UEFA Euro 1988

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1988 UEFA European Football Championship UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1988
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)
Second place	USSR
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	34  (2.27 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Marco van Basten (5 goals)

The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 88) 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 dispute 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 1 Qualification 2 Teams 3 Venues 4 Match officials 5 Squads 6 Results 6.1 Group stage 6.1.1 Group A 6.1.2 Group B 7 Knockout stage 7.1 Semi-finals 7.2 Final 8 Statistics 8.1 Goal scorers 8.2 Fastest goal 9 External links

[edit] Qualification

For details concerning the qualifying phase see, 1988 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying

[edit] Teams

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

•  Denmark
•  England
•  Italy
•  Netherlands
•  Republic of Ireland (first appearance)
•  Spain
•  USSR
•  West Germany (hosts)

[edit] Venues

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

[edit] Match officials

• Horst Brummeier
• Alexis Ponnet
• Siegfried Kirschen
• Keith Hackett
• Michel Vautrot
• Paolo Casarin
• Bep Thomas
• José Rosa dos Santos
• Ioan Igna
• Bob Valentine
• Emilio Soriano Aladren
• Erik Fredriksson
• Bruno Galler
• Dieter Pauly

[edit] Squads

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

[edit] Results

[edit] Group stage

All times local (CET)

[edit] 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

1988-06-10 20:15	West Germany	1 – 1	Italy	Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf Attendance: 62,552 Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
	Brehme  55'	(Report)	Mancini  52'

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1988-06-11 15:30	Denmark	2 – 3	Spain	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 60,366 Referee: Bep Thomas (Netherlands)
	Laudrup  24' Povlsen  82'	(Report)	Míchel  5' Butragueño  52' Gordillo  67'

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1988-06-14 17:15	West Germany	2 – 0	Denmark	Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 64,812 Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)
	Klinsmann  10' Thon  85'	(Report)

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1988-06-14 20:15	Italy	1 – 0	Spain	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 51,790 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
	Vialli  73'	(Report)

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1988-06-17 20:15	West Germany	2 – 0	Spain	Olympiastadion, Munich Attendance: 72,308 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
	Völler  29'  51'	(Report)

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1988-06-17 20:15	Italy	2 – 0	Denmark	Rhein Energie Stadion, Cologne Attendance: 53,951 Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
	Altobelli  67' De Agostini  87'	(Report)

[edit] 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

1988-06-12 15:30	England	0 – 1	Republic of Ireland	Neckarstadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 51,573 Referee: Kirschen (East Germany)
		(Report)	Houghton  6'

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1988-06-12 20:15	Netherlands	0 – 1	USSR	Rhein Energie Stadion, Cologne Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
		(Report)	Rats  52'

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1988-06-15 17:15	England	1 – 3	Netherlands	Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf Attendance: 63,940 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
	Robson  53'	(Report)	Van Basten  44'  71'  75'

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1988-06-15 20:15	Republic of Ireland	1 – 1	USSR	Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover Attendance: 38,308 Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain)
	Whelan  38'	(Report)	Protasov  74'

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1988-06-18 15:30	England	1 – 3	USSR	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 53,000 Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
	Adams  16'	(Report)	Aleinikov  3' Mikhailichenko  28' Pasulko  73'

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1988-06-18 15:30	Republic of Ireland	0 – 1	Netherlands	Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 60,800 Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
		(Report)	Kieft  82'

[edit] 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

[edit] Semi-finals

1988-06-21 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'

1988-06-22 20:15	USSR	2 – 0	Italy	Neckarstadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 61,606 Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)
	Litovchenko  58' Protasov  62'	(Report)

[edit] Final

1988-06-25 15:30	USSR	0 – 2	Netherlands	Olympiastadion, Munich Attendance: 72,308 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
		(Report)	Gullit  32' Van Basten  54'

Euro 1988 Champions
Netherlands First title

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Goal scorers

5 goals Marco van Basten 2 goals Rudi Völler Oleg Protasov 1 goal Michael Laudrup Flemming Povlsen Tony Adams Bryan Robson Andreas Brehme Jürgen Klinsmann Lothar Matthäus Olaf Thon

Alessandro Altobelli Luigi De Agostini Roberto Mancini Gianluca Vialli Ruud Gullit Wim Kieft Ronald Koeman Ray Houghton Ronnie Whelan Sergei Aleinikov Gennadi Litovtchenko Alexei Mikhailichenko Victor Pasulko Vassili Rats Emilio Butragueño Rafael Gordillo Míchel

[edit] Fastest goal

3 minutes

Sergei Aleinikov (USSR vs England)

[edit] External links

• Alternative report on final

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