Liedjes Voetbal Steekspel Euro 1992

This was the third European Championships and took place across the year of 1988. The first match kicked off on... and the final match ended on... It was hosted between Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

Every eligible European team would compete. Even regional nations or provinces could compete if they had fulfilled the requirements. This allowed nations such as the Faroe Islands or Gibraltar to take part. Furthermore, the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, and Soviet Union would play as it's constituent countries. Partially recognised countries were technically allowed to compete, but were forced to be placed into separate groups as nations who did not recognise them.

The following chart shows each participating countries' national teams by Liedjes Federal ranking at the time of drawing the groups on 1st September 1983. Despite their large populations, the nations of Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Moldova were placed at the bottom due to their terrible record and statistics. Belarus, having only formed a national team in July 1983, had played 3 games. A 5-0 loss against Russia on 8th August 1983, then a 7-0 loss against Serbia on 16th August 1983, and a 13-0 loss against Hungary on 29th August 1983 led them to place badly. Moldova, having only formed their national team around the same time, recorded a 17-0 loss against Croatia in their international debut. Guernsey's best result in the previous 4 years had been a 4-0 loss to Wales, and a 5-1 loss to Belgium. In this tournament, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Moldova would debut at a major international tournament. Germany, despite previously ranking well, was excluded from the top 10 due to failing to qualify for the previous World Cup. This placed them in a lower bracket despite being statistically a better team, which caused many criticism. The only major nation not to participate is East Germany, and the autonomous state within Czechoslovakia, Slovakia.

All 16 of these World Cup qualifiers will then play the Knockout Stage. Assigned onto a bracket board, it will be a single elimination knockout game that can go to penalties. A third-place playoff will be played with the final declaring the Champions of Europe until the next Euro tournament in 1988.

Group 1
Matches would be played in Ljubljana,  Plovdiv,  Novi Sad.

Group 2
Matches would be played in Bucharest,  Sofia,  Zagreb.

Group 3
Matches would be played in Cluj,  Varna,  Dubrovnik.

Group 4
Matches would be played in Timisoara,  Belgrade,  Sarajevo.

Group 5
Matches would be played in Craiova,  Nis,  Pristina.

Group 6
Matches would be played in Burgas,  Zadar,  Podgorica.

Group 7
Matches would be played in Tuzla,  Maribor,  Skopje.

Group 8
Matches would be played in Zenica,  Tetevo,  Iasi

Group A
Matches would be played in Sarajevo and  Bucharest.

Group B
Matches would be played in Zagreb and  Ljubljana.

Group C
Matches would be played in Skopje and  Belgrade.

Group D
Matches would be played in Sofia and  Podgorica Tiebreaker match between and.

Group Relegation
Matches would be played in Sofia and  Plovdiv, except for Bulgarian and Russian matches, which were played in  Bucharest and  Cluj-Napoca.

Group Left
Shock as former world champions fail to qualify, winning zero matches. qualified despite huge odds stacked against them.

Group Right
Shock as former world champions fail to qualify, winning zero matches. qualified despite huge odds stacked against them.

Knockouts
bold is a penalty victory, while a ; means they win after extra time.