Also in this year: 1992
European Champion Clubs' Cup winners: FC Barcelona (1-0 v Sampdoria UC)
European Footballer of the Year: Marco van Basten (AC Milan)
Eurovision Song Contest winner: Linda Martin (Republic of Ireland) singing Why Me?
European Golden Boot winner*: Ally McCoist (Rangers FC)
Nobel Peace Prize winner: Rigoberta Menchú (based on her work on behalf of indigenous peoples, Guatemala)
Men's Olympic 100m champion: Linford Christie (United Kingdom) running 9.96 seconds
Formula 1 world champion: Nigel Mansell (United Kingdom) driving a Williams
Oscar for Best Picture: Unforgiven
*Unofficial award
Key events
7 February – Ministers from the 12 countries making up the European Community sign the Maastricht treaty to become European Union
4 November – Bill Clinton wins the presidential election in the United States
20 November – A blaze rages through Windsor Castle in England, one of the residences of the Royal Family
History
Top scorers
| 3 | Dennis Bergkamp - Netherlands |
| 3 | Henrik Larsen - Denmark |
| 3 | Karlheinz Riedle - Germany |
| 3 | Tomas Brolin - Sweden |
| 2 | Frank Rijkaard - Netherlands |
| 2 | Jan Eriksson - Sweden |
| 2 | Jean-Pierre Papin - France |
| 2 | Thomas Hässler - Germany |
Team of the Tournament
- Peter Schmeichel »
- Jocelyn Angloma »
- Laurent Blanc »
- Jürgen Kohler »
- Andreas Brehme »
- Ruud Gullit »
- Stefan Effenberg »
- Thomas Hässler »
- Brian Laudrup »
- Dennis Bergkamp »
- Marco van Basten »
Mascot
After failing to qualify, Denmark were invited to replace Yugoslavia at the last minute, and they gladly ditched their summer plans to become unlikely champions of Europe. There was an appealingly ramshackle feel about this Denmark side, and altogether they had just two weeks to prepare for EURO '92 in Sweden after Yugoslavia were barred from competing because of the developing Balkan crisis.
Richard Møller-Nielsen's men eliminated the Netherlands on penalties to reach the final where they faced Berti Vogts's Germany in Gothenburg. Denmark stunned the watching world when John Jensen drove in after 18 minutes and Kim Vilfort completed the fairytale by adding a second. Try as the Germans might to hit back, an inspirational Peter Schmeichel kept out everything thrown at his goal. More >>