UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	30 May 1990 – 22 December 1991
Teams	33 [note 1]
Tournament statistics
Matches played	123
Goals scored	333 (2.71 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Darko Pančev (10 goals)
← 1988 1996 →

The qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 1992 was a series of parallel association football competitions to be held over 1990 and 1991 to decide the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 1992, to be held in Sweden. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 2 February 1990.

There were a total of seven groups. At the conclusion of qualifying, the team at the top of each group qualified for the final tournament, to join the hosts in completing the eight participants. This was the last European Championship to feature eight teams, as the competition was expanded to 16 teams for 1996. ^[1]

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament [A]
Sweden	Host	16 December 1988	0 (debut)
France	Group 1 winner	12 October 1991	2 ( 1960, 1984)
England	Group 7 winner	13 November 1991	3 ( 1968, 1980, 1988)
CIS [B]	Group 3 winner [C]	13 November 1991	5 ( 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1988)
Scotland	Group 2 winner	13 November 1991	0 (debut)
Germany [D]	Group 5 winner	20 November 1991	5 ( 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988)
Netherlands	Group 6 winner	4 December 1991	3 ( 1976, 1980, 1988)
Denmark	Group 4 runner-up [E]	31 May 1992	3 ( 1964, 1984, 1988)

Seedings

The draw took place on 2 February 1990. Sweden qualified automatically as hosts of the competition, and 34 teams entered the draw, with the Faroe Islands and San Marino participating in a European qualifying tournament for the first time.

As initially made, the draw placed East Germany and West Germany in the same qualifying group; this would have been the first time the two sides had met since the 1974 World Cup. However, following German reunification on 3 October 1990, the East German team was withdrawn and its fixtures scrapped, while the unified German team took over the fixtures of West Germany.

The qualifiers thus consisted of 33 teams divided into seven groups (two of four teams and five of five teams) were played in 1990 and 1991. Each group winner progressed to the finals. This was the last European Championship qualifying phase which awarded two points for a win; from 1996 onward, teams earned 3 points for a win.

Summary

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
France	Scotland	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Germany	Netherlands	England
Czechoslovakia	Switzerland	Italy	Denmark	Wales	Portugal	Republic of Ireland
Spain Iceland Albania	Romania Bulgaria San Marino	Norway Hungary Cyprus	Northern Ireland Austria Faroe Islands	Belgium Luxembourg	Greece Finland Malta	Poland Turkey

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches
2. Goal difference in all group matches
3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
4. Drawing of lots

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	8	8	0	0	20	6	+14	16	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–1	3–1	5–0
2	Czechoslovakia	8	5	0	3	12	9	+3	10			1–2	—	3–2	1–0	2–1
3	Spain	7	3	0	4	17	12	+5	6			1–2	2–1	—	2–1	9–0
4	Iceland	8	2	0	6	7	10	−3	4			1–2	0–1	2–0	—	2–0
5	Albania	7	1	0	6	2	21	−19	2			0–1	0–2	Canc. [a]	1–0	—

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Scotland	8	4	3	1	14	7	+7	11	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	2–1	1–1	4–0
2	Switzerland	8	4	2	2	19	7	+12	10			2–2	—	0–0	2–0	7–0
3	Romania	8	4	2	2	13	7	+6	10			1–0	1–0	—	0–3	6–0
4	Bulgaria	8	3	3	2	15	8	+7	9			1–1	2–3	1–1	—	4–0
5	San Marino	8	0	0	8	1	33	−32	0			0–2	0–4	1–3	0–3	—

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union [a]	8	5	3	0	13	2	+11	13	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–0	2–0	2–2	4–0
2	Italy	8	3	4	1	12	5	+7	10			0–0	—	1–1	3–1	2–0
3	Norway	8	3	3	2	9	5	+4	9			0–1	2–1	—	0–0	3–0
4	Hungary	8	2	4	2	10	9	+1	8			0–1	1–1	0–0	—	4–2
5	Cyprus	8	0	0	8	2	25	−23	0			0–3	0–4	0–3	0–2	—

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	8	7	0	1	24	4	+20	14	Banned from final tournament [a]		—	1–2	4–1	4–1	7–0
2	Denmark	8	6	1	1	18	7	+11	13	Qualify for final tournament [a]		0–2	—	2–1	2–1	4–1
3	Northern Ireland	8	2	3	3	11	11	0	7			0–2	1–1	—	2–1	1–1
4	Austria	8	1	1	6	6	14	−8	3			0–2	0–3	0–0	—	3–0
5	Faroe Islands	8	1	1	6	3	26	−23	3			0–2	0–4	0–5	1–0	—

Group 5

East Germany were originally drawn into this group alongside West Germany, but after reunification, a single German team participated in the qualification process, taking over the fixtures of West Germany.

Subsequently, East Germany's game on 12 September 1990 against Belgium was reclassified as a friendly, and was also East Germany's final international match, which it won 2–0: the remaining seven fixtures of East Germany were scratched. ^[4]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	6	5	0	1	13	4	+9	10	Qualify for final tournament		—	4–1	1–0	4–0
2	Wales	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	9			1–0	—	3–1	1–0
3	Belgium	6	2	1	3	7	6	+1	5			0–1	1–1	—	3–0
4	Luxembourg	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0			2–3	0–1	0–2	—

Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	8	6	1	1	17	2	+15	13	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0
2	Portugal	8	5	1	2	11	4	+7	11			1–0	—	1–0	1–0	5–0
3	Greece	8	3	2	3	11	9	+2	8			0–2	3–2	—	2–0	4–0
4	Finland	8	1	4	3	5	8	−3	6			1–1	0–0	1–1	—	2–0
5	Malta	8	0	2	6	2	23	−21	2			0–8	0–1	1–1	1–1	—

Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	9	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Republic of Ireland	6	2	4	0	13	6	+7	8			1–1	—	0–0	5–0
3	Poland	6	2	3	1	8	6	+2	7			1–1	3–3	—	3–0
4	Turkey	6	0	0	6	1	14	−13	0			0–1	1–3	0–1	—

Goalscorers

There were 333 goals scored in 123 matches, for an average of 2.71 goals per match.

10 goals

9 goals

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes

References

External links

• UEFA Euro 1992 at UEFA.com