The 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1990–92), had 32 entrants.

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and

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competed for the first time. This was also the first appearance of the unified

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team. Italy U-21s won the competition. The competition doubled as the European qualifying round for the

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. Hosts

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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

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(moved to Group 4) * Group 3 did not include

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

(moved to Group 8) * Group 4 did not include

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and

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, but included

(moved from Group 1) * Group 5 did not include

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

* Group 6 did not include

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(moved to Group 8) * Group 8 composed of

(moved from Group 3),

(moved from Group 7),

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and

(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

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Second leg

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Semi-finals

First leg

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Second leg

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Final

First leg

Second leg

Goalscorers

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;2 goals *

Peter Møller Peter Møller Nielsen (born 23 March 1972) is a Danish former professional football player who became a sports journalist after ending his football career in December 2005. In 2018 he became sporting director of Dansk Boldspil Union. He won fo ...

* Miklos Molnar *

Gerry Creaney Gerard Thomas "Gerry" Creaney (born 13 April 1970, in Coatbridge) is a Scottish former association football, footballer, who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Career Creaney began his career with Celtic F.C., Celtic, signing ...

Pascal Simpson Pascal "Pagge" Simpson (born 4 May 1971) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented IF Brommapojkarna, AIK, Vålerenga IF, FC Copenhagen, and Halmstads BK during a career that spanned between 1990 and 2 ...

;1 goal *

Radim Nečas Radim Nečas (born 26 August 1969) is a Czech football manager and former player. He played for the Czech Republic four times between 1995 and 2000. Nečas made more than 300 top-flight appearances spanning the existence of the Czechoslovak Firs ...

Per Frandsen Per Frandsen (born 6 February 1970) is a Danish football manager and former professional football player. He is currently the manager of Hvidovre IF. He won the 1994–95 Danish Cup with F.C. Copenhagen, and played 265 league games as a midfi ...

* Peter Frank *

Heiko Herrlich Heiko Herrlich (born 3 December 1971) is a German football manager and former player who played as a striker. He last managed FC Augsburg. Club career Herrlich played 258 matches (1989–2004) in the Bundesliga and scored 75 goals for Bayer 04 ...

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Mehmet Scholl Mehmet Tobias Scholl (born Mehmet Tobias Yüksel; 16 October 1970) is a German football manager and former player. He played most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Bayern Munich. During his career he won the UEFA Cup in 1996 (scoring ...

* Mauro Bertarelli * Luca Luzardi * Alessandro Melli *

Roberto Muzzi Roberto Muzzi (; born 21 September 1971) is an Italian former professional football striker, currently contracted with Cagliari as a "club manager". During his career, he played for several Italian clubs including A.S. Roma, Pisa Calcio, C ...

* Gianluca Sordo * Robert Roest *

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Andrzej Juskowiak Andrzej Mieczysław Juskowiak (born 3 November 1970) is a former Polish football striker who played for the Polish national team. International career Nicknamed "Jusko", he was a participant at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where Poland won the sil ...

Paul Lambert Paul Lambert (born 7 August 1969) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player, who was most recently the manager of Ipswich Town. Lambert played as a midfielder and won the Scottish Cup in 1987 with St Mirren as a 17-year-ol ...

* Ray McKinnon * Alex Rae *

Christer Fursth Karl Christer Fursth (born 6 July 1970) is a Swedish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a left midfielder. He represented Örebro SK, Helsingborgs IF, 1. FC Köln, and Hammarby Fotboll, Hammarby IF during a career ...

* 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 ''

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''), 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.Kicker Sportmagazin #20/1992, p. 43 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
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