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)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (1st title)
Runners-up	Soviet Union
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	34 (2.27 per match)
Attendance	888,645 (59,243 per match)
Top scorer(s)	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. 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.

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:

• Denmark
• England
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Republic of Ireland (first appearance)
• Spain
• Soviet Union
• West Germany (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.^{[citation needed]}

Venues

Munich	Gelsenkirchen	Hamburg	Frankfurt
Olympiastadion	Parkstadion	Volksparkstadion	Waldstadion
Capacity: 69,000	Capacity: 62,000	Capacity: 61,200	Capacity: 61,000
Düsseldorf	Hanover	Stuttgart	Cologne
Rheinstadion	Niedersachsenstadion	Neckarstadion	Müngersdorfer Stadion
Capacity: 55,850	Capacity: 50,423	Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 47,000

Match officials

• Horst Brummeier
• 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

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  55'	Report	Mancini  52'

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

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

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

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

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17 June 1988 20:15	Italy	2 – 0	Denmark	Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Attendance: 53,951 Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
	Altobelli  67' De Agostini  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  6'

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

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

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

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

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18 June 1988 15:30	Republic of Ireland	0 – 1	Netherlands	Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 60,800 Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
		Report	Kieft  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  55' (pen.)	Report	R. Koeman  74' (pen.) van Basten  88'

22 June 1988 20:15	Soviet Union	2 – 0	Italy	Neckarstadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 61,606 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
	Lytovchenko  58' Protasov  62'	Report

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 Final

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

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals Marco van Basten 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

Fastest goal

3 minutes

Sergei Aleinikov (USSR vs England)

External links

• Alternative report on final