UEFA Euro 1988


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

UEFA Euro 1988 official logo
Tournament details
Teams 8
Venue(s) 8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Netherlands (1 st title)
Runners-up  USSR
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 34 (2.27 per match)
Top scorer(s) Flag of the Netherlands Marco van Basten (5 goals)

The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in West Germany. 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 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

1988 UEFA European Football Championship finalists.

The following eight teams that participated in the final tournament were:

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. While there was perhaps a more realistic chance of England being expelled from this tournament than there had been two years previously (since the non-UEFA countries had been more sympathetic towards England), expelling them would have meant allowing Yugoslavia (runners-up in their qualifying group) into the tournament in their stead, and the political turmoil in that country made them an even more unattractive prospect than England to most.

Venues

Match officials

Squads

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

Results

Group stage

All times local (CET)

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, Dusseldorf
Attendance: 62,552
Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
Brehme Scored in the 55th minute 55' (Report) Mancini Scored in the 52nd minute 52'
11 June 1988
15:30		 Denmark  2 – 3  Spain Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 60,366
Referee: Bep Thomas (Netherlands)
Laudrup Scored in the 24th minute 24'
Povlsen Scored in the 82nd minute 82'		 (Report) Míchel Scored in the 5th minute 5'
Butragueño Scored in the 52nd minute 52'
Gordillo Scored in the 67th minute 67'
14 June 1988
17:15		 West Germany  2 – 0  Denmark Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 64,812
Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
Klinsmann Scored in the 10th minute 10'
Thon Scored in the 85th minute 85'		 (Report)
14 June 1988
20:15		 Italy  1 – 0  Spain Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 51,790
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
Vialli Scored in the 73rd minute 73' (Report)
17 June 1988
20:15		 West Germany  2 – 0  Spain Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 72,308
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
Völler Scored in the 29th minute 29' Scored in the 51st minute 51' (Report)
17 June 1988
20:15		 Italy  2 – 0  Denmark Rhein Energie Stadion, Cologne
Attendance: 53,951
Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
Altobelli Scored in the 67th minute 67'
De Agostini Scored in the 87th minute 87'		 (Report)

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 USSR 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: Kirschen (East Germany)
(Report) Houghton Scored in the 6th minute 6'
12 June 1988
20:15		 Netherlands  0 – 1  USSR Rhein Energie Stadion, Cologne
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
(Report) Rats Scored in the 52nd minute 52'
15 June 1988
17:15		 England  1 – 3  Netherlands Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf
Attendance: 63,940
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
Robson Scored in the 53rd minute 53' (Report) Van Basten Scored in the 44th minute 44' Scored in the 71st minute 71' Scored in the 75th minute 75'
15 June 1988
20:15		 Republic of Ireland  1 – 1  USSR Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 38,308
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain)
Whelan Scored in the 38th minute 38' (Report) Protasov Scored in the 74th minute 74'
18 June 1988
15:30		 England  1 – 3  USSR Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
Adams Scored in the 16th minute 16' (Report) Aleinikov Scored in the 3rd minute 3'
Mikhailichenko Scored in the 28th minute 28'
Pasulko Scored in the 73rd minute 73'
18 June 1988
15:30		 Republic of Ireland  0 – 1  Netherlands Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 60,800
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
(Report) Kieft Scored in the 82nd minute 82'

Knockout stage

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

Semi-finals

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

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 Final
25 June 1988
15:30		 USSR  0 – 2  Netherlands Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 72,308
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
(Report) Gullit Scored in the 32nd minute 32'
Van Basten Scored in the 54th minute 54'
 Euro 1988 Champions 
Flag of the Netherlands
Netherlands
First title

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals


2 goals


1 goal

Fastest goal

3 minutes

Sergei Aleinikov (USSR vs England)

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Champions: Netherlands
Runners-up: USSR
Eliminated in semi-finals: Italy • West Germany
Eliminated in group stage: Denmark • England • Republic of Ireland • Spain

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