UEFA Euro 1992

1992 UEFA European Football Championship
	Europamästerskapet i fotboll; Sverige 1992
	; UEFA Euro 1992 official logo
Tournament details
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)	Karlheinz Riedle; Henrik Larsen; Tomas Brolin; Dennis Bergkamp; (3 goals)

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

Eight countries contested the final tournament. Seven countries had to qualify for the final stage as 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 CIS 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, Moldova and Tajikistan. Five out of 15 ex-republics were not members of CIS, and therefore did not send their players: Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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 by defeating first the defending European champions Holland in the semi-finals, and then the reigning world champions Germany for the 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 long-standing UEFA plus flag logo, introduced with the first tournament in 1960, 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.

[edit] Qualification

UEFA Euro 1992 finalists.

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

CIS (replaced former USSR)
England
France
Germany (first appearance as reunited country)
Netherlands (reigning champions)
Scotland (first appearance)
Sweden (hosts, first appearance)
Denmark - replaced Yugoslavia which were under sanctions by the United Nations Security Council resolution 757 and thus banned from appearing.^[1]

[edit] Venues

Nya Ullevi, Göteborg – Capacity: 44,000
Råsundastadion, Solna – Capacity: 40,000
Malmö Stadion, Malmö – Capacity: 30,000
Idrottsparken, Norrköping – Capacity: 23,000

[edit] Match officials

Austria

Hubert Forstinger

Belgium

Guy Goethals

Commonwealth of Independent States

Alexey Spirin

Denmark

Peter Mikkelsen

France

Gérard Biguet

Germany

Aron Schmidhuber

Hungary

Sándor Puhl

Italy

Netherlands

John Blankenstein

Portugal

José Rosa dos Santos

Spain

Emilio Soriano Aladren

Sweden

Bo Karlsson

Switzerland

[edit] Squads

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

[edit] Results

[edit] Group stage

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, Solna Attendance: 29,860 Referee: Alexey Spirin (CIS)
	J. Eriksson 24'	(Report)	Papin 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, Solna Attendance: 29,902 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
	Brolin 58'	(Report)

17 June 1992 20:15	Sweden	2 – 1	England	Råsunda, Solna Attendance: 30,126 Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
	J. Eriksson 51' Brolin 82'	(Report)	Platt 4'

17 June 1992 20:15	France	1 – 2	Denmark	Malmö Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 25,673 Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
	Papin 60'	(Report)	Larsen 8' Elstrup 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 75'	(Report)

12 June 1992 20:15	CIS	1 – 1	Germany	Idrottsparken, Norrköping Attendance: 17,410 Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
	Dobrovolski 64'	(Report)	Häßler 90'

15 June 1992 17:15	Scotland	0 – 2	Germany	Idrottsparken, Norrköping Attendance: 17,638 Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
		(Report)	Riedle 29' Effenberg 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 3' R. Witschge 14' Bergkamp 72'	(Report)	Klinsmann 53'

18 June 1992 20:15	Scotland	3 – 0	CIS	Idrottsparken, Norrköping Attendance: 14,660 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
	McStay 7' McClair 16' McAllister 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, Solna Attendance: 28,827 Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
	Brolin 64' (pen.) Andersson 89'	(Report)	Häßler 11' Riedle 59' 88'

22 June 1992 20:15	Netherlands	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Denmark	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 37,450 Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain)
	Bergkamp 23' Rijkaard 86'	(Report)	Larsen 5' 33'

		Penalties
	R. Koeman van Basten Bergkamp Rijkaard R. Witschge	4 – 5	Larsen Povlsen Elstrup Vilfort 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 18' Vilfort 78'	(Report)

Euro 1992 Champions
Denmark First title

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Goal scorers

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

[edit] Fastest goal

2 minutes : Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands vs Germany)

[edit] Average goals

2.13 goals per game

[edit] References

^ "United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 (Implementing Trade Embargo on Yugoslavia)". University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. Retrieved on 18 August 2008.

[edit] External links

Denmark's greatest moment, article at BBC.co.uk

[0] "United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 (Implementing Trade Embargo on Yugoslavia)". University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. Retrieved on 18 August 2008.

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