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

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 soon after 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]

For the tournament returned Turkey and Warsaw Pact nations that boycotted the 1984 Olympics football tournament in Los Angeles such as East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union.^[2]^[3]

Group A[]

Preliminary play-off[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	1–4^[4]		1–2	0–2

12 November 1986

	1–2
45'		Ioannis Samaras 54' 64'

Limassol, Cyprus

10 December 1986

	2–0
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
2	Denmark	8	5	1	2	23	5	+18	11
3	Poland	8	4	2	2	11	10	+1	10
4	Romania	8	2	1	5	5	17	−12	5
5		8	1	0	7	4	23	−19	2

Source: ^[4]

18 April 1987

Romania	1–0	West Germany
Gavril Balint 2'

Cluj Napoca, Romania

20 May 1987

	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
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

	0–1	Poland
		Andrzej Rudy

Ioannina, Greece

12 December 1987

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

Larissa, Greece

16 March 1988

Poland	5–1
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
		Alexandros Alexiou 24'

București, Romania

20 April 1988

Denmark	4–0
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

	2–3	Romania
Ioukoudis 24' Theodoros Pahatouridis 26' (pen.)		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
2	East Germany	8	4	3	1	12	5	+7	11
3	Portugal	8	2	4	2	4	6	−2	8
4	Netherlands	8	1	3	4	6	12	−6	5
5		8	1	1	6	5	14	−9	3

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
Pietro Paolo Virdis 41' Mauro Tassotti 87'

Pescara, Italy

29 April 1987

Portugal	0–0	East Germany

Viseu, Portugal

26 May 1987

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

Reykjavík, Iceland

2 September 1987

	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
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
Ruud Brood

Doetinchem, Netherlands

30 April 1988

East Germany	3–0
Olaf Marschall Jürgen Raab Heiko Peschke

Bischofswerda, East Germany

24 May 1988

	0–1	Portugal
		Miguel 89'

Reykjavík, Iceland

29 May 1988

	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
2		8	5	1	2	13	8	+5	11
3	Spain	8	1	4	3	9	12	−3	6
4		8	1	3	4	10	12	−2	5
5	France	8	1	3	4	9	16	−7	5

Source: ^[4]

19 November 1986

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

Madrid, Spain

19 November 1986

	1–2
Mick Byrne 59'		67' 79'

Milltown, Ireland

4 February 1987

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

Dublin, Ireland

28 April 1987

France	0–2
		István Vincze 14' 62'

Aix-en-Provence, France

5 May 1987

Sweden	1–0
90'

Solna, Sweden

13 May 1987

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

Budapest, Hungary

3 June 1987

	2–1	Sweden
2x		Leif Forsberg

Budapest, Hungary

16 June 1987

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

Malmö, Sweden

11 August 1987

France	1–1
54'		Noel Larkin 17'

Dunkerque, France

26 August 1987

	0–1	Sweden
		Jan Hellström 22'

Dublin, Ireland

9 September 1987

Sweden	1–0
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
18'		Antoine Kombouaré 56' Jean-Pierre Papin 76'

Burgos, Spain

18 November 1987

Spain	1–0
Eusebio Sacristán 66'

Melilla, Spain

18 November 1987

	3–0	France
Peter Eccles 19' 24', 59'

Dublin, Ireland

23 March 1988

France	1–1	Spain
66'		4'

Le Havre, France

27 April 1988

	2–2	France
György Katona 59' (pen.)		54' 56'

Budapest, Hungary

4 May 1988

	3–1
Béla Melis 25' György Katona 32' 88'		Dave Barry 84'

Budapest, Hungary

18 May 1988

Spain	2–2
42', 61'		17' Noel Larkin 60'

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.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	0–19^[4]		0–10	0–9

10 September 1986

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

Triesen, Liechtenstein

23 September 1986

	9–0
Walter Pellegrini 30', 32', 71' Christophe Bonvin 47', 90' Alain Sutter 44' Philippe Hertig 49' 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		8	2	3	3	8	10	−2	7
4		8	0	5	3	1	7	−6	5
5		8	1	2	5	5	15	−10	4

Source: ^[4]

14 October 1986

	0–0	Soviet Union

Oslo, Norway

8 November 1986

	1–0
Martin Müller 55'

Lucerne, Switzerland

3 December 1986

	3–2
26' Ziya Doğan 27', 71'		7' Roger Hegi 80'

Bursa, Turkey

15 April 1987

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

Izmir, Turkey

16 April 1987

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

Langenthal, Switzerland

6 May 1987

	1–1
Jostein Flo 5'		1'

Moss, Norway

7 May 1987

Bulgaria	0–1	Soviet Union
		Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 63'

Sofia, Bulgaria

26 May 1987

	0–0	Bulgaria

Trondheim, Norway

12 August 1987

Soviet Union	1–0
Volodymyr Lyutyi 48'

Moscow, Soviet Union

26 August 1987

	0–0

Tromsø, Norway

7 October 1987

	2–0
Martin Müller 38' Kubilay Türkyilmaz 83'

Zürich, Switzerland

28 October 1987

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

Lausanne, Switzerland

14 November 1987

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

Sofia, Bulgaria

18 November 1987

	0–0

Ankara, Turkey

9 December 1987

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

Konya, Turkey

6 April 1988

Bulgaria	2–0
Petar Aleksandrov

Sofia, Bulgaria

6 April 1988

Soviet Union	2–0
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

Moscow, Soviet Union

25 May 1988

Bulgaria	3–1
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		8	2	0	6	7	11	−4	4
5		8	2	0	6	5	15	−10	4

Source: ^[4]

14 October 1986

	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
Beugnies Goossens		Andreas Spielmann Manfred Zsak P.J. Werner

Ghent, Belgium

14 April 1987

	2–0	Czechoslovakia
Rupert Marko P.J. Werner

Salzburg, Austria

12 May 1987

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

Pori, Finland

3 June 1987

	0–1	Yugoslavia
		Semir Tuce

Graz, Austria

10 June 1987

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

Äänekoski, Finland

26 August 1987

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

Maribor, Yugoslavia

2 September 1987

Yugoslavia	5–0
Radmilo Mihajlović ,, Semir Tuce ,

Banja Luka, Yugoslavia

23 September 1987

Czechoslovakia	2–0
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
Schoofs

Liège, Belgium

11 November 1987

	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
Václav Daněk 67'

Nitra, Czechoslovakia

27 April 1988

Yugoslavia	1–0	Czechoslovakia
Borislav Cvetković 51'

Petrinja, Yugoslavia

18 May 1988

	1–2	Yugoslavia
		Dragiša Binić Dejan Savićević

Mikkeli, Finland

31 May 1988

	0–2
		64' Ismo Lius 90'

Wolfsberg, Austria

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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