1991–92 European Cup

The 1991–92 European Cup was the 37th season of the European Cup football club tournament. It was the first European Cup to have a group stage, from which the winning clubs progressed to the final. 1991–92 was the tournament's last edition before it was re-branded as the UEFA Champions League.

1991–92 European Cup
Wembley Stadium in London hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates18 September 1991 – 20 May 1992
Teams32
Final positions
Champions Barcelona (1st title)
Runners-up Sampdoria
Tournament statistics
Matches played73
Goals scored192 (2.63 per match)
Top scorer(s) Sergei Yuran
Jean-Pierre Papin
(7 goals each)

The group stage involved the eight winning clubs from round 2. The clubs were split into two groups of four, playing each other home and away, and the winning club from each group met in the 1992 European Cup Final.

The competition was won for the first time by Barcelona after extra time in the final against Sampdoria, the first victory in the tournament by a team from Spain since 1966. The winning goal was scored by Ronald Koeman with a free kick.

The defending champions, Red Star Belgrade, did not have an opportunity to play at their own ground because of the Yugoslav Wars, thereby reducing their chances of defending their title. Red Star were eliminated in the group stage. It was also the final season in which the clubs from that country were able to participate in the primary European football competition. The clubs from some other former Yugoslav republics were allowed to compete as early as in the 1993–94 season, but due to UN embargo it was only in 1997–98 when the clubs from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia returned to what was now the UEFA Champions League.

In addition, it was the last time an East German team competed in the European Cup, F.C. Hansa Rostock. After the reunification of Germany and its football leagues, the first eastern club to qualify was RB Leipzig, 26 years later, in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League.

English clubs returned to the European Cup, after their five-year ban from European competitions following the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985. The 1990 Football League champions Liverpool had been unable to participate in the 1990–91 European Cup because they had been banned for an additional sixth year. Arsenal represented England in 1991–92, and reached the second round.

Teams

A total of 32 teams participated in the competition, all entering into the first round.

Qualified teams for 1991–92 European Cup
Flamurtari Austria Wien Anderlecht Etar
Apollon Limassol Sparta Prague Brøndby Arsenal
HJK Helsinki Marseille Hansa Rostock[Note GER] 1. FC Kaiserslautern[Note GER]
Panathinaikos Budapest Honvéd Fram Reykjavík Sampdoria
Union Luxembourg Ħamrun Spartans PSV Eindhoven Portadown
Rosenborg Zagłębie Lubin Benfica Dundalk
Universitatea Craiova Rangers Dynamo Kyiv Barcelona
IFK Göteborg Grasshopper Beşiktaş Red Star BelgradeTH

Notes

  1. ^
    Germany (GER): The original slot allocation of the former West/East Germany still applied. 1. FC Kaiserslautern qualified as champions of the 1990–91 Bundesliga, while Hansa Rostock qualified as champions of the 1990–91 NOFV-Oberliga. Due to the reunification of Germany in October 1990, all flags show Germany instead of West/East Germany. However, Hansa Rostock matches and their records were still counted for East Germany, and not for Germany, under UEFA regulations.

First round
Hristo Stoichkov was part of the Barcelona team that won the competition.
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Barcelona 3–1 Hansa Rostock 3–0 0–1
Kaiserslautern 3–1 Etar 2–0 1–1
Union Luxembourg 0–10 Marseille 0–5 0–5
Sparta Prague 2–2 (a) Rangers 1–0 1–2
Ħamrun Spartans 0–10 Benfica 0–6 0–4
Arsenal 6–2 Austria Wien 6–1 0–1
HJK Helsinki 0–4 Dynamo Kyiv 0–1 0–3
Brøndby 4–2 Zagłębie Lubin 3–0 1–2
Fram Reykjavík 2–2 (a) Panathinaikos 2–2 0–0
IFK Göteborg 1–1 (a) Flamurtari 0–0 1–1
Beşiktaş 2–3 PSV Eindhoven 1–1 1–2
Anderlecht 4–1 Grasshopper 1–1 3–0
Red Star Belgrade 8–0 Portadown 4–0 4–0
Universitatea Craiova 2–3 Apollon Limassol 2–0 0–3
Budapest Honvéd 3–1 Dundalk 1–1 2–0
Sampdoria 7–1 Rosenborg 5–0 2–1

First leg
Red Star Belgrade 4–0 Portadown
Tanjga  15'
Stošić  37'
Mihajlović  77', 85'		 Report
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Hasan Ceylan (Turkey)
Kaiserslautern 2–0 Etar
Funkel  38' (pen.), 73' Report
Attendance: 24,700
Referee: Fortunato Azevedo (Portugal)
Universitatea Craiova 2–0 Apollon Limassol
Popescu  22' (pen.)
Agalliu  68'		 Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Victor Filipov (Soviet Union)
Ħamrun Spartans 0–6 Benfica
Report Pacheco  30'
Yuran  32', 35', 50', 83'
Rui Águas  75'
Grawnd Nazzjonali Ta' Qali, Ta' Qali
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Alfred Wieser (Austria)
Sparta Prague 1–0 Rangers
Němec  20' Report
Attendance: 11,000
Fram Reykjavík 2–2 Panathinaikos
Ragnarsson  57'
Arnþórsson  62'		 Report Christodoulou  38', 72'
Attendance: 695
Beşiktaş 1–1 PSV Eindhoven
Özdilek  80' (pen.) Report Ellerman  27'
Attendance: 32,500
Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)
Brøndby 3–0 Zagłębie Lubin
Christofte  53' (pen.)
Ekelund  58'
Okechukwu  73'		 Report
Brøndby Stadion, Brøndby
Attendance: 7,752
Referee: Wieland Ziller (Germany)
Budapest Honvéd 1–1 Dundalk
Negrău  82' Report McEvoy  30'
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Zdravko Đokić (Yugoslavia)
IFK Göteborg 0–0 Flamurtari
Report
Attendance: 4,252
Referee: Bragi Bergmann (Iceland)
HJK Helsinki 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv
Report Kovalets  32'
Attendance: 3,032
Anderlecht 1–1 Grasshopper
Degryse  44' Report Nemtsoudis  65'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)
Union Luxembourg 0–5 Marseille
Report Papin  11', 31', 85' (pen.)
Xuereb  14'
Sauzée  44'
Luxembourg
Attendance: 9,000
Sampdoria 5–0 Rosenborg
Lombardo  11', 84'
Dossena  26', 57'
Silas  76'		 Report
Attendance: 25,000
Barcelona 3–0 Hansa Rostock
Laudrup  25', 47'
Goikoetxea  77'		 Report
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Alphonse Constantin (Belgium)
Arsenal 6–1 Austria Wien
Linighan  38'
Smith  51', 54', 66', 67'
Limpar  80'		 Report Ogris  56'
Attendance: 24,124
Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

Second leg
Zagłębie Lubin 2–1 Brøndby
Czachowski  60'
Grech  73'		 Report Vilfort  28'
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Brøndby won 4–2 on aggregate.

Apollon Limassol 3–0 Universitatea Craiova
Ptak  10' (pen.)
Beširević  56', 79'		 Report
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Dimitar Momirov (Bulgaria)

Apollon Limassol won 3–2 on aggregate.

Flamurtari 1–1 IFK Göteborg
Daullja  25' Report Ekström  68'
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Angelo Amendolia (Italy)

IFK Göteborg 1–1 Flamurtari Vlorë on aggregate. IFK Göteborg won on away goals.

Etar 1–1 Kaiserslautern
Chervenkov  43' Report Degen  90'
Attendance: 6,492

Kaiserslautern won 3–1 on aggregate.

Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 HJK Helsinki
Kovalets  28'
Moroz  48'
Hrytsyna  72'		 Report
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Erman Toroğlu (Turkey)

Dynamo Kyiv won 4–0 on aggregate.

Marseille 5–0 Union Luxembourg
Papin  15', 46'
Angloma  56'
Eyraud  60'
Xuereb  75'		 Report
Attendance: 15,000

Marseille won 10–0 on aggregate.

Rosenborg 1–2 Sampdoria
Strand  83' Report Vialli  85'
Mancini  90' (pen.)
Attendance: 6,705
Referee: Sándor Varga (Hungary)

Sampdoria won 7–1 on aggregate.

Panathinaikos 0–0 Fram Reykjavík
Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Astrit Canaj (Albania)

Fram Reykjavík 2–2 Panathinaikos on aggregate. Panathinaikos won on away goals.

Dundalk 0–2 Budapest Honvéd
Report Pisont  24', 29'
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)

Budapest Honvéd won 3–1 on aggregate.

Portadown 0–4 Red Star Belgrade
Report Ratković  19', 54'
Pančev  38'
Radinović  87'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Tore Hollung (Norway)

Red Star Belgrade won 8–0 on aggregate.

Austria Wien 1–0 Arsenal
Stöger  78' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Aleksey Spirin (Russia)

Arsenal won 6–2 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven 2–1 Beşiktaş
Vanenburg  25'
Kalusha  74'		 Report Tekin  4'
Attendance: 46,000
Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Germany)

PSV Eindhoven won 3–2 on aggregate.

Grasshopper 0–3 Anderlecht
Report Nilis  8', 24', 82'
Attendance: 10,800

Anderlecht won 4–1 on aggregate.

Hansa Rostock 1–0 Barcelona
Spies  66' Report
Attendance: 8,000

Barcelona won 3–1 on aggregate.

Rangers 2–1 (a.e.t.) Sparta Prague
McCall  48', 94' Report Nisbet  98' (o.g.)
Attendance: 34,260

Sparta Prague 2–2 Rangers on aggregate. Sparta Prague won on away goals.

Benfica 4–0 Ħamrun Spartans
Isaías  52'
Brito  70'
Yuran  73'
Paulo Madeira  75'		 Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Ernest Kesseler (Luxembourg)

Benfica won 10–0 on aggregate.

Second round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Barcelona 3–3 (a) Kaiserslautern 2–0 1–3
Marseille 4–4 (a) Sparta Prague 3–2 1–2
Benfica 4–2 Arsenal 1–1 3–1 (aet)
Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 Brøndby 1–1 1–0
Panathinaikos 4–2 IFK Göteborg 2–0 2–2
PSV Eindhoven 0–2 Anderlecht 0–0 0–2
Red Star Belgrade 5–1 Apollon Limassol 3–1 2–0
Budapest Honvéd 3–4 Sampdoria 2–1 1–3

First leg
Dynamo Kyiv 1–1 Brøndby
Salenko  77' (pen.) Report Nielsen  12'
Attendance: 29,184
Red Star Belgrade 3–1 Apollon Limassol
Pančev  16'
Lukić  70'
Savićević  83' (pen.)		 Report Ptak  41'
Attendance: 2,500
Panathinaikos 2–0 IFK Göteborg
Saravakos  27'
Marangos  49'		 Report
Attendance: 55,000
PSV Eindhoven 0–0 Anderlecht
Report
Attendance: 27,000
Budapest Honvéd 2–1 Sampdoria
Pisont  52'
Cservenkai  72'		 Report Toninho Cerezo  56'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Jaap Uilenberg (Netherlands)
Marseille 3–2 Sparta Prague
Waddle  34'
Papin  55', 60'		 Report Vrabec  63' (pen.)
Kukleta  80' (pen.)
Attendance: 10,016
Barcelona 2–0 Kaiserslautern
Begiristain  41', 53' Report
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
Benfica 1–1 Arsenal
Isaías  15' Report Campbell  18'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

Second leg
Sparta Prague 2–1 Marseille
Frýdek  36'
Siegl  70'		 Report Pelé  86'
Attendance: 32,500
Referee: Allan Gunn (England)

Marseille 4–4 Sparta Prague on aggregate. Sparta Prague won on away goals.

Apollon Limassol 0–2 Red Star Belgrade
Report Savićević  48'
Lukić  79' (pen.)
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria)

Red Star Belgrade won 5–1 on aggregate.

IFK Göteborg 2–2 Panathinaikos
Svensson  23'
Ekström  37'		 Report Saravakos  60', 81' (pen.)
Attendance: 10,684

Panathinaikos won 4–2 on aggregate.

Brøndby 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv
Report Yakovenko  6'
Attendance: 13,712

Dynamo Kyiv won 2–1 on aggregate.

Anderlecht 2–0 PSV Eindhoven
Degryse  10'
Boffin  90'		 Report
Stade Constant Vanden Stock, Anderlecht
Attendance: 28,000

Anderlecht won 2–0 on aggregate.

Kaiserslautern 3–1 Barcelona
Hotić  35', 49'
Goldbæk  76'		 Report Bakero  87'
Attendance: 30,200

Barcelona 3–3 Kaiserslautern on aggregate. Barcelona won on away goals.

Arsenal 1–3 (a.e.t.) Benfica
Pates  20' Report Isaías  36', 109'
Kulkov  100'
Attendance: 35,815

Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.

Sampdoria 3–1 Budapest Honvéd
Lombardo  10'
Vialli  27', 46'		 Report Pari  65' (o.g.)
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

Sampdoria won 4–3 on aggregate.

Group stage

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Sampdoria 6 3 2 1 10 5 +5 8 Advance to final
2 Red Star Belgrade 6 3 0 3 9 10 −1 6
3 Anderlecht 6 2 2 2 8 9 −1 6
4 Panathinaikos 6 0 4 2 1 4 −3 4
Source: UEFA
Anderlecht 0–0 Panathinaikos
Report
Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 25,000
Sampdoria 2–0 Red Star Belgrade
Nedeljković  7' (o.g.)
Vialli  74'		 Report
Attendance: 30,000
Panathinaikos 0–0 Sampdoria
Report
Attendance: 51,500
Red Star Belgrade 3–2 Anderlecht
Ratković  19'
Ivić  70'
Pančev  88'		 Report Lamptey  33'
Nilis  55'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Leif Sundell (Sweden)

Match was played in Budapest, Hungary since UEFA suspended Yugoslav teams from playing their home matches in Yugoslavia due to the deteriorating security situation in the country caused by the ethnic incidents that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.

Panathinaikos 0–2 Red Star Belgrade
Report Pančev  70', 87'
Attendance: 60,000
Anderlecht 3–2 Sampdoria
Degryse  53'
Nilis  66', 88'		 Report Vialli  26', 63'
Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 20,000
Red Star Belgrade 1–0 Panathinaikos
Mihajlović  53' (pen.) Report
Balgarska Armiya Stadium, Sofia
Attendance: 25,000

Match was played in Sofia, Bulgaria since UEFA suspended Yugoslav teams from playing their home matches in Yugoslavia due to the deteriorating security situation in the country caused by the ethnic incidents that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.

Sampdoria 2–0 Anderlecht
Lombardo  33'
Mancini  35'		 Report
Attendance: 40,000
Panathinaikos 0–0 Anderlecht
Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Joe Worrall (England)
Red Star Belgrade 1–3 Sampdoria
Mihajlović  19' Report Katanec  34'
Vasilijević  41' (o.g.)
Mancini  76'
Balgarska Armiya Stadium, Sofia
Attendance: 33,000

Match was played in Sofia, Bulgaria since UEFA suspended Yugoslav teams from playing their home matches in Yugoslavia due to the deteriorating security situation in the country caused by the ethnic incidents that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.

Anderlecht 3–2 Red Star Belgrade
Oliveira  3'
Bosman  44'
Degryse  82'		 Report Pančev  7'
Čula  80'
Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 9,000
Sampdoria 1–1 Panathinaikos
Mancini  36' Report Marangos  27'
Attendance: 45,000

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
Barcelona 6 4 1 1 10 4 +6 9 Advance to final
Sparta Prague 6 2 2 2 7 7 0 6
Benfica 6 1 3 2 8 5 +3 5
Dynamo Kyiv 6 2 0 4 3 12 −9 4
Source: UEFA
Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 Benfica
Salenko  29' Report
Attendance: 41,500
Barcelona 3–2 Sparta Prague
Amor  14'
Laudrup  34'
Bakero  61'		 Report Vrabec  19'
Němeček  64'
Attendance: 80,000
Sparta Prague 2–1 Dynamo Kyiv
Němeček  13'
Vrabec  22'		 Report Sharan  55'
Letná Stadium, Prague
Attendance: 14,639
Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)
Benfica 0–0 Barcelona
Report
Attendance: 70,000
Dynamo Kyiv 0–2 Barcelona
Report Stoichkov  33'
Salinas  66'
Attendance: 48,500
Benfica 1–1 Sparta Prague
Pacheco  53' (pen.) Report Novotný  31'
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: Howard King (Wales)
Sparta Prague 1–1 Benfica
Chovanec  45' Report Vítor Paneira  29'
Letná Stadium, Prague
Attendance: 20,000
Barcelona 3–0 Dynamo Kyiv
Stoichkov  60', 81'
Salinas  88'		 Report
Attendance: 53,000
Sparta Prague 1–0 Barcelona
Siegl  65' Report
Letná Stadium, Prague
Attendance: 27,374
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)
Benfica 5–0 Dynamo Kyiv
Brito  25', 62'
Isaías  71'
Yuran  83', 87'		 Report
Attendance: 78,000
Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 Sparta Prague
Salenko  82' Report
Attendance: 5,000
Barcelona 2–1 Benfica
Stoichkov  10'
Bakero  25'		 Report Brito  29'
Attendance: 100,000

Final
Main article: 1992 European Cup Final
Sampdoria 0–1 (a.e.t.) Barcelona
Report Koeman  112'
Attendance: 70,827

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1991–92 European Cup are as follows:

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Sergei Yuran Benfica 7
Jean-Pierre Papin Olympique Marseille 7
3 Luc Nilis Anderlecht 6
Darko Pančev Red Star Belgrade 6
Gianluca Vialli Sampdoria 6
6 Isaías Benfica 5
7 Hristo Stoichkov Barcelona 4
César Brito Benfica 4
Marc Degryse Anderlecht 4
Attilio Lombardo Sampdoria 4
Roberto Mancini Sampdoria 4
Siniša Mihajlović Red Star Belgrade 4
Alan Smith Arsenal 4
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