UEFA Euro 1992

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1992 UEFA European Football Championship
Europamästerskapet i fotboll
Sverige 1992
UEFA Euro 1992 logo.svg
Small is Beautiful
Tournament details
Host countrySweden
Dates10–26 June
Teams8
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
ChampionsFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark (1st title)
Runners-upFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored32 (2.13 per match)
Attendance430,111 (28,674 per match)
Top scorer(s) Flag of Denmark.svg Henrik Larsen
Flag of Germany.svg Karl-Heinz Riedle
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dennis Bergkamp
Flag of Sweden.svg Tomas Brolin
(3 goals each)
1988
1996

The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA.

Contents

Denmark won the 1992 championship, having qualified only after Yugoslavia was disqualified as a result of the breakup of the country and the ensuing warfare there. Eight national teams contested the final tournament. [1]

The CIS national football team (Commonwealth of Independent States), representing the recently dissolved Soviet Union, whose national team had qualified for the tournament, were present at the tournament. It was also the first major tournament in which the reunified Germany (who were beaten 2–0 by Denmark in the final) had competed.

It was the last tournament with only eight participants, to award the winner of a match with only two points, and before the introduction of the back-pass rule, the latter of which was brought in immediately after the tournament was completed. When the next competition was held in 1996, 16 teams were involved and were awarded three points for a win.

Bid process

On 16 December 1988, following a decision made by the UEFA Executive Committee, Sweden was chosen over Spain to host the event. [2] Spain was at a disadvantage as they had already been chosen to host the EXPO 1992 in Seville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. [2] [3]

Summary

Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final stage; Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the event. [4] The Soviet Union qualified for the final tournament shortly before the break-up of the country, and took part in the tournament under the banner of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), [5] before the former Soviet republics formed their own national teams after the competition. The CIS team represented the following former Soviet nations: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, and Tajikistan. Four out of 15 ex-republics were not members of the CIS: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania did not send their players; Georgia was not a member of the CIS at the time, but Georgian Kakhaber Tskhadadze was a part of the squad.

Originally, Yugoslavia qualified for the final stage and were about to participate as FR Yugoslavia, but due to the Yugoslav Wars, the team was disqualified and Denmark, as the runners-up from Yugoslavia's qualifying group, was invited to take part instead. [6] After a draw with England and a loss to host nation Sweden, Denmark beat France in their final group match to qualify for the semi-finals, where they faced the reigning European champions, the Netherlands. Denmark led 2–1 going into the last five minutes, but a Frank Rijkaard equaliser meant the game went to a penalty shoot-out; Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel saved Marco van Basten's kick, giving Denmark a 5–4 win on penalties and a place in the final against the reigning world champions, Germany. [7] Denmark won the final 2–0 with goals from John Jensen and Kim Vilfort in either half to claim their first European title. [8]

Qualification

Scotland and the hosts Sweden made their respective debuts despite having already made many appearances at the World Cup. France qualified for the first Euro in which they were not the hosts. They played after missing the previous tournament.

As of 2024, this was the last time the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia), Italy, Portugal and Spain failed to qualify for the European Championship finals.

Qualified teams

TeamQualified asQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament [upper-alpha 1]
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Host16 December 19880 (debut)
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France Group 1 winner12 October 19912 ( 1960 , 1984 )
Flag of England.svg  England Group 7 winner13 November 19913 (1968, 1980, 1988)
Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS [upper-alpha 2] Group 3 winner [upper-alpha 3] 13 November 19915 ( 1960 , 1964, 1968, 1972, 1988)
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Group 2 winner13 November 19910 (debut)
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [upper-alpha 4] Group 5 winner20 November 19915 ( 1972 , 1976, 1980 , 1984, 1988 )
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Group 6 winner4 December 19913 (1976, 1980, 1988 )
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Group 4 runner-up [upper-alpha 5] 31 May 19923 (1964, 1984, 1988)
  1. Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
  2. From 1960 to 1988, CIS competed as the Soviet Union.
  3. Replaced the Soviet Union.
  4. From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed as West Germany.
  5. Replaced FR Yugoslavia (after qualifying as Yugoslavia), who were subject to sanctions under UN Security Council Resolution 757 and thus banned from appearing. [9]

Final draw

The draw for the final tournament took place on 17 January 1992 in Gothenburg. Only two teams were seeded: Sweden (as hosts) and the Netherlands (as holders). [10] [11] The remaining six teams were all unseeded and could be drawn in any group. Months after the draw, Yugoslavia was banned from participating and replaced by Denmark, which had come second in the qualifying group.

In the draw procedure, the unseeded teams were drawn one by one. The first two were placed in position 4 of each group, the next two in position 3, and the last 2 in position 2. The two seeded teams were then drawn and placed consecutively into position 1 of the groups.

Pot 1: Seeded teamsPot 2: Unseeded teams
  1. Hosts Sweden were automatically assigned to position A1.
  2. Defending champions the Netherlands were automatically assigned to position B1.
  3. Yugoslavia were to participate in the final tournament as FR Yugoslavia. However, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was placed under sanctions on 30 May 1992 by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 after the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars. [9] FIFA and UEFA therefore suspended FR Yugoslavia from competitive football on 31 May 1992, meaning they could not participate in the final tournament. Denmark instead took the spot at the final tournament.

The draw resulted in the following groups: [12]

Group A
PosTeam
A1Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
A2Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France
A3Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
A4Flag of England.svg  England
Group B
PosTeam
B1Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
B2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
B3Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS
B4Flag of Germany.svg  Germany

Venues

Gothenburg Stockholm
Ullevi Råsunda Stadium
Capacity: 44,000Capacity: 40,000
Nyaullevi.jpg Rasunda Stadium.jpg
Malmö Norrköping
Malmö Stadion Idrottsparken
Capacity: 30,000Capacity: 23,000
Malmo stadion.jpg Norrkopings idrottspark.jpg

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players.

Match ball

Adidas Etrusco Unico was used as the official match ball of the tournament. The ball was previously used in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Match officials

CountryRefereeLinesmenMatches refereed
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Hubert Forstinger Johann MöstlAlois Pemmer France 1–2 Denmark
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Guy Goethals Pierre MannaertsRobert Surkijn Scotland 0–2 Germany
Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS Alexey Spirin Victor FilippovAndrei Butenko Sweden 1–1 France
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Peter Mikkelsen Arne PaltoftJørgen Ohmeyer Netherlands 0–0 CIS
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France Gérard Biguet Marc HugueninAlain Gourdet CIS 1–1 Germany
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Aron Schmidhuber Joachim RenUwe Ennuschat Sweden 1–0 Denmark
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Sándor Puhl László VargaSándor Szilágyi France 0–0 England
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Pierluigi Pairetto Domenico RamiconeMaurizio Padovan Netherlands 3–1 Germany
Tullio Lanese Sweden 2–3 Germany (Semi-final)
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands John Blankenstein Jan DolstraRobert Overkleeft Denmark 0–0 England
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal José Rosa dos Santos Valdemar Aguiar Pinto LopesAntonio Guedes Gomes De Carvalho Sweden 2–1 England
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Emilio Soriano Aladrén Francisco García PachecoJosé Luis Iglesia Casas Netherlands 2–2 Denmark (Semi-final)
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Bo Karlsson Lennart SundqvistBo Persson Netherlands 1–0 Scotland
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Kurt Röthlisberger Zivanko PopovićPaul Wyttenbach Scotland 3–0 CIS
Bruno Galler Denmark 2–0 Germany (Final)
Fourth officials
CountryFourth officials
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Gerhard Kapl
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Frans van den Wijngaert
Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS Vadim Zhuk
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Kim Milton Nielsen
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France Rémi Harrel
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Karl-Josef Assenmacher
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Sándor Varga
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Mario van der Ende
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Jorge Emanuel Monteiro Coroado
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Leif Sundell

Group stage

Results. Yugoslavia (stripes) qualified and were going to participate as FR Yugoslavia, but banned and replaced by Denmark. CIS (yellow on the right side of the map) qualified as Soviet Union. Euro 1992.png
Results. Yugoslavia (stripes) qualified and were going to participate as FR Yugoslavia, but banned and replaced by Denmark. CIS (yellow on the right side of the map) qualified as Soviet Union.

The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the two groups progress to the semi-finals, while the bottom two teams in each group were eliminated from the tournament.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

  1. Goal difference in all group matches
  2. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
  3. Drawing of lots

Group 1

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden (H)321042+25Advance to knockout stage
2Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 31112203
3Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France 30212312
4Flag of England.svg  England 30211212
Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts
Sweden  Flag of Sweden.svg 1–1 Flag of France (lighter variant).svg  France
Report
Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 29,860
Referee: Alexey Spirin (CIS)
Denmark  Flag of Denmark.svg 0–0 Flag of England.svg  England
Report
Malmö Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 26,385
Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)

France  Flag of France (lighter variant).svg 0–0 Flag of England.svg  England
Report
Malmö Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 26,535
Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)
Sweden  Flag of Sweden.svg 1–0 Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Report
Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 29,902
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Sweden  Flag of Sweden.svg 2–1 Flag of England.svg  England
Report
Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 30,126
Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
France  Flag of France (lighter variant).svg 1–2 Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Report
Malmö Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 25,763
Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

Group 2

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 321041+35Advance to knockout stage
2Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 31114403
3Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 31023302
4Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS 30211432
Source: UEFA
Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg 1–0 Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Report
Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 35,720
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
CIS  Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg 1–1 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Report
Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Attendance: 17,410
Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg 0–2 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Report
Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Attendance: 17,638
Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg 0–0 Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS
Report
Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 34,440
Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg 3–1 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Report
Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 37,725
Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)
Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg 3–0 Flag of the CIS (UEFA Euro 1992).svg  CIS
Report

Knockout stage

In the knockout phase, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third place play-off.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Bracket

 
Semi-finals Final
 
      
 
22 June – Gothenburg
 
 
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2 (4)
 
26 June – Gothenburg
 
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark (p)2 (5)
 
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2
 
21 June – Solna
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0
 
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2
 
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3
 

Semi-finals

Sweden  Flag of Sweden.svg 2–3 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Report
Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 28,827
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

Final

Denmark  Flag of Denmark.svg 2–0 Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Report
Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 37,800 [13]
Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 32 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 2.13 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: UEFA [14]

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament [15]
GoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwards
Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Schmeichel Flag of France (lighter variant).svg Jocelyn Angloma
Flag of France (lighter variant).svg Laurent Blanc
Flag of Germany.svg Andreas Brehme
Flag of Germany.svg Jürgen Kohler
Flag of Denmark.svg Brian Laudrup
Flag of Germany.svg Stefan Effenberg
Flag of Germany.svg Thomas Häßler
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Ruud Gullit
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dennis Bergkamp
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Marco van Basten

Marketing

Slogan and theme song

Small is Beautiful was the official slogan of the contest. [5] The official anthem of the tournament was "More Than a Game", performed by Towe Jaarnek and Peter Jöback.

Logo and identity

It was the last tournament to use the UEFA plus flag logo, and before the tournament was known as "Euro" (it is known as "Euro 1992" only retrospectively). It was also the first major football competition in which the players had their names printed on their backs, around the time that it was becoming a trend in club football across Europe.

Mascot

The official mascot of the competition was a rabbit named Rabbit, dressed in a Swedish football jersey, as well as wearing head and wristbands while playing with a ball. [16]

Sponsorship

Global sponsorsEvent sponsors
Sweden

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