UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

Template:Short description Template:Qualification for championships (UEFA) The qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 1992 was a series of parallel association football competitions to be held over 1990 and 1991 to decide the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 1992, to be held in Sweden. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 2 February 1990.

There were a total of seven groups. At the conclusion of qualifying, the team at the top of each group qualified for the final tournament, to join the hosts in completing the eight participants. This was the last European Championship to feature eight teams, as the competition was expanded to 16 teams for 1996.

Qualified teams

File:UEFA Euro 1992 Qualifiers Map.png

  Qualified for the tournament

  Expelled after qualification

  Did not qualify

  Withdrew before playing any matches

  Did not enter

  Not a UEFA member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournamentTemplate:Efn-ua
Sweden		Template:Dts	0 (debut)
France	Group 1 winner	Template:Dts	2 (1960, 1984)
England	Group 7 winner	Template:Dts	3 (1968, 1980, 1988)
CISTemplate:Efn-ua	Group 3 winnerTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Dts	5 (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1988)
Scotland	Group 2 winner	Template:Dts	0 (debut)
Netherlands	Group 6 winner	Template:Dts	3 (1976, 1980, 1988)
GermanyTemplate:Efn-ua	Group 5 winner	Template:Dts	5 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988)
Denmark	Group 4 runner-upTemplate:Efn-ua	Template:Dts	3 (1964, 1984, 1988)

Seedings

The draw took place on 2 February 1990. Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the competition, and 34 teams entered the draw, with the Faroe Islands and San Marino participating in a European qualifying tournament for the first time.

As initially made, the draw placed East Germany and West Germany in the same qualifying group; this would have been the first time the two sides had met since the 1974 World Cup. However, following German reunification on 3 October 1990, the East German team was withdrawn and its fixtures scrapped, while the unified German team took over the fixtures of West Germany.

The qualifiers thus consisted of 33 teams divided into seven groups (two of four teams and five of five teams) were played in 1990 and 1991. Each group winner progressed to the finals. This was the last European Championship qualifying phase which awarded two points for a win; from 1996 onward, teams earned 3 points for a win.

Pool 1	Pool 2	Pool 3	Pool 4	Pool 5
Netherlands (title holders) England Spain Italy Yugoslavia West Germany Romania	Soviet Union Republic of Ireland Czechoslovakia Denmark Belgium Scotland Portugal	East Germany Hungary Austria France Bulgaria Poland Greece	Switzerland Iceland Wales Turkey Norway Northern Ireland Finland	Malta Cyprus Luxembourg Albania San Marino Faroe Islands

Summary

  Six group winners and one runner-up (replacing a banned team) qualified directly for UEFA Euro 1992

  Group winner was banned from UEFA Euro 1992

  Other teams were eliminated

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
File:Flag of France (lighter variant).svg France	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland	File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union	File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Yugoslavia	File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	File:Flag of England.svg England
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia	File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland	File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy	File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales	File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal	File:Flag of Ireland.svg Republic of Ireland
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland File:Flag of Albania (1946–1992).svg Albania	File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria File:Flag of San Marino (1862–2011).svg San Marino	File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary File:Flag of Cyprus (1960–2006).svg Cyprus	File:Ulster Banner.svg Northern Ireland File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria File:Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg Faroe Islands	File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg	File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta	File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey

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

Groups

Group 5

East Germany were originally drawn into this group alongside West Germany, but after reunification, a single German team participated in the qualification process, taking over the fixtures of West Germany.

Subsequently, East Germany's game on 12 September 1990 against Belgium was reclassified as a friendly, and was also East Germany's final international match, which it won 2–0: the remaining seven fixtures of East Germany were scratched. Template:UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying group tables

External links

• UEFA Euro 1992 at UEFA.com