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International football competition

The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the one-ninth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA. Denmark won the 1992 backing, having qualified only after Yugoslavia was disqualified as a leave of the separation of the state and the ensuing war there. Eight national teams contested the final tournament. [ 1 ] The CIS home football team ( Commonwealth of Independent States ), representing the recently dissolved Soviet Union, whose national team had qualified for the tournament, were salute at the tournament. It was besides the first major tournament in which the reunify Germany ( who were beaten 2–0 by Denmark in the final ) had competed. It was the final tournament with alone eight participants, to award the winner of a catch with merely two points, and before the presentation of the back-pass rule, the latter of which was brought in immediately after the tournament was completed. When the next rival was held in 1996, 16 teams were involved and were awarded three points for a winnings .

Bid process [edit ]

On 16 December 1988, following a decisiveness 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 [edit ]

Seven of the eight teams had to qualify for the final phase ; Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the event. [ 4 ] The Soviet Union qualified for the final examination tournament concisely before the break-up of the country, and took depart in the tournament under the standard of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), [ 5 ] before the former soviet republics formed their own national teams after the rival. The CIS team represented the trace 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 penis of the CIS at the time, but georgian Kakhaber Tskhadadze was a partially of the team. originally, Yugoslavia qualified for the final stagecoach and were approximately to participate as FR Yugoslavia, but due to the Yugoslav wars, the team was disqualified and their modification group ‘s runner-up, leading Denmark to take separate rather. [ 6 ] They shocked the continent when Peter Schmeichel saved Marco van Basten ‘s penalty in the semi-final penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands, frankincense defeating the defending european champions. [ 7 ] The shock was compounded when Denmark went on to defeat the reign world champions Germany 2–0 to win the european title. [ 8 ]

reservation [edit ]

Qualified teams [edit ]

Final pull back [edit ]

The draw for the final examination tournament took rate 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 modify group. In the pull back operation, the unseeded teams were drawn one-by-one. The first two were placed in position 4 of each group, the adjacent two in position 3, and the final 2 in position 2. Next the two seeded teams were drawn and placed consecutively into status 1 of the groups .
The draw resulted in the following groups : [ 12 ]

Venues [edit ]

Squads [edit ]

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

Match ball [edit ]

Adidas Etrusco Unico was used as the official match musket ball of the tournament. The ball was previously used in the 1990 FIFA World Cup .

match officials [edit ]

Group stage [edit ]

The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the two groups advance 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 [edit ]

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the follow tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking :

  1. Greater number of points in all group matches
  2. Goal difference in all group matches
  3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
  4. Drawing of lots

Group 1 [edit ]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Sweden ( H ) 3 2 1 0 4 2 +2 5 Advance to knockout stage
2  Denmark 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
3  France 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
4  England 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2

( H ) Host source : UEFA host

Group 2 [edit ]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 5 Advance to knockout stage
2  Germany 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
3  Scotland 3 1 0 2 3 3 0 2
4  CIS 3 0 2 1 1 4 −3 2

Knockout stage [edit ]

In the hard phase, extra meter and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third place play-off.

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

final [edit ]

Statistics [edit ]

Goalscorers [edit ]

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 [ 14 ]

Awards [edit ]

UEFA Team of the Tournament[15]

selling [edit ]

Slogan and root birdcall [edit ]

Small is Beautiful was the official motto 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 [edit ]

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 besides the inaugural major football competition in which the players had their names printed on their backs, around the time that it was becoming a tendency in club football across Europe .

mascot [edit ]

The official mascot of the competition was a rabbit named Rabbit, dressed in a swedish football jersey, equally well as wearing head and wristbands while playing with a ball. [ 16 ]

References [edit ]

  • UEFA Euro 1992 at UEFA.com