UEFA Euro 1988

Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name = UEFA European Football Championship
year = 1988
other_titles = UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft
Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1988


size = 120px
caption = UEFA Euro 1988 official logo
country = West Germany
dates = 10 June – 25 June
num_teams = 8
venues = 8
cities = 8
champion = Netherlands
count = 1
second = USSR
matches = 15
goals = 34
attendance =
top_scorer = flagicon|NED Marco van Basten (5 goals)
player = 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 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.

Qualification

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

Teams

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

*fb|DEN
*fb|ENG
*fb|ITA
*fb|NED
*fb|IRL (first appearance)
*fb|ESP
*fb|URS
*fb|FRG (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. 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

*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

Match officials

*flagicon|AUT Horst Brummeier
*flagicon|BEL Alexis Ponnet
*flagicon|GDR Siegfried Kirschen
*flagicon|ENG Keith Hackett
*flagicon|FRA Michel Vautrot
*flagicon|ITA Paolo Casarin
*flagicon|NED Bep Thomas
*flagicon|POR José Rosa dos Santos
*flagicon|ROU|1965 Ioan Igna
*flagicon|SCO Bob Valentine
*flagicon|ESP Emilio Soriano Aladren
*flagicon|SWE Erik Fredriksson
*flagicon|SUI Bruno Galler
*flagicon|FRG Dieter Pauly

quads

:"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

footballbox
date=1988-06-10
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|FRG
score=1 – 1
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1988/round=212/match=5/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|ITA
goals1=Brehme goal|55
goals2=Mancini goal|52
stadium=Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf
attendance=62,552
referee=Keith Hackett (England) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-11
time=15:30
team1=fb-rt|DEN
score=2 – 3
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1988/round=212/match=6/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|ESP
goals1=Laudrup goal|24
Povlsen goal|82
goals2=Míchel goal|5
Butragueño goal|52
Gordillo goal|67
stadium=Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
attendance=60,366
referee=Bep Thomas (Netherlands) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-14
time=17:15
team1=fb-rt|FRG
score=2 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1988/round=212/match=6/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|DEN
goals1=Klinsmann goal|10
Thon goal|85
goals2=
stadium=Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
attendance=64,812
referee=Bob Valentine (Scotland) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-14
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|ITA
score=1 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1988/round=212/match=8/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|ESP
goals1=Vialli goal|73
goals2=
stadium=Waldstadion, Frankfurt
attendance=51,790
referee=Erik Fredriksson (Sweden) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-17
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|FRG
score=2 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1988/round=212/match=9/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|ESP
goals1=Völler goal|29 goal|51
goals2=
stadium=Olympiastadion, Munich
attendance=72,308
referee=Michel Vautrot (France) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-17
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|ITA
score=2 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1988/round=212/match=10/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|DEN
goals1=Altobelli goal|67
De Agostini goal|87
goals2=
stadium=Rhein Energie Stadion, Cologne
attendance=53,951
referee=Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

Group B

footballbox
date=1988-06-12
time=15:30
team1=fb-rt|ENG
score=0 – 1
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=212/match=13/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|IRL
goals1=
goals2=Houghton goal|6
stadium=Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
attendance=51,573
referee=Kirschen (East Germany) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-12
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|NED
score=0 – 1
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=212/match=14/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|URS
goals1=
goals2=Rats goal|52
stadium=Rhein Energie Stadion, Cologne
attendance=60,000
referee=Dieter Pauly (West Germany) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-15
time=17:15
team1=fb-rt|ENG
score=1 – 3
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=212/match=15/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|NED
goals1=Robson goal|53
goals2=Van Basten goal|44 goal|71 goal|75
stadium=Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf
attendance=63,940
referee=Paolo Casarin (Italy) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-15
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|IRL
score=1 – 1
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=212/match=16/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|URS
goals1=Whelan goal|38
goals2=Protasov goal|74
stadium=Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
attendance=38,308
referee=Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-18
time=15:30
team1=fb-rt|ENG
score=1 – 3
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=212/match=17/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|URS
goals1=Adams goal|16
goals2=Aleinikov goal|3
Mikhailichenko goal|28
Pasulko goal|73
stadium=Waldstadion, Frankfurt
attendance=53,000
referee=José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal) ----footballbox
date=1988-06-18
time=15:30
team1=fb-rt|IRL
score=0 – 1
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=212/match=18/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|NED
goals1=
goals2=Kieft goal|82
stadium=Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
attendance=60,800
referee=Horst Brummeier (Austria)

Knockout stage

Round4
21 June – Hamburg (Volksparkstadion)|fb|FRG|1|fb|NED|2
22 June – Stuttgart (Neckarstadion)|fb|ITA|0|fb|URS|2
25 June – Munich (Olympiastadion)|fb|NED|2|fb|URS|0

emi-finals

footballbox
date=1988-06-21
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|FRG
score=1 – 2
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=209/match=20/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|NED
goals1=Matthäus goal|55|pen.
goals2=R. Koeman goal|74|pen.
van Basten goal|88
stadium=Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
attendance=61,330
referee=Ioan Igna (Romania)

footballbox
date=1988-06-22
time=20:15
team1=fb-rt|URS
score=2 – 0
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=209/match=21/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|ITA
goals1=Litovchenko goal|58
Protasov goal|62
goals2=
stadium=Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
attendance=61,606
referee=Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Final

footballbox
date=1988-06-25
time=15:30
team1=fb-rt|URS
score=0 – 2
report= [http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1988/round=210/match=22/index.html (Report)]
team2=fb|NED
goals1=
goals2=Gullit goal|32
Van Basten goal|54
stadium=Olympiastadion, Munich
attendance=72,308
referee=Michel Vautrot (France)

tatistics

Goalscorers

;5 goals
*flagicon|NED Marco van Basten
;2 goals
*flagicon|FRG Rudi Völler
*flagicon|URS Oleg Protasov
;1 goal
*flagicon|DEN Michael Laudrup
*flagicon|DEN Flemming Povlsen
*flagicon|ENG Tony Adams
*flagicon|ENG Bryan Robson
*flagicon|FRG Andreas Brehme
*flagicon|FRG Jürgen Klinsmann
*flagicon|FRG Lothar Matthäus
*flagicon|FRG Olaf Thon
*flagicon|ITA Alessandro Altobelli
*flagicon|ITA Luigi De Agostini
*flagicon|ITA Roberto Mancini
*flagicon|ITA Gianluca Vialli
*flagicon|NED Ruud Gullit
*flagicon|NED Wim Kieft
*flagicon|NED Ronald Koeman
*flagicon|IRL Ray Houghton
*flagicon|IRL Ronnie Whelan
*flagicon|URS Sergei Aleinikov
*flagicon|URS Gennadi Litovtchenko
*flagicon|URS Alexei Mikhailichenko
*flagicon|URS Victor Pasulko
*flagicon|URS Vassili Rats
*flagicon|ESP Emilio Butragueño
*flagicon|ESP Rafael Gordillo
*flagicon|ESP Míchel

Fastest goal

;3 minutesSergei Aleinikov (USSR vs England)

External links

* [http://www.nabbenz.com/soccer/UEFA/88nedrus.htm Alternative report on final]