The following are the association football events of the year 1988 throughout the world.
Events
March 27 – Cameroon wins the 1988 African Cup of Nations by defeating Nigeria: 1–0. The only goal in Casablanca's Stade Mohammed V is scored by Emmanuel Kundé from a penalty kick. June 25 – Thanks to goals from captain Ruud Gullit and top goalscorer Marco van Basten, the Netherlands defeat the Soviet Union (2–0) in the final of UEFA Euro 1988 in Munich. July 12 – Italian club Juventus receive The UEFA Plaque in Geneva (Switzerland) as first club in European football history to win the three main UEFA club competitions. 1988 Copa Libertadores – won by Nacional after defeating Newell's Old Boys on an aggregate score of 3–1. England – FA Cup – Wimbledon won 1–0 over Liverpool. The Football League celebrates its Centenary. With great surprise worldwide FIFA gives the 1994 FIFA World Cup to United States. August 24 – The Faroe Islands record their first international victory, defeating Canada 1–0. September 14 – Thijs Libregts makes his debut as the manager of Dutch national team with a 1–0 win over Wales, replacing successful coach Rinus Michels. October 1 – Soviet Union wins the Olympic gold medal in football by defeating Brazil: 2–1 after extra time in Seoul's Olympic Stadium. December 11 – Uruguay's Nacional wins the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Dutch PSV Eindhoven on penalties (7–6), after the match ended in 2–2.
National club championships winners
Africa CountryLeagueTeam EgyptEgyptian Premier LeagueZamalek South AfricaNSL First DivisionMamelodi Sundowns F.C.Zimbabwe Premier Soccer LeagueZimbabwe Saints
Asia CountryLeagueTeam JapanJapan Soccer LeagueYahama Motors MacauCampeonato da 1ª Divisão do FutebolWa Seng QatarQatar Stars LeagueAl-Sadd SCSaudi Premier LeagueAl Hilal SFC
Europe CountryLeagueTeam AlbaniaAlbanian National Championship17 Nëntori AustriaAustrian Football BundesligaSK Rapid Wien BelgiumBelgian LeagueClub Brugge K.V. BulgariaBulgarian A GroupPFC Levski Sofia CyprusCypriot First DivisionPezoporikos Larnaca FC CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovak First LeagueAC Sparta Prague DenmarkDanish 1st DivisionBrøndby IF EnglandThe Football LeagueLiverpool Faroe IslandsFaroe Islands Premier LeagueHavnar Bóltfelag FinlandMestaruussarjaHJK Helsinki FranceDivision 1AS Monaco East GermanyDDR-OberligaBerliner FC Dynamo West GermanyBundesligaSV Werder Bremen GibraltarGibraltar First DivisionSaint Theresa's F.C. GreeceAlpha EthnikiAEL Greenland*Greenlandic Men's Football ChampionshipKissaviarsuk-33 HungaryNemzeti Bajnokság IBudapest Honvéd IsraelLiga LeumitHapoel Tel Aviv FC ItalySerie AA.C. Milan LuxembourgLuxembourg National DivisionJeunesse Esch MaltaMaltese Premier LeagueHamrun Spartans F.C. NetherlandsEredivisiePSV Eindhoven Northern IrelandIrish LeagueGlentoran NorwayNorwegian First DivisionRosenborg PolandEkstraklasaGórnik Zabrze PortugalPrimeira LigaF.C. Porto Republic of IrelandLeague of IrelandDundalk RomaniaLiga 1FC Steaua București San MarinoCampionato Sammarinese di CalcioS.P. Tre Fiori ScotlandScottish Premier LeagueCeltic Soviet UnionSoviet Top LeagueFC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk SpainLa LigaReal Madrid SwedenAllsvenskanMalmö FF SwitzerlandNationalliga ANeuchâtel Xamax Turkey1.LigGalatasaray S.K. Vatican CityCampionato della Città del VaticanoServici Tecnici YugoslaviaYugoslav First LeagueRed Star Belgrade *Greenland was not affiliated with UEFA and never has been, but it's part of the sovereign state of Denmark which is located in Europe.
North and South America CountryLeagueTeam ArgentinaArgentine Primera DivisiónNewell's Old Boys BoliviaLiga de Fútbol Profesional BolivianoBolívar BrazilCampeonato Brasileiro Série AEsporte Clube Bahia Canadian Soccer LeagueVancouver 86ers ChileLiga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera DivisiónCobreloa ColombiaMustang CupMillonarios EcuadorCampeonato Ecuatoriano de FútbolEmelec MexicoMexican Primera DivisiónAmerica ParaguayLiga Paraguaya: Primera DivisiónOlimpia PeruPeruvian Primera DivisiónSporting CristalAmerican Soccer LeagueWashington DiplomatsWestern Soccer AllianceF.C. Seattle Storm UruguayPrimera División UruguayaDanubio VenezuelaPrimera División VenezolanaCS Marítimo
Oceania CountryLeagueTeam AustraliaNational Soccer LeagueMarconi-Fairfield FijiFiji National Football LeagueLautoka F.C. New CaledoniaNew Caledonian Super LeagueCA Saint Louis New ZealandNew Zealand National Soccer LeagueChristchurch United Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea National ChampionshipLahi Guria Solomon IslandsHoniara FA LeagueHoniara Rangers TuvaluTuvalu League TournamentNauti FC TongaTongatapu Inter Club ChampionshipNgele'ia FC International tournaments African Cup of Nations in Morocco (March 13 – 27 1988)
Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea (September 17 – October 1, 1988)
UEFA European Football Championship in West Germany (June 10 – 25 1988)
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Births
January 1 January: Diego Basto, Colombian footballer Sékou Fadiga, Ivorian footballer Isaac Mattia, South Sudanese footballer 3 January: Crispin Olando, Kenyan international footballer 4 January: Anestis Argyriou, Greek footballer Maximilian Riedmüller, German footballer 8 January: Vitaliy Hoshkoderya, Ukrainian footballer Adrián López, Spanish footballer Michael Mancienne, English footballer 9 January: Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer 20 January: Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian international Jougle (Jougle Manoel Rodrigues), Brazilian footballer sambafoot.com Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer 23 January: Marko Šimić, Croatian junior international 28 January: Alaa Ali, Egyptian footballer (d. 2019) 29 January: Bohdan Karkovskyi, Ukrainian former professional footballer
February 3 February: Pouria Gheidar, Iranian footballer 4 February: Sergei Yuvenko, Russian professional football playerSergei Yuvenko, career summary by Sportbox 12 February: Linda Bengtsson, Swedish footballer Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine international football player 23 February: Nicolás Gaitán, Argentine international football player 24 February: Levi Hanssen, New Zealand/Faroe Islands footballer 26 February: İsmail Baydil, Turkish footballer 28 February: Jorge Gastélum, Mexican footballer 29 February: Mikel Balenziaga, Spanish footballer Fabiano Ribeiro de Freitas, Brazilian footballer Scott Golbourne, English footballer Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer Viktor Prodell, Swedish footballer Evgeni Cheremisin, Russian footballer Hamza Ziad, Algerian footballer
March 11 March: Joaelton (Joaelton Jonathan Sampaio), Brazilian footballer 21 March: Lee Cattermole, English footballer
April 3 April: Tim Krul, Dutch international 11 April: Oleg Sibalov, Russian professional football playerOleg Sibalov, Career summary by Sportbox 12 April: Fred Santana, Brazilian footballer 23 April: Vitali Seletskiy, Russian professional football coach and former player
May 4 May: Artur Gieraga, Polish footballer Michael Ludäscher, Swiss footballerkurzpass article 15 May: Ruslan Tarala, former Russian professional footballer 17 May: Jennison Myrie-Williams, English youth international 21 May: Jonny Howson, English footballer16. Jonathan Howson 23 May: Angelo Ogbonna, Italian footballer 25 May: Adrián González Morales, Spanish junior international 29 May: Łukasz Bocian, Polish footballer Alex Porfirio, Brazilian footballer
June 1 June: Javier Hernández, Mexican international football player 9 June: Martín Castillo, Mexican professional footballer 15 June: Cristopher Toselli, Chilean footballer 22 June: Silvio Arango, Colombian former footballer 23 June: Adrian Chomiuk, Polish footballer 24 June: Micah Richards, England international footballer
July 2 July: Abderahmane Hachoud, Algerian international footballer 6 July: Gustavo Mencia, Paraguayan footballer 8 July: Enoch Oteng, Belgian footballer Cédric De Troetsel, Belgian retired footballer 18 July: Elvin Mammadov, Azerbaijani international 24 July: Irina Birvagen, Kazakhstani former footballer
August 5 August: Eddie Nolan, Irish international footballer 6 August: José Márquez, Guatemalan footballer 28 August: Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007) 31 August: Faber Cañaveral, Colombian professional footballer
September 2 September: Javi Martínez, Spanish international footballer 5 September: Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian association footballer 13 September: Luis Rentería, Panamanian international footballer (died 2014) 18 September: Ferdinand Sinaga, Indonesian international 23 September: Anthony Straker, English footballer 25 September: Chinta Chandrashekar Rao, Indian footballer 28 September: Alex Marello, Canadian professional soccer player
October 4 October: Marcos Román, Nicaraguan professional footballer 7 October: Diego Costa, Spanish internationalAtlético Madrid profile 13 October: Marco Gasparri, Italian professional footballer 14 October Will Atkinson, English footballer Mario Titone, Italian footballer 15 October: Mesut Özil, German international football player
November 7 November: Andri Abubakar, Indonesian footballer 15 November: Sascha Imholz, Swiss footballer 17 November: Salome Khubuluri, Georgian footballer 18 November: Andreas Niederquell, German former footballer 20 November: Soheil Rahmani, Iranian footballer
December 5 December Cristian Machín, Uruguayan footballer Kamil Cholerzyński, Polish professional footballer 9 December: Ibrahim Morad, Emirati footballer 10 December: Wilfried Bony, Ivorian international footballer Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer Neven Subotić, Serbian international footballer 15 December: Yael Falcón, Argentine football referee 17 December: Thaísa Moreno, Brazilian footballer 21 December: Anastasios Christofileas, Greek professional footballer
Deaths
January 27 – Kemal Faruki, Turkish football player (77) February 8 – Pietro Arcari, Italian forward, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup and one of four Italian players who won the FIFA World Cup while never being capped. (78) February 26 – Euclydes Barbosa, Brazilian defender, semi-finalist at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. (82) March 13 – Rodolpho Barteczko, Brazilian striker, semi-finalist at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. (77) March 16 – Erich Probst, Austrian football player (60) October 19 – Marcos Carneiro de Mendonça, Brazilian goalkeeper, the inaugural goalkeeper for Brazil National Football Team and winner of the 1919 South American Championship and 1922 South American Championship. (93)
References
External links Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation VoetbalStats