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1992 UEFA European Football Championship

Europamästerskapet i fotboll Sverige 1992
UEFA Euro 1992 official logo
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)	Karlheinz Riedle Henrik Larsen Tomas Brolin Dennis Bergkamp (3 goals)
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The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship 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 10 June and 26 June 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 represented the following Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan. Five out of 15 ex-republics were not members of the CIS, and therefore did not send their players: Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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 first the defending European champions the Netherlands in the semi-finals, and then 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 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

UEFA Euro 1992 finalists.

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

•  CIS (replaced former  Soviet Union)
•  Denmark – replaced  Yugoslavia, who were under sanctions by the United Nations Security Council resolution 757 and thus banned from appearing.^[1]
•  England
•  France
•  Germany (first appearance as reunited country)
•  Netherlands (reigning champions)
•  Scotland (first appearance)
•  Sweden (hosts, first appearance)

Venues

Göteborg	Solna	Malmö	Norrköping
Ullevi	Råsunda Stadium	Malmö Stadion	Idrottsparken
Capacity: 44,000	Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 23,000

Match officials

Squads

For a list of all participating squads see 1992 UEFA European Football Championship squads

Results

In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, one for a draw

Group stage

All times local (CEST/UTC+2)

Group A

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 20:15	Sweden	1 – 1	France	Råsunda Stadium, Solna Attendance: 29,860 Referee: Alexey Spirin (CIS)
	J. Eriksson  24'	(Report)	Papin  58'

11 June 1992 20:15	Denmark	0 – 0	England	Malmö Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 26,385 Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)
		(Report)

14 June 1992 17:15	France	0 – 0	England	Malmö Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 26,535 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)
		(Report)

14 June 1992 20:15	Sweden	1 – 0	Denmark	Råsunda Stadium, Solna Attendance: 29,902 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
	Brolin  58'	(Report)

17 June 1992 20:15	Sweden	2 – 1	England	Råsunda Stadium, Solna Attendance: 30,126 Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
	J. Eriksson  51' Brolin  82'	(Report)	Platt  4'

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

Group B

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 17:15	Netherlands	1 – 0	Scotland	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 35,720 Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
	Bergkamp  75'	(Report)

12 June 1992 20:15	CIS	1 – 1	Germany	Idrottsparken, Norrköping Attendance: 17,410 Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
	Dobrovolski  64' (pen.)	(Report)	Häßler  90'

15 June 1992 17:15	Scotland	0 – 2	Germany	Idrottsparken, Norrköping Attendance: 17,638 Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)
		(Report)	Riedle  29' Effenberg  47'

15 June 1992 20:15	Netherlands	0 – 0	CIS	Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 34,400 Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)
		(Report)

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

18 June 1992 20:15	Scotland	3 – 0	CIS	Idrottsparken, Norrköping Attendance: 14,660 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
	McStay  7' McClair  16' McAllister  84' (pen.)	(Report)

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

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

Final

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

Euro 1992 Champions
Denmark First title

Statistics

Goal scorers

Fastest goal

1:37 minutes : Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands vs Germany)

Average goals

2.13 goals per game

References

External links

• Denmark's greatest moment, article at BBC.co.uk

UEFA Euro 1992 Stages Group A · Group B · Knockout stage · Final General information Qualification · Squads · Discipline · Officials · Seeding · Schedule · Statistics ·

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