1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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.
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.
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)
Qualified teams
1 Bold indicates champion for that year
Squads
Only players born on or after 1 January 1969 were eligible to play in the tournament.
Knockout stages
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Final
First leg
Second leg
Goalscorers
3 goals
Renato Buso
2 goals
Peter Møller
Miklos Molnar
Gerry Creaney
Pascal Simpson
1 goal
Radim Nečas
Per Frandsen
Peter Frank
Heiko Herrlich
Markus Kranz
Nils Schmäler
Mehmet Scholl
Mauro Bertarelli
Luca Luzardi
Alessandro Melli
Roberto Muzzi
Gianluca Sordo
Robert Roest
Gaston Taument
Andrzej Juskowiak
Paul Lambert
Ray McKinnon
Alex Rae
Christer Fursth
Jonny Rödlund
Own goal
Martin Kotůlek (playing against Italy)
Medal table and Olympic qualifiers
1992 UEFA European under-21 championship medal table
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.
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
References
External links
Results Archive at uefa.com
RSSSF Results Archive ''at rsssf.com
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Football qualification for the 1992 Summer Olympics
UEFA
UEFA
1992 in youth association football