1988 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

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The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying tournament with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:

• Group 1 featured the same teams
• Group 2 did not include Malta
• Group 3 did not include Iceland (moved to Group 6)
• Group 4 did not include Northern Ireland
• Group 5 did not include Netherlands (moved to Group 8)
• Group 6 did not include Wales, but included Iceland (moved from Group 3)
• Group 7 did not include Bulgaria and Luxembourg (both moved to Group 8)
• Group 8 composed of Bulgaria and Luxembourg (both moved from Group 7), Netherlands (moved from Group 5) and West Germany (who did not participate in senior Euro qualification)

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All times are local (UTC+1)

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See 1988 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads

{{8TeamBracket|legs=2|aggregate=y|seeds=n

| RD1= Quarter-finals

| RD2= Semi-finals

| RD3= Finals

| RD1-team1={{fbu|21|SCO}}

| RD1-score1-1=0

| RD1-score1-2=0

| RD1-score1-agg=0

| RD1-team2={{fbu|21|ENG}}

| RD1-score2-1=1

| RD1-score2-2=1

| RD1-score2-agg=2

| RD1-team3={{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

| RD1-score3-1=2

| RD1-score3-2=2

| RD1-score3-agg=4

| RD1-team4={{fbu|21|ITA}}

| RD1-score4-1=1

| RD1-score4-2=2

| RD1-score4-agg=3

| RD1-team5={{fbu|21|GRE}}

| RD1-score5-1=1

| RD1-score5-2=2

| RD1-score5-agg=3

| RD1-team6={{fbu|21|TCH}}

| RD1-score6-1=1

| RD1-score6-2=2

| RD1-score6-agg=3

| RD1-team7={{fbu|21|NED}}

| RD1-score7-1=2

| RD1-score7-2=1

| RD1-score7-agg=3

| RD1-team8={{fbu|21|ESP}}

| RD1-score8-1=1

| RD1-score8-2=0

| RD1-score8-agg=1

| RD2-team1={{fbu|21|ENG}}

| RD2-score1-1=2

| RD2-score1-2=2

| RD2-score1-agg=4

| RD2-team2={{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

| RD2-score2-1=4

| RD2-score2-2=2

| RD2-score2-agg=6

| RD2-team3={{fbu|21|GRE}}

| RD2-score3-1=5

| RD2-score3-2=0

| RD2-score3-agg=5

| RD2-team4={{fbu|21|NED}}

| RD2-score4-1=0

| RD2-score4-2=2

| RD2-score4-agg=2

| RD3-team1={{fbu|21|FRA|1974}}

| RD3-score1-1=0

| RD3-score1-2=3

| RD3-score1-agg=3

| RD3-team2={{fbu|21|GRE}}

| RD3-score2-1=0

| RD3-score2-2=0

| RD3-score2-agg=0

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{{Football box

|date=16 February 1988

|time=

|team1= Scotland {{flagicon|SCO}}

|score= 0–1

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-schottland-england/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|ENG}} England

|goals1=

|goals2= Porter {{goal|83}}

|stadium= Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen

|attendance= 14,200

|referee= Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=16 March 1988

|time=

|team1= France {{flagicon|FRA|1974}}

|score= 2–1

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-frankreich-italien/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|ITA}} Italy

|goals1= Paille {{goal|81}}
Sauzée {{goal|90}}

|goals2= Maldini {{goal|51}}

|stadium= Stade Marcel Picot, Nancy

|attendance= 13,462

|referee= Lajos Németh (Hungary)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=2 March 1988

|time=

|team1= Greece {{flagicon|GRE}}

|score= 1–1

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-griechenland-cssr/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|TCH}} Czechoslovakia

|goals1= Borbokis {{goal|49}}

|goals2= Němeček {{goal|65}}

|stadium= Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens

|attendance= 2,846

|referee= Ioan Igna (Romania)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=24 February 1988

|time=

|team1= Spain {{flagicon|ESP}}

|score= 0–1

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-spanien-niederlande/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|NED}} Netherlands

|goals1=

|goals2= Plomp {{goal|89|pen.}}

|stadium= La Condomina, Murcia

|attendance= 8,000

|referee= Renzo Peduzzi (Switzerland)

}}

{{Football box

|date=22 April 1988

|time=

|team1= England {{flagicon|ENG}}

|score= 1–0

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-england-schottland/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|SCO}} Scotland

|goals1= White {{goal|82}}

|goals2=

|stadium= City Ground, Nottingham

|attendance= 11,284

|referee= Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=23 March 1988

|time=

|team1= Italy {{flagicon|ITA}}

|score= 2–2

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-italien-frankreich/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} France

|goals1= Rizzitelli {{goal|42}}
Ciocci {{goal|63}}

|goals2= Paille {{goal|83||88}}

|stadium= Stadio Riviera delle Palme, San Benedetto del Tronto

|attendance= 13,505

|referee= Helmut Kohl (Austria)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=23 March 1988

|time=

|team1= Czechoslovakia {{flagicon|TCH}}

|score= 2–2

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-cssr-griechenland/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|GRE}} Greece

|goals1= Vakalopoulos {{goal|77|o.g.}}
Litoš {{goal|84}}

|goals2= Karasavvidis {{goal|20}}
Kapouranis {{goal|86}}

|stadium= Stadion Střelecký ostrov, České Budějovice

|attendance= 4,200

|referee= José dos Santos (Portugal)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=23 March 1988

|time=

|team1= Netherlands {{flagicon|NED}}

|score= 2–1

|aet=yes

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-viertelfinale-niederlande-spanien/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|ESP}} Spain

|goals1= van Loen {{goal|100}}
Viscaal {{goal|108}}

|goals2= Loren {{goal|40}}

|stadium= Nieuw Galgenwaard, Utrecht

|attendance= 3,724

|referee= Einar Halle (Norway)

}}

{{Football box

|date=13 April 1988

|time=

|team1= France {{flagicon|FRA|1974}}

|score= 4–2

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-halbfinale-frankreich-england/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|ENG}} England

|goals1= Angloma {{goal|23}}
Cantona {{goal|49}}
Dogon {{goal|78}}
Paille {{goal|83}}

|goals2= Parker {{goal|40}}
Stewart {{goal|60|pen.}}

|stadium= Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon

|attendance=20,000

|referee= Yusuf Namoğlu (Turkey)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=13 April 1988

|time=

|team1= Greece {{flagicon|GRE}}

|score= 5–0

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-halbfinale-griechenland-niederlande/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|NED}} Netherlands

|goals1= Karasavvidis {{goal|10||41||73||85}}
Ikonomidis {{goal|13}}

|goals2=

|stadium= Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

|attendance=3,216

|referee= Klaus Peschel (West Germany)

}}

{{Football box

|date=27 April 1988

|time=

|team1= England {{flagicon|ENG}}

|score= 2–2

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-halbfinale-england-frankreich/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} France

|goals1= Gascoigne {{goal|5}}
Silvestre {{goal|59|o.g.}}

|goals2= Cantona {{goal|56||78}}

|stadium= Highbury Stadium, London

|attendance=5,661

|referee= Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

}}

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{{Football box

|date=27 April 1988

|time=

|team1= Netherlands {{flagicon|NED}}

|score= 2–0

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-halbfinale-niederlande-griechenland/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|GRE}} Greece

|goals1= Fraser {{goal|60}}
Witschge {{goal|88}}

|goals2=

|stadium= Nieuw Galgenwaard, Utrecht

|attendance=750

|referee= Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

}}

{{Football box

|date=25 May 1988

|time=

|team1= Greece {{flagicon|GRE}}

|score= 0–0

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-finale-griechenland-frankreich/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} France

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

|attendance=21,038

|referee= Ion Crăciunescu (Romania)

}}

{{Football box

|date=12 October 1988

|time=

|team1= France {{flagicon|FRA|1974}}

|score= 3–0

|report=[http://www.worldfootball.net/report/u-21-h-em-1988-finale-frankreich-griechenland/ Report]

|team2= {{flagicon|GRE}} Greece

|goals1= Sauzée {{goal|8||55}}
Silvestre {{goal|67}}

|goals2=

|stadium= Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon

|attendance=22,000

|referee= Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)

}}

;5 goals

• {{flagicon|GRE}} Aris Karasavvidis

;4 goals

• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Stéphane Paille

;3 goals

• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Eric Cantona
• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Franck Sauzée

;1 goal

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• {{flagicon|TCH}} Václav Němeček
• {{flagicon|TCH}} Marcel Litoš
• {{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Gascoigne
• {{flagicon|ENG}} Garry Parker
• {{flagicon|ENG}} Gary Porter
• {{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Stewart
• {{flagicon|ENG}} David White
• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Jocelyn Angloma
• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Jean-Luc Dogon
• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Franck Silvestre
• {{flagicon|GRE}} Stefanos Borbokis
• {{flagicon|GRE}} Kostas Ikonomidis
• {{flagicon|GRE}} Giorgos Kapouranis
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Massimo Ciocci
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Paolo Maldini
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Ruggiero Rizzitelli
• {{flagicon|NED}} Henk Fraser
• {{flagicon|NED}} John van Loen
• {{flagicon|NED}} Gerrit Plomp
• {{flagicon|NED}} Eric Viscaal
• {{flagicon|NED}} Rob Witschge
• {{flagicon|ESP}} Loren

{{div col end}}

;Own goal

• {{flagicon|GRE}} Pagonis Vakalopoulos (playing against Czechoslovakia)
• {{flagicon|FRA|1974}} Franck Silvestre (playing against England)

{{Reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100124001929/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under21/history/index.html Results Archive] at uefa.com
• [https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/europe-u21.html RSSSF Results Archive] at rsssf.com

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