UEFA Euro 1992

1992 UEFA European Football Championship

Europamästerskapet i fotboll Sverige 1992
UEFA Euro 1992 official logo Small is Beautiful
Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Dates	10 June – 26 June
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Denmark (1st title)
Runner-up	Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	32 (2.13 per match)
Attendance	430,111 (28,674 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dennis Bergkamp Tomas Brolin Henrik Larsen Karl-Heinz Riedle (3 goals each)
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The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA.

Denmark won the 1992 championship, one of the country's few major football triumphs. The team had qualified only as a result of the breakup and warfare in Yugoslavia. Eight national teams contested the finals tournament.

Also present at the tournament was the CIS national football team (Commonwealth of Independent States), representing the recently dissolved Soviet Union whose national team had qualified for the tournament. It was also the first major tournament at which the reunified Germany (who were beaten 2–0 by Denmark in the final) had competed.

It was to be the last tournament with only eight participants, the last to award the winner of a match with only two points, and the last tournament before the introduction of the back-pass rule.

Bid process

On 17 December 1988, Sweden was chosen over Spain to host the event, following a decision made by the UEFA Executive Committee. Spain was at a disadvantage as they had already been chosen to host the EXPO 1992 and the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.

Summary

Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final stage; Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the event. Soviet Union qualified for the finals 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 ex-Soviet republics: 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, 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 when Peter Schmeichel saved Marco van Basten's penalty in the semi-final penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands, thus defeating the defending European champions. The shock was compounded when Denmark went on to defeat the reigning world champions Germany 2–0 to win the European title.

Qualification

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

Qualified teams

See also: UEFA Euro 1992 squads

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament1, 2
Sweden	00 Hosts	2 February 1990	0 (debut)
France	04 Group 1 winner	12 October 1991	2 (1960, 1984)
Scotland	07 Group 2 winner	13 November 1991	0 (debut)
CIS3	01 Group 3 winner6	13 November 1991	6 (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1988)6
Denmark	DNQ4	30 May 1992 (11 days before start of tournament)	3 (1964, 1984, 1988)
Germany	05 Group 5 winner	20 November 1991	5 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988)5
Netherlands	06 Group 6 winner	4 December 1991	3 (1976, 1980, 1988)
England	03 Group 7 winner	13 November 1991	3 (1968, 1980, 1988)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year

² Italic indicates host for that year

³ Replaced Soviet Union

⁴ Did not qualify but replaced Yugoslavia, who were under sanctions by the UN Security Council Resolution 757 and thus banned from appearing. Denmark were group 4 runners-up

⁵ as West Germany

⁶ as Soviet Union

Venues

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

Match ball

Etrvsco Unico, a different version of the Adidas Etrusco Unico, was used as the official match ball of the tournament.

Match officials

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

Fourth officials

Country	Fourth officials
Austria	Gerhard Kapl
Belgium	Frans van den Wijngaert
CIS	Vadim Zhuk
Denmark	Kim Milton Nielsen
France	Rémi Harrel
Germany	Karl-Josef Assenmacher
Hungary	Sándor Varga
Italy	Tullio Lanese Pierluigi Pairetto
Netherlands	Mario van der Ende
Portugal	Jorge Emanuel Monteiro Coroado
Sweden	Leif Sundell
Switzerland	Bruno Galler Kurt Röthlisberger

Results

All times local (UTC+2)

Group stage

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.

Group 1

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	5
Denmark	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
France	3	0	2	1	2	3	–1	2
England	3	0	2	1	1	2	–1	2

10 June 1992
Sweden	1–1	France
11 June 1992
Denmark	0–0	England
14 June 1992
France	0–0	England
Sweden	1–0	Denmark
17 June 1992
Sweden	2–1	England
France	1–2	Denmark

Group 2

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	5
Germany	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
Scotland	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	2
CIS	3	0	2	1	1	4	–3	2

12 June 1992
Netherlands	1–0	Scotland
CIS	1–1	Germany
15 June 1992
Scotland	0–2	Germany
Netherlands	0–0	CIS
18 June 1992
Netherlands	3–1	Germany
Scotland	3–0	CIS

Knockout stage

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	21 June – Solna
	Sweden	2
	Germany	3
					26 June – Gothenburg
					Germany	0
					Denmark	2
	22 June – Gothenburg
	Netherlands	2 (4)
	Denmark (pen.)	2 (5)

Semi-finals

21 June 1992 (1992-06-21) 20:15	Sweden	2–3	Germany	Råsunda Stadium, Solna Attendance: 28,827 Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)
	Brolin  64' (pen.) K. Andersson  89'	Report	Häßler  11' Riedle  59', 88'

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22 June 1992 (1992-06-22) 20:15	Netherlands	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Denmark	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 37,450 Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
	Bergkamp  23' Rijkaard  86'	Report	Larsen  5', 33'
		Penalties
	Koeman Van Basten Bergkamp Rijkaard Witschge	4–5	Larsen Povlsen Elstrup Vilfort Christofte

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 Final

26 June 1992 (1992-06-26) 20:15	Denmark	2–0	Germany	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 37,800 Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
	Jensen  18' Vilfort  78'	Report

Statistics

Main article: UEFA Euro 1992 statistics

Goalscorers

3 goals Henrik Larsen Karl-Heinz Riedle Dennis Bergkamp Tomas Brolin 2 goals Jean-Pierre Papin Thomas Häßler Frank Rijkaard Jan Eriksson

1 goal Igor Dobrovolski John Jensen Lars Elstrup Kim Vilfort David Platt Stefan Effenberg Jürgen Klinsmann Rob Witschge Paul McStay Brian McClair Gary McAllister Kennet Andersson

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament

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

Golden Boot

• Dennis Bergkamp
• Tomas Brolin
• Henrik Larsen
• Karl-Heinz Riedle
  (3 goals each)

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. It was the last tournament to use the UEFA plus flag logo, and the last before the tournament came to be 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, at around the time that it was becoming a trend in club football across Europe.

Mascot

The official mascot of the competition was a rabbit named Rabbit, dressed in a Swedish football jersey, and wearing head and wristbands while playing with a ball.

Sponsorship

Global sponsors	Event sponsors
	Sweden
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 overview at Union of European Football Associations
• Goal.com: "Euro 2012 History: The 1992 Finals"
• BBC.co.uk: "Denmark's greatest moment", article (24 May 2004)

UEFA Euro 1992

Stages

Group A · Group B · Group C · Group D · Group E · Group F · Knockout phase · Final

General information

Bids · Matches · Statistics · Squads · Qualification