1991–92 European Cup

1991–92 European Cup

Tournament details
Dates	18 September 1991 – 20 May 1992
Teams	32
Final positions
Champions	Barcelona (1st title)
Runners-up	Sampdoria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	73
Goals scored	192 (2.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergei Yuran Jean-Pierre Papin (7 goals each)

The 1991–92 season of the European Cup football club tournament 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. This was the last tournament before the competition was re-branded as the UEFA Champions League. 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 addition, it was the last time an East Germany team competed in European Cup until RB Leipzig's qualification for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League.

This tournament also marked the first appearance of English clubs after a six-year absence resulting from the ban they received following the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985. They would have returned one year earlier had any club other than Liverpool won the 1990 Football League championship, but Liverpool were unable to participate in the 1990–91 competition because they had been banned for an additional year beyond the five-year ban to which all English clubs had been subjected. Arsenal represented England this season and reached the second round.

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

First round

Note: As Kaiserslautern and Hansa Rostock of Germany were champions of the 1990–91 Bundesliga and 1990–91 NOFV-Oberliga, respectively, both qualified for European Cup. As German reunification has occurred, all flags here show Germany instead of West/East Germany.

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	(a)2–2	Rangers	1–0	1–2
Hamrun 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	(a)1–1	Flamurtari Vlorë	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

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Second leg

Brøndby won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Apollon Limassol won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

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Kaiserslautern won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Dynamo Kyiv won 4–0 on aggregate.

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Marseille won 10–0 on aggregate.

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Sampdoria won 7–1 on aggregate.

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

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Budapest Honvéd won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Red Star Belgrade won 8–0 on aggregate.

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Arsenal won 6–2 on aggregate.

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PSV Eindhoven won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Anderlecht won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Barcelona won 3–1 on aggregate.

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

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Benfica won 10–0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	(a)3–3	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

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Second leg

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

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Red Star Belgrade won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Panathinaikos won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Dynamo Kyiv won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Anderlecht won 2–0 on aggregate.

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

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Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Sampdoria won 4–3 on aggregate.

Group stage

Group A

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Group B

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

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Final

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

External links

• 1991–92 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1991–92 European Cup according to protocols UEFA
• 1991/92 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)