UEFA Euro 1988

1988 UEFA European Football Championship
UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft
Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1988

UEFA Euro 1988 official logo
Tournament details
Host country  West Germany
Dates 10 June – 25 June
Teams 8
Venue(s) (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Netherlands (1st title)
Runner-up  Soviet Union
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 34 (2.27 per match)
Top scorer(s) Netherlands Marco van Basten (5 goals)
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The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in West Germany. West Germany won the right to host the tournament with five votes ahead of a joint bid from Norway, Sweden and Denmark, who gained 1 vote, and a bid from England.[1] It was the eighth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 10 June and 25 June 1988.

At the time, only eight countries could compete in the final tournament. Seven countries had to qualify for the final stage. West Germany qualified automatically as hosts of the event. The holders, France, failed to qualify. The tournament eventually crowned Netherlands as European champions for the first, and so far only time.

Euro 88 was a rare incidence of a major football tournament being completed without a single player being sent off, any knockout matches going into extra time or penalties and having at least one goal scored in every match.

Contents

Qualification

For details concerning the qualifying phase see, 1988 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying

Teams

UEFA Euro 1988 finalists.

The following eight teams participated in the final tournament:

As with the 1986 World Cup, there were some protests about England's involvement in the tournament, due to the role of English Liverpool FC fans in the Heysel Stadium Disaster.

Venues

Munich Gelsenkirchen Hamburg Frankfurt
Olympiastadion Parkstadion Volksparkstadion Waldstadion
Capacity: 69,000 Capacity: 62,000 Capacity: 61,200 Capacity: 61,000
Olympiastadion Muenchen.jpg Parkstadion 1998-09-12.jpg AOL Arena.jpg Commerzbank arena.jpg
Düsseldorf Hanover Stuttgart Cologne
Rheinstadion Niedersachsenstadion Neckarstadion Müngersdorfer Stadion
Capacity: 55,850 Capacity: 50,423 Capacity: 50,000 Capacity: 47,000
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Match officials

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see UEFA Euro 1988 squads

Results

First round

All times local (CEST)

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 West Germany 3 2 1 0 5 1 +4 5
 Italy 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 5
 Spain 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 2
 Denmark 3 0 0 3 2 7 −5 0
10 June 1988
20:15
West Germany  1 – 1  Italy Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 62,552
Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
Brehme Goal 55' (Report) Mancini Goal 52'

11 June 1988
15:30
Denmark  2 – 3  Spain Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 60,366
Referee: Albert Thomas (Netherlands)
Laudrup Goal 24'
Povlsen Goal 82'
(Report) Míchel Goal 5'
Butragueño Goal 52'
Gordillo Goal 67'

14 June 1988
17:15
West Germany  2 – 0  Denmark Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 64,812
Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)
Klinsmann Goal 10'
Thon Goal 85'
(Report)

14 June 1988
20:15
Italy  1 – 0  Spain Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 51,790
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
Vialli Goal 73' (Report)

17 June 1988
20:15
West Germany  2 – 0  Spain Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 72,308
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
Völler Goal 29' Goal 51' (Report)

17 June 1988
20:15
Italy  2 – 0  Denmark Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
Attendance: 53,951
Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
Altobelli Goal 67'
De Agostini Goal 87'
(Report)

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Soviet Union 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 5
 Netherlands 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 4
 Republic of Ireland 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
 England 3 0 0 3 2 7 −5 0
12 June 1988
15:30
England  0 – 1  Republic of Ireland Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 51,573
Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)
(Report) Houghton Goal 6'

12 June 1988
20:15
Netherlands  0 – 1  Soviet Union Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
(Report) Rats Goal 52'

15 June 1988
17:15
England  1 – 3  Netherlands Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 63,940
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
Robson Goal 53' (Report) Van Basten Goal 44' Goal 71' Goal 75'

15 June 1988
20:15
Republic of Ireland  1 – 1  Soviet Union Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 38,308
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain)
Whelan Goal 38' (Report) Protasov Goal 74'

18 June 1988
15:30
England  1 – 3  Soviet Union Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
Adams Goal 16' (Report) Aleinikov Goal 3'
Mikhailichenko Goal 28'
Pasulko Goal 73'

18 June 1988
15:30
Republic of Ireland  0 – 1  Netherlands Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 60,800
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
(Report) Kieft Goal 82'

Knockout stage

  Semi-finals Final
21 June – Hamburg (Volksparkstadion)
  West Germany 1  
  Netherlands 2  
 
25 June – Munich (Olympiastadion)
      Netherlands 2
    Soviet Union 0
22 June – Stuttgart (Neckarstadion)
  Italy 0
  Soviet Union 2  

Semi-finals

21 June 1988
20:15
West Germany  1 – 2  Netherlands Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Attendance: 61,330
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)
Matthäus Goal 55' (pen.) (Report) R. Koeman Goal 74' (pen.)
Van Basten Goal 88'
22 June 1988
20:15
Soviet Union  2 – 0  Italy Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 61,606
Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
Litovchenko Goal 58'
Protasov Goal 62'
(Report)

Final

25 June 1988
15:30
Soviet Union  0 – 2  Netherlands Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 72,308
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
(Report) Gullit Goal 32'
Van Basten Goal 54'

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Fastest goal

3 minutes

Sergei Aleinikov (USSR vs England)

References

  1. Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Die Geschichte der Fußball-Europameisterschaft, Verlag Die Werkstatt, ISBN 978-3-89533-553-2

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