UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying

UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	10 September 1986 – 20 December 1987
Teams	32
Tournament statistics
Matches played	117 [note 1]
Goals scored	287 (2.45 per match) [note 1]
Top scorer(s)	John Bosman (9 goals) [note 1]
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This page describes the qualifying procedure for UEFA Euro 1988 . ^[1]

Qualified teams

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Did not enter

  Not a UEFA member

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament [A]
West Germany	Host	14 March 1985	4 ( 1972 , 1976, 1980 , 1984)
Denmark	Group 6 winner	14 October 1987	2 (1964, 1984)
Soviet Union	Group 3 winner	28 October 1987	4 ( 1960 , 1964, 1968, 1972)
England	Group 4 winner	11 November 1987	2 (1968, 1980)
Republic of Ireland	Group 7 winner	11 November 1987	0 (debut)
Italy	Group 2 winner	14 November 1987	2 ( 1968 , 1980 )
Spain	Group 1 winner	18 November 1987	3 ( 1964 , 1980, 1984)
Netherlands	Group 5 winner	9 December 1987	2 (1976, 1980)

1. Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Seedings

Pool 1	Pool 2	Pool 3	Pool 4	Pool 5
France (title holders)   England   Denmark   Spain   Netherlands   Portugal   Belgium	Soviet Union   Romania   Northern Ireland   Sweden   Hungary   Wales   Bulgaria	Austria   Yugoslavia   Czechoslovakia   East Germany   Poland    Switzerland   Republic of Ireland	Scotland   Greece   Norway   Finland   Italy   Turkey   Albania	Iceland   Malta   Cyprus   Luxembourg

Summary

  Group winners qualified directly for UEFA Euro 1988

  Other teams were eliminated

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
Spain	Italy	Soviet Union	England	Netherlands	Denmark	Republic of Ireland
Romania Austria Albania	Sweden Portugal Switzerland Malta	East Germany France Iceland Norway	Yugoslavia Northern Ireland Turkey	Greece Hungary Poland Cyprus	Czechoslovakia Wales Finland	Bulgaria Belgium Scotland Luxembourg

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches
2. Goal difference in all group matches
3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
4. Drawing of lots

Groups

The qualifying draw took place on 14 February 1986, in Frankfurt. West Germany qualified automatically as hosts of the competition. 32 teams entered the draw.

The qualifiers, consisting of 32 teams divided into seven groups; three of four teams and four of five teams, were played in 1986 and 1987. Each group winner progressed to the finals.

Group 1

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	6	5	0	1	14	6	+8	10	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	2–0	5–0
2	Romania	6	4	1	1	13	3	+10	9			3–1	—	4–0	5–1
3	Austria	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	5			2–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Albania	6	0	0	6	2	17	−15	0			1–2	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 2

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	8	6	1	1	16	4	+12	13	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–0	3–2	5–0
2	Sweden	8	4	2	2	12	5	+7	10			1–0	—	0–1	2–0	1–0
3	Portugal	8	2	4	2	6	8	−2	8			0–1	1–1	—	0–0	2–2
4	Switzerland	8	1	5	2	9	9	0	7			0–0	1–1	1–1	—	4–1
5	Malta	8	0	2	6	4	21	−17	2			0–2	0–5	0–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 3

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	8	5	3	0	14	3	+11	13	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	1–1	2–0	4–0
2	East Germany	8	4	3	1	13	4	+9	11			1–1	—	0–0	2–0	3–1
3	France	8	1	4	3	4	7	−3	6			0–2	0–1	—	2–0	1–1
4	Iceland	8	2	2	4	4	14	−10	6			1–1	0–6	0–0	—	2–1
5	Norway	8	1	2	5	5	12	−7	4			0–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 4

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	6	5	1	0	19	1	+18	11	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	3–0	8–0
2	Yugoslavia	6	4	0	2	13	9	+4	8			1–4	—	3–0	4–0
3	Northern Ireland	6	1	1	4	2	10	−8	3			0–2	1–2	—	1–0
4	Turkey	6	0	2	4	2	16	−14	2			0–0	2–3	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group 5

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	8	6	2	0	15	1	+14	14	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	2–0	0–0	4–0 [a]
2	Greece	8	4	1	3	12	13	−1	9			0–3	—	2–1	1–0	3–1
3	Hungary	8	4	0	4	13	11	+2	8			0–1	3–0	—	5–3	1–0
4	Poland	8	3	2	3	9	11	−2	8			0–2	2–1	3–2	—	0–0
5	Cyprus	8	0	1	7	3	16	−13	1			0–2	2–4	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. The Netherlands v Cyprus match originally finished as an 8–0 win for the Netherlands, but the match was marred by crowd violence. Therefore the result was annulled and the match was ordered to be replayed behind closed doors.

Group 6

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	6	3	2	1	4	2	+2	8	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	1–0	1–0
2	Czechoslovakia	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	7			0–0	—	2–0	3–0
3	Wales	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	6			1–0	1–1	—	4–0
4	Finland	6	1	1	4	4	10	−6	3			0–1	3–0	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group 7

Main article: UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 7

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of Ireland	8	4	3	1	10	5	+5	11	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1
2	Bulgaria	8	4	2	2	12	6	+6	10			2–1	—	2–0	0–1	3–0
3	Belgium	8	3	3	2	16	8	+8	9			2–2	1–1	—	4–1	3–0
4	Scotland	8	3	3	2	7	5	+2	9			0–1	0–0	2–0	—	3–0
5	Luxembourg	8	0	1	7	2	23	−21	1			0–2	1–4	0–6	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

Goalscorers

There were 287 goals scored in 117 matches, for an average of 2.45 goals per match. ^{[note 1]}

9 goals

• John Bosman ^{[note 1]}

7 goals

• Nico Claesen

6 goals

• Alessandro Altobelli
• Johnny Ekström

5 goals

• Lachezar Tanev
• Andreas Thom
• Gary Lineker
• Nikos Anastopoulos
• Ruud Gullit ^{[note 1]}

4 goals

• Ulf Kirsten
• Gianluca Vialli
• Igor Belanov
• Georges Bregy
• Zlatko Vujović

3 goals

• Toni Polster
• Nasko Sirakov
• Ivo Knoflíček
• John Barnes
• Lajos Détári
• Carmel Busuttil
• Dariusz Dziekanowski
• Frank Stapleton
• Gheorghe Hagi
• José Mari Bakero
• Míchel

2 goals

• Manfred Linzmaier
• Jan Ceulemans
• Franky Vercauteren
• Hristo Kolev
• Jan Mølby
• Peter Beardsley
• Bryan Robson
• Chris Waddle
• Ari Hjelm
• Dimitris Saravakos
• Imre Boda
• György Bognár
• Ferenc Mészáros
• Hans Gillhaus
• Ronald Koeman
• Marco van Basten
• Jørn Andersen
• Marek Leśniak
• Jorge Plácido
• Paul McGrath
• Ștefan Iovan
• Victor Pițurcă
• Davie Cooper
• Paul McStay
• Oleksandr Zavarov
• Eloy Olaya
• Peter Larsson
• Ian Rush
• Faruk Hadžibegić
• Srečko Katanec
• Fadil Vokrri

1 goal

• Sokol Kushta
• Shkëlqim Muça
• Andreas Ogris
• Peter Crève
• Marc Degryse
• Eric Gerets
• Pier Janssen
• Enzo Scifo
• Ayan Sadakov
• Georgi Yordanov
• Evagoras Christofi
• Pavlos Savva
• Giorgos Savvidis
• Michal Bílek
• Ivan Hašek
• Petr Janečka
• Karel Kula
• Jens Jørn Bertelsen
• Preben Elkjær
• Thomas Doll
• Matthias Döschner
• Rainer Ernst
• Ralf Minge
• Tony Adams
• Viv Anderson
• Steve Hodge
• Gary Mabbutt
• Neil Webb
• Ismo Lius
• Petri Tiainen
• Philippe Fargeon
• Carmelo Micciche
• Yannick Stopyra
• José Touré
• Kostas Antoniou
• Kostas Batsinilas
• Andreas Bonovas
• Tasos Mitropoulos
• Lakis Papaioannou
• József Kiprich
• Zoltán Péter
• Tamás Preszeller
• István Vincze
• Atli Eðvaldsson
• Arnór Guðjohnsen
• Pétur Ormslev
• Pétur Pétursson
• Salvatore Bagni
• Giuseppe Bergomi
• Luigi De Agostini
• Roberto Donadoni
• Riccardo Ferri
• Giuseppe Giannini
• Armin Krings
• Robby Langers
• Dennis Mizzi
• Arnold Mühren
• Ronald Spelbos ^{[note 1]}
• John van 't Schip ^{[note 1]}
• Colin Clarke
• Jimmy Quinn
• Jan Kristian Fjærestad
• Per Edmund Mordt
• Tom Sundby
• Dariusz Marciniak
• Włodzimierz Smolarek
• Ryszard Tarasiewicz
• Roman Wójcicki
• José Coelho
• Manuel Fernandes
• Fernando Gomes
• Frederico Rosa
• Liam Brady
• Tony Galvin
• Mark Lawrenson
• Kevin Moran
• Ronnie Whelan
• László Bölöni
• Adrian Bumbescu
• Michael Klein
• Marius Lăcătuș
• Dorin Mateuț
• Nicolae Ungureanu
• Mo Johnston
• Gary Mackay
• Ally McCoist
• Sergei Aleinikov
• Oleg Blokhin
• Vagiz Khidiyatullin
• Hennadiy Lytovchenko
• Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
• Oleh Protasov
• Vasyl Rats
• Tengiz Sulakvelidze
• Juan Carlos Arteche
• Ramón Calderé
• Lobo Carrasco
• Joaquín
• Francisco Llorente
• Manuel Sanchís
• Stig Fredriksson
• Glenn Hysén
• Mats Magnusson
• Glenn Strömberg
• Jean-Paul Brigger
• André Egli
• Andy Halter
• Martin Weber
• Hans-Peter Zwicker
• Yusuf Altıntaş
• Feyyaz Uçar
• Glyn Hodges
• Mark Hughes
• Andy Jones
• David Phillips
• Neil Slatter
• Ljubomir Radanović
• Dejan Savićević
• Dragan Stojković

Notes

1. The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.

References

1. Stokkermans, Karel (22 June 2004). "European Championship 1988". RSSSF.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Retrieved 5 March 2018.

External links

• UEFA Euro 1988 at UEFA.com