	(1980-08-25)25 August 1980 (aged 17)	Varteks
4	2DF	Jurica Puljiz	(1979-12-13)13 December 1979 (aged 18)	Hajduk Split
5	3MF	Jurica Vranješ	(1980-01-31)31 January 1980 (aged 18)	Osijek
6	3MF	Srđan Andrić	(1980-01-05)5 January 1980 (aged 18)	Hajduk Split
7	3MF	Mihael Mikić	(1980-01-06)6 January 1980 (aged 18)	Croatia Zagreb
8	3MF	Josip Balatinac	(1979-03-07)7 March 1979 (aged 19)	Osijek
9	4FW	Saša Bjelanović	(1979-06-11)11 June 1979 (aged 19)	Zadar
10	4FW	Zvonimir Deranja	(1979-09-22)22 September 1979 (aged 18)	Hajduk Split
11	4FW	Igor Budan	(1980-04-22)22 April 1980 (aged 18)	Rijeka
12	1GK	Hrvoje Sunara	(1979-08-04)4 August 1979 (aged 18)	Hajduk Split
13	2DF	Edo Vulić	(1979-12-07)7 December 1979 (aged 18)	Hajduk Split
14	3MF	Branko Banović	(1979-08-18)18 August 1979 (aged 18)	Croatia Zagreb
15	3MF	Ivan Režić	(1979-09-15)15 September 1979 (aged 18)	Varteks
16	3MF	Ivica Banović	(1980-08-02)2 August 1980 (aged 17)	NK Zagreb
17	4FW	Ivica Olić	(1979-09-14)14 September 1979 (aged 18)	Marsonia
18	4FW	Krunoslav Lovrek	(1979-09-11)11 September 1979 (aged 18)	NK Zagreb

Cyprus

Head coach: Chrysostomos Iakovou

England

Head coach: Howard Wilkinson

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Steve Simonsen	(1979-04-03)3 April 1979 (aged 19)	Tranmere Rovers
2	3MF	Curtis Woodhouse	(1980-04-17)17 April 1980 (aged 18)	Sheffield United
3	2DF	Michael Ball	(1979-10-02)2 October 1979 (aged 18)	Everton
4	3MF	Richard Cooper	(1979-09-27)27 September 1979 (aged 18)	Nottingham Forest
5	2DF	Jonathan Woodgate	(1980-01-22)22 January 1980 (aged 18)	Leeds United
6	2DF	Matthew Upson (Captain)	(1979-04-18)18 April 1979 (aged 19)	Arsenal
7	2DF	Andy Griffin	(1979-03-17)17 March 1979 (aged 19)	Stoke City
8	3MF	Paolo Vernazza	(1979-11-01)1 November 1979 (aged 18)	Arsenal
9	4FW	Lee Mathews	(1979-01-16)16 January 1979 (aged 19)	Leeds United
10	4FW	Danny Cadamarteri	(1979-10-12)12 October 1979 (aged 18)	Everton
11	3MF	Seth Johnson	(1979-03-12)12 March 1979 (aged 19)	Derby County
12	3MF	Anthony Ormerod	(1979-03-31)31 March 1979 (aged 19)	Middlesbrough
13	1GK	Paul Robinson	(1979-10-15)15 October 1979 (aged 18)	Leeds United
14	2DF	Luke Young	(1979-07-19)19 July 1979 (aged 19)	Tottenham Hotspur
15	2DF	Nick Fenton	(1979-11-23)23 November 1979 (aged 18)	Manchester City
16	3MF	John Piercy	(1979-09-18)18 September 1979 (aged 18)	Tottenham Hotspur
17	3MF	David Dunn	(1979-12-27)27 December 1979 (aged 18)	Blackburn Rovers
18	4FW	Alan Smith	(1980-10-28)28 October 1980 (aged 17)	Leeds United

Republic of Ireland

Head coach: Brian Kerr

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Alex O'Reilly	(1979-09-05)5 September 1979 (aged 18)	West Ham United
2	2DF	Thomas Heary	(1979-02-14)14 February 1979 (aged 19)	Huddersfield Town
3	2DF	Keith Doyle	(1979-07-20)20 July 1979 (aged 18)	St Patrick's Athletic
4	2DF	Richard Dunne	(1979-09-21)21 September 1979 (aged 18)	Everton
5	4FW	Gary Doherty	(1980-01-31)31 January 1980 (aged 18)	Luton Town
6	2DF	Jason Gavin	(1980-03-14)14 March 1980 (aged 18)	Middlesbrough
7	3MF	Stephen McPhail	(1979-12-09)9 December 1979 (aged 18)	Leeds United
8	4FW	Gerard Crossley	(1980-02-05)5 February 1980 (aged 18)	Celtic
9	2DF	Barry Quinn (Captain)	(1979-05-09)9 May 1979 (aged 19)	Coventry City
10	4FW	Robbie Keane	(1980-07-08)8 July 1980 (aged 18)	Wolverhampton Wanderers
11	3MF	Ronnie O'Brien	(1979-01-05)5 January 1979 (aged 19)	Middlesbrough
12	3MF	Alan Quinn	(1979-06-13)13 June 1979 (aged 19)	Sheffield Wednesday
13	3MF	Paul Donnelly	(1979-08-31)31 August 1979 (aged 18)	Leeds United
14	2DF	Ryan Casey	(1979-01-03)3 January 1979 (aged 19)	Swansea City
15	4FW	Liam George	(1979-02-02)2 February 1979 (aged 19)	Luton Town
16	1GK	Dean Delany	(1980-09-15)15 September 1980 (aged 17)	Everton
17	3MF	Richie Partridge	(1980-09-12)12 September 1980 (aged 17)	Liverpool
18	4FW	David Freeman	(1979-11-25)25 November 1979 (aged 18)	Nottingham Forest

References

UEFA European U-18 and U-19 Championship

Under-18 era, 1948–2001
FIFA Youth Tournament	England 1948 Netherlands 1949 Austria 1950 France 1951 Spain 1952 Belgium 1953 West Germany 1954
UEFA Youth Tournament	Italy 1955 Hungary 1956 Spain 1957 Luxembourg 1958 Bulgaria 1959 Austria 1960 Portugal 1961 Romania 1962 England 1963 Netherlands 1964 West Germany 1965 Yugoslavia 1966 Turkey 1967 France 1968 East Germany 1969 Scotland 1970 Czechoslovakia 1971 Spain 1972 Italy 1973 Sweden 1974 Switzerland 1975 Hungary 1976 Belgium 1977 Poland 1978 Austria 1979 East Germany 1980
UEFA U-18 Championships	West Germany 1981 Finland 1982 England 1983 Soviet Union 1984 Yugoslavia 1986 Czechoslovakia 1988 Hungary 1990 Germany 1992 England 1993 Spain 1994 Greece 1995 France 1996 Iceland 1997 Cyprus 1998 Sweden 1999 Germany 2000 Finland 2001
Qualification	1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Squads	1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Under-19 era, 2002–present
UEFA U-19 Championships	Norway 2002 Liechtenstein 2003 Switzerland 2004 Northern Ireland 2005 Poland 2006 Austria 2007 Czech Republic 2008 Ukraine 2009 France 2010 Romania 2011 Estonia 2012 Lithuania 2013 Hungary 2014 Greece 2015 Germany 2016 Georgia 2017 Finland 2018 Armenia 2019 ~~Northern Ireland 2020~~ ~~Romania 2021~~ Slovakia 2022 Malta 2023 Northern Ireland 2024 Romania 2025 Wales 2026 Israel 2027
Qualification	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 (First, Elite) 2007 (First, Elite) 2008 (First, Elite) 2009 (First, Elite) 2010 (First, Elite) 2011 (First, Elite) 2012 (First, Elite) 2013 (First, Elite) 2014 (First, Elite) 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 ~~2021~~ 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Squads	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

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