Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers

Men's European Qualifier
Tournament details
Teams	27 (from 1 confederation)
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The European Qualifiers for men's football competitions at the 1988 Summer Olympics to be held in Seoul. The tournament took place from 10 September 1986 to 31 May 1988 including a preliminary round. At the end, five countries qualified including West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.

The draw for the tournament took place on 27 May 1986 in Mexico City just before the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.^[1] Out of 34 European football nations at the time in tournament participated only 27 with five allowing for qualification to the Summer Olympics football tournament.^[1] All participants were split in five groups of five teams with winners of each qualify for the Olympics. Four teams were contesting two berths in two of five groups.

Seven football nations that did not participate included four team of British islands (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales) that refused to form the unified Great Britain team required by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Malta (never fielded its team previously), Luxembourg (not fielding in 1980s), and Albania (political restrictions since 1972).^[1]

Turkey and Eastern Bloc nations such as East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union, that boycotted the 1984 Olympics football tournament in Los Angeles, returned to the Olympic competition.^[2]^[3]

Summary

Group winners from the five-team groups qualified directly for the 1988 Summer Olympics

Other teams were eliminated

Prelimininaries' teams were eliminated

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E
West Germany	Italy	Sweden	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia
Denmark Poland Romania Greece	East Germany Portugal Netherlands Iceland	Hungary Spain Republic of Ireland France	Bulgaria Switzerland Norway Turkey	Czechoslovakia Belgium Austria Finland
Cyprus			Liechtenstein

Group A

Preliminary play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cyprus	1–4^[4]	Greece	1–2	0–2

12 November 1986

Cyprus	1–2	Greece
Pavlos Savva 45'		Ioannis Samaras 54' Charis Mbaniotis 64'

Limassol, Cyprus

10 December 1986

Greece	2–0	Cyprus
Ioannis Samaras 72', 77'

Thessaloniki, Greece

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	West Germany	8	5	2	1	16	4	+12	12	1988 Summer Olympics	—	1–1	5–1	3–0	3–0
2	Denmark	8	5	1	2	23	5	+18	11		0–1	—	3–0	8–0	4–0
3	Poland	8	4	2	2	11	10	+1	10		1–1	2–0*	—	1–0	5–1
4	Romania	8	2	1	5	5	17	−12	5		1–0	1–2	0–0	—	0–1
5	Greece	8	1	0	7	4	23	−19	2		0–2	0–5	0–1	2–3	—

Source: ^[4]

18 April 1987

Romania	1–0	West Germany
Gavril Balint 2'

Cluj Napoca, Romania

20 May 1987

Greece	0–5	Denmark
		Flemming Povlsen 12' Claus Nielsen 16', 27' Ulrik Moseby 77' Kim Vilfort 79'

Livadeia, Greece

20 May 1987

Romania	0–0	Poland

Cluj Napoca, Romania

10 June 1987

Denmark	8–0	Romania
Claus Nielsen 6', 66', 83' Ulrik Moseby 28' Bjørn Kristensen 30' Lars Olsen 51' Flemming Povlsen 77' John Jensen 79'

Aalborg, Denmark

3 September 1987

Romania	1–2	Denmark
Gavril Balint 84' (pen.)		Kent Nielsen 20' Lars Olsen 68'

Bacău, Romania

22 September 1987

West Germany	3–0	Greece
Frank Mill 16', 86' Wolfram Wuttke 63'

Offenbach am Main, West Germany

13 October 1987

West Germany	5–1	Poland
Jürgen Klinsmann 10', 43' Wolfram Wuttke 21' Frank Mill 23' Christian Hochstätter 90'		Kazimierz Sokołowski 34'

Osnabrück, West Germany

28 October 1987

Poland	x – x^[a]	Denmark
		Kim Vilfort 25', 71'

Szczecin, Poland

18 November 1987

Denmark	0–1	West Germany
		Wolfram Wuttke 52'

Århus, Denmark

2 December 1987

Greece	0–1	Poland
		Andrzej Rudy

Ioannina, Greece

12 December 1987

Greece	0–2	West Germany
		Christian Schreier 32' Fritz Walter 34'

Larissa, Greece

16 March 1988

Poland	5–1	Greece
Grzegorz Wiezik 16' Jan Furtok 3 x ?		Alexandros Tziolis 10'

Rybnik, Poland

30 March 1988

West Germany	1–1	Denmark
Armin Görtz 56'		Claus Nielsen 75'

Osnabrück, West Germany

30 March 1988

Poland	1–0	Romania
Marek Leśniak 84'

Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

13 April 1988

Romania	0–1	Greece
		Alexandros Alexiou 24'

București, Romania

20 April 1988

Denmark	4–0	Greece
Flemming Povlsen 5', 37' Brian Laudrup 23' Claus Nielsen 69'

Aalborg, Denmark

27 April 1988

Poland	1–1	West Germany
Jan Furtok 76' (pen.)		Frank Mill 89'

Chorzów, Poland

18 May 1988

Denmark	3–0	Poland
Bjørn Kristensen 14' Flemming Povlsen 68' Kim Vilfort 89'

Århus, Denmark

18 May 1988

Greece	2–3	Romania
Ioukoudis 24' Theodoros Pahatouridis 26' (pen.)		Haralambie Antohi 2' Claudiu Vaișcovici 31' Gavril Balint 40' (pen.)

Athens, Greece

31 May 1988

West Germany	3–0	Romania
Wolfram Wuttke 38' (pen.) Jürgen Klinsmann 57', 73'

Dortmund, West Germany

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	8	5	3	0	11	1	+10	13	1988 Summer Olympics	—	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0
2	East Germany	8	4	3	1	12	5	+7	11		0–0	—	3–0	4–2	3–0
3	Portugal	8	2	4	2	4	6	−2	8		0–0	0–0	—	1–1	2–1
4	Netherlands	8	1	3	4	6	12	−6	5		0–1	0–1	0–0	—	1–0
5	Iceland	8	1	1	6	5	14	−9	3		0–3	2–0	0–1	2–2	—

Source: ^[4]

3 December 1986

Netherlands	0–1	East Germany
		Damian Halata

Utrecht, Netherlands

18 February 1987

Italy	1–0	Portugal
Roberto Galia 72'

Lecce, Italy

25 February 1987

Portugal	1–1	Netherlands
Cerqueiro		Peter van Velzen

Porto, Portugal

25 March 1987

East Germany	0–0	Italy

Magdeburg, East Germany

15 April 1987

Italy	2–0	Iceland
Pietro Paolo Virdis 41' Mauro Tassotti 87'

Pescara, Italy

29 April 1987

Portugal	0–0	East Germany

Viseu, Portugal

26 May 1987

Iceland	2–2	Netherlands
Guðmundur Torfason 33', 53' (pen.)		Hennie Meyer 14' Mario Been 56'

Reykjavík, Iceland

2 September 1987

Iceland	2–0	East Germany
Guðmundur Torfason 50' Ólafur Þórðarson 80'

Reykjavík, Iceland

22 September 1987

East Germany	4–2	Netherlands
Damian Halata 30' (pen.) Hans Richter 45' Markus Wuckel 47' Heiko Peschke 85'		Hans Gillhaus Juul Ellerman

Nordhausen, East Germany

7 October 1987

Portugal	2–1	Iceland
Coelho 22' António Aparício 51'		Guðmundur Steinsson 59'

Leiria, Portugal

18 November 1987

Italy	1–1	East Germany
Marco Pacione 13'		Thomas Doll 8'

Rome, Italy

24 February 1988

Portugal	0–0	Italy

Oeiras, Portugal

9 March 1988

Netherlands	0–1	Italy
		Pietro Paolo Virdis

Groningen, Netherlands

29 March 1988

Netherlands	0–0	Portugal

Zwolle, Netherlands

13 April 1988

Italy	3–0	Netherlands
Andrea Carnevale Pietro Paolo Virdis 2x

Padua, Italy

13 April 1988

East Germany	3–0	Portugal
Olaf Marschall Matthias Lindner Hans Richter

Aue, East Germany

27 April 1988

Netherlands	1–0	Iceland
Ruud Brood

Doetinchem, Netherlands

30 April 1988

East Germany	3–0	Iceland
Olaf Marschall Jürgen Raab Heiko Peschke

Bischofswerda, East Germany

24 May 1988

Iceland	0–1	Portugal
		Miguel 89'

Reykjavík, Iceland

29 May 1988

Iceland	0–3	Italy
		Francesco Romano Pietro Paolo Virdis Andrea Carnevale

Reykjavík, Iceland

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	8	6	1	1	13	6	+7	13	1988 Summer Olympics	—	1–0	2–0	1–0	4–2
2	Hungary	8	5	1	2	13	8	+5	11		2–1	—	2–1	3–1	2–2
3	Spain	8	1	4	3	9	12	−3	6		1–1	1–0	—	2–2	1–2
4	Republic of Ireland	8	1	3	4	10	12	−2	5		0–1	1–2	2–2	—	3–0
5	France	8	1	3	4	9	16	−7	5		1–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	—

Source: ^[4]

19 November 1986

Spain	1–1	Sweden
Manuel Zúñiga 75'		Mats Jingblad 63'

Madrid, Spain

19 November 1986

Republic of Ireland	1–2	Hungary
Mick Byrne 59'		Sándor Rostás 67' Sándor Steidl 79'

Milltown, Ireland

4 February 1987

Republic of Ireland	2–2	Spain
Noel Larkin 25' Mick Byrne 46'		Genar Andrinúa 41' Manuel Zúñiga 71'

Tolka Park, Ireland

28 April 1987

France	0–2	Hungary
		István Vincze 14' Gyula Plotár 62'

Aix-en-Provence, France

5 May 1987

Sweden	1–0	Republic of Ireland
Ola Svensson 90'

Solna, Sweden

13 May 1987

Hungary	2–1	Spain
Gyula Plotár 32' József Dzurják 64'		Rafael Martín Vázquez 35'

Budapest, Hungary

3 June 1987

Hungary	2–1	Sweden
Gyula Plotár 2x		Leif Forsberg

Budapest, Hungary

16 June 1987

Sweden	4–2	France
Jan Hellström Leif Forsberg Leif Engqvist 2x		Patrick Cubaynes 8' Bruno Roux 17'

Malmö, Sweden

11 August 1987

France	1–1	Republic of Ireland
Thierry Fernier 54'		Noel Larkin 17'

Dunkerque, France

26 August 1987

Republic of Ireland	0–1	Sweden
		Jan Hellström 22'

Dalymount Park, Ireland

9 September 1987

Sweden	1–0	Hungary
Michael Andersson

Örebro, Sweden

23 September 1987

Sweden	2–0	Spain
Jonas Thern 86' Jan Hellström 87'

Skellefteå, Sweden

13 October 1987

Spain	1–2	France
Ramón Vázquez 18'		Antoine Kombouaré 56' Jean-Pierre Papin 76'

Burgos, Spain

18 November 1987

Spain	1–0	Hungary
Eusebio Sacristán 66'

Melilla, Spain

18 November 1987

Republic of Ireland	3–0	France
Peter Eccles 19' Mick Bennett 24', 59'

Dalymount Park, Ireland

23 March 1988

France	1–1	Spain
Thierry Fernier 66'		Ramón Vázquez 4'

Le Havre, France

27 April 1988

Hungary	2–2	France
György Katona Imre Fodor 59' (pen.)		Bruno Roux 54' Fabrice Mege 56'

Budapest, Hungary

4 May 1988

Hungary	3–1	Republic of Ireland
Béla Melis 25' György Katona 32' Péter Rubold 88'		Dave Barry 84'

Budapest, Hungary

18 May 1988

Spain	2–2	Republic of Ireland
Ramón Vázquez 42', 61'		Barry Kehoe 17' Noel Larkin 60'

Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante, Spain

25 May 1988

France	1–2	Sweden
Philippe Prieur 40'		Peter Lönn (pen.) Michael Andersson

Lens, France

Group D

Preliminary play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liechtenstein	0–19^[4]	Switzerland	0–10	0–9

10 September 1986

Liechtenstein	0–10	Switzerland
		Walter Pellegrini 1', 58' Alain Sutter 4', 43', 64' Philippe Hertig 27', 49' René Müller^[5] 77', 88' Roger Hegi 80'

Triesen, Liechtenstein

23 September 1986

Switzerland	9–0	Liechtenstein
Walter Pellegrini 30', 32', 71' Christophe Bonvin 47', 90' Alain Sutter 44' Philippe Hertig 49' Beat Rietmann 60' Roger Hegi 62'

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	8	6	2	0	12	2	+10	14	1988 Summer Olympics
2	Bulgaria	8	4	2	2	13	5	+8	10
3	Switzerland	8	2	3	3	8	10	−2	7
4	Norway	8	0	5	3	1	7	−6	5
5	Turkey	8	1	2	5	5	15	−10	4

Source: ^[4]

14 October 1986

Norway	0–0	Soviet Union

Oslo, Norway

8 November 1986

Switzerland	1–0	Norway
Martin Müller 55'

Lucerne, Switzerland

3 December 1986

Turkey	3–2	Switzerland
Erdoğan Yılmaz 26' Ziya Doğan 27', 71'		Patrice Mottiez 7' Roger Hegi 80'

Bursa, Turkey

15 April 1987

Turkey	0–2	Soviet Union
		Volodymyr Lyutyi 23' Igor Dobrovolski 70'

İzmir, Turkey

16 April 1987

Switzerland	1–1	Bulgaria
Christophe Bonvin 27'		Petar Aleksandrov 67'

Langenthal, Switzerland

6 May 1987

Norway	1–1	Turkey
Jostein Flo 5'		Nusret Erdi Demir 1'

Moss, Norway

7 May 1987

Bulgaria	0–1	Soviet Union
		Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 63'

Sofia, Bulgaria

26 May 1987

Norway	0–0	Bulgaria

Trondheim, Norway

12 August 1987

Soviet Union	1–0	Norway
Volodymyr Lyutyi 48'

Moscow, Soviet Union

26 August 1987

Norway	0–0	Switzerland

Tromsø, Norway

7 October 1987

Switzerland	2–0	Turkey
Martin Müller 38' Kubilay Türkyilmaz 83'

Zürich, Switzerland

28 October 1987

Switzerland	2–4	Soviet Union
Kubilay Türkyilmaz 16' Roger Kundert 55'		Volodymyr Lyutyi 36' Igor Dobrovolski 65' (pen.) Stanislovas Baranauskas 79', 83'

Lausanne, Switzerland

14 November 1987

Bulgaria	4–0	Norway
Stoycho Stoev 12', 24' Aleksandar Bonchev 68' Lyuboslav Penev 71'

Sofia, Bulgaria

18 November 1987

Turkey	0–0	Norway

Ankara, Turkey

9 December 1987

Turkey	0–3	Bulgaria
		Lyuboslav Penev 19' Stoycho Stoev 30' Georgi Georgiev 81'

Konya, Turkey

6 April 1988

Bulgaria	2–0	Switzerland
Petar Aleksandrov Aleksandar Bonchev

Sofia, Bulgaria

6 April 1988

Soviet Union	2–0	Turkey
Yuri Savichev 36' Aleksandr Borodyuk 86'

Simferopol, Soviet Union

27 April 1988

Soviet Union	2–0	Bulgaria
Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 41' Yevgeni Kuznetsov 72'

Simferopol, Soviet Union

10 May 1988

Soviet Union	0–0	Switzerland

Moscow, Soviet Union

25 May 1988

Bulgaria	3–1	Turkey
Vasil Dragolov 11', 15' Petar Mihtarski 53'		Uğur Tütüneker 55'

Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	8	6	1	1	17	5	+12	13	1988 Summer Olympics
2	Czechoslovakia	8	6	0	2	10	3	+7	12
3	Belgium	8	3	1	4	8	13	−5	7
4	Austria	8	2	0	6	7	11	−4	4
5	Finland	8	2	0	6	5	15	−10	4

Source: ^[4]

14 October 1986

Finland	0–2	Belgium
		Marc Degryse 57' Benoît Thans 65' (pen.)

Tampere, Finland

29 October 1986

Czechoslovakia	2–0	Belgium
Peter Herda 51', 60'

Prague, Czechoslovakia

18 November 1986

Belgium	2–3	Austria
Beugnies Goossens		Andreas Spielmann Manfred Zsak P.J. Werner

Ghent, Belgium

14 April 1987

Austria	2–0	Czechoslovakia
Rupert Marko P.J. Werner

Salzburg, Austria

12 May 1987

Finland	2–1	Austria
Marko Myyry 14' Jari Niinimäki 21'		Rupert Marko 89'

Pori, Finland

3 June 1987

Austria	0–1	Yugoslavia
		Semir Tuce

Graz, Austria

10 June 1987

Finland	0–2	Czechoslovakia
		Tomáš Skuhravý 43' Peter Fieber 59'

Äänekoski, Finland

26 August 1987

Yugoslavia	2–1	Austria
Srečko Katanec Dragan Stojković (pen.)		Paul Perstling

Maribor, Yugoslavia

2 September 1987

Yugoslavia	5–0	Finland
Radmilo Mihajlović , , Semir Tuce ,

Banja Luka, Yugoslavia

23 September 1987

Czechoslovakia	2–0	Finland
Ľubomír Moravčík 31' Radek Drulák 48'

Dunajská Streda, Czechoslovakia

24 September 1987

Belgium	2–2	Yugoslavia
Francis Severeyns ,		Dejan Savićević Sead Kajtaz

Charleroi, Belgium

7 October 1987

Belgium	0–2	Czechoslovakia
		Ivo Staš 44' Tomáš Skuhravý 78'

Waregem, Belgium

28 October 1987

Czechoslovakia	1–0	Yugoslavia
Tomáš Skuhravý 87'

Prague, Czechoslovakia

28 October 1987

Belgium	1–0	Finland
Schoofs

Liège, Belgium

11 November 1987

Austria	0–1	Belgium
		Danny Boffin 71'

Linz, Austria

2 December 1987

Yugoslavia	4–0	Belgium
Dejan Savićević Predrag Jurić Davor Jozić ,

12 April 1988

Czechoslovakia	1–0	Austria
Václav Daněk 67'

Nitra, Czechoslovakia

27 April 1988

Yugoslavia	1–0	Czechoslovakia
Borislav Cvetković 51'

Petrinja, Yugoslavia

18 May 1988

Finland	1–2	Yugoslavia
Seppo Nikkilä		Dragiša Binić Dejan Savićević

Mikkeli, Finland

31 May 1988

Austria	0–2	Finland
		Seppo Nikkilä 64' Ismo Lius 90'

Wolfsberg, Austria

Goalscorers

7 goals

Claus Nielsen

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Notes

^ The Poland vs Denmark match on originally ended 0-2, but FIFA announced on 13 November 1987 that Denmark had fielded an ineligible player (Per Frimann), and thus the result was overturned, and Poland were awarded the match by a default score of 2-0.^[4]

References

External links

Games of the XXIV. Olympiad – European Football Qualifying Tournament (Seoul, South Korea, 1988) – Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

[5] The Poland vs Denmark match on originally ended 0-2, but FIFA announced on 13 November 1987 that Denmark had fielded an ineligible player (Per Frimann), and thus the result was overturned, and Poland were awarded the match by a default score of 2-0.^[4]

[UAF181207-1] Aleksandr Kostenko. 1986. Formation of the Soviet Union Olympic football team and beginning of the war Byshovets vs Lobanovskyi (1986. Формирование олимпийской сборной СССР и начало войны Бышовец vs Лобановский). UA-Football blogs. 5 December 2018

[2] "Games of the XXIV. Olympiad - Football Qualifying Tournament".

[3] "Olympic Football Tournament 1988 (Qualifying Stage)".

[rsssf181207-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Games of the XXIV. Olympiad – European Football Qualifying Tournament (Seoul, South Korea, 1988) – Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

[6] René Müller.

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