UEFA_U-21_Championship_1992
1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
International football competition
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. Italy U-21s won the competition.
Quick Facts Tournament details, Dates ...
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| Dates | 10 March – 3 June |
| Teams | 32 (from 1 confederation) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Italy (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Sweden |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 111 |
| Goals scored | 296 (2.67 per match) |
| Attendance | 128,567 (1,158 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Renato Buso (3 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Renato Buso[1] |
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The competition doubled as the European qualifying round for the Olympic Football 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.
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.
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)
More information Qualifying Group 1, P ...
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More information Soviet Union, 2–2 ...
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More information Soviet Union, 2–0 ...
Soviet Union  | 2–0 |  Hungary |
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Scherbakov  56'Radchenko 81' |
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Qualified teams
More information Country, Qualified as ...
| Country | Qualified as | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
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 Czechoslovakia | Group 1 winner | 4 (1978, 1980, 1988, 1990) |
 Scotland | Group 2 winner | 3 (1980, 1982, 1984, 1988) |
| Italy | Group 3 winner | 7 (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990) |
 Denmark | Group 4 winner | 2 (1978, 1986) |
 Germany | Group 5 winner | 2 (1982, 1990) |
 Netherlands | Group 6 winner | 1 (1988) |
 Poland | Group 7 winner | 3 (1982, 1984, 1986) |
| Sweden | Group 8 winner | 2 (1986, 1990) |
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- 1 Bold indicates champion for that year
See also: 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads
Only players born on or after 1 January 1969 were eligible to play in the tournament.
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Quarter-finals
First leg
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More information Denmark, 5–0 ...
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Second leg
More information Scotland, 4–3 ...
| Scotland | 4–3 | Germany |
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| McKinnon 43' Creaney 69'Lambert 78'Rae 87' |
Report | Kranz 10' Scholl 41'Herrlich 53' |
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Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Final
First leg
Second leg
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goal
Martin Kotůlek (playing against Italy)
1992 UEFA European under-21 championship medal table
More information Pos, Team ...
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
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Italy |
6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 10 | Gold Medal |
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Sweden |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | Silver Medal |
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Scotland |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | Eliminated in semi-finals |
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Denmark |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 3 | |
| 5 | Netherlands |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 6 | Germany |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 1 | |
| 7 | Poland |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | |
| 8 | Czech Republic |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 0 |
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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.[2] 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.
- POLAND 13 points/8 games played = 1.625
- Netherlands 12 points/8 games played = 1.5 (+ goals: 22/6 = 3.67)
- Czechoslovakia 15 points/10 games played = 1.5 (+ goals: 24/8 = 3.0)
- Germany 9 points/6 games played = 1.5 (+ goals: 16/6 = 2.67)
OFC–UEFA play-off
- "1992: Renato Buso". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 June 1992. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- Kicker Sportmagazin #20/1992, p. 43
- Results Archive at uefa.com
- RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com