U21 daily bulletin - Tuesday

The UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Portugal has received an emphatic vote of confidence from the football public with attendances already rocketing past the total number of spectators at the last U21 finals in 2004.

Attendance figures for the tournament in northern Portugal surpassed the 111,000 mark set in 2004 following Sunday night's third round of matches in Group A – France v Serbia and Montenegro, and Germany v Portugal being the ninth and tenth games of these finals. It took the 2004 championship in Germany 16 matches to achieve its total, and although Portugal will witness one game less with 15 fixtures overall – the third-placed play-off having been discarded – an U21 finals record is guaranteed. Monday's two decisive Group B encounters then left the tally of spectators so far at 135,348.

For each game, the attendances have been as follows:
SCG v GER: 3,245 (Barcelos)
POR v FRA: 26,875 (Braga)
UKR v NED: 4,250 (Agueda)
ITA v DEN: 11,250 (Aveiro)
FRA v GER: 8,023 (Guimaraes)
POR v SCG: 9,968 (Barcelos)
DEN v NED: 8,021 (Aveiro)
ITA v UKR: 6,873 (Agueda)
FRA v SCG: 8,585 (Braga)
GER v POR: 28,174 (Guimaraes)
DEN v UKR: 5,784 (Agueda)
NED v ITA: 14,300 (Aveiro)

Tournament schedule: France v Netherlands (Braga)and Ukraine v Serbia and Montenegro (Aveiro) comprise the semi-finals fixtures on Thursday. Porto will stage the final of the eight-team tournament at the Estádio do Bessa Século XXI on Sunday 4 June.

Competition format: Amendments have been made since the initial publication of the 2004/06 UEFA European Under-21 Championship competition regulations. As per the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee, for both the semi-finals and final, if the result is a draw at the end of normal playing time, two 15-minute periods of extra time will be played. If the two teams are still equal after extra time, the winners will be determined by kicks from the penalty mark.

Commercial programme: This is the first tournament in the new UEFA EUROTOP programme, and the commercial set-up for this event has ten global sponsors, supported by four local Portuguese companies, who are all running extensive promotional activities to bring the event to the fans. The ten global sponsors are adidas, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Continental, CTT, Ford, JVC, MasterCard, McDonald’s and Montepio, while Sical, SportZone, TMN and Galp comprise the four local partners.

Man of the Match: The following players picked up Carlsberg Man of the Match awards in the group stage:
SCG v GER: Lukas Sinkiewicz (Germany)
POR v FRA: Jimmy Briand (France)
UKR v NED: Artem Milevskiy (Ukraine)
ITA v DEN: Rasmus Würtz (Denmark)
FRA v GER: Rio Antonio Mavuba (France)
POR v SCG: Milan Stepanov (Serbia and Montenegro)
DEN v NED: Thomas Kahlenberg (Denmark)
ITA v UKR: Giorgio Chiellini (Italy)
FRA v SCG: Lassana Diarra (France)
GER v POR: Nélson (Portugal)
DEN v UKR: Artem Milevskiy (Ukraine)
NED v ITA: Daniël de Ridder (Netherlands)

Top scorer: Denmark's Thomas Kahlenberg tops the scoring list with three goals from as many matches, although the Scandinavian side are now eliminated. Artem Milevskiy and Ruslan Fomin have each scored twice for Ukraine. Nineteen players have scored one goal, while there have also been two own goals - both from Portugal.

Fair Play: The Netherlands led the Fair Play ranking after five days of matches in the competition, closely followed by Denmark and France. The full ranking is as follows:

NED: 8.428 (two matches played)
DEN: 8.142 (two matches played)
FRA: 7.904 (three matches played)
GER: 7.892 (three matches played)
UKR: 7.875 (two matches played)
ITA: 7.285 (two matches played)
SCG: 7.238 (three matches played)
POR: 6.916 (three matches played)

Bookings list: All yellow cards have been wiped out for the knockout stage and as no players received red cards in the final round of group matches, all are eligible for selection for the semi-finals.

uefa.com coverage: uefa.com, fully developed in-house in seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian), is offering extensive content from UEFA's flagship youth tournament - from exclusive interviews and news to practical information for supporters, scouts and the international media. For this competition, uefa.com is using its popular Match Centre application to provide up-to-date information from the games as they happen, with goal updates, statistics, reports, reviews and news. There will also be live audio from all 15 finals matches.

Quicklinks: A media information guide is being updated daily on uefa.com, providing times of press conferences and training. It can be accessed by clicking here. The full addresses of the tournament base in Porto and each of the teams' hotels can be found here. Information for scouts is available here.