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1992 UEFA European Football Championship
Europamästerskapet i fotboll
Sverige 1992
Image
Small is Beautiful
Tournament details
Host countrySweden
Dates10–26 June
Teams8
Venues4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
ChampionsImage Denmark (1st title)
Runners-upImage Germany
Third placeImage Netherlands
Image Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored32 (2.13 per match)
Attendance430,111 (28,674 per match)
Top scorer(s)Denmark Henrik Larsen
Germany Karl-Heinz Riedle
Netherlands Dennis Bergkamp
Sweden Tomas Brolin
(3 goals each)
← 1988
1996 →

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 title, having been invited as qualifiers runners-up 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.[1]

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 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

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On 16 December 1988, following a decision made by the UEFA Executive Committee, Sweden was chosen over Spain to host the event.[2] 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.[2][3]

Summary

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Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final stage; Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the event.[4] 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),[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] Denmark won the final 2–0 with goals from John Jensen and Kim Vilfort, one in each half, to claim their first European title.[8]

A Danish film, Summer of '92, was made based on this.

Qualification

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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

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Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Image SwedenHost16 December 19880 (debut)
Image FranceGroup 1 winner12 October 19912 (1960, 1984)
Image EnglandGroup 7 winner13 November 19913 (1968, 1980, 1988)
Image CIS[B]Group 3 winner[C]13 November 19915 (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1988)
Image ScotlandGroup 2 winner20 November 19910 (debut)
Image NetherlandsGroup 6 winner4 December 19913 (1976, 1980, 1988)
Image Germany[D]Group 5 winner18 December 19915 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988)
Image DenmarkGroup 4 runner-up[E]31 May 19923 (1964, 1984, 1988)
  1. ↑ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
  2. ↑ From 1960 to 1988, CIS competed as the Soviet Union.
  3. ↑ Replaced the Soviet Union.
  4. ↑ From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed as West Germany.
  5. ↑ Replaced FR Yugoslavia (after qualifying as Yugoslavia), who were subject to sanctions under UN Security Council Resolution 757 and thus banned from appearing.[9]

Final draw

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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).[10][11] 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
  1. ↑ Hosts Sweden were automatically assigned to position A1.
  2. ↑ Defending champions the Netherlands were automatically assigned to position B1.
  3. ↑ Yugoslavia were to participate in the final tournament as FR Yugoslavia. However, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was placed under sanctions on 30 May 1992 by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 after the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars.[9] FIFA and UEFA therefore suspended FR Yugoslavia from competitive football on 31 May 1992, meaning they could not participate in the final tournament. Denmark instead took the spot at the final tournament.

The draw resulted in the following groups:[12]

Group 1
Image Sweden
Image France
Image Yugoslavia → Image Denmark
Image England
Group 2
Image Netherlands
Image Scotland
Image CIS
Image Germany

Venues

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Gothenburg Stockholm
Ullevi Råsunda Stadium
Capacity: 44,000 Capacity: 40,000
Image Image
Malmö Norrköping
Malmö Stadion Idrottsparken
Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 23,000
Image Image

Squads

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Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players.

Match ball

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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

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Country Referee Linesmen Matches refereed
Image Austria Hubert Forstinger Johann Möstl Alois Pemmer France 1–2 Denmark
Image Belgium Guy Goethals Pierre Mannaerts Robert Surkijn Scotland 0–2 Germany
Image CIS Alexey Spirin Victor Filippov Andrei Butenko Sweden 1–1 France
Image Denmark Peter Mikkelsen Arne Paltoft Jørgen Ohmeyer Netherlands 0–0 CIS
Image France Gérard Biguet Marc Huguenin Alain Gourdet CIS 1–1 Germany
Image Germany Aron Schmidhuber Joachim Ren Uwe Ennuschat Sweden 1–0 Denmark
Image Hungary Sándor Puhl László Varga Sándor Szilágyi France 0–0 England
Image Italy Pierluigi Pairetto Domenico Ramicone Maurizio Padovan Netherlands 3–1 Germany
Tullio Lanese Sweden 2–3 Germany (Semi-final)
Image Netherlands John Blankenstein Jan Dolstra Robert Overkleeft Denmark 0–0 England
Image Portugal José Rosa dos Santos Valdemar Aguiar Pinto Lopes Antonio Guedes Gomes De Carvalho Sweden 2–1 England
Image Spain Emilio Soriano Aladrén Francisco García Pacheco José Luis Iglesia Casas Netherlands 2–2 Denmark (Semi-final)
Image Sweden Bo Karlsson Lennart Sundqvist Bo Persson Netherlands 1–0 Scotland
Image Switzerland Kurt Röthlisberger Zivanko Popović Paul Wyttenbach Scotland 3–0 CIS
Bruno Galler Denmark 2–0 Germany (Final)
Fourth officials
Country Fourth officials
Image Austria Gerhard Kapl
Image Belgium Frans van den Wijngaert
Image CIS Vadim Zhuk
Image Denmark Kim Milton Nielsen
Image France Rémi Harrel
Image Germany Karl-Josef Assenmacher
Image Hungary Sándor Varga
Image Netherlands Mario van der Ende
Image Portugal Jorge Emanuel Monteiro Coroado
Image Sweden Leif Sundell

Group stage

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Image
Results. Yugoslavia (stripes) qualified and were going to participate as FR Yugoslavia, but was 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

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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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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Image Sweden (H) 3 2 1 0 4 2 +2 5 Advance to knockout stage
2 Image Denmark 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
3 Image France 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
4 Image England 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts
Sweden Image1–1Image France
 Report [13]
Attendance: 29,860
Referee: Alexey Spirin (CIS)
Denmark Image0–0Image England
Report [14]
Attendance: 26,385
France Image0–0Image England
Report [15]
Attendance: 26,535
Sweden Image1–0Image Denmark
 Report [16]
Attendance: 29,902
Sweden Image2–1Image England
 Report [17]
Attendance: 30,126
France Image1–2Image Denmark
 Report [18]
Attendance: 25,763

Group 2

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Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Image Netherlands 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 5 Advance to knockout stage
2 Image Germany 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
3 Image Scotland 3 1 0 2 3 3 0 2
4 Image CIS 3 0 2 1 1 4 −3 2
Source: UEFA
Netherlands Image1–0Image Scotland
 Report
Attendance: 35,720
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
CIS Image1–1Image Germany
 Report
Attendance: 17,410
Scotland Image0–2Image Germany
Report
Attendance: 17,638
Netherlands Image0–0Image CIS
Report
Attendance: 34,440
Netherlands Image3–1Image Germany
 Report
Attendance: 37,725
Scotland Image3–0Image CIS
 Report
Attendance: 14,660

Knockout stage

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In the knockout phase, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. As with every tournament after UEFA Euro 1980, there was no third place play-off.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Bracket

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
22 June – Gothenburg
 
 
Image Netherlands2 (4)
 
26 June – Gothenburg
 
Image Denmark (p)2 (5)
 
Image Denmark2
 
21 June – Solna
 
Image Germany0
 
Image Sweden2
 
 
Image Germany3
 

Semi-finals

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Sweden Image2–3Image Germany
 Report
Attendance: 28,827
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

Final

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Denmark Image2–0Image Germany
 Report
Attendance: 37,800[19]

Statistics

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Goalscorers

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There were 32 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 2.13 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: UEFA[20]

Awards

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UEFA Team of the Tournament[21]
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Denmark Peter Schmeichel France Jocelyn Angloma
France Laurent Blanc
Germany Andreas Brehme
Germany Jürgen Kohler		 Denmark Brian Laudrup
Germany Stefan Effenberg
Germany Thomas Häßler
Netherlands Ruud Gullit		 Netherlands Dennis Bergkamp
Netherlands Marco van Basten

Discipline

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Player Offence(s) Suspension(s)
Commonwealth of Independent States Akhrik Tsveiba Yellow card in Group B vs Germany (matchday 1; 12 June)
Yellow card in Group B vs Netherlands (matchday 2; 15 June)		 Group B vs Scotland (matchday 3; 18 June)
Sweden Patrik Andersson Yellow card in Group A vs Denmark (matchday 2; 14 June)
Yellow card in Group A vs England (matchday 3; 17 June)		 Semi-finals vs Germany (21 June)
Sweden Stefan Schwarz Yellow card in Group A vs France (matchday 1; 10 June)
Yellow card in Group A vs England (matchday 3; 17 June)		 Semi-finals vs Germany (21 June)

Marketing

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Slogan and theme song

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Small is Beautiful was the official slogan of the contest.[5] The official anthem of the tournament was "More Than a Game", performed by Towe Jaarnek and Peter Jöback.

Logo and identity

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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

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The official mascot of the competition was a rabbit named Rabbit, dressed in a Swedish football jersey, as well as head and wristbands.[22]

Sponsorship

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Global sponsors Swedish sponsors

References

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  1. ↑ Chowdhury, Saj (12 May 2012). "Euro 1992: Denmark's fairytale". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Sweden to host 1992 Euro finals". New Straits Times. Reuters. 18 December 1988. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Die Geschichte der Fußball-Europameisterschaft (in German). Verlag Die Werkstatt. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-553-2.
  4. ↑ Hughes, Rob (16 October 1991). "Now, the going gets tough". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  5. 1 2 Hughes, Rob (10 June 1992). "Confidence and flair: Dutch favored in Euro 92". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Yugoslav athletes banned". The New York Times. 1 June 1992. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  7. ↑ Thomsen, Ian (23 June 1992). "Danes upset Dutch in penalty shoot-out, advance to final". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Thomsen, Ian (27 June 1992). "Upstart Danes upend Germany, 2–0, in soccer final". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  9. 1 2 "United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 (Implementing Trade Embargo on Yugoslavia)". UMN.edu. United Nations. 30 May 1992. Retrieved 18 August 2008.
  10. ↑ "Duitsland speelt met Luxemburg" [Germany plays with Luxembourg]. Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (in Dutch). Zeeland. 19 December 1991. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Liedholm verricht loting" [Liedholm conducts draw]. Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (in Dutch). Zeeland. 13 January 1992. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  12. ↑ "Nederland weer tegen Duitsland" [Netherlands again against Germany]. Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (in Dutch). Zeeland. 18 January 1992. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  13. ↑ "History: Sweden 1-1 France".
  14. ↑ "History: Denmark 0-0 England".
  15. ↑ "History: France 0-0 England".
  16. ↑ "History: Sweden 1-0 Denmark".
  17. ↑ "History: Sweden 2-1 England".
  18. ↑ "History: France 1-2 Denmark".
  19. ↑ "European Football Championship 1992 FINAL". euro2000.org. Union of European Football Associations. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  20. ↑ "Season 1992 | UEFA EURO | UEFA.com". Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  21. ↑ "1992 team of the tournament". UEFA. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  22. ↑ Kell, Tom (1 February 2013). "The weird and wonderful world of Euro mascots". UEFA. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
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