1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup

1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup
Tournament details
Dates	23 August 1987 – 11 May 1988
Teams	32 (First Round); 33 (Qualifying)
Final positions
Champions	Mechelen (1st title)
Runners-up	Ajax
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	131 (2.08 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Paulinho Cascavel; (6 goals)
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup finished with a shock victory by Mechelen in the final against defending champions Ajax. It was their first ever European campaign and their only European title, and although they won the Belgian league the next season financial problems meant that they were never in a position to be as successful again.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEL Limassol	1–6	Dunajská Streda	0–1	1–5

First leg

23 August 1987

AEL Limassol	0 – 1	Dunajská Streda
		Majoroš 67'

Tsirion, Limassol

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Heinz Holzmann

Second leg

27 August 1987

Dunajská Streda	5 – 1	AEL Limassol
Micinec 5', 39' Medgyes 20' Pavlik 27' Majoroš 86'		Aristotelous 69'

DAC, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Stjepean Glavina

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mechelen	3–0	Dinamo Bucureşti	1–0	2–0
St Mirren	1–0	Tromsø	1–0	0–0
Real Sociedad	2–0	Śląsk Wrocław	0–0	2–0
Dinamo Minsk	4–1	Gençlerbirliği	2–0	2–1
Vitosha Sofia	2–3	OFI Crete	1–0	1–3
Merthyr Tydfil	2–3	Atalanta	2–1	0–2
ÍA Akranes	0–1	Kalmar FF	0–0	0–1 (aet)
Sporting CP	6–4	Swarovski Tirol	4–0	2–4
Vllaznia	6–0	Sliema Wanderers	2–0	4–0
RoPS	1–1 (a)	Glentoran	0–0	1–1
Lokomotive Leipzig	0–1	Marseille	0–0	0–1
Aalborg BK	1–1 (2–4 p)	Hajduk Split	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Újpest	2–3	Den Haag	1–0	1–3
Dunajská Streda	3–4	Young Boys	2–1	1–3
Avenir Beggen	0–8	Hamburg	0–5	0–3
Ajax	6–0	Dundalk	4–0	2–0

First leg

16 September 1987

Mechelen	1 – 0	Dinamo Bucureşti
den Boer 49'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Urizar Azpitarte

16 September 1987

St Mirren	1 – 0	Tromsø
McDowall 3'

Love Street, Paisley

Attendance: 7,797

Referee: Ignace Goris

16 September 1987

Real Sociedad	0 – 0	Śląsk Wrocław

San Mamés, San Sebastian

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Carlo Longhi

16 September 1987

Dinamo Minsk	2 – 0	Gençlerbirliği
Zygmantovich 82' Gökalp 88' (o.g.)

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Eero Aho

16 September 1987

Vitosha Sofia	1 – 0	OFI Crete
Sirakov 81' (pen.)

Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Helmut Kohl

16 September 1987

Merthyr Tydfil	2 – 1	Atalanta
Rogers 34' Ceri Williams 82'		Progna 41'

Penydarren Park, Merthyr Tydfil

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Charles Gilson

15 September 1987

ÍA Akranes	0 – 0	Kalmar FF

Akranesvöllur, Akranes

Attendance: 2,108

Referee: Thorodd Presberg

15 September 1987

Sporting CP	4 – 0	Swarovski Tirol
Sealy 7', 41' Cascavel 24' (pen.) 85'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 51,000

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove

13 September 1987

Vllaznia	2 – 0	Sliema Wanderers
Bushati 53' Jera 66'

Loro Boriçi, Shkoder

Attendance: 12,500

Referee: Vasilis Nikakis

16 September 1987

RoPS	0 – 0	Glentoran

Keskuskenttä, Rovaniemi

Attendance: 3,987

Referee: Douglas Hope

16 September 1987

Lokomotive Leipzig	0 – 0	Marseille

Zentalstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 30,800

Referee: Erik Fredriksson

16 September 1987

Aalborg BK	1 – 0	HNK Hajduk Split
Boye 63'

Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Klaus Scheurell

16 September 1987

Újpest	1 – 0	Den Haag
Heredi 32' (pen.)

Megyeri úti stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 6,600

Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler

16 September 1987

Dunajská Streda	2 – 1	Young Boys
Micinec 9' Kašpar 37'		Zuffi 22'

DAC, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 5,500

Referee: Ignatius Van Swieten

16 September 1987

Avenir Beggen	0 – 5	Hamburg
		Labbadia 9', 70' Laubinger 44' Okoński 81' Dittmer 83'

Henri Dunant, Beggen

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Alphonse Constantin

16 September 1987

Ajax	4 – 0	Dundalk
Rijkaard 65' Blind 73' Winter 81' Stapleton 85'

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 15,712

Referee: Enriquez Negreira

Second leg

30 September 1987

Dinamo Bucureşti	0 – 2	Mechelen
		Hofkens 40' den Boer 71'

Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Pietro D'Elia

16 September 1987

Tromsø	0 – 0	St Mirren

Alfheim, Tromse

Attendance: 5,114

Referee: Kurt Horsted

30September 1987

Śląsk Wrocław	0 – 2	Real Sociedad
		Loren 75' M. Beguiristáin 82'

Olympic Stadium, Wrocław

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Jan Keizer

30 September 1987

Gençlerbirliği	1 – 2	Dinamo Minsk
Soyak 29'		Derkach 69' Kandratsyew 84'

19 Mayıs, Ankara

Attendance: 7,445

Referee: Adrian Porumboiu

30 September 1987

OFI Crete	3 – 1	Vitosha Sofia
Tsibos 25' Marinakis 48' Charalambidis 69'		Kurdov 71'

Vardinogiannis Vardinogiannis, Heraklion

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Bruno Galler

30 September 1987

Atalanta	2 – 0	Merthyr Tydfil
Garlini 16' Cantarutti 20'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Victor Mintoff

30 September 1987

Kalmar FF	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	ÍA Akranes
Alexandersson 102'

Fredriksskans, Kalmar

Attendance: 1,067

Referee: Tadeusz Diakonowicz

30 September 1987

Swarovski Tirol	4 – 2	Sporting CP
Marko 9' Roscher 53' Pezzey 69' Linzmaier 84'		Sealy 59' Cascavel 68'

Tivoli, Innsbruck

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Paolo Casarin

29 September 1987

Sliema Wanderers	0 – 4	Vllaznia
		Pashaj 15' Vukutana 59' Rragami 70' (pen.) Lacja 81'

Ta' Qali Valletta

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Aldo Soldatic

28 September 1987

Glentoran	1 – 1	RoPS
Caskey 65'		Kallio 63'

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Guðmundur Haraldsson

30 September 1987

Marseille	1 – 0	Lokomotive Leipzig
Allofs 8'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 23,680

Referee: Franz Gächter

30 September 1987

Hajduk Split	1 – 0 (a.e.t.) 4 – 2 on penalties	Aalborg BK
Asanović 43'

Poljud, Split

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Sadik Deda

30 September 1987

Den Haag	3 – 1	Újpest
Boere 22', 24' Varga 82' (o.g.)		Rostas 89'

Zuiderpark, The Hague

Attendance: 11,500

Referee: Neil Midgley

30 September 1987

Young Boys	3 – 1	Dunajská Streda
Zuffi 64' Weber 67' Maissen 89'		Majoroš 78'

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 8,100

Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel

30 September 1987

Hamburg	3 – 0	Avenir Beggen
Kroth 9' Kaltz 72' Labbadia 82'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Jan Damgaard

30 September 1987

Dundalk	0 – 2	Ajax
		Newe 71' (o.g.) Meijer 86'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Rune Larsson

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mechelen	2–0	St Mirren	0–0	2–0
Real Sociedad	1–1 (a)	Dinamo Minsk	1–1	0–0
OFI Crete	1–2	Atalanta	1–0	0–2
Kalmar FF	1–5	Sporting CP	1–0	0–5
Vllaznia	0–2	RoPS	0–1	0–1
Marseille	7–0	Hajduk Split	4–0	3–0¹
Den Haag	2–2 (a)	Young Boys	2–1	0–1
Hamburg	0–3	Ajax	0–1	0–2

Notes

Note 1: With Hajduk Split winning 2–0, the match was interrupted for 15 minutes due to flares being thrown onto the pitch followed by a pitch invasion by Hajduk fans. The match was voided and awarded 3–0 to Marseille due to the crowd trouble.

First leg

21 October 1987

Mechelen	0 – 0	St Mirren

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 6,746

Referee: Lajos Hartmann

21 October 1987

Real Sociedad	1 – 1	Dinamo Minsk
Gajate 66'		Kandratsyew 5'

Atotxa, San Sebastian

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Vitor Fernandes

21 October 1987

OFI Crete	1 – 0	Atalanta
Persias 17'

Toumba, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 9,500

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber

21 October 1987

Kalmar FF	1 – 0	Sporting CP
Arvidsson 83'

Fredriksskans, Kalmar

Attendance: 2,070

Referee: Neil Midgley

21 October 1987

Vllaznia	0 – 1	RoPS
		Polack 27'

Loro Boriçi Stadium, Shkoder

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Dimitar Dimitrov

22 October 1987

Olympique Marseille	4 – 0	Hajduk Split
Papin 31' Diallo 47' Allofs 68' Giresse 88'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 28,313

Referee: Paolo Casarin

21 October 1987

Den Haag	2 – 1	Young Boys
de Roode 3' Boere 71'		Zuffi 62'

Zuiderpark, The Hague

Attendance: 9,337

Referee: Luigi Agnolin

21 October 1987

Hamburg	0 – 1	Ajax
		Meijer 82'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 24,600

Referee: Franz Wöhrer

Second leg

3 November 1987

St Mirren	0 – 2	Mechelen
		Ohana 33', 49'

Love Street, Paisley

Attendance: 14,368

Referee: Einar Halle

3 November 1987

Dinamo Minsk	0 – 0	Real Sociedad

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Yusuf Namoğlu

4 November 1987

Atalanta	2 – 0	OFI Crete
Nicolini 22' Garlini 68'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet

3 November 1987

Sporting CP	5 – 0	Kalmar FF
Cascavel 34', 54', 57' Sealy 62' Duílio 74'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: George Smith

3 November 1987

RoPS	1 – 0	Vllaznia
Polack 27'

Keskuskenttä, Rovaniemi

Attendance: 8,543

Referee: Bo Karlsson

5 November 1987

Hajduk Split	2 – 0	Olympique Marseille
Asanović 19' (pen.) Bursać 83'

Poljud, Split

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Dieter Pauly

The match was interrupted for 15 minutes due to flares being thrown onto the pitch followed by a pitch invasion by Hajduk fans. The match was voided and awarded 0-3 to Marseille due to the crowd trouble.

3 November 1987

Young Boys	1 – 0	Den Haag
Fimian 68'

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 6,400

Referee: Helmut Kohl

3 November 1987

Ajax	2 – 0	Hamburg
Mühren 12' Meijer 82'

Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Attendance: 42,943

Referee: George Courtney

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mechelen	2–1	Dinamo Minsk	1–0	1–1
Atalanta	3–1	Sporting CP	2–0	1–1
RoPS	0–4	Marseille	0–1	0–3
Young Boys	0–2	Ajax	0–1	0–1

First leg

1 March 1988

Mechelen	1 – 0	Dinamo Minsk
De Wilde 86'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Gerasimos Germanakos

2 March 1988

Atalanta	2 – 0	Sporting CP
Nicolini 44' (pen.) Cantarutti 79'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen

1 March 1988

RoPS	0 – 1	Olympique Marseille
		Papin 27'

Stadio Via del Mare, Lecce

Attendance: 1,631

Referee: Velichko Tsonchev

9 March 1988

Young Boys	0 – 1	Ajax
		Bosman 44'

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 7,686

Referee: Emilio Soriana Aladren

Second leg

15 March 1988

Dinamo Minsk	1 – 1	Mechelen
Kisten 59'		Ohana 29'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørenson

16 March 1988

Sporting CP	1 – 1	Atalanta
Houtman 67'		Cantarutti 82'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Horst Brummeieir

16 March 1988

Olympique Marseille	3 – 0	RoPS
Genghini 18' Allofs 22' Papin 77' (pen.)

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 16,016

Referee: Vitor Fernandes

16 March 1988

Ajax	1 – 0	Young Boys
Larsson 39'

Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Valeri Butenko

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mechelen	4–2	Atalanta	2–1	2–1
Marseille	2–4	Ajax	0–3	2–1

First leg

6 April 1988

Mechelen	2 – 1	Atalanta
Ohana 7' den Boer 82'		Strömberg 8'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 11,700

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén

6 April 1988

Olympique Marseille	0 – 3	Ajax
		Witschge 12', 42' Bergkamp 89'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 42,584

Referee: Ioan Igna

Second leg

20 April 1988

Atalanta	1 – 2	Mechelen
Garlini 39' (pen.)		Rutjes 56' Emmers 79'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Valeri Butenko

20 April 1988

Ajax	1 – 2	Olympique Marseille
Larsson 23'		Papin 67' Allofs 90'

Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen

Final

11 May 1988

Mechelen	1 – 0	Ajax
den Boer 53'

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1987-88 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Paulinho Cascavel	Sporting CP	6
2	Klaus Allofs	Olympique Marseille	4
	Piet den Boer	KV Mechelen	4
	Eli Ohana	KV Mechelen	4
	Jean-Pierre Papin	Olympique Marseille	4
	Tony Sealy	Sporting CP	4
7	Remco Boere	Den Haag	3
	Aldo Cantarutti	Atalanta	3
	Oliviero Garlini	Atalanta	3
	Bruno Labbadia	Hamburg	3
	Juraj Majoroš	Dunajská Streda	3
	Hennie Meijer	Ajax	3
	Dario Zuffi	Young Boys	3

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