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1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship


FieldValue
tourney_name1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
dates11 September 1990 – 18 December 1991 (qualifications)
10 March – 3 June (finals)
confederations1
num_teams32
champion_other
count1
second_other
matches111
goals296
attendance128567
top_scorerITA Renato Buso (3 goals)
playerITA Renato Buso
prevseason1990
nextseason1994

10 March – 3 June (finals)

The 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1990–92), had 32 entrants. Malta and Israel competed for the first time. This was also the first appearance of the unified Germany team since 1964. Italy U-21s won the competition.

The competition doubled as the European qualifying stage for the Olympic Football Tournament, which until 1992 existed as a separate tournament. Hosts Spain qualify automatically and the best four eligible nations would qualify automatically. The fifth best European team would play-off against the best Oceania (OFC) team for another Olympics place. Beside the hosting Spain, teams of Scotland, England, Luxembourg and San-Marino did not take part in Olympic qualifications (not members of IOC). Teams of Northern Ireland, Wales and Faroes Islands did not take part in this competition at all.

The 32 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + one group of 3 + one group of 5). The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or 3rd-place playoff.

Qualifying stage

Draw

The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying tournament with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:

  • Groups 1 and 7 featured the same nations
  • Group 2 did not include San Marino (moved to Group 4)
  • Group 3 did not include Cyprus (moved to Group 8)
  • Group 4 did not include Northern Ireland and Faroe Islands, but included San Marino (moved from Group 2)
  • Group 5 did not include Wales
  • Group 6 did not include Greece (moved to Group 8)
  • Group 8 composed of Cyprus (moved from Group 3), Greece (moved from Group 7), Sweden and Israel (both of whom did not participate in senior Euro qualification)
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Qualified teams

CountryQualified asPrevious appearances in tournament1
Group 1 winner4 (1978, 1980, 1988, 1990)
Group 2 winner3 (1980, 1982, 1984, 1988)
Group 3 winner7 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990)
Group 4 winner2 (1978, 1986)
Group 5 winner2 (1982, 1990)
Group 6 winner1 (1988)
Group 7 winner3 (1982, 1984, 1986)
Group 8 winner2 (1986, 1990)

:1 Bold indicates champion for that year

Squads

1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads

Only players born on or after 1 January 1969 were eligible to play in the tournament.

Knockout stages

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Quarter-finals

First leg


Taument

Molnar Møller

Kotůlek

Second leg

Creaney Lambert Rae Scholl Herrlich



Luzardi

Semi-finals

First leg


Second leg

Muzzi

Final

First leg

Sordo

Second leg

Goalscorers

;3 goals

  • ITA Renato Buso

;2 goals

  • DEN Peter Møller
  • DEN Miklos Molnar
  • SCO Gerry Creaney
  • SWE Pascal Simpson ;1 goal
  • TCH Radim Nečas
  • DEN Per Frandsen
  • DEN Peter Frank
  • GER Heiko Herrlich
  • GER Markus Kranz
  • GER Nils Schmäler
  • GER Mehmet Scholl
  • ITA Mauro Bertarelli
  • ITA Luca Luzardi
  • ITA Alessandro Melli
  • ITA Roberto Muzzi
  • ITA Gianluca Sordo
  • NED Robert Roest
  • NED Gaston Taument
  • POL Andrzej Juskowiak
  • SCO Paul Lambert
  • SCO Ray McKinnon
  • SCO Alex Rae
  • SWE Christer Fursth
  • SWE Jonny Rödlund ;Own goal
  • TCH Martin Kotůlek (playing against Italy)

Medal table and Olympic qualifiers

1992 UEFA European under-21 championship medal table

semi-finals quarter-finals

Olympic qualifiers

  • Denmark, Italy and Sweden as winners of their quarter-final rounds qualify for Olympic Games finals. Since the fourth winner Scotland do not compete in the Olympic Football Tournament (See Great Britain Olympic football team), Poland qualifies instead, being the best of the four quarter-final losers according to a special coefficient which is calculated based on the points achieved in the group stage and the quarter-finals, divided by the number of games played. Poland's coefficient is 1.625, while the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Germany have achieved a score of 1.5. The Netherlands having the best goal differential is the one of these three teams to face OFC champions in playoff for an additional place.
  1. Poland - 13 points/8 games played = 1.625
  2. Netherlands - 12 points/8 games played = 1.5 (+ goals: 22/6 = 3.67)
  3. Czechoslovakia - 15 points/10 games played = 1.5 (+ goals: 24/8 = 3.0)
  4. Germany - 9 points/6 games played = 1.5 (+ goals: 16/6 = 2.67)

OFC–UEFA play-off

Main article: Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification (OFC–UEFA play-off)

References

References

  1. (1 June 1992). "1992: Renato Buso". Union of European Football Associations.
  2. [https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/ol1992q.html Football Qualifying Tournament. Games of the XXV. Olympiad]. www.rsssf.org
  3. Kicker Sportmagazin #20/1992, p. 43
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