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)
Attendance	957,273 (15,195 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Paulinho Cascavel (Sporting CP); 6 goals
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

Last updated November 28, 2025

The 1987–88 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup finished with a shock victory by Mechelen in the final against defending champions Ajax. This led to their 1988 European Super Cup title in the club's first ever European campaign (1987–89). As the next season's Belgian league victor it defended its title in a semifinal of the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup. Financial problems have been keeping this last Belgian holder of any European cup away from 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
	Report	Majoros 66'

Tsirio Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 5,586

Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria)

Second leg

27 August 1987

Dunajská Streda	5–1	AEL Limassol
Mičinec 6', 39' J. Medgyes 20' Pavlík 27' Majoros 85' (pen.)	Report	Aristotelous 69'

Mestský štadión, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 4,501

Referee: Stjepan Glavina (Yugoslavia)

Dunajská Streda won 6–1 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mechelen	3–0	Dinamo București	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	1–0	1–3
Merthyr Tydfil	2–3	Atalanta	2–1	0–2
ÍA	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
AaB	1–1 (2–4 p)	Hajduk Split	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Újpesti Dózsa	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

13 September 1987

Vllaznia	2–0	Sliema Wanderers
Bushati 53' Jera 68'	Report

Stadiumi Vojo Kushi, Shkodër

Attendance: 12,500

Referee: Vassilios Nikakis (Greece)

15 September 1987

ÍA	0–0	Kalmar FF
	Report

Akranesvöllur, Akranes

Attendance: 2,108

Referee: Thorodd Presberg (Norway)

15 September 1987

Sporting CP	4–0	Swarovski Tirol
Sealy 7', 41' Cascavel 24' (pen.), 83'	Report

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 51,000

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

15 September 1987

Avenir Beggen	0–5	Hamburg
	Report	Labbadia 9', 70' Laubinger 44' Okoński 58' Dittmer 83'

Stade rue Henri Dunant, Luxembourg

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Alphonse Costantin (Belgium)

16 September 1987

Mechelen	1–0	Dinamo București
den Boer 50'	Report

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 7,182

Referee: Ildefonso Urizar Azpitarte (Spain)

16 September 1987

St Mirren	1–0	Tromsø
McDowall 3'	Report

Love Street, Paisley

Attendance: 7,797

Referee: Ignace Goris (Belgium)

16 September 1987

Real Sociedad	0–0	Śląsk Wrocław
	Report

Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao

Attendance: 6,251

Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

16 September 1987

Dinamo Minsk	2–0	Gençlerbirliği
Zygmantovich 83' Gotsmanov 88'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Eero Aho (Finland)

16 September 1987

Vitosha Sofia	1–0	OFI
Sirakov 87' (pen.)	Report

Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

16 September 1987

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

Penydarren Park, Merthyr Tydfil

Attendance: 4,100

Referee: Charles Gilson (Luxembourg)

16 September 1987

RoPS	0–0	Glentoran
	Report

Keskuskenttä, Rovaniemi

Attendance: 3,987

Referee: Douglas Hope (Scotland)

16 September 1987

Lokomotive Leipzig	0–0	Marseille
	Report

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 30,800

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

16 September 1987

AaB	1–0	Hajduk Split
Boye 63'	Report

Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg

Attendance: 6,800

Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

16 September 1987

Újpesti Dózsa	1–0	Den Haag
Herédi 31' (pen.)	Report

Megyeri úti stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 3,288

Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)

16 September 1987

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

Mestský štadión, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 5,672

Referee: Ignace van Swieten (Netherlands)

16 September 1987

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

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 15,712

Referee: José María Enríquez Negreira (Spain)

Second leg

28 September 1987

Glentoran	1–1	RoPS
Caskey 65'	Report	Kallio 63'

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 4,101

Referee: Guðmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

1–1 on aggregate. RoPS won on away goals

29 September 1987

Sliema Wanderers	0–4	Vllaznia
	Report	Pashaj 15' Vukatana 59' Rragami 70' (pen.) Fakja 83'

Ta' Qali, Attard

Attendance: 800

Referee: Aldo Soldatic (Yugoslavia)

Vllaznia won 6–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Dinamo București	0–2	Mechelen
	Report	Hofkens 39' den Boer 71'

Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy)

Mechelen won 3–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Tromsø	0–0	St Mirren
	Report

Alfheim Stadion, Tromsø

Attendance: 5,114

Referee: Kurt Horsted (Denmark)

St Mirren won 1–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Śląsk Wrocław	0–2	Real Sociedad
	Report	Loren 76' Begiristain 82'

Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

Real Sociedad won 2–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Gençlerbirliği	1–2	Dinamo Minsk
Tuncay 29'	Report	Derkach 69' Kondratiev 84'

Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara

Attendance: 7,445

Referee: Adrian Porumboiu (Romania)

Dinamo Minsk won 4–1 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

OFI	3–1	Vitosha Sofia
Tsimbos 26' Marinakis 48' Charalambidis 68'	Report	Kurdov 71'

Yedi Kule, Heraklion

Attendance: 12,036

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

OFI won 3–2 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Atalanta	2–0	Merthyr Tydfil
Garlini 16' Cantarutti 21'	Report

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 7,901

Referee: Victor Mintoff (Malta)

Atalanta won 3–2 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Fredriksskans, Kalmar

Attendance: 1,067

Referee: Tadeusz Diakonowicz (Poland)

Kalmar FF won 1–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Swarovski Tirol	4–2	Sporting CP
Marko 16' Roscher 53' Pezzey 69' Linzmaier 85'	Report	Sealy 57' Cascavel 67'

Tivoli, Innsbruck

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Sporting CP won 6–4 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Marseille	1–0	Lokomotive Leipzig
Allofs 8'	Report

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 23,680

Referee: Franz Gächter (Switzerland)

Marseille won 1–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Hajduk Split	1–0 (a.e.t.)	AaB
Asanović 43' (pen.)	Report
Penalties
Bursać Dražić Miljuš Asanović	4–2	Simonsen Dissing Boye Henrik P. Hansen

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 7,422

Referee: Sadık Deda (Turkey)

1–1 on aggregate. Hajduk Split won 4–2 on penalties.

30 September 1987

Den Haag	3–1	Újpesti Dózsa
Boere 22', 24' Varga 82' (o.g.)	Report	Rostás 89'

Zuiderparkstadion, The Hague

Attendance: 11,500

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Den Haag won 3–2 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Young Boys	3–1	Dunajská Streda
Zuffi 63' Weber 67' Maissen 88'	Report	Majoros 78'

Stadion Wankdorf, Bern

Attendance: 8,100

Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (West Germany)

Young Boys won 4–3 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

Hamburg won 8–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Dundalk	0–2	Ajax
	Report	Newe 71' (o.g.) Meijer 87'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

Ajax won 6–0 on aggregate.

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	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 tear gas being thrown onto the stands. 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
	Report

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 6,146

Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)

21 October 1987

Real Sociedad	1–1	Dinamo Minsk
Gajate 87'	Report	Kondratiev 5'

Atotxa, San Sebastián

Attendance: 22,121

Referee: Vítor Fernandes Correia (Portugal)

21 October 1987

OFI	1–0	Atalanta
Persias 17'	Report

Toumba, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 11,758

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

21 October 1987

Kalmar FF	1–0	Sporting CP
T. Arvidsson 88'	Report

Fredriksskans, Kalmar

Attendance: 2,070

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

21 October 1987

Vllaznia	0–1	RoPS
	Report	Polack 27'

Stadiumi Vojo Kushi, Shkodër

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Dimitar Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

21 October 1987

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

Zuiderparkstadion, The Hague

Attendance: 9,337

Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

21 October 1987

Hamburg	0–1	Ajax
	Report	Meijer 52'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 24,600

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

22 October 1987

Marseille	4–0	Hajduk Split
Papin 30' Diallo 48' Allofs 69' Giresse 89'	Report

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 28,313

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Second leg

3 November 1987

St Mirren	0–2	Mechelen
	Report	Ohana 34', 50'

Love Street, Paisley

Attendance: 14,368

Referee: Einar Halle (Norway)

Mechelen won 2–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1987

Sporting CP	5–0	Kalmar FF
Cascavel 34' (pen.), 53', 57' Sealy 62' Duílio 73'	Report

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: George Smith (Scotland)

Sporting CP won 5–1 on aggregate.

3 November 1987

RoPS	1–0	Vllaznia
Polack 47'	Report

Keskuskenttä, Rovaniemi

Attendance: 7,312

Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

RoPS won 2–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1987

Young Boys	1–0	Den Haag
Fimian 66'	Report

Stadion Wankdorf, Bern

Attendance: 6,400

Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

2–2 on aggregate. Young Boys won on away goals.

3 November 1987

Ajax	2–0	Hamburg
Mühren 13' Meijer 83'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 42,943

Referee: George Courtney (England)

Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.

4 November 1987

Dinamo Minsk	0–0	Real Sociedad
	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Yusuf Namoğlu (Turkey)

1–1 on aggregate. Dinamo Minsk won on away goals.

4 November 1987

Atalanta	2–0	OFI
Nicolini 22' Garlini 73'	Report

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 13,329

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

Atalanta won 2–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1987

Hajduk Split	0–3 Awarded	Marseille
Asanović 19' (pen.) Bursać 83'	Report

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)

The match was interrupted in the 10th minute with the score 0–0 due to tear gas being thrown in the stands by Hajduk fans. The resulting commotion was accompanied with the same fans throwing flares onto the pitch followed by a pitch invasion. The match was resumed some 15 minutes later and completed with Hajduk winning 2–0 on the night and Marseille advancing 4–2 on aggregate. At a disciplinary hearing several days later, UEFA voided the match due to the crowd trouble, awarding a 3–0 win to Marseille and banning Hajduk from European competition for two seasons.
Marseille won 7–0 on aggregate.

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'	Report

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 5,466

Referee: Gerasimos Germanakos (Greece)

2 March 1988

19:00 CET

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

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 25,049

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

1 March 1988

RoPS	0–1	Marseille
	Report	Papin 26'

Stadio Via del Mare, Lecce

Attendance: 1,631

Referee: Velichko Tsonchev (Bulgaria)

9 March 1988

Young Boys	0–1	Ajax
	Report	Bosman 44'

Stadion Wankdorf, Bern

Attendance: 7,686

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)

Second leg

15 March 1988

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

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 44,430

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.

15 March 1988

Sporting CP	1–1	Atalanta
Houtman 66'	Report	Cantarutti 82'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

Atalanta won 3–1 on aggregate.

15 March 1988

Marseille	3–0	RoPS
Genghini 18' Allofs 22' Papin 76' (pen.)	Report

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 16,016

Referee: Vítor Fernandes (Portugal)

Marseille won 4–0 on aggregate.

16 March 1988

Ajax	1–0	Young Boys
Larsson 39'	Report

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 18,955

Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union)

Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate.

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 83'	Report	Strömberg 8'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 11,700

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)

6 April 1988

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

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 42,584

Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

Second leg

20 April 1988

Atalanta	1–2	Mechelen
Garlini 39' (pen.)	Report	Rutjes 57' Emmers 80'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 37,500

Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union)

Mechelen won 4–2 on aggregate.

20 April 1988

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

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 30,463

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

Ajax won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

11 May 1988

Mechelen	1–0	Ajax
den Boer 53'	Report

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 39,446

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
	Henny Meijer	Ajax	3
	Dario Zuffi	Young Boys	3

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1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup

Contents

Preliminary round

First leg

Second leg

First round

First leg

Second leg

Second round

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

Top scorers

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