2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

The 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 14th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Germany between 27 May and 8 June 2004.

Italy won the competition for the fifth time. Italy's Alberto Gilardino won the Golden Player award.

The top three teams in this competition qualified for Athens 2004 Olympics, along with hosts Greece U21s.

Qualification
The 48 national teams were divided into ten groups (two groups of four + eight groups of 5). The records of the ten group runners-up were then compared. The top six joined the ten winners in a play-off for the eight finals spots. One of the eight qualifiers was then chosen to host the remaining fixtures.

Goalscorers

 * 4 goals
 * 🇮🇹 Alberto Gilardino
 * 🇸🇪 Johan Elmander
 * 3 goals
 * Hugo Almeida
 * 🇸🇪 Markus Rosenberg
 * 2 goals
 * 🇩🇪 Benjamin Auer
 * 🇮🇹 Daniele De Rossi
 * 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Sculli
 * Danko Lazović
 * 1 goal
 * 🇧🇾 Alexander Hleb
 * 🇧🇾 Raman Kirenkin
 * 🇧🇾 Pavel Kirylchyk
 * 🇧🇾 Aleh Shkabara
 * Niko Kranjčar
 * Mario Lučić
 * Eduardo da Silva
 * 🇩🇪 Thomas Hitzlsperger
 * 🇩🇪 Bastian Schweinsteiger
 * 🇮🇹 Cesare Bovo
 * 🇮🇹 Giampiero Pinzi


 * 1 goal, cont.
 * Carlitos
 * Luis Lourenço
 * Carlos Martins
 * Pedro Oliveira
 * Jorge Ribeiro
 * Hugo Viana
 * Branislav Ivanović
 * Goran Lovre
 * Miloš Marić
 * Dejan Milovanović
 * Simon Vukčević
 * 🇸🇪 Stefan Ishizaki
 * 🇸🇪 Jon Jönsson
 * 🇸🇪 Babis Stefanidis
 * Tranquillo Barnetta
 * David Degen
 * Baykal Kulaksızoğlu
 * Johan Vonlanthen


 * Own goals
 * Kim Jaggy (for Sweden)

Medal table and Olympic qualifiers
See Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Greece (as hosts), Italy, Serbia & Montenegro and Portugal qualify for the Olympic games finals.