UEFA Euro 1992

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Short description 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.

Denmark won the 1992 championship, having been invited as qualifiers runners-ups 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.

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. 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.

Summary

Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final stage; Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the event. 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), 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. 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. Denmark won the final 2–0 with goals from John Jensen and Kim Vilfort in either half to claim their first European title.

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 that the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia), Italy, Portugal, and Spain failed to qualify for the European Championship finals.

Qualified teams

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)

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). 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 two in position 2. The two seeded teams were then drawn and placed consecutively into position 1 of the groups.

Pot 1: Seeded teams	Pot 2: Unseeded teams
Sweden (hosts)Template:Efn Netherlands (holders)Template:Efn	CIS England	France Germany	Scotland YugoslaviaTemplate:Efn

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group 1 Sweden France Yugoslavia → Denmark England

Group 2 Netherlands Scotland CIS Germany

Venues

Gothenburg		Stockholm
Ullevi		Råsunda Stadium
Capacity: 44,000		Capacity: 40,000
File:Nyaullevi.jpg		File:Råsunda Stadium.jpg
Malmö		Norrköping
Malmö Stadion		Idrottsparken
Capacity: 30,000		Capacity: 23,000
File:Sweden malmö stadion sweden.jpg		File: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

Country	Referee	Linesmen		Matches refereed
Template:Fba	Hubert Forstinger	Johann Möstl	Alois Pemmer	France 1–2 Denmark
Template:Fba	Guy Goethals	Pierre Mannaerts	Robert Surkijn	Scotland 0–2 Germany
Template:Fba	Alexey Spirin	Victor Filippov	Andrei Butenko	Sweden 1–1 France
Template:Fba	Peter Mikkelsen	Arne Paltoft	Jørgen Ohmeyer	Netherlands 0–0 CIS
Template:Fba	Gérard Biguet	Marc Huguenin	Alain Gourdet	CIS 1–1 Germany
Template:Fba	Aron Schmidhuber	Joachim Ren	Uwe Ennuschat	Sweden 1–0 Denmark
Template:Fba	Sándor Puhl	László Varga	Sándor Szilágyi	France 0–0 England
Template:Fba	Pierluigi Pairetto	Domenico Ramicone	Maurizio Padovan	Netherlands 3–1 Germany
	Tullio Lanese			Sweden 2–3 Germany (Semi-final)
Template:Fba	John Blankenstein	Jan Dolstra	Robert Overkleeft	Denmark 0–0 England
Template:Fba	José Rosa dos Santos	Valdemar Aguiar Pinto Lopes	Antonio Guedes Gomes De Carvalho	Sweden 2–1 England
Template:Fba	Emilio Soriano Aladrén	Francisco García Pacheco	José Luis Iglesia Casas	Netherlands 2–2 Denmark (Semi-final)
Template:Fba	Bo Karlsson	Lennart Sundqvist	Bo Persson	Netherlands 1–0 Scotland
Template:Fba	Kurt Röthlisberger	Zivanko Popović	Paul Wyttenbach	Scotland 3–0 CIS
	Bruno Galler			Denmark 2–0 Germany (Final)

Fourth officials

Country	Fourth officials
Template:Fba	Gerhard Kapl
Template:Fba	Frans van den Wijngaert
Template:Fba	Vadim Zhuk
Template:Fba	Kim Milton Nielsen
Template:Fba	Rémi Harrel
Template:Fba	Karl-Josef Assenmacher
Template:Fba	Sándor Varga
Template:Fba	Mario van der Ende
Template:Fba	Jorge Emanuel Monteiro Coroado
Template:Fba	Leif Sundell

Group stage

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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

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Group 2

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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

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Semi-finals

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Final

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Statistics

Goalscorers

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Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Template:Fbicon Peter Schmeichel	Template:Fbicon Jocelyn Angloma Template:Fbicon Laurent Blanc Template:Fbicon Andreas Brehme Template:Fbicon Jürgen Kohler	Template:Fbicon Brian Laudrup Template:Fbicon Stefan Effenberg Template:Fbicon Thomas Häßler Template:Fbicon Ruud Gullit	Template:Fbicon Dennis Bergkamp Template:Fbicon Marco van Basten

Marketing

Slogan and theme song

Small is Beautiful was the official slogan of the contest. 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 coincidentally named Rabbit, dressed in a Swedish football jersey, as well as head and wristbands.

Sponsorship

Global sponsors	Swedish sponsors
Adidas Canon Carlsberg Coca-Cola Disney Fujifilm General Motors Intel JVC MasterCard McDonald's Opel Philips Ruhrgas Sensodyne Unicef	Föreningssparbanken Saab SAS SJ Swebus Televerket

External links

• UEFA Euro 1992 at UEFA