1992 European Cup final

1992 European Cup Final

Event	1991–92 European Cup
Sampdoria Barcelona 0 1
After extra time
Date	20 May 1992
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)
Attendance	70,827

The 1992 European Cup Final was a football match held on 20 May 1992 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Sampdoria of Italy and Barcelona of Spain. Barcelona won the game 1–0 after extra time, thanks to a Ronald Koeman free kick, to record their first triumph in the competition. It was the first to have a group stage involving the eight second-round winners split into two groups, and the winner of each one met in the final. In doing so, they became the second Spanish club to win the tournament and the 19th overall.

Route to the final

Sampdoria				Round	Barcelona
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	7–1	5–0 (H)	2–1 (A)	First round	Hansa Rostock	3–1	3–0 (H)	0–1 (A)
Honvéd	4–3	1–2 (A)	3–1 (H)	Second round	Kaiserslautern	3–3 (a)	2–0 (H)	1–3 (A)
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Red Star Belgrade	2–0 (H)			Matchday 1	Sparta Prague	3–2 (H)
Panathinaikos	0–0 (A)			Matchday 2	Benfica	0–0 (A)
Anderlecht	2–3 (A)			Matchday 3	Dynamo Kyiv	2–0 (A)
Anderlecht	2–0 (H)			Matchday 4	Dynamo Kyiv	3–0 (H)
Red Star Belgrade	3–1 (A)			Matchday 5	Sparta Prague	0–1 (A)
Panathinaikos	1–1 (H)			Matchday 6	Benfica	2–1 (H)
Group A winner Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Sampdoria 6 3 2 1 10 5 +5 8 Red Star Belgrade 6 3 0 3 9 10 −1 6 Anderlecht 6 2 2 2 8 9 −1 6 Panathinaikos 6 0 4 2 1 4 −3 4				Final standings	Group B winner Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Barcelona 6 4 1 1 10 4 +6 9 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

Match

Details

Sampdoria v Barcelona

20 May 1992 19:15 BST

Sampdoria	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Barcelona
	Report	Koeman  112'

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 70,827 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Sampdoria

Barcelona

GK 1 Gianluca Pagliuca SW 6 Marco Lanna RB 2 Moreno Mannini  39' CB 5 Pietro Vierchowod  66' LB 3 Srečko Katanec RM 7 Attilio Lombardo CM 4 Fausto Pari CM 8 Toninho Cerezo LM 11 Ivano Bonetti  73' CF 9 Gianluca Vialli  100' CF 10 Roberto Mancini (c)  118' Substitutes: GK 12 Giulio Nuciari DF 14 Dario Bonetti MF 16 Giovanni Invernizzi  73' MF 17 Renato Buso  100' FW 15 Paulo Silas Manager: Vujadin Boškov

GK 1 Andoni Zubizarreta (c) SW 4 Ronald Koeman CB 3 Albert Ferrer CB 2 Nando RWB 11 Eusebio Sacristán LWB 5 Juan Carlos DM 10 Josep Guardiola  112' CM 6 José Mari Bakero  75' CM 9 Michael Laudrup CF 7 Julio Salinas  65' CF 8 Hristo Stoichkov Substitutes: GK 13 Carles Busquets DF 12 José Ramón Alexanko  112' MF 15 Miguel Ángel Nadal MF 16 Andoni Goikoetxea  65' FW 14 Txiki Begiristain Manager: Johan Cruyff

Assistant referees: Joachim Ren (Germany) Uwe Ennuschat (Germany) Fourth official: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Five named substitutes. Maximum of two substitutions.

See also

• 1991–92 European Cup

External links

• 1991–92 season at UEFA website