UEFA Euro 1992

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1992 UEFA European Football Championship
Europamästerskapet i fotboll
Sverige 1992

UEFA Euro 1992 official logo
Tournament details
Host country  Sweden
Dates 10 June – 26 June
Teams 8
Venue(s) 4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Denmark (1st title)
Runners-up  Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 32 (2.13 per match)
Attendance 430,111 (28,674 per match)
Top scorer(s) Denmark Henrik Larsen
Germany Karlheinz Riedle
Netherlands Dennis Bergkamp
Sweden Tomas Brolin
(3 goals)
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The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA. Denmark won the 1992 championship, one of the country's few major football triumphs. The team had qualified only as a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Eight national teams contested the finals tournament.

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[edit] Summary

Sweden was chosen over Spain to host the event. Spain was at a disadvantage as they had already been chosen to host the EXPO 1992 and the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.[1]

Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final stage; Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the event. The USSR qualified for the finals shortly before the break-up of the country, and took part in the tournament under the banner of the Commonwealth of Independent States before the former Soviet republics formed their own national teams after the competition. The CIS team represented the following Soviet republics: 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, but due to the Yugoslav wars, the team was disqualified and their qualifying group's runner-up, Denmark, took part in the championship. They shocked the continent when Peter Schmeichel saved Marco van Basten's penalty in the semi-final penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands, thus defeating the defending European champions. The shock was compounded when Denmark went on to defeat the reigning world champions Germany 2-0 to win the European title.

The official anthem of the tournament was "More Than a Game", performed by Towe Jaarnek and Peter Jöback. It was the last tournament to use the UEFA plus flag logo, and the last before the tournament came to be 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, at around the time that it was becoming a trend in club football across Europe.

[edit] Qualification

UEFA Euro 1992 finalists.
Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

[edit] Venues

Göteborg Solna Malmö Norrköping
Ullevi Råsunda Stadium Malmö Stadion Idrottsparken
Capacity: 44,000 Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 23,000
Nyaullevi.jpg Råsunda Stadium.jpg Malmö stadion.jpg Norrkopings idrottspark.jpg

[edit] Match officials

Austria Austria
Belgium Belgium
Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth of Independent States
Denmark Denmark
France France
Germany Germany
Hungary Hungary
Italy Italy
Netherlands Netherlands
Portugal Portugal
Spain Spain
Sweden Sweden
Switzerland Switzerland

[edit] Squads

For a list of all participating squads see 1992 UEFA European Football Championship squads

[edit] Results

In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one for a draw. The following championship would see three points awarded for a win.

[edit] First round

All times local (CEST/UTC+2)

[edit] Group A

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Sweden 3 2 1 0 4 2 +2 5
 Denmark 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
 France 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
 England 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
10 June 1992
20:15
 Sweden  1 – 1  France Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 29,860
Referee: Alexey Spirin (CIS)
J. Eriksson Goal 24' (Report) Papin Goal 58'
11 June 1992
20:15
 Denmark  0 – 0  England Malmö Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 26,385
Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)
(Report)
14 June 1992
17:15
 France  0 – 0  England Malmö Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 26,535
Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)
(Report)
14 June 1992
20:15
 Sweden  1 – 0  Denmark Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 29,902
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
Brolin Goal 58' (Report)
17 June 1992
20:15
 Sweden  2 – 1  England Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 30,126
Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
J. Eriksson Goal 51'
Brolin Goal 82'		 (Report) Platt Goal 4'
17 June 1992
20:15
 France  1 – 2  Denmark Malmö Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 25,673
Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
Papin Goal 60' (Report) Larsen Goal 8'
Elstrup Goal 78'

[edit] Group B

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Netherlands 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 5
 Germany 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
 Scotland 3 1 0 2 3 3 0 2
 CIS 3 0 2 1 1 4 −3 2
12 June 1992
17:15
 Netherlands  1 – 0  Scotland Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 35,720
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
Bergkamp Goal 75' (Report)
12 June 1992
20:15
 CIS  1 – 1  Germany Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Attendance: 17,410
Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
Dobrovolski Goal 64' (pen.) (Report) Häßler Goal 90'
15 June 1992
17:15
 Scotland  0 – 2  Germany Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Attendance: 17,638
Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
(Report) Riedle Goal 29'
Effenberg Goal 47'
15 June 1992
20:15
 Netherlands  0 – 0  CIS Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 34,400
Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)
(Report)
18 June 1992
20:15
 Netherlands  3 – 1  Germany Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 37,725
Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)
Rijkaard Goal 2'
Witschge Goal 15'
Bergkamp Goal 72'		 (Report) Klinsmann Goal 53'
18 June 1992
20:15
 Scotland  3 – 0  CIS Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Attendance: 14,660
Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
McStay Goal 7'
McClair Goal 16'
McAllister Goal 84' (pen.)		 (Report)

[edit] Knockout stage

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 knockout stage
  Semi-finals Final
21 June – Solna
  Sweden 2  
  Germany 3  
 
26 June – Gothenburg
      Germany 0
    Denmark 2
22 June – Gothenburg
  Netherlands 2 (4)
  Denmark (pen) 2 (5)  

[edit] Semi-finals

21 June 1992
20:15
 Sweden  2 – 3  Germany Råsunda Stadium, Solna
Attendance: 28,827
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
Brolin Goal 64' (pen.)
K. Andersson Goal 89'		 (Report) Häßler Goal 11'
Riedle Goal 59', 88'
22 June 1992
20:15
 Netherlands  2 – 2 (a.e.t.)  Denmark Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 37,450
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
Bergkamp Goal 23'
Rijkaard Goal 86'		 (Report) Larsen Goal 5', 33'
  Penalties  
R. Koeman Scored
Van Basten Missed (saved)
Bergkamp Scored
Rijkaard Scored
R. Witschge Scored		 4 – 5 Scored Larsen
Scored Povlsen
Scored Elstrup
Scored Vilfort
Scored Christofte

[edit] Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 Final
26 June 1992
20:15
 Denmark  2 – 0  Germany Ullevi, Gothenburg
Attendance: 37,800
Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
Jensen Goal 19'
Vilfort Goal 79'		 (Report)

[edit] Goal scorers

3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
  • The fastest goal of the tournament was scored after 1 min 37 sec, by Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands vs Germany).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Die Geschichte der Fußball-Europameisterschaft, Verlag Die Werkstatt, ISBN 978-3-89533-553-2
  2. ^ "United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 (Implementing Trade Embargo on Yugoslavia)". University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/peace/docs/scres757.html. Retrieved 18 August 2008. 

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