1988 UEFA European Football Championship
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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. It was the eighth European Football Championship
, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA
. The final tournament took place between 10 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.
The following eight teams participated in the final tournament:
(first appearance) (hosts)
As with the 1986 World Cup
, there were some protests about England's involvement in the tournament, due to the role of English fans in the Heysel Stadium Disaster
, which saw English clubs banned from UEFA competitions between 1985 and 1990.
Alexis Ponnet
Siegfried Kirschen
Keith Hackett
Michel Vautrot
Paolo Casarin
Albert Thomas José Rosa dos Santos
Ioan Igna
Bob Valentine Emilio Soriano Aladren
Erik Fredriksson
Bruno Galler
Dieter Pauly
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2 goals Oleh Protasov Rudi Völler
1 goal Michael Laudrup
Flemming Povlsen
Tony Adams
Bryan Robson
Alessandro Altobelli
Luigi De Agostini
Roberto Mancini
Gianluca Vialli
Ruud Gullit
Wim Kieft
Ronald Koeman
Ray Houghton
Ronnie Whelan
Sergei Aleinikov
Hennadiy Lytovchenko Alexei Mikhailichenko
Viktor Pasulko
Vasyl Rats Emilio Butragueño
Rafael Gordillo
Míchel
Andreas Brehme
Jürgen Klinsmann
Lothar Matthäus
Olaf Thon
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
. West Germany won the right to host the tournament with five votes ahead of a joint bid from Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, Sweden and Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, who gained 1 vote, and a bid from England. It was the eighth European Football Championship
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....
. The final tournament took place between 10 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
Germany national football team
The Germany national football team is the football team that has represented Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association , which was founded in 1900....
qualified automatically as hosts of the event. The holders, France
France national football team
The France national football team represents the nation of France in international football. It is fielded by the French Football Federation , the governing body of football in France, and competes as a member of UEFA, which encompasses the countries of Europe...
, failed to qualify. The tournament eventually crowned Netherlands
Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the 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.
Qualification
- For details concerning the qualifying phase see, 1988 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying1988 UEFA European Football Championship qualifyingThis page describes the qualifying procedure for UEFA Euro 1988.-Groups:The draw for the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 1988 took place in early 1986. West Germany qualified automatically as hosts of the competition...
Teams
(first appearance) (hosts)
As with the 1986 World Cup
1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially...
, there were some protests about England's involvement in the tournament, due to the role of English fans in the Heysel Stadium Disaster
Heysel Stadium disaster
The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred on 29 May 1985 when escaping fans were pressed against a wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, as a result of rioting before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool of England and Juventus of Italy...
, which saw English clubs banned from UEFA competitions between 1985 and 1990.
Venues
| Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat... |
Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000.... |
Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... |
Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010... |
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| Olympiastadion Olympic Stadium (Munich) Olympiastadion is a stadium located in Munich, Germany. Situated at the heart of the Olympiapark München in northern Munich, the stadium was built as the main venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics.... |
Parkstadion Parkstadion Parkstadion was a multi-purpose stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that is no longer used to host any major events. The stadium was built in 1973 and hosted five matches of the 1974 FIFA World Cup... |
Volksparkstadion | Waldstadion Commerzbank-Arena The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation... |
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| Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the... |
Hanover Hanover Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg... |
Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... |
Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... |
| Rheinstadion Rheinstadion The Rheinstadion was a multi-purpose stadium, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The stadium was built, near the Rhine, in 1926 and held 55,900 people, at the end of its life.... |
Niedersachsenstadion AWD-Arena The AWD-Arena is a football stadium in the district Calenberger Neustadt in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, and competition venue of the German Bundesliga football club Hannover 96.... |
Neckarstadion | Müngersdorfer Stadion RheinEnergieStadion The RheinEnergieStadion is a football stadium in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built on the site of the two previous Müngersdorfer stadiums. It is the home of the local Bundesliga team, 1. FC Köln. The stadium was one of the 12 hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup... |
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Match officials
Horst BrummeierHorst Brummeier
Horst Brummeier is a retired Austrian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also refereed one match in the 1988 UEFA European Football Championship in West Germany.-References:*...
Alexis Ponnet
Alexis Ponnet
Alexis Ponnet is a former Belgian football referee. Most known for supervising two matches in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain and one in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He also refereed the European Cup final in 1987 between Porto and Bayern Munich. He also refereed two UEFA European Football...
Siegfried Kirschen
Siegfried Kirschen
Siegfried Kirschen is a retired German football referee. He is perhaps best known for supervising four matches in the FIFA World Cup two in 1986 and two in 1990.- References :...
Keith Hackett
Keith Hackett
Keith Stuart Hackett is an English former football referee, who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield, Yorkshire, area in 1960...
Michel Vautrot
Michel Vautrot
Michel Vautrot is a retired football referee from France. He is mostly known for supervising 5 matches in the FIFA World Cup: two in 1982 and three in 1990. He also refereed three European Championships in 1984 in 1988, including the final game between the USSR and the Netherlands...
Paolo Casarin
Paolo Casarin
Paolo Casarin . Is a retired football referee from Italy. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain-References:*...
Albert Thomas José Rosa dos Santos
José Rosa dos Santos
José Rosa dos Santos is a former Portuguese football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the UEFA European Football Championship, one in the 1988 and one in the 1992.-References:*...
Ioan Igna
Ioan Igna
Ioan Igna is a retired Romanian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, including the quarterfinal epic match between Brazil and France, when he made a controversial call when in the penalty shootout he ruled a goal when Bruno Bellone's...
Bob Valentine Emilio Soriano Aladren
Emilio Soriano Aladren
Emilio Soriano Aladrén is a retired Spanish football referee. He officialed one match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He also officialed two matches in the UEFA European Football Championship, one in the 1988 and one in the 1992.-References:...
Erik Fredriksson
Erik Fredriksson
Erik Fredriksson is a former Swedish football referee. He officiated four World Cup games: Yugoslavia v Northern Ireland in 1982; Italy v Bulgaria and USSR v Belgium in 1986; and Argentina v USSR in 1990....
Bruno Galler
Bruno Galler
Bruno Galler is a retired football referee from Switzerland. He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. He also refereed the UEFA Cup final in 1989 and the European Football Championship final in 1992.-References:*...
Dieter Pauly
Dieter Pauly
Dieter Pauly is a retired German football referee. He refereed the Bucharest leg of the Liverpool vs Dinamo Bucharest, 1984 European Cup Semi-Final and a match in the 1988 UEFA European Football Championship on home soil in West Germany.- References :*...
Squads
- For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see UEFA Euro 1988 squads
Group A
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| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 2 | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 0 |
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Group B
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| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 0 |
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Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Final
Goalscorers
5 goals Marco van Basten2 goals Oleh Protasov Rudi Völler
Rudi Völler
Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team...
1 goal Michael Laudrup
Michael Laudrup
Michael Laudrup is a retired Danish footballer, who works as a manager and last coached La Liga side RCD Mallorca. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of football. His most prominent run of football came with Spanish club Barcelona, with whom he won four straight La...
Flemming Povlsen
Flemming Povlsen
Flemming Søgaard Povlsen is a Danish former professional football player who most notably played as a striker for Borussia Dortmund in Germany.-Career:...
Tony Adams
Tony Adams (footballer)
Tony Alexander Adams, MBE is an English football manager and former player.Adams spent his entire playing career of 22 years as a defender at Arsenal. He is considered one of the greatest Arsenal players of all time by the club's own fans and was included in the Football League 100 Legends...
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBE is an English football manager and a former player. He is best known for playing in midfield for Manchester United, where he was the longest serving captain in club history. He was the manager of Sheffield United, being relieved of his first team duties at the club in February 2008...
Alessandro Altobelli
Alessandro Altobelli
Alessandro Altobelli is a former professional Italian footballer.Nicknamed Spillo for his slender build. Altobelli was one of the most effective Italian forwards of the late 1970s and 1980s...
Luigi De Agostini
Luigi De Agostini
Luigi de Agostini is an Italian former football defender, who represented the Italian national football team at Euro 1988 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup....
Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini is an Italian football manager, formerly an international player and current manager of Premier League club Manchester City.As a player Mancini was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa...
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli is an Italian football manager and former player. Since retiring, he has gone into management and punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sport Italia....
Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit
OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...
Wim Kieft
Wim Kieft
Willem "Wim" Cornelis Nicolaas Kieft is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a centre forward.A prolific goalscorer whose main asset resided in his heading ability, he played in his country for two of the most important clubs, Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven, with equal team and individual...
Ronald Koeman
Ronald Koeman
Ronald Koeman is a former Dutch footballer, and the current manager of Feyenoord. He is the younger brother of former Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman and the son of former Dutch international Martin Koeman...
Ray Houghton
Ray Houghton
Raymond James "Ray" Houghton is a retired Scottish-born footballer who represented the Republic of Ireland at international level, qualifying through his Irish father...
Ronnie Whelan
Ronnie Whelan
Ronald Andrew "Ronnie" Whelan is a former Irish football midfielder, and sometimes defender, who was an integral part of the dominant Liverpool side of the 1980s...
Sergei Aleinikov
Sergei Aleinikov
Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov is a former football player from Belarus, now coach.-Career:He played for the USSR national football team, making 77 appearances for the USSR, scoring six goals, from 1984–91, when USSR made the final of Euro 88, losing to the Netherlands 0-2...
Hennadiy Lytovchenko Alexei Mikhailichenko
Alexei Mikhailichenko
Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko , is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional football player. He currently holds an administrative position in his home club, Dynamo Kyiv, as director of sport...
Viktor Pasulko
Viktor Pasulko
Viktor Vasyl'ovych Pasulko is a retired ex-USSR football player. Pasulko played most of his career as a midfielder in various teams. Last 10 years of his career he spent in Germany playing for a lower division teams...
Vasyl Rats Emilio Butragueño
Emilio Butragueño
Emilio Butragueño Santos is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a striker.He was best known for his spell with Real Madrid...
Rafael Gordillo
Rafael Gordillo
Rafael Gordillo Vázquez is a retired Spanish footballer.A tremendously offensive left wingback, equally at ease as defender and midfielder and with a good effort rate, he had an unmistakable style of playing with his socks down, he represented with individual and team success Betis and Real...
Míchel
José Miguel González Martín
José Miguel González Martín del Campo, aka Míchel , is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a right midfielder.He was most noted for his stellar crossing ability, also contributing with a fair share of goals...
Andreas Brehme
Andreas Brehme
Andreas "Andy" Brehme is a German football coach and former football defender. He is best known for scoring the winning goal for Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final against Argentina on a 85th minute penalty kick....
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...
Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Herbert Matthäus , is a German football manager and former player.In 1990, he was named European Footballer of the Year and World Soccer Player of the Year after captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 World Cup...
Olaf Thon
Olaf Thon
Olaf Thon is a retired German footballer, and a current coach.Mainly a central midfielder, his 19-year professional career was solely associated to Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich, having amassed more than 500 official games and 100 goals for both combined...