1988–89 European Cup

1988–89 European Cup

Tournament details
Dates	6 September 1988 – 24 May 1989
Teams	31
Final positions
Champions	Milan (3rd title)
Runners-up	Steaua București
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Marco van Basten (10 goals)
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The 1988–89 European Cup was the 34th season of the European Cup football club tournament. The competition was won for the first time since 1969, and third time overall, by Milan comfortably in the final against former winners Steaua București. It was one of the most one-sided final since the replayed final in 1974.^{[citation needed]}

PSV Eindhoven, the defending champions, were eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PSV	Bye	–	–	–
Porto	3–2	HJK	3–0	0–2
Górnik Zabrze	7–1	Jeunesse Esch	3–0	4–1
Real Madrid	4–0	Moss	3–0	1–0
Budapest Honvéd	1–4	Celtic	1–0	0–4
Dynamo Berlin	3–5	Werder Bremen	3–0	0–5
Vitosha	2–7	Milan	0–2	2–5
Dundalk	0–8	Red Star Belgrade	0–5	0–3
Ħamrun Spartans	2–3	17 Nëntori Tirana	2–1	0–2
Pezoporikos Larnaca	2–7	IFK Göteborg	1–2	1–5
Sparta Prague	3–7	Steaua București	1–5	2–2
Spartak Moscow	3–1	Glentoran	2–0	1–1
Club Brugge	2–2(a)	Brøndby	1–0	1–2
Valur	1–2	AS Monaco	1–0	0–2
Larissa	3–3 (0–3p)	Neuchâtel Xamax	2–1	1–2
Rapid Wien	2–3	Galatasaray	2–1	0–2

First leg

6 September 1988 (1988-09-06) 18:30	Valur	1–0	AS Monaco	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík Referee: Thorbjorn Aass (Norway)
	Eðvaldsson  55'	Report

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6 September 1988 (1988-09-06) 20:00	Dynamo Berlin	3–0	Werder Bremen	Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)
	Doll  16' Thom  62' Pastor  77'	Report

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 16:00	Pezoporikos	1–2	IFK Göteborg	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca Referee: Borislav Alexandrov (Bulgaria)
	Livathinos  21' (pen.)	Report	Eriksson  18' A. Ravelli  57'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 16:00	Larissa	2–1	Neuchâtel Xamax	Alcazar Stadium, Larissa Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)
	Ziogas  6' Mitsibonas  90'	Report	Hermann  56'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 16:45	Ħamrun Spartans	2–1	Nëntori Tirana	Ta' Qali National Stadium, Valletta Referee: Dragisa Komadinić (Yugoslavia)
	Refalo  46', 90'	Report	Stoja  5'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 17:00	Sparta Prague	1–5	Steaua București	Letná, Prague Attendance: 22,296 Referee: Carlos Silva Valente (Portugal)
	Kukleta  20'	Report	Lăcătuș  30', 45' Hagi  78', 88' Stoica  86'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 17:00	Spartak Moscow	2–0	Glentoran	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Referee: Ihsan Türe (Turkey)
	Ivanov  53' Shalimov  54'	Report

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 17:30	Górnik Zabrze	3–0	Jeunesse Esch	Ernest Pohl Stadium, Zabrze Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)
	Warzycha  33' Urban  45',  72'	Report

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 19:00	Budapest Honvéd	1–0	Celtic	Bozsik Stadion, Budapest Referee: Ignace W.M. van Swieten (Netherlands)
	Fodor  8'	Report

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 19:30	Rapid Wien	2–1	Galatasaray	Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, Vienna Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
	Kranjčar  32' Kienast  50'	Report	Demiral  80'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 19:30	Vitosha	0–2	Milan	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia Referee: Gerassimos Germanakos (Greece)
		Report	Virdis  18' Gullit  75'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 20:30	Dundalk	0–5	Red Star Belgrade	Oriel Park, Dundalk Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Jim McCluskey (Scotland)
		Report	Stojković  52', 65' (pen.) Musemić  60' Bešić  83' Gjurovski  85'

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 21:00	Real Madrid	3–0	Moss	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Referee: Charles Scerri (Malta)
	Losada  19' Tendillo  28' Butragueño  31'	Report

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 20:00	Club Brugge	1–0	Brøndby	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges Referee: Antal Hutak (Hungary)
	Bettagno  87'	Report

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7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) 22:30	Porto	3–0	HJK	Estádio das Antas, Porto Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)
	Fernando Gomes  6' António Sousa  22' Rui Águas  76'	Report

Second leg

5 October 1988	HJK	2–0	Porto	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia)
	Valla  53' Kanerva  84'	Report Gamesheet

Porto won 3–2 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Jeunesse Esch	1–4	Górnik Zabrze	Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette Referee: Eysteinn Gudmundsson (Iceland)
	Theis  32'	Report Gamesheet	Komornicki  6', 30' Urban  67' Zagórski  83'

Górnik Zabrze won 7–1 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Moss	0–1	Real Madrid	Melløs Stadion, Moss Referee: Pekka Aho (Finland)
		Report Gamesheet	Butragueño  39'

Real Madrid won 4–0 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Celtic	4–0	Budapest Honvéd	Celtic Park, Glasgow Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
	Stark  17' Walker  73' McAvennie  77' McGhee  88'	Report Gamesheet

Celtic won 4–1 on aggregate.

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11 October 1988	Werder Bremen	5–0	Dynamo Berlin	Weserstadion, Bremen Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
	Kutzop  23' (pen.) Hermann  55' Riedle  62' Burgsmüller  70' Schaaf  90'	Report Gamesheet

Werder Bremen won 5–3 on aggregate.

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6 October 1988	Milan	5–2	Vitosha	San Siro, Milan Referee: Joe Worrall (England)
	Van Basten  2', 13', 42', 83' Virdis  62'	Report Gamesheet	Nachev  29' Iliev  73'

Milan won 7–2 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	Dundalk	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Sadik Deda (Turkey)
	Šabanadžović  3' Mrkela  51' Savićević  67'	Report Gamesheet

Red Star Belgrade won 8–0 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	17 Nëntori Tirana	2–0	Ħamrun Spartans	Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana Referee: Stefan Dan Petrescu (Romania)
	Hodja  66' Josa  69'	Report Gamesheet

17 Nëntori Tirana won 3–2 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	IFK Göteborg	5–1	Pezoporikos Larnaca	Ullevi, Gothenburg Referee: Janusz Eksztajn (Poland)
	Nilsson  6' Zetterlund  8' Holmgren  27' Fröberg  44', 54'	Report Gamesheet	Livathinos  37'

IFK Göteborg won 7–2 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Steaua Bucureşti	2–2	AC Sparta Prague	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
	Hagi  29' Lăcătuş  78'	Report Gamesheet	Bílek  12', 88'

Steaua Bucureşti won 7–3 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Glentoran	1–1	Spartak Moscow	The Oval, Belfast Referee: Oli P. Olsen (Iceland)
	Moore  5'	Report Gamesheet	Cherenkov  90'

Spartak Moscow won 3–1 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Brøndby	2–1	Club Brugge	Brøndby Stadium, Copenhagen Referee: Alan Snoddy (Northern Ireland)
	Frank  36' Christensen  68'	Report Gamesheet	Brylle  80'

Club Brugge 2–2 Brøndby on aggregate. Club Brugge won on away goals.

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5 October 1988	AS Monaco	2–0	Valur	Stade Louis II, Monaco Referee: Jean-Pierre Schon (Luxembourg)
	Vogel  15' Weah  37'	Report Gamesheet

AS Monaco won 2–1 on aggregate.

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5 October 1988	Neuchâtel Xamax	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Larissa	Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)
	Lei-Ravello  62' (pen.) Lüthi  70'	Report Gamesheet	Karapialis  58'
		Penalties
		3–0

Larissa 3–3 Neuchâtel Xamax on aggregate. Neuchâtel Xamax won 3–0 on penalties.

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5 October 1988	Galatasaray	2–0	Rapid Wien	Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul Referee: George Courtney (England)
	Çolak  53' Tanman  67'	Report Gamesheet

Galatasaray won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PSV	5–2	Porto	5–0	0–2
Górnik Zabrze	2–4	Real Madrid	0–1	2–3
Celtic	0–1	Werder Bremen	0–1	0–0
Milan	2–2 (4–2p)	Red Star Belgrade	1–1	1–11
17 Nëntori Tirana	0–4	IFK Göteborg	0–3	0–1
Steaua Bucureşti	5–1	Spartak Moscow	3–0	2–1
Club Brugge	2–6	AS Monaco	1–0	1–6
Neuchâtel Xamax	3–5	Galatasaray	3–0	0–5

¹ The second leg in Belgrade was replayed. The original second leg match in Belgrade was stopped by West German referee Dieter Pauly due to thick fog with Red Star leading 1–0. The match was then voided and replay was ordered since due to extremely poor visibility it was decided that the match could not continue that day. The replay took place the very next day and it ended in the above 1–1 scoreline.

First leg

26 October 1988	PSV Eindhoven	5–0	Porto	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
	Kieft  15' Ellerman  37' Koeman  42', 53' Janssen  51'	Report Gamesheet

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26 October 1988	Górnik Zabrze	0–1	Real Madrid	Silesian Stadium, Chorzow Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
		Report Gamesheet	Sánchez  66' (pen.)

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26 October 1988	Celtic	0–1	Werder Bremen	Celtic Park, Glasgow Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
		Report Gamesheet	Wolter  57'

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26 October 1988	Milan	1–1	Red Star Belgrade	San Siro, Milan Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)
	Virdis  48'	Report Gamesheet	Stojković  47'

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26 October 1988	17 Nëntori Tirana	0–3	IFK Göteborg	Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana Referee: Ivan Gregar (Czechoslovakia)
		Report Gamesheet	Forsberg  31' Ingesson  35' Nilsson  83'

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26 October 1988	Steaua Bucureşti	3–0	Spartak Moscow	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)
	Dumitrescu  33' Hagi  58', 70' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

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26 October 1988	Club Brugge	1–0	AS Monaco	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)
	Mbuyu  48'	Report Gamesheet

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26 October 1988	Neuchâtel Xamax	3–0	Galatasaray	Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)
	Lühti  52' Chassot  86' Decastel  90'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

9 November 1988	Porto	2–0	PSV Eindhoven	Estádio das Antas, Porto Referee: George Courtney (England)
	Rui Águas  43' Domingos  82'	Report Gamesheet

PSV Eindhoven won 5–2 on aggregate.

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10 November 1988	Real Madrid	3–2	Górnik Zabrze	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Referee: Joe Worrall (England)
	Sánchez  27', 85' Butragueño  77'	Report Gamesheet	Jegor  41' Baran  54'

Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

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9 November 1988	Werder Bremen	0–0	Celtic	Weserstadion, Bremen Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)
		Report Gamesheet

Werder Bremen won 1–0 on aggregate.

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9 November 1988	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	Milan	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 97,400 Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
	Savićević  50'	Report Gamesheet

The game was abandoned in the 65th minute because of dense fog and low visibility with the score at 1–0. The game was replayed from the beginning the next day at 3 p.m. with the same starting line-ups, with the exception of Milan players Pietro Paolo Virdis and Carlo Ancelotti; Virdis had been sent off in the abandoned match, while Ancelotti picked up his second yellow card of the competition, meaning that he had to sit out a match.

10 November 1988	Red Star Belgrade	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Milan	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
	Stojković  38'		Van Basten  34'
		Penalties
	Stojković Prosinečki Savićević Mrkela	2–4	Baresi Van Basten Evani Rijkaard

Red Star Belgrade 2–2 Milan on aggregate. Milan won 4–2 on penalties.

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9 November 1988	IFK Göteborg	1–0	17 Nëntori Tirana	Ullevi, Gothenburg Referee: George Smith (Scotland)
	Forsberg  30'	Report Gamesheet

IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

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9 November 1988	Spartak Moscow	1–2	Steaua Bucureşti	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Werner Föckler (West Germany)
	Cherenkov  44'	Report Gamesheet	Lăcătuş  11' Balint  90'

Steaua Bucureşti won 5–1 on aggregate.

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9 November 1988	AS Monaco	6–1	Club Brugge	Stade Louis II, Monaco Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
	Fofana  5', 27', 73' Sonor  8' Touré  24', 30'	Report Gamesheet	Audoor  82'

AS Monaco won 6–2 on aggregate.

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9 November 1988	Galatasaray	5–0	Neuchâtel Xamax	Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 35,119 Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
	Tütüneker  19', 77' Çolak  54', 80', 89'	Report Gamesheet

Galatasaray won 5–3 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PSV	2–3	Real Madrid	1–1	1–2
Werder Bremen	0–1	Milan	0–0	0–1
IFK Göteborg	2–5	Steaua Bucureşti	1–0	1–5
AS Monaco	1–2	Galatasaray	0–1	1–1

First leg

1 March 1989	PSV Eindhoven	1–1	Real Madrid	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)
	Romário  52'	Report Gamesheet	Butragueño  45'

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1 March 1989	Werder Bremen	0–0	Milan	Weserstadion, Bremen Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
		Report Gamesheet

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1 March 1989	IFK Göteborg	1–0	Steaua Bucureşti	Ullevi, Gothenburg Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)
	Ingesson  54'	Report Gamesheet

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1 March 1989	AS Monaco	0–1	Galatasaray	Stade Louis II, Monaco Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
		Report Gamesheet	Çolak  20'

Second leg

15 March 1989	Real Madrid	2–1 (a.e.t.)	PSV Eindhoven	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
	Sánchez  78' (pen.) Martín Vázquez  105'	Report Gamesheet	Romário  84'

Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

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15 March 1989	Milan	1–0	Werder Bremen	San Siro, Milan Referee: George Smith (Scotland)
	Van Basten  32' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.

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15 March 1989	Steaua Bucureşti	5–1	IFK Göteborg	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
	Lăcătuş  7', 16', 65' Dumitrescu  39' Balint  89'	Report Gamesheet	Zetterlund  54'

Steaua Bucureşti won 5–2 on aggregate.

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15 March 1989	Galatasaray	1–1	AS Monaco	Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)
	Prekazi  51'	Report Gamesheet	Weah  65'

Galatasaray won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	1–6	Milan	1–1	0–5
Steaua București	5–1	Galatasaray	4–0	1–1

First leg

5 April 1989 21:00	Real Madrid	1–1	Milan	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 100,000 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
	Sánchez  42'	Report Gamesheet	Van Basten  77'

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5 April 1989 17:30	Steaua Bucureşti	4–0	Galatasaray	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Referee: Vitor M. Fernandes Correia (Portugal)
	Dumitrescu  8' Hagi  40' (pen.) Petrescu  68' Balint  72'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

19 April 1989 20:30	Milan	5–0	Real Madrid	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 73,112 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
	Ancelotti  19' Rijkaard  25' Gullit  45' Van Basten  49' Donadoni  60'	Report Gamesheet

Milan won 6–1 on aggregate.

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19 April 1989 17:30	Galatasaray	1–1	Steaua Bucureşti	İzmir Alsancak Stadium, Izmir Attendance: 24,605 Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
	Tanman  36'	Report Gamesheet	Dumitrescu  39'

Steaua Bucureşti won 5–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1989 European Cup Final

24 May 1989 20:15	Steaua Bucureşti	0–4	Milan	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 97,000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)
		Report Gamesheet	Gullit  18', 39' Van Basten  27', 47'

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1988–89 European Cup are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Marco van Basten	Milan	10
2	Marius Lăcătuş	Steaua Bucureşti	7
3	Gheorghe Hagi	Steaua Bucureşti	6
4	Tanju Çolak	Galatasaray	5
	Hugo Sánchez	Real Madrid	5
6	Ilie Dumitrescu	Steaua Bucureşti	4
	Emilio Butragueño	Real Madrid	4
	Ruud Gullit	Milan	4
9	Gavril Balint	Steaua Bucureşti	3
	Youssouf Falikou Fofana	AS Monaco	3
	Dragan Stojković	Red Star Belgrade	3
	Jan Urban	Górnik Zabrze	3
	Pietro Paolo Virdis	Milan	3

External links

• 1988–89 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1988–89 European Cup according to protocols UEFA