UEFA EUROcup 1994

The ****UEFA EUROcup 1994**** is the 1st edition of the UEFA EUROcup. It was hosted in England. The tournament opposed the 16 original teams from the UEFA confederation.

The tournament itself take part in the FIFA World Cup 1994 qualifiers. The top 6 teams qualify for the tournament.

## Teams

The 16 teams from the UEFA confederation are invited for the tournament.

* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* England
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Ireland
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Romania
* Russia
* Scotland
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland

## Format

The tournament is played in 2 stages: group stage and knockout stage.

Group Stage: the 16 teams are seeded into 4 groups of 4 teams. In each group, each team face the other 3 one time each. A win give 2 points, a tie 1 point, and a loss 0 point. The top two teams in each group will qualify for the Knockout Stage.

Knockout Stage: the last 8 remaining teams will play in a series of single knockout matches, starting at the quarter-finals. In each round, the losing team gets eliminated, whil the winner is qualified to the next round. The team who won the final become champions of Europe.

## Tournament

### Group Stage

#### Group A

##### Wesneday, 8th of may

England  2-1  Romania

 Ken Thompson 1:48' Bruce McMillan 3:11'  Roman Mazzic 1:19'

Shots: 11-9 | Saves: 6-6

BP:  Bruce McMillan

Scotland  2-2  Norway

 Colin McLaughlan 1:59' David Walker 3:54'  Ove Stendahl 3:49' Lee Patterson 5:12'

Shots: 14-6 | Saves: 4-11

BP:  Colin McLaughlan

##### Sunday, 12nd of may

Norway  2-4  England

 David Hards 5:57' Ove Stendahl 7:36'  Pete Webster 1:12' Ken Thompson 2:46' David Wilson 5:15' 7:31'

Shots: 4-16 | Saves: 11-1

BP:  David Wilson

Romania  1-2  Scotland

 Roman Mazzic 5:01'  Alan Stewart 2:37' David Walker 7:31'

Shots: 5-21 | Saves: 16-4

BP:  Alan Stewart

##### Thursday, 16th of may

Scotland  3-3  England

 David Walker 0:54' Alan Stewart 3:31' 7:03'  Bruce McMillan 3:15' David Wilson 4:41' 7:31'

Shots: 6-14 | Saves: 10-3

BP:  Alan Stewart

Romania  0-5  Norway

 Lee Patterson 2:11' 7:33' David Hards 3:06' Ove Stendhal 3:31' Oli Starjdahl 3:54'

Shots: 6-15 | Saves: 9-5

BP:  Lee Patterson

#### Group B

*Note: France takes 3rd rank over Bulgaria for having won their direct confrontation.*

##### Thursday, 9th of may

Netherlands  3-2  France

 Richard Mul 1:53' Arnold Deboer 2:50' H. Van Smeiter 7:46'  Jean-P. Levesque 3:40' Paul Lucerne 6:05'

Shots: 15-10 | Saves: 8-8

BP:  Richard Mul

Ireland  2-4  Bulgaria

 Davey Jones 2:42' David Pierce 7:16'  Bojidar Andrenov 2:18' 6:36' Tjedan Kostenov 7:33' Marko Renev 7:54'

Shots: 6-11 | Saves: 2-4

BP:  Bojidar Andrenov

##### Monday, 13rd of may

Bulgaria  0-3  Netherlands

 Arnold Deboer 3:31' 3:57' H. Van Smeiter 7:11'

Shots: 13-17 | Saves: 12-10

BP:  Arnold Deboer

France  1-3  Ireland

 Paul Lucerne 0:38'  Roy Andrews 1:57' Davey Jones 2:58' Jonny Joyce 3:40'

Shots: 13-10 | Saves: 7-8

BP:  Jonny Joyce

##### Friday, 17th of may

Ireland  2-2  Netherlands

 Jonny Joyce 2:27' 3:31' Roy Andrews 7:45'   H. Van Smeiter 3:40' 5:59'

Shots: 8-12 | Saves: 8-6

BP:  Jonny Joyce

France  3-2  Bulgaria

 Paul Lucerne 1:44' 2:29' 3:23'  Vlado Cirinski 0:55' Tjedan Kostenov 6:51'

Shots: 16-6 | Saves: 3-12

BP:  Paul Lucerne

#### Group C

##### Friday, 10th of may

Germany  4-1  Greece

 Brian Plank 0:45' Klaus Hoeflich 1:27' 5:52' 6:59'  Pavlo Antoniou 3:40'

Shots: 20-6 | Saves: 5-8

BP:  Klaus Hoeflich

Sweden  1-1  Spain

 Ries Salani 7:21'  Juan Lopez 5:49'

Shots: 13-9 | Saves: 8-10

BP:  Ries Salani

##### Tuesday, 14th of may

Spain  1-2  Germany

 Roberto Idas 1:56'  Klaus Hoeflich 0:23 2:22

Shots: 8-14 | Saves: 10-4

BP:  Klaus Hoeflich

Greece  3-6  Sweden

 Pavlo Antoniou 1:17' Mikos Nipolous 3:52' 7:46'  Bryan Beckstrand 2:14' (P) 2:47' Ries Salani 3:44' 6:51' 7:40' 7:52

Shots: 7-14 | Saves: 8-3

BP:  Ries Salani

##### Saturday, 18th of may

Sweden  1-3  Germany

 Bryan Beckstrand 1:54'  Klaus Hoeflich 2:33' 3:27' Dieter Myer 3:39'

Shots: 9-15 | Saves: 9-7

BP:  Klaus Hoeflich

Greece  1-4  Spain

 Pavlo Antoniou 5:34'  Randy Delucchi 0:45' Juan Lopez 1:34' 6:19' Roberto Idas 2:43'

Shots: 3-13 | Saves: 8-2

BP:  Juan Lopez

#### Group D

##### Saturday, 11st of may

Italy  3-1  Russia

 Roberto Favaro 0:41' Kelly Pizzol 2:04' 5:55'  Sergei Andropov 6:59'

Shots: 10-6 | Saves: 4-5

BP:  Kelly Pizzol

Belgium  3-1  Switzerland

 Alex Payette 1:59' 7:31' Klaus Heidinger 3:12'  Stephane Kurt 2:35'

Shots: 11-9 | Saves: 7-4

BP:  Alex Payette

##### Wesneday, 15th of may

Switzerland  0-2  Italy

 Jacques Boivin 3:28'   Moreno Bianchi 0:13'  Kelly Pizzol 3:22 Joe Della-Savia 3:35

Shots: 7-12 | Saves: 9-5

BP:  Kelly Pizzol

Russia  2-6  Belgium

 Sergei Andropov 1:10' Vlado Kirianov 4:58'  Peter Halas 0:34' 1:52' 2:54' 7:41' Rudi Marton 3:31' Alex Payette 6:00'

Shots: 4-20 | Saves: 12-2

BP:  Peter Halas

##### Sunday, 19th of may

Belgium  1-3  Italy

 Alex Payette 3:31'  Roberto Favaro 0:24' 2:35' Joe Della-Savia 1:47'

Shots: 6-13 | Saves: 8-5

BP:  Roberto Favaro

Russia  4-2  Switzerland

 Vlado Kirianov 1:21' 3:42' 5:53' Sergei Andropov 5:14'  Jacques Deslors 6:58' Stephane Kurt 7:31'

Shots: 14-12 | Saves: 9-6

BP:  Vlado Kirianov

### Knockout Stage

#### Quarter-Finals

##### Wesneday, 22nd of may

England  2-3  Ireland

 Ken Thompson 0:33' 3:51' David Wilson   Jonny Joyce 1:19' 7:34' Davey Jones 3:14'

Shots: 10-7 | Saves: 2-5

BP:  Jonny Joyce

Netherlands  4-0  Scotland

 Arnold Deboer 0:28' H. Van Smeiter 1:10' 4:31' 6:26'

Shots: 15-8 | Saves: 5-8

BP:  H. Van Smeiter

## World Cup Qualification

As semi-finalists,  Ireland,  Netherlands, TBD and TBD qualify for the World Cup.