1992 UEFA European Football Championship

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1992 UEFA European Championship - Sweden Euro 92
Image:Euro 92.jpg
Teams	8 (from 33 entrants)
Host(s)	Sweden
Champions	Denmark (1 title(s))
Matches played	15
Goals scored	32 (2.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	3 - Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Henrik Larsen 3 - Image:Flag of Germany.svg Karlheinz Riedle 3 - Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dennis Bergkamp 3 - Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Tomas Brolin

The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 92) 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 June 10 and June 26, 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 consisted of the following Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine , Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan. 5 out of 15 ex-republics were not members of CIS, and therefore did not send their players: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

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 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 also the first major football competition in which the players had their names written on their backs.

1 Qualification
2 Venues
3 Squads
4 Group stages
- 4.1 Group A
- 4.2 Group B
5 Knockout stages
- 5.1 Semi-finals
- 5.2 Final
6 Statistics
7 Winning squad

[edit] Qualification

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

Image:Flag of the CIS.svg Commonwealth of Independent States
- Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR qualified before its dissolution.
Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
- Yugoslavia originally qualified for the tournament but were forced to withdraw for political reasons. Denmark, who finished second in Yugoslavia's group, replaced them.
Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England
Image:Flag of France.svg France
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Image:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden automatically qualified for the tournament as hosts

For details concerning the qualifying phase see, 1992 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying.

[edit] Venues

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

[edit] Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1992 UEFA European Football Championship squads.

[edit] Group stages

All times local (CET)

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	5	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2
Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	3	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Image:Flag of France.svg France	2	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1
Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	2	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1

Sweden	1–1	France
Denmark	0–0	England
France	0–0	England
Sweden	1–0	Denmark
Sweden	2–1	England
France	1–2	Denmark

June 10, 1992 20:15
	Sweden Image:Flag of Sweden.svg	1–1	Image:Flag of France.svg France	Råsunda, Solna Attendance: 29,860 Referee: Aleksei Spirin (Russia)
	Eriksson 24'		Papin 58'

June 11, 1992 20:15
	Denmark Image:Flag of Denmark.svg	0–0	Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	Malmö Stadion, Malmo Attendance: 26,385 Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)

June 14, 1992 17:15
	France Image:Flag of France.svg	0–0	Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	Malmö Stadion, Malmo Attendance: 26,535 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

June 14, 1992 20:15
	Sweden Image:Flag of Sweden.svg	1–0	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	Råsunda, Solna Attendance: 29,902 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
	Brolin 58'

June 17, 1992 20:15
	Sweden Image:Flag of Sweden.svg	2–1	Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg England	Råsunda, Solna Attendance: 30,126 Referee: José Rosa Dos Santos (Portugal)
	Eriksson 51' Brolin 82'		Platt 4'

June 17, 1992 20:15
	France Image:Flag of France.svg	1–2	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	Malmö Stadion, Malmo Attendance: 25,673 Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
	Papin 60'		Larsen 8' Elstrup 78'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	5	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	3	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
Image:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland	2	3	1	0	2	3	3	0
Image:Flag of the CIS.svg CIS	2	3	0	2	1	1	4	−3

Netherlands	1–0	Scotland
CIS	1–1	Germany
Scotland	0–2	Germany
Netherlands	0–0	CIS
Netherlands	3–1	Germany
Scotland	3–0	CIS

June 10, 1992 20:15
	Netherlands Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	1–0	Image:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 35,720 Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
	Bergkamp 75'

June 12, 1992 20:15
	CIS Image:Flag of the CIS.svg	1–1	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	Idrottsparken, Norrkoping Attendance: 17,410 Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
	Dobrovolski 64'		Hässler 90'

June 15, 1992 17:15
	Scotland Image:Flag of Scotland.svg	0–2	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	Idrottsparken, Norrkoping Attendance: 17,638 Referee: Guy Goethals (Sweden)
			Riedle 29' Effenberg 47'

June 15, 1992 20:15
	Netherlands Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	0–0	Image:Flag of the CIS.svg CIS	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 34,400 Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

June 18, 1992 20:15
	Netherlands Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	3–1	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 37,725 Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)
	Rijkaard 4' Witschge 14' Bergkamp 72'		Klinsmann 53'

June 18, 1992 20:15
	Scotland Image:Flag of Scotland.svg	3–0	Image:Flag of the CIS.svg CIS	Idrottsparken, Norrkoping Attendance: 14,660 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Swiss)
	McStay 7' McClair 16' McAllister 84' (pen)

[edit] Knockout stages

Semi finals		Finals

21 June – Solna (Råsunda Stadium)
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	2
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	3

		26 June – Gothenburg (Nya Ullevi)
		Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	0
		Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	2



22 June - Gothenburg (Nya Ullevi)
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	2 (4)
Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark (pen)	2 (5)

[edit] Semi-finals

June 21, 1992 20:15
	Sweden Image:Flag of Sweden.svg	2–3	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	Råsunda, Solna Attendance: 28,827 Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
	Brolin 64' (pen) Andersson 89'		Hässler 11' Riedle 59', 88'

June 22, 1992 20:15
	Netherlands Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	2–2 (AET) (4–5 PSO)	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 37,450 Referee: Soriano Aladran (Spain)
	Bergkamp 23' Rijkaard 86'		Larsen 5', 33'

		Penalties
	Koeman: scored Van Basten: saved Bergkamp: scored Rijkaard: scored Witschge: scored	4–5	Larsen: scored Povlsen: scored Elstrup: scored Vilfort: scored Christofte: scored

[edit] Final

June 26, 1992 20:15
	Denmark Image:Flag of Denmark.svg	2–0	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 37,800 Referee: Bruno Galler (Swiss)
	Jensen 18' Vilfort 78'

Euro 1992 Champions
Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark First title

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Goal scorers

3 Goals

2 Goals

1 Goal

[edit] Fastest goal

2 Minutes : Frank Rijkaard (Holland vs Germany)

[edit] Average goals

2.13 Per Game

[edit] Winning squad

Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
Number	Player	Club during the tournament
Goalkeepers
1	Peter Schmeichel	Manchester United
16	Mogens Krogh	Brøndby
Defenders
4	Lars Olsen (captain)	Trabzonspor
2	John Sivebæk	Monaco
3	Kent Nielsen	Århus
17	Claus Christiansen	Lyngby
12	Torben Piechnik	B 1903
6	Kim Christofte	Brøndby
Midfielders
5	Henrik Andersen	Köln
7	John Jensen	Brøndby
18	Kim Vilfort	Brøndby
13	Henrik Larsen	Lyngby
8	Johnny Mølby	Vejle
19	Peter Nielsen	Lyngby
20	Morten Bruun	Silkeborg
Forwards
11	Brian Laudrup	Bayern Munich
9	Flemming Povlsen	Borussia Dortmund
10	Lars Elstrup	OB Odense
14	Torben Frank	Lyngby
15	Bent Christensen Arensøe	Schalke
Coach: Richard Møller Nielsen