1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads

The following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998.

Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.

Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.

Germany

Coach: Hannes Löhr^[1]^[2]^[3]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Simon Jentzsch	(1976-05-04)4 May 1976 (aged 22)	Karlsruher SC
2	2DF	Frank Baumann	(1975-10-29)29 October 1975 (aged 22)	1. FC Nürnberg
3	2DF	Lars Müller	(1976-03-22)22 March 1976 (aged 22)	KFC Uerdingen 05
4	3MF	Michael Ballack	(1976-09-26)26 September 1976 (aged 21)	1. FC Kaiserslautern
5	2DF	Markus Reiter	(1976-08-10)10 August 1976 (aged 21)	MSV Duisburg
6	2DF	Christoph Metzelder	(1980-11-05)5 November 1980 (aged 17)	Preußen Münster
7	2DF	Mustafa Doğan	(1976-01-01)1 January 1976 (aged 22)	Fenerbahçe
8	4FW	Miroslav Klose	(1978-06-09)9 June 1978 (aged 19)	08 Homburg
9	3MF	Christian Fährmann	(1975-10-05)5 October 1975 (aged 22)	Hertha BSC
10	3MF	Danny Schwarz	(1975-05-11)11 May 1975 (aged 23)	VfB Stuttgart
11	4FW	Markus Schroth	(1975-01-25)25 January 1975 (aged 23)	Karlsruher SC
12	1GK	Timo Hildebrand	(1979-04-05)5 April 1979 (aged 19)	VfB Stuttgart
13	3MF	Kai Michalke	(1976-04-05)5 April 1976 (aged 22)	VfL Bochum
14	2DF	Thomas Cichon	(1976-07-09)9 July 1976 (aged 21)	1. FC Köln
15	4FW	Thomas Brdarić	(1975-01-23)23 January 1975 (aged 23)	Fortuna Köln
16	2DF	Uwe Ehlers	(1975-03-08)8 March 1975 (aged 23)	Hansa Rostock
17	3MF	Lars Ricken (c)	(1976-07-10)10 July 1976 (aged 21)	Borussia Dortmund
18	3MF	Andreas Neuendorf	(1975-02-09)9 February 1975 (aged 23)	Hertha BSC

Greece

Coach: Ioannis Kollias^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
2	2DF	Georgios Alexopoulos	(1977-02-07)7 February 1977 (aged 21)	Panathinaikos
7	3MF	Vasilios Lakis	(1976-09-10)10 September 1976 (aged 21)	Paniliakos
4	3MF	Giorgos Karagounis (c)	(1977-03-06)6 March 1977 (aged 21)	Apollon Smyrnis
5	2DF	Traianos Dellas	(1976-01-31)31 January 1976 (aged 22)	Sheffield United
6	3MF	Angelos Basinas	(1976-01-03)3 January 1976 (aged 22)	Panathinaikos
3	2DF	Paraskevas Antzas	(1977-08-18)18 August 1977 (aged 20)	Skoda Xanthi
8	4FW	Nikos Liberopoulos	(1975-08-04)4 August 1975 (aged 22)	Panathinaikos
9	4FW	Sotiris Konstantinidis	(1977-04-19)19 April 1977 (aged 21)	Iraklis
10	3MF	Giorgos Koltzos	(1976-09-13)13 September 1976 (aged 21)	Athinaikos
13	2DF	Georgios Koulakiotis	(1977-05-05)5 May 1977 (aged 21)	PAOK
12	1GK	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos	(1976-08-07)7 August 1976 (aged 21)	Olympiacos
1	1GK	Sotiris Liberopoulos	(1977-06-29)29 June 1977 (aged 20)	Ethnikos Piraeus
14	2DF	Dimitris Mavrogenidis	(1976-12-23)23 December 1976 (aged 21)	Olympiacos
15	4FW	Stavros Labriakos	(1975-11-30)30 November 1975 (aged 22)	Apollon Smyrnis
16	3MF	Ieroklis Stoltidis	(1975-02-02)2 February 1975 (aged 23)	Iraklis
17	2DF	Giannis Goumas	(1975-05-24)24 May 1975 (aged 22)	Panathinaikos
18	3MF	Stelios Sfakianakis	(1976-03-19)19 March 1976 (aged 22)	Olympiacos
19	2DF	Athanasios Kostoulas	(1976-03-24)24 March 1976 (aged 22)	Kalamata
20	3MF	Pantelis Konstantinidis	(1975-08-16)16 August 1975 (aged 22)	Apollon Smyrnis
11	4FW	Manolis Dermitzakis	(1976-11-24)24 November 1976 (aged 21)	OFI Crete

Netherlands

Coach: Hans Dorjee^[4]^[7]^[8]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Stefan Postma	(1976-10-06)6 October 1976 (aged 21)	Utrecht
2	2DF	Jürgen Dirkx	(1975-08-15)15 August 1975 (aged 22)	Fortuna Sittard
3	2DF	Tieme Klompe	(1976-04-08)8 April 1976 (aged 22)	Heerenveen
4	2DF	Mario Melchiot	(1976-11-04)4 November 1976 (aged 21)	Ajax
5	2DF	Patrick Paauwe	(1975-12-27)27 December 1975 (aged 22)	Fortuna Sittard
6	3MF	George Boateng	(1975-09-05)5 September 1975 (aged 22)	Feyenoord
7	3MF	John de Jong	(1977-03-08)8 March 1977 (aged 21)	Utrecht
8	3MF	Robert Fuchs	(1975-02-15)15 February 1975 (aged 23)	De Graafschap
9	3MF	Kiki Musampa	(1977-07-20)20 July 1977 (aged 20)	Bordeaux
10	3MF	Niels Oude Kamphuis	(1977-11-14)14 November 1977 (aged 20)	Twente
11	4FW	Arnold Bruggink	(1977-07-24)24 July 1977 (aged 20)	PSV
12	2DF	Fernando Ricksen	(1976-07-27)27 July 1976 (aged 21)	Fortuna Sittard
13	2DF	Jochem van der Hoeven	(1975-10-05)5 October 1975 (aged 22)	Vitesse
14	3MF	Martijn Reuser	(1975-02-01)1 February 1975 (aged 23)	Vitesse
15	4FW	Roy Makaay (c)	(1975-03-09)9 March 1975 (aged 23)	Tenerife
16	1GK	Jim van Fessem	(1975-08-07)7 August 1975 (aged 22)	Willem II
17	3MF	Menno Willems	(1977-03-10)10 March 1977 (aged 21)	Vitesse
18	3MF	Nordin Wooter	(1976-08-24)24 August 1976 (aged 21)	Real Zaragoza
19	4FW	Ruud van Nistelrooy	(1976-07-01)1 July 1976 (aged 21)	Heerenveen
20	3MF	Mark van Bommel	(1977-04-22)22 April 1977 (aged 21)	Fortuna Sittard

Norway

Coach: Nils Johan Semb^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Espen Baardsen	(1977-12-07)7 December 1977 (aged 20)	Tottenham Hotspur
2	2DF	Odd Arne Espevoll	(1976-06-05)5 June 1976 (aged 21)	Viking
3	3MF	Trond Andersen	(1975-01-06)6 January 1975 (aged 23)	Molde
4	2DF	Knut Henry Haraldsen	(1976-12-14)14 December 1976 (aged 21)	Vålerenga
5	2DF	Vegard Heggem	(1975-07-13)13 July 1975 (aged 22)	Rosenborg
6	2DF	Jon Inge Høiland	(1977-09-20)20 September 1977 (aged 20)	Kongsvinger
7	2DF	Frode Kippe	(1978-01-17)17 January 1978 (aged 20)	Lillestrøm
8	3MF	Eirik Bakke	(1977-09-13)13 September 1977 (aged 20)	Sogndal
9	3MF	Karl Oskar Fjørtoft	(1975-07-26)26 July 1975 (aged 22)	Molde
10	4FW	Thorstein Helstad	(1977-04-28)28 April 1977 (aged 21)	Brann
11	4FW	Steffen Iversen	(1976-11-10)10 November 1976 (aged 21)	Tottenham Hotspur
12	1GK	Terje Skjeldestad	(1978-01-18)18 January 1978 (aged 20)	Sogndal
13	3MF	Rune Hagen	(1975-07-20)20 July 1975 (aged 22)	Strømsgodset
14	2DF	Hai Ngoc Tran	(1975-01-10)10 January 1975 (aged 23)	Vålerenga
15	4FW	Andreas Lund	(1975-05-07)7 May 1975 (aged 23)	Start
16	2DF	Steinar Pedersen	(1975-06-06)6 June 1975 (aged 22)	Borussia Dortmund
17	2DF	Tommy Stenersen	(1976-11-23)23 November 1976 (aged 21)	Stabæk
18	3MF	Daniel Berg Hestad (c)	(1975-07-30)30 July 1975 (aged 22)	Molde
19	3MF	Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim	(1975-01-14)14 January 1975 (aged 23)	Viking
20	4FW	Erik Nevland	(1977-11-10)10 November 1977 (aged 20)	Viking

Romania

Coach: Victor Pițurcă^[2]^[7]^[12]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Bogdan Lobonț	(1978-01-18)18 January 1978 (aged 20)	Rapid București
2	2DF	Cosmin Contra	(1975-12-15)15 December 1975 (aged 22)	Dinamo București
3	2DF	Iulian Miu	(1976-01-21)21 January 1976 (aged 22)	Steaua București
4	2DF	Adrian Iencsi	(1975-03-15)15 March 1975 (aged 23)	Rapid București
5	2DF	Erik Lincar	(1978-10-16)16 October 1978 (aged 19)	Steaua București
6	3MF	Mihai Tararache	(1977-10-25)25 October 1977 (aged 20)	Dinamo București
7	3MF	Florentin Petre	(1976-01-15)15 January 1976 (aged 22)	Dinamo București
8	3MF	Cătălin Hîldan	(1976-02-03)3 February 1976 (aged 22)	Dinamo București
9	4FW	Ionel Dănciulescu	(1976-12-06)6 December 1976 (aged 21)	Steaua București
10	3MF	Ionuț Luțu (c)	(1975-08-03)3 August 1975 (aged 22)	Universitatea Craiova
11	2DF	Cornel Frăsineanu	(1976-08-20)20 August 1976 (aged 21)	Universitatea Craiova
12	1GK	Tiberiu Lung	(1978-12-24)24 December 1978 (aged 19)	Universitatea Craiova
13	3MF	Eugen Trică	(1976-08-05)5 August 1976 (aged 21)	Universitatea Craiova
14	3MF	Cătălin Liță	(1975-03-23)23 March 1975 (aged 23)	Național București
15	3MF	Cătălin Munteanu	(1979-01-26)26 January 1979 (aged 19)	Steaua București
16	3MF	Laurențiu Reghecampf	(1975-09-19)19 September 1975 (aged 22)	Steaua București
17	3MF	Robert Vancea	(1976-09-28)28 September 1976 (aged 21)	Universitatea Craiova
18	4FW	Adrian Mihalcea	(1976-05-24)24 May 1976 (aged 21)	Dinamo București
19	2DF	Marius Iordache	(1978-10-08)8 October 1978 (aged 19)	Universitatea Craiova
20	4FW	Cristian Ciocoiu	(1975-11-23)23 November 1975 (aged 22)	Steaua București

Russia

Coach: Mikhail Gershkovich^[12]^[13]^[14]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Mikhail Kharin	(1976-06-17)17 June 1976 (aged 21)	Torpedo Moscow
2	2DF	Andrei Solomatin (c)	(1975-09-09)9 September 1975 (aged 22)	Lokomotiv Moscow
3	2DF	Dmitri Davydov	(1975-01-22)22 January 1975 (aged 23)	Zenit Saint Petersburg
4	3MF	Andrei Krivov	(1976-09-24)24 September 1976 (aged 21)	Rotor Volgograd
5	2DF	Oleg Kornaukhov	(1975-01-14)14 January 1975 (aged 23)	CSKA Moscow
6	2DF	Vadim Evseev	(1976-01-08)8 January 1976 (aged 22)	Spartak Moscow
7	2DF	Sergei Temryukov	(1978-08-01)1 August 1978 (aged 19)	PSV
8	4FW	Erik Korchagin	(1979-01-16)16 January 1979 (aged 19)	Saint-Étienne
9	4FW	Dmitri Shoukov	(1975-09-26)26 September 1975 (aged 22)	Vitesse
10	3MF	Vladimir But	(1977-09-07)7 September 1977 (aged 20)	Borussia Dortmund
11	3MF	Denis Laktionov	(1977-09-04)4 September 1977 (aged 20)	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
12	1GK	Sergey Armishev	(1976-04-29)29 April 1976 (aged 22)	Uralan Elista
13	3MF	Mikhail Osinov	(1975-10-08)8 October 1975 (aged 22)	Maccabi Tel Aviv
15	4FW	Maksim Buznikin	(1977-03-01)1 March 1977 (aged 21)	Spartak Moscow
14	2DF	Yevgeni Korablyov	(1978-10-29)29 October 1978 (aged 19)	FC Dynamo Moscow
16	3MF	Aleksandr Berketov	(1975-12-24)24 December 1975 (aged 22)	Rotor Volgograd
17	3MF	Aleksei Bakharev	(1976-10-12)12 October 1976 (aged 21)	Rotor Volgograd
18	3MF	Yegor Titov	(1976-05-29)29 May 1976 (aged 21)	Spartak Moscow

Spain

Coach: Iñaki Sáez^[5]^[10]^[13]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Francesc Arnau	(1975-05-23)23 May 1975 (aged 23)	Barcelona
2	3MF	Felipe Guréndez	(1975-11-18)18 November 1975 (aged 22)	Osasuna
3	2DF	Sergio Ballesteros	(1975-09-04)4 September 1975 (aged 22)	Tenerife
4	2DF	Aitor López Rekarte	(1975-08-18)18 August 1975 (aged 22)	Real Sociedad
5	2DF	José García Calvo	(1975-04-01)1 April 1975 (aged 23)	Real Valladolid
6	2DF	Míchel Salgado	(1975-10-22)22 October 1975 (aged 22)	Celta Vigo
7	3MF	Marcos Vales (c)	(1975-04-05)5 April 1975 (aged 23)	Real Zaragoza
8	3MF	Ito	(1975-01-21)21 January 1975 (aged 23)	Celta Vigo
9	3MF	Benjamín Zarandona^[15]	(1976-03-02)2 March 1976 (aged 22)	Real Valladolid
10	3MF	Josico	(1975-01-06)6 January 1975 (aged 23)	Albacete
11	4FW	Miguel Ángel Angulo	(1977-06-23)23 June 1977 (aged 20)	Valencia
12	2DF	Luis Cuartero	(1975-08-17)17 August 1975 (aged 22)	Real Zaragoza
13	1GK	Esteban	(1975-06-27)27 June 1975 (aged 22)	Real Oviedo
14	3MF	Guti	(1976-10-31)31 October 1976 (aged 21)	Real Madrid
15	4FW	Iván Pérez	(1976-01-29)29 January 1976 (aged 22)	Betis
16	3MF	Roger	(1976-12-15)15 December 1976 (aged 21)	Barcelona
17	3MF	Víctor Sánchez	(1976-02-23)23 February 1976 (aged 22)	Real Madrid
18	2DF	José Félix Guerrero	(1975-08-23)23 August 1975 (aged 22)	Racing Santander
19	4FW	Fernando Morientes	(1976-04-05)5 April 1976 (aged 22)	Real Madrid
20	3MF	Juan Carlos Valerón	(1975-06-17)17 June 1975 (aged 22)	Mallorca

Sweden

Coach: Lars-Olof Mattsson^[3]^[9]^[14]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Eddie Gustafsson	(1977-01-31)31 January 1977 (aged 21)	IFK Norrköping
2	2DF	Alexander Östlund	(1978-11-02)2 November 1978 (aged 19)	AIK
3	2DF	Erik Edman	(1978-11-11)11 November 1978 (aged 19)	Helsingborgs IF
4	3MF	Anders Svensson	(1976-07-17)17 July 1976 (aged 21)	Elfsborg
5	2DF	Klebér Saarenpää	(1975-12-14)14 December 1975 (aged 22)	IFK Norrköping
6	3MF	Daniel Andersson (c)	(1977-08-28)28 August 1977 (aged 20)	Malmö FF
7	2DF	Olof Mellberg	(1977-09-03)3 September 1977 (aged 20)	AIK
8	4FW	Yksel Osmanovski	(1977-02-24)24 February 1977 (aged 21)	Malmö FF
9	4FW	Ola Johansson	(1975-03-28)28 March 1975 (aged 23)	Västra Frölunda IF
10	3MF	Erik Johansson	(1976-05-18)18 May 1976 (aged 22)	Örgryte IS
11	4FW	Stefan Bärlin	(1976-05-31)31 May 1976 (aged 21)	IFK Göteborg
12	1GK	Rami Shaaban	(1975-06-30)30 June 1975 (aged 22)	Nacka FF
13	2DF	Karl Corneliusson	(1976-11-17)17 November 1976 (aged 21)	Örgryte IS
14	2DF	Tommy Jönsson	(1976-03-04)4 March 1976 (aged 22)	Malmö FF
15	4FW	Jörgen Pettersson	(1975-09-29)29 September 1975 (aged 22)	Borussia Mönchengladbach
16	3MF	Joakim Persson	(1975-04-03)3 April 1975 (aged 23)	IFK Göteborg
17	3MF	Martin Åslund	(1976-11-10)10 November 1976 (aged 21)	IFK Norrköping
18	3MF	Freddie Ljungberg	(1977-04-16)16 April 1977 (aged 21)	Halmstads BK
19	2DF	Daniel Majstorović	(1977-04-05)5 April 1977 (aged 21)	SC Fortuna Köln

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^ Capped for Equatorial Guinea

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[15] Capped for Equatorial Guinea

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