1992 European Cup final

Template:Short description Template:Short description The 1992 European Cup final was a football match held on 20 May 1992 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Sampdoria of Italy and Barcelona of Spain. Barcelona won the game 1–0 after extra time, thanks to a Ronald Koeman free kick, to record their first triumph in the competition. It was the first to have a group stage involving the eight second-round winners split into two groups, and the winner of each one met in the final. In doing so, they became the second Spanish club to win the tournament and the 19th overall. This was the last final before the competition was re-branded as the Champions League. The final is, as of 2025, the most recent in which both of the finalists entered a European Cup/UEFA Champions League final having not won any of the previous finals.

Teams

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
Template:Fbaicon Sampdoria	None
Template:Fbaicon Barcelona	2 (1961, 1986)

Route to the final

Template:Fbaicon Sampdoria				Round	Template:Fbaicon Barcelona
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Template:Fbaicon Rosenborg	7–1	5–0 (H)	2–1 (A)	First round	Template:Fbaicon Hansa Rostock	3–1	3–0 (H)	0–1 (A)
Template:Fbaicon Kispest Honvéd	4–3	1–2 (A)	3–1 (H)	Second round	Template:Fbaicon 1. FC Kaiserslautern	3–3 (a)	2–0 (H)	1–3 (A)
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Template:Fbaicon Red Star Belgrade	2–0 (H)			Matchday 1	Template:Fbaicon Sparta Prague	3–2 (H)
Template:Fbaicon Panathinaikos	0–0 (A)			Matchday 2	Template:Fbaicon Benfica	0–0 (A)
Template:Fbaicon Anderlecht	2–3 (A)			Matchday 3	Template:Fbaicon Dynamo Kyiv	2–0 (A)
Template:Fbaicon Anderlecht	2–0 (H)			Matchday 4	Template:Fbaicon Dynamo Kyiv	3–0 (H)
Template:Fbaicon Red Star Belgrade	3–1 (A)			Matchday 5	Template:Fbaicon Sparta Prague	0–1 (A)
Template:Fbaicon Panathinaikos	1–1 (H)			Matchday 6	Template:Fbaicon Benfica	2–1 (H)
Group A winner 1991–92 European Cup group stage				Final standings	Group B winner 1991–92 European Cup group stage

Match

Details

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File:Kit left arm.svg File:Kit body.svg File:Kit right arm.svg File:Kit shorts.svg File:Kit socks long.svg Barcelona Template:Preview warningTemplate:Preview warningTemplate:Preview warningTemplate:Preview warningTemplate:Preview warning

GK 1 Template:Flagicon Gianluca Pagliuca RB 2 Template:Flagicon Moreno Mannini Template:Yel CB 5 Template:Flagicon Pietro Vierchowod Template:Yel CB 6 Template:Flagicon Marco Lanna LB 3 Template:Flagicon Srečko Katanec RM 7 Template:Flagicon Attilio Lombardo CM 4 Template:Flagicon Fausto Pari CM 8 Template:Flagicon Toninho Cerezo LM 11 Template:Flagicon Ivano Bonetti downward-facing red arrow 73' CF 10 Template:Flagicon Roberto Mancini (c) Template:Yel CF 9 Template:Flagicon Gianluca Vialli downward-facing red arrow 100' Substitutes: GK 12 Template:Flagicon Giulio Nuciari DF 13 Template:Flagicon Dario Bonetti MF 14 Template:Flagicon Giovanni Invernizzi upward-facing green arrow 73' MF 15 Template:Flagicon Paulo Silas MF 16 Template:Flagicon Renato Buso upward-facing green arrow 100' Manager: Template:Flagicon Vujadin Boškov

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GK 1 Template:Flagicon Andoni Zubizarreta (c) SW 4 Template:Flagicon Ronald Koeman CB 3 Template:Flagicon Albert Ferrer CB 2 Template:Flagicon Nando DM 10 Template:Flagicon Pep Guardiola downward-facing red arrow 112' RWB 11 Template:Flagicon Eusebio Sacristán LWB 5 Template:Flagicon Juan Carlos AM 6 Template:Flagicon José Mari Bakero Template:Yel AM 9 Template:Flagicon Michael Laudrup SS 8 Template:Flagicon Hristo Stoichkov CF 7 Template:Flagicon Julio Salinas downward-facing red arrow 65' Substitutes: DF 12 Template:Flagicon José Ramón Alexanko upward-facing green arrow 112' GK 13 Template:Flagicon Carles Busquets FW 14 Template:Flagicon Txiki Begiristain MF 15 Template:Flagicon Miguel Ángel Nadal MF 16 Template:Flagicon Jon Andoni Goikoetxea upward-facing green arrow 65' Manager: Template:Flagicon Johan Cruyff

Assistant referees: Joachim Ren (Germany) Uwe Ennuschat (Germany) Fourth official: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Five named substitutes. Maximum of two substitutions.

See also

• 1989 European Cup Winners' Cup Final – contested by the same teams
• 1991–92 European Cup
• FC Barcelona in international football competitions
• U.C. Sampdoria in European football

External links

• 1991–92 season at UEFA website