1992 UEFA European Football Championship
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The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was hosted by Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth European Football Championship
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...

, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

. Eight national teams contested the championship, which was won by Denmark
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...

, one of the country's few major football triumphs. The team qualified only as a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

.

Summary

Sweden beat Spain to host the event. Spain was at a disadvantage as they had already been chosen to host the EXPO 1992
Seville Expo '92
The Universal Exposition of Seville took place from Monday, April 20 to Monday, October 12, 1992 on La Isla de La Cartuja , Seville, Spain. The theme for the Expo was "The Age of Discovery" and over 100 countries were represented...

 and the 1992 Summer Olympic Games
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

.

Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final stage; Sweden
Sweden national football team
The Swedish national football team represents Sweden in association football and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body for Football in Sweden. Sweden's home ground is Råsunda Stadium in Stockholms län and their head coach is Erik Hamrén. Sweden made their first...

 qualified automatically as hosts of the event. The USSR
USSR national football team
The Soviet Union National Football Team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist after the break up of the Union...

 qualified for the finals shortly before the break-up of the country
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the disintegration of the federal political structures and central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , resulting in the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union between March 11, 1990 and December 25, 1991...

, and took part in the tournament under the banner of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....

 before the former Soviet republics formed their own national teams after the competition. The CIS team
CIS national football team
The CIS national football team represented the Commonwealth of Independent States, a regional confederation formed by 12 of the 15 newly formed sovereign states that emerged out of the break-up of the Soviet Union between 1990 and early 1992...

 represented the following Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine
Ukraine national football team
The Ukraine national football team is the national football team of Ukraine and is controlled by the Football Federation of Ukraine. After Ukrainian Independence and breakaway from the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Hungary on 29 April 1992...

, Belarus
Belarus national football team
The Belarus national football team represents Belarus in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk...

, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan national football team
The Kazakhstan national football team represents Kazakhstan in international men's association football and is directed by Football Federation of Kazakhstan. They split from the Soviet Union national football team after independence in 1991 and joined the Asian Football Confederation's Central and...

, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan national football team
The Uzbekistan national football team represents Uzbekistan in association football and is controlled by the Uzbekistan Football Federation, the governing body for football in Uzbekistan...

, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan national football team
The Turkmenistan national football team is the national team of Turkmenistan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Turkmenistan.-History:After the country gained independence, they played their first match against Kazakhstan on June 1, 1992...

, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan national football team
The Kyrgyzstan national football team is the national team of Kyrgyzstan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic.-History:...

, Armenia
Armenia national football team
The Armenia national football team represents Armenia in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Armenia, the governing body for football in Armenia...

, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan national football team
The Azerbaijan national football team is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan...

, Moldova
Moldova national football team
The Moldova national football team represents Moldova in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Moldova, the governing body for football in Moldova. Moldova's home ground is Zimbru Stadium in Chişinău and their head coach is Gavril Balint...

 and Tajikistan
Tajikistan national football team
The Tajikistan national football team represents Tajikistan in association football and is controlled by the Tajikistan National Football Federation, the governing body for football in Tajikistan. Tajikistan's home ground is Pamir Stadium in Dushanbe....

. Four out of 15 ex-republics were not members of the CIS: Estonia
Estonia national football team
The Estonia national football team represents Estonia in international association football. Team members are selected by the head coach of Estonian Football Association . Estonia play their home matches at the A. Le Coq Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

, Latvia
Latvia national football team
The Latvian national football team is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Latvia and represents the country in international football competitions, such as the World Cup and the European Championships. So far, they have never qualified for a FIFA World...

, and Lithuania
Lithuania national football team
The national football team of Lithuania is under the auspices of the Lithuanian Football Federation. It played its first match in 1923. In 1940, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union; the country regained its independence in 1990 and played their first match as a new nation against Georgia on...

 did not send their players, Georgia
Georgia national football team
The Georgia national football team is the national association football team of Georgia and is controlled by the Georgian Football Federation. The Georgian team's first match took place in 1990, while Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union. The team have attempted to qualify for each major...

 was not member of the CIS at the time, but Georgian Kakhaber Tskhadadze
Kakhaber Tskhadadze
Kakhaber Tskhadadze is a Georgian football coach and former player.-Career:His club career started in 1986 in Dinamo Tbilisi. He became known in Western Europe with German team Eintracht Frankfurt, who he joined in 1992. After a couple of successful seasons he gradually found himself struggling...

 was a part of the squad.

Originally, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...

 qualified for the final stage, but due to the Yugoslav wars
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...

, the team was disqualified and their qualifying group's runner-up, Denmark
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...

, took part in the championship. They shocked the continent when Peter Schmeichel
Peter Schmeichel
Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993...

 saved Marco van Basten's penalty in the shoot-out, thus defeating the first defending European champions the Netherlands
Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...

 in the semi-finals, and then the reigning world champions Germany 2-0 for the title.

The official anthem of the tournament was "More Than a Game", performed by Towe Jaarnek
Towe Jaarnek
Towe Jaarnek, born 13 June 1965, is a Swedish singer. At the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1991, she sang the song Ett liv med dig, which finished 2nd. In 1992 she sang a duet with the Swedish singer Peter Jöback. The song was More Than a Game, which was the official song for the 1992 European Football...

 and Peter Jöback
Peter Jöback
Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer and musical artist, and is regarded as being one of Sweden's best male vocalists .- 1997–2000 :...

. 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.

Qualification

The following teams participated in the final tournament: (replaced former ) (replaced , who were under sanctions by the UN Security Council Resolution 757
United Nations Security Council Resolution 757
United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, adopted on May 30, 1992, after reaffirming resolutions 713 , 721 , 724 , 727 , 740 743 , 749 and 752 , the Council condemned the failure of the authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to implement Resolution 752.After demanding the...

 and thus banned from appearing.) (first appearance as reunited country) (reigning champions) (first appearance) (hosts, first appearance)

Venues

Göteborg Solna
Solna Municipality
Solna Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the capital Stockholm. Its seat is located in the 'city' of Solna....

Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

Norrköping
Norrköping
Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...

Ullevi
Ullevi
Ullevi is a stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. The stadium was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then Ullevi has also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals in 1983 and 1990, the UEFA Euro 1992...

Råsunda Stadium
Råsunda Stadium
Råsunda Fotbollstadion, also Råsundastadion, Råsunda Stadium or just Råsunda, is a Swedish national football stadium. It is located in Solna Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm and named after Råsunda, a zone of Solna.-History:...

Malmö Stadion
Malmö Stadion
Malmö Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Malmö, Sweden which is currently the home of Swedish football Division 4 club IFK Malmö and athletics club MAI...

Idrottsparken
Idrottsparken
Idrottsparken is a multi-purpose stadium in Norrköping, Sweden constructed in 1903. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the home arena for IFK Norrköping, IK Sleipner and for IF Sylvia. The stadium had a capacity of 19,414 people until 2008/2009 when the arena was re-built....

Capacity: 44,000 Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 23,000

Match officials

  Austria
  • Hubert Forstinger
    Hubert Forstinger
    Hubert Forstinger is a retired Austrian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship in Sweden that was between France and Denmark.-References:*...



  Belgium
  • Guy Goethals
    Guy Goethals
    Guy Goethals is a retired Belgian football referee. He is best known for having refereed two matches in the UEFA European Football Championship in 1992 and 1996. He is the son of Raymond Goethals.-References:*...



  Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Alexey Spirin
    Alexey Spirin
    Alexey Nikolayevich Spirin is a former association football referee from Russia. He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-References:...



  Denmark
  • Peter Mikkelsen


  France
  • Gérard Biguet
    Gérard Biguet
    Gérard Biguet is a retired French football referee, known for having refereed one match at the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship: CIS versus Germany.-References:*...



  Germany
  • Aron Schmidhuber
    Aron Schmidhuber
    Aron Schmidhuber is a retired football referee from Germany. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.-External links:*...



  Hungary
  • Sándor Puhl
    Sándor Puhl
    Sándor Puhl is a retired football referee from Hungary. He is mostly known for supervising four matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA, including the final between Brazil and Italy....



  Italy
  • Tullio Lanese
    Tullio Lanese
    Tullio Lanese is a former football referee from Italy. He is mostly known for supervising three matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. He also refereed the European Cup final in 1991....

  • Pierluigi Pairetto
    Pierluigi Pairetto
    Pierluigi Pairetto is an Italian former football referee. Among the many prestigious games he officiated were the Euro 96 final between Germany and the Czech Republic at Wembley, and the classic USA 94 second-round clash between Romania and Argentina in Pasadena.He held the position of Italian...



  Netherlands
  • John Blankenstein
    John Blankenstein
    John Blankenstein was a Dutch soccer referee. He was notable for being one of the first homosexual athletes to come out in the Netherlands....



  Portugal
  • José Rosa dos Santos
    José Rosa dos Santos
    José Rosa dos Santos is a former Portuguese football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the UEFA European Football Championship, one in the 1988 and one in the 1992.-References:*...



  Spain
  • Emilio Soriano Aladren
    Emilio Soriano Aladren
    Emilio Soriano Aladrén is a retired Spanish football referee. He officialed one match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He also officialed two matches in the UEFA European Football Championship, one in the 1988 and one in the 1992.-References:...



  Sweden
  • Bo Karlsson
    Bo Karlsson
    Bo Jonas Hil Karlsson is a former football referee from Sweden. He is mostly known for refereeing one match at the 1994 FIFA World Cup...



  Switzerland
  • Bruno Galler
    Bruno Galler
    Bruno Galler is a retired football referee from Switzerland. He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. He also refereed the UEFA Cup final in 1989 and the European Football Championship final in 1992.-References:*...

  • Kurt Röthlisberger
    Kurt Röthlisberger
    Kurt Röthlisberger is a retired football referee from Switzerland. He is mostly known for supervising five matches in the FIFA World Cup...



Squads

For a list of all participating squads see 1992 UEFA European Football Championship squads
1992 UEFA European Football Championship squads
The following is a list of squads for each nation competing at Euro 1992 in Sweden. The tournament started on 10 June and concluded on 26 June 1992.Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, by 31 May 1992...


Results

In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one for a draw. The following championship would see three points awarded for a win.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 2 1 0 4 2
2
5
3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2

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Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 2 1 0 4 1
3
5
3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
3 1 0 2 3 3 0 2
3 0 2 1 1 4 −3 2

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

Goal scorers

3 goals Henrik Larsen
Henrik Larsen
Henrik Larsen , nicknamed Store Larsen , is a Danish former professional football player who was last the manager of Lyngby Boldklub.-Biography:...

 Karl-Heinz Riedle Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Bergkamp , is a former Dutch professional footballer who is currently the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax. At club level he played for Ajax, Internazionale, and Arsenal, and also represented the Netherlands at international level...

 Tomas Brolin
Tomas Brolin
Per Tomas Brolin is a Swedish former professional football player who had a successful period with A.C. Parma during the early nineties winning the 1992 Coppa Italia, the 1993 Cup Winners' Cup, the 1993 UEFA Super Cup and the 1995 UEFA Cup.Brolin also played for the Swedish national team,...



2 goals Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Papin is a former French professional football player who was European Footballer of the Year in 1991.Papin achieved his greatest success while playing for Olympique Marseille between 1986 and 1992...

 Thomas Häßler
Thomas Häßler
Thomas Jürgen "Icke" Häßler is a former German football midfielder and is currently a coach for 1. FC Köln. He was formerly a coach for the Nigeria national team....

 Frank Rijkaard
Frank Rijkaard
Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager of Dutch and Surinamese descent and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Dutch national side,...

 Jan Eriksson
Jan Eriksson
Jan Jonas Jakob Eriksson is a former footballer from Sweden. He played 35 matches and scored four goals for the national team. Two of those goals came at the Euro 1992. He was selected for the 1990 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play...



1 goal Igor Dobrovolski
Igor Dobrovolski
Igor Ivanovich Dobrovolski is retired footballer in the wide attacking midfielder role. He is currently the manager of Dacia Chişinău.He started his career at Moldavian SSR, then played in Russian SFSR, Spain, Italy, France, Germany before retired in Moldova...

 John Jensen
John Jensen
John Jensen , nicknamed Faxe, is a former Danish international footballer who is unemployed. He is known for his temper and is often outspoken in interviews. His playing career lasted over a decade, during which he played most famously for Arsenal F.C...

 Lars Elstrup
Lars Elstrup
Lars Dahl Elstrup is a Danish former professional footballer, who played for a number of Danish clubs, as well as Dutch club Feyenoord and Luton Town in England...

 Kim Vilfort
Kim Vilfort
Kim Vilfort is a former Danish professional football player who is now head talent scout at the Danish football club Brøndby IF...

 David Platt Stefan Effenberg
Stefan Effenberg
Stefan Effenberg is a retired German footballer. A central midfielder, he possessed leadership skills, powerful shooting ability, physical strength, but also a fearsome and controversial character....

 Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...

 Rob Witschge
Rob Witschge
Robert "Rob" Witschge is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder. His younger brother, Richard, was also a footballer and a midfielder....

 Paul McStay
Paul McStay
Paul Michael Lyons McStay MBE, nicknamed the Maestro , is a former football player who spent his entire career with Scottish team Celtic F.C., making his debut in 1982 and retiring in 1997. He captained both Scotland and Celtic at all age levels...

 Brian McClair
Brian McClair
Brian John McClair is a former Scottish international football player who played as a forward, notable for his near 11-year spell at Manchester United, as well as important tenures at Scottish clubs Celtic and Motherwell...

 Gary McAllister
Gary McAllister
Gary McAllister MBE is a Scottish former professional footballer.McAllister played primarily as a midfielder, in a successful career spanning over nineteen years. He started his career at local side Motherwell before moving south of the border to Leicester City at the age of 20...

 Kennet Andersson
Kennet Andersson
Bernt Kennet Andersson is a Swedish former football player and a key member of the Swedish national team that finished third in the 1994 World Cup....



  • The fastest goal of the tournament was scored after 1 min 37 sec, by Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands vs Germany).

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