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)
Top scorer(s)	Paulinho Cascavel; (6 goals)
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

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.	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
		66'

Tsirio Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: (Austria)

Second leg[]

27 August 1987

Dunajská Streda	5–1	AEL Limassol
Mičinec 6', 39' 20' 27' 85' (pen.)		69'

Mestský štadión, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: (Yugoslavia)

Dunajská Streda won 6–1 on aggregate.

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	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 Crete	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
Aalborg BK	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
53' Jera 68'

Stadiumi Vojo Kushi, Shkodër

Attendance: 12,500

Referee: Vasilis Nikakis (Greece)

15 September 1987

ÍA	0–0	Kalmar FF

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'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 51,000

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

15 September 1987

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

Stade rue Henri Dunant, Luxembourg

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: (Belgium)

16 September 1987

Mechelen	1–0	Dinamo București
den Boer 50'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: (Spain)

16 September 1987

St Mirren	1–0	Tromsø
McDowall 3'

Love Street, Paisley

Attendance: 7,797

Referee: (Belgium)

16 September 1987

Real Sociedad	0–0	Śląsk Wrocław

Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: (Italy)

16 September 1987

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

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: (Finland)

16 September 1987

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

Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

16 September 1987

Merthyr Tydfil	2–1	Atalanta
Rogers 34' 82'		41'

Penydarren Park, Merthyr Tydfil

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Charles Gilson (Luxembourg)

16 September 1987

RoPS	0–0	Glentoran

Keskuskenttä, Rovaniemi

Attendance: 3,987

Referee: Douglas Hope (Scotland)

16 September 1987

Lokomotive Leipzig	0–0	Marseille

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 30,800

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

16 September 1987

Aalborg BK	1–0	Hajduk Split
Boye 63'

Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: (East Germany)

16 September 1987

Újpesti Dózsa	1–0	Den Haag
31' (pen.)

Megyeri úti stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 6,600

Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)

16 September 1987

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

Mestský štadión, Dunajská Streda

Attendance: 5,500

Referee: (Netherlands)

16 September 1987

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

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 15,712

Referee: (Spain)

Second leg[]

28 September 1987

Glentoran	1–1	RoPS
Caskey 65'		63'

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: (Iceland)

1–1 on aggregate. RoPS won on away goals

29 September 1987

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

Ta' Qali, Attard

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: (Yugoslavia)

Vllaznia won 6–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: (Italy)

Mechelen won 3–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Tromsø	0–0	St Mirren

Alfheim Stadion, Tromsø

Attendance: 5,114

Referee: (Denmark)

St Mirren won 1–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

Real Sociedad won 2–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara

Attendance: 7,445

Referee: (Romania)

Dinamo Minsk won 4–1 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

OFI Crete	3–1	Vitosha Sofia
26' 48' Charalambidis 68'		Kurdov 71'

Yedi Kule, Heraklion

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

OFI Crete won 3–2 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Atalanta	2–0	Merthyr Tydfil
Garlini 16' 21'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: (Malta)

Atalanta won 3–2 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Kalmar FF	1–0 (a.e.t.)	ÍA
102'

Fredriksskans, Kalmar

Attendance: 1,067

Referee: (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'		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'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 23,680

Referee: (Switzerland)

Marseille won 1–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

Hajduk Split	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Aalborg BK
Asanović 43' (pen.)
Penalties
Bursać Dražić Miljuš Asanović	4–2	Boye

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: (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.)		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'		78'

Stadion Wankdorf, Bern

Attendance: 8,100

Referee: (West Germany)

Young Boys won 4–3 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: (Denmark)

Hamburg won 8–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1987

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

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: (Sweden)

Ajax won 6–0 on aggregate.

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	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 Crete	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

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 6,146

Referee: (Hungary)

21 October 1987

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

Atotxa, San Sebastián

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: (Portugal)

21 October 1987

OFI Crete	1–0	Atalanta
Persias 17'

Toumba, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 9,500

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

21 October 1987

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

Fredriksskans, Kalmar

Attendance: 2,070

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

21 October 1987

Vllaznia	0–1	RoPS
		Polack 27'

Stadiumi Vojo Kushi, Shkodër

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: (Bulgaria)

21 October 1987

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

Zuiderparkstadion, The Hague

Attendance: 9,337

Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

21 October 1987

Hamburg	0–1	Ajax
		Meijer 52'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 24,600

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

22 October 1987

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

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 28,313

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Second leg[]

3 November 1987

St Mirren	0–2	Mechelen
		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'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: George Smith (Scotland)

Sporting CP won 5–1 on aggregate.

3 November 1987

RoPS	1–0	Vllaznia
Polack 47'

Keskuskenttä, Rovaniemi

Attendance: 7,312

Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

RoPS won 2–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1987

Young Boys	1–0	Den Haag
66'

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'

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

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: (Turkey)

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

4 November 1987

Atalanta	2–0	OFI Crete
22' Garlini 73'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

Atalanta won 2–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1987

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

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 flares being thrown onto the pitch followed by a pitch invasion by Hajduk fans. 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 0–3 win to Marseille and banning Hajduk from European competition for two seasons.
Marseille won 7–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	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'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: (Greece)

1 March 1988

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

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

1 March 1988

RoPS	0–1	Marseille
		Papin 26'

Stadio Via del Mare, Lecce

Attendance: 1,631

Referee: (Bulgaria)

9 March 1988

Young Boys	0–1	Ajax
		Bosman 44'

Stadion Wankdorf, Bern

Attendance: 7,686

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)

Second leg[]

15 March 1988

Dinamo Minsk	1–1	Mechelen
59'		Ohana 29'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.

15 March 1988

Sporting CP	1–1	Atalanta
Houtman 66'		82'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

Atalanta won 3–1 on aggregate.

15 March 1988

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

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 16,016

Referee: (Portugal)

Marseille won 4–0 on aggregate.

16 March 1988

Ajax	1–0	Young Boys
Larsson 39'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union)

Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	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'		Strömberg 8'

Achter de Kazerne, Mechelen

Attendance: 11,700

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)

6 April 1988

Marseille	0–3	Ajax
		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.)		Rutjes 57' Emmers 80'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union)

Mechelen won 4–2 on aggregate.

20 April 1988

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

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

Ajax won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final[]

11 May 1988

Mechelen	1–0	Ajax
den Boer 53'

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
		Atalanta	3
	Oliviero Garlini	Atalanta	3
	Bruno Labbadia	Hamburg	3
		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[]

External links[]