1948 1. ENGLAND
2. Netherlands
3. Belgium
4. Italy
1949 1. FRANCE
2. Netherlands
3. Belgium
4. Northern Ireland
1950 1. AUSTRIA
2. France
3. Netherlands
4. Luxembourg
1951 1. YUGOSLAVIA
2. Austria
3. Belgium
4. Northern Ireland
1952 1. SPAIN
2. Belgium
3. Austria
4. England
1953 1. HUNGARY
2. Yugoslavia
3. Turkey
4. Spain
1954 1. SPAIN
2. West Germany
3. Argentina
4. Turkey
1955 5 group winners: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Romania
1956 4 group winners: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Romania
1957 1. AUSTRIA
2. Spain
3. France
Italy
1958 1. ITALY
2. England
3. France
4. Romania
1959 1. BULGARIA
2. Italy
3. Hungary
4. East Germany
1960 1. HUNGARY
2. Romania
3. Portugal
4. Austria
1961 1. PORTUGAL
2. Poland
3. West Germany
4. Spain
1962 1. ROMANIA
2. Yugoslavia
3. Czechoslavakia
4. Turkey
1963 1. ENGLAND
2. Northern Ireland
3. Scotland
4. Bulgaria
1964 1. ENGLAND
2. Spain
3. Portugal
4. Scotland
1965 1. EAST GERMANY
2. England
3. Czechoslovakia
4. Italy
1966 1. SOVIET UNION
ITALY
3. Yugoslavia
4. Spain
1967 1. SOVIET UNION
2. England
3. Turkey
4. France
1968 1. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
2. France
3. Portugal
4. Bulgaria
1969 1. BULGARIA
2. East Germany
3. Soviet Union
4. Scotland
1970 1. EAST GERMANY
2. Netherlands
3. Scotland
4. France
1971 1. ENGLAND
2. Portugal
3. East Germany
4. Soviet Union
1972 1. ENGLAND
2. West Germany
3. Poland
4. Spain
1973 1. ENGLAND
2. East Germany
3. Italy
4. Bulgaria
1974 1. BULGARIA
2. Yugoslavia
3. Scotland
4. Greece
1975 1. ENGLAND
2. Finland
3. Hungary
4. Turkey
1976 1. SOVIET UNION
2. Hungary
3. Spain
4. France
1977 1. BELGIUM
2. Bulgaria
3. Soviet Union
4. West Germany
1978 1. SOVIET UNION
2. Yugoslavia
3. Poland
4. Scotland
1979 1. YUGOSLAVIA
2. Bulgaria
3. England
4. France
1980 1. ENGLAND
2. Poland
3. Italy
4. Netherlands
8 England (1948, 1963, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980) 4 Soviet Union (1966, 1967, 1976, 1978) 3 Bulgaria (1959, 1969, 1974) 2 Austria (1950, 1957) East Germany (1965, 1970) Hungary (1953, 1960) Italy (1958, 1966) Spain (1952, 1954) Yugoslavia (1951, 1979) 1 Belgium (1977) Czechoslovakia (1968) France (1949) Portugal (1961) Romania (1962)
From 1981 the tournament turned into the European U-18 championship.
1981 1. WEST GERMANY
2. Poland
3. France
4. Spain
1982 1. SCOTLAND
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Soviet Union
4. Poland
1983 1. FRANCE
2. Czechoslovakia
3. England
4. Italy
1984 1. HUNGARY
2. Soviet Union
3. Poland
4. Ireland
From 1984 the tournament was stretched over two years.
1986 1. EAST GERMANY
2. Italy
3. West Germany
4. Scotland
1988 1. SOVIET UNION
2. Portugal
3. East Germany
4. Spain
1990 1. SOVIET UNION
2. Portugal
3. Spain
4. England
1992 1. TURKEY
2. Portugal
3. Norway
4. England
From 1992 onwards the tournament has again been held annually.
1993 1. ENGLAND
2. Turkey
3. Spain
4. Portugal
1994 1. PORTUGAL
2. Germany
3. Spain
4. Netherlands
1995 1. SPAIN
2. Italy
3. Greece
4. Netherlands
1996 1. FRANCE
2. Spain
3. England
4. Belgium
1997 1. FRANCE
2. Portugal
3. Spain
4. Ireland
1998 1. IRELAND
2. Germany
3. Croatia
4. Portugal
1999 1. PORTUGAL
2. Italy
3. Ireland
4. Greece
2000 1. FRANCE
2. Ukraine
3. Germany
4. Czech Republic
2001 1. POLAND
2. Czech Republic
3. Spain
4. Yugoslavia
From 2002 onwards the age group was changed to U-19.
2002 1. SPAIN
2. Germany
3. Slovakia
4. Ireland
2003 1. ITALY
2. Portugal
3. Austria
4. Czech Republic
2004 1. SPAIN
2. Turkey
3-4. Switzerland, Ukraine
2005 1. FRANCE
2. England
3-4. Germany, Serbia and Montenegro
2006 1. SPAIN
2. Scotland
3-4. Czech Republic, Austria
2007 1. SPAIN
2. Greece
3-4. France, Germany
2008 1. GERMANY
2. Italy
3-4. Czech Republic, Hungary
2009 1. UKRAINE
2. England
3-4. France, Serbia
2010 1. FRANCE
2. Spain
3-4. Croatia, England
2011 1. SPAIN
2. Czech Republic
3-4. Ireland, Serbia
2012 1. SPAIN
2. Greece
3-4. France, England
2013 1. SERBIA
2. France
3-4. Spain, Portugal
2014 1. GERMANY
2. Portugal
3-4. Austria, Serbia
2015 1. SPAIN
2. Russia
3-4. France, Greece
2016 1. FRANCE
2. Italy
3-4. England, Portugal
2017 1. ENGLAND
2. Portugal
3-4. Czech Republic, Netherlands
2018 1. PORTUGAL
2. Italy
3-4. France, Ukraine
2019 1. SPAIN
2. Portugal
3-4. France, Ireland
2020 cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
2021 cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
2022 1. ENGLAND
2. Israel
3-4. France, Italy
2023 1. ITALY
2. Portugal
3-4. Norway, Spain
2024 1. SPAIN
2. France
3-4. Italy, Ukraine
2025 1. NETHERLANDS
2. Spain
3-4. Germany, Romania
10 Spain (1995, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2024) 7 France (1983, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016) 3 England (1993, 2017, 2022) (West) Germany (1981, 2008, 2014) Portugal (1994, 1999, 2018) 2 Italy (2003, 2023) Soviet Union (1988, 1990) 1 East Germany (1985) Hungary (1984) Ireland (1998) Netherlands (2025) Poland (2001) Scotland (1982) Serbia (2013) Turkey (1992) Ukraine (2009)
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