1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup

1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup
Tournament details
Dates23 August 1987 – 11 May 1988
Teams32 (first round)
33 (qualifying)
Final positions
ChampionsBelgium Mechelen (1st title)
Runners-upNetherlands Ajax
Tournament statistics
Matches played63
Goals scored131 (2.08 per match)
Attendance957,273 (15,195 per match)
Top scorer(s)Paulinho Cascavel (Sporting CP)
6 goals
International football competition

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.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
AEL Limassol Cyprus 1–6 Czechoslovakia Dunajská Streda 0–1 1–5

First leg

AEL Limassol Cyprus0–1Czechoslovakia Dunajská Streda
Report Majoros 66'
Tsirio Stadium, Limassol
Attendance: 5,586
Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria)

Second leg

Dunajská Streda Czechoslovakia5–1Cyprus AEL Limassol
Mičinec 6', 39'
J. Medgyes 20'
Pavlík 27'
Majoros 85' (pen.)
Report Aristotelous 69'
Attendance: 4,501
Referee: Stjepan Glavina (Yugoslavia)

Dunajská Streda won 6–1 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mechelen Belgium 3–0 Romania Dinamo București 1–0 2–0
St Mirren Scotland 1–0 Norway Tromsø 1–0 0–0
Real Sociedad Spain 2–0 Poland Śląsk Wrocław 0–0 2–0
Dinamo Minsk Soviet Union 4–1 Turkey Gençlerbirliği 2–0 2–1
Vitosha Sofia Bulgaria 2–3 Greece OFI 1–0 1–3
Merthyr Tydfil Wales 2–3 Italy Atalanta 2–1 0–2
ÍA Iceland 0–1 Sweden Kalmar FF 0–0 0–1 (aet)
Sporting CP Portugal 6–4 Austria Swarovski Tirol 4–0 2–4
Vllaznia Albania 6–0 Malta Sliema Wanderers 2–0 4–0
RoPS Finland 1–1 (a) Northern Ireland Glentoran 0–0 1–1
Lokomotive Leipzig East Germany 0–1 France Marseille 0–0 0–1
Aalborg BK Denmark 1–1 (2–4 p) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hajduk Split 1–0 0–1 (aet)
Újpesti Dózsa Hungary 2–3 Netherlands Den Haag 1–0 1–3
Dunajská Streda Czechoslovakia 3–4 Switzerland Young Boys 2–1 1–3
Avenir Beggen Luxembourg 0–8 West Germany Hamburg 0–5 0–3
Ajax Netherlands 6–0 Republic of Ireland Dundalk 4–0 2–0

First leg

Vllaznia Albania2–0Malta Sliema Wanderers
Bushati 53'
Jera 68'
Report
Attendance: 12,500

ÍA Iceland0–0Sweden Kalmar FF
Report
Attendance: 2,108

Sporting CP Portugal4–0Austria Swarovski Tirol
Sealy 7', 41'
Cascavel 24' (pen.), 83'
Report
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Attendance: 51,000
Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

Avenir Beggen Luxembourg0–5West Germany Hamburg
Report Labbadia 9', 70'
Laubinger 44'
Okoński 58'
Dittmer 83'
Attendance: 2,200
Referee: Alphonse Costantin (Belgium)

Mechelen Belgium1–0Romania Dinamo București
den Boer 50' Report
Attendance: 7,182
Referee: Ildefonso Urizar Azpitarte (Spain)

St Mirren Scotland1–0Norway Tromsø
McDowall 3' Report
Love Street, Paisley
Attendance: 7,797
Referee: Ignace Goris (Belgium)

Real Sociedad Spain0–0Poland Śląsk Wrocław
Report
Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao
Attendance: 6,251
Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

Dinamo Minsk Soviet Union2–0Turkey Gençlerbirliği
Zygmantovich 83'
Gotsmanov 88'
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Attendance: 27,000
Referee: Eero Aho (Finland)

Vitosha Sofia Bulgaria1–0Greece OFI
Sirakov 87' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

Merthyr Tydfil Wales2–1Italy Atalanta
Rogers 34'
Ceri Williams 82'
Report Progna 41'

RoPS Finland0–0Northern Ireland Glentoran
Report
Attendance: 3,987

Lokomotive Leipzig East Germany0–0France Marseille
Report
Zentralstadion, Leipzig
Attendance: 30,800

Aalborg BK Denmark1–0Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hajduk Split
Boye 63' Report
Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

Újpesti Dózsa Hungary1–0Netherlands Den Haag
Herédi 31' (pen.) Report

Dunajská Streda Czechoslovakia2–1Switzerland Young Boys
Mičinec 9'
Kašpar 37'
Report Zuffi 22'
Attendance: 5,672
Referee: Ignace van Swieten (Netherlands)

Ajax Netherlands4–0Republic of Ireland Dundalk
Rijkaard 65'
Blind 73'
Winter 81'
Stapleton 85'
Report
Attendance: 15,712
Referee: José María Enríquez Negreira (Spain)

Second leg

Glentoran Northern Ireland1–1Finland RoPS
Caskey 65' Report Kallio 63'
The Oval, Belfast
Attendance: 4,101
Referee: Guðmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

1–1 on aggregate. RoPS won on away goals


Sliema Wanderers Malta0–4Albania Vllaznia
Report Pashaj 15'
Vukatana 59'
Rragami 70' (pen.)
Fakja 83'
Attendance: 800
Referee: Aldo Soldatic (Yugoslavia)

Vllaznia won 6–0 on aggregate.


Dinamo București Romania0–2Belgium Mechelen
Report Hofkens 39'
den Boer 71'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy)

Mechelen won 3–0 on aggregate.


Tromsø Norway0–0Scotland St Mirren
Report
Attendance: 5,114
Referee: Kurt Horsted (Denmark)

St Mirren won 1–0 on aggregate.


Śląsk Wrocław Poland0–2Spain Real Sociedad
Report Loren 76'
Begiristain 82'
Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

Real Sociedad won 2–0 on aggregate.


Gençlerbirliği Turkey1–2Soviet Union Dinamo Minsk
Tuncay 29' Report Derkach 69'
Kondratiev 84'
Attendance: 7,445
Referee: Adrian Porumboiu (Romania)

Dinamo Minsk won 4–1 on aggregate.


OFI Crete Greece3–1Bulgaria Vitosha Sofia
Tsimbos 26'
Marinakis 48'
Charalambidis 68'
Report Kurdov 71'
Attendance: 12,036

OFI Crete won 3–2 on aggregate.


Atalanta Italy2–0Wales Merthyr Tydfil
Garlini 16'
Cantarutti 21'
Report
Attendance: 7,901
Referee: Victor Mintoff (Malta)

Atalanta won 3–2 on aggregate.


Kalmar FF Sweden1–0
(a.e.t.)
Iceland ÍA
Alexandersson 102' Report
Attendance: 1,067
Referee: Tadeusz Diakonowicz (Poland)

Kalmar FF won 1–0 on aggregate.


Swarovski Tirol Austria4–2Portugal Sporting CP
Marko 16'
Roscher 53'
Pezzey 69'
Linzmaier 85'
Report Sealy 57'
Cascavel 67'
Tivoli, Innsbruck
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Sporting CP won 6–4 on aggregate.


Marseille France1–0East Germany Lokomotive Leipzig
Allofs 8' Report
Attendance: 23,680
Referee: Franz Gächter (Switzerland)

Marseille won 1–0 on aggregate.


Hajduk Split Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia1–0
(a.e.t.)
Denmark Aalborg BK
Asanović 43' (pen.) Report
Penalties
Bursać soccer ball with check mark
Dražić soccer ball with check mark
Miljuš soccer ball with check mark
Asanović soccer ball with check mark
4–2 soccer ball with check mark Simonsen
soccer ball with check mark Dissing
soccer ball with red X Boye
soccer ball with red X Henrik P. Hansen
Attendance: 7,422
Referee: Sadık Deda (Turkey)

1–1 on aggregate. Hajduk Split won 4–2 on penalties.


Den Haag Netherlands3–1Hungary Újpesti Dózsa
Boere 22', 24'
Varga 82' (o.g.)
Report Rostás 89'
Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Den Haag won 3–2 on aggregate.


Young Boys Switzerland3–1Czechoslovakia Dunajská Streda
Zuffi 63'
Weber 67'
Maissen 88'
Report Majoros 78'
Attendance: 8,100
Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (West Germany)

Young Boys won 4–3 on aggregate.


Hamburg West Germany3–0Luxembourg Avenir Beggen
Kroth 9'
Kaltz 72'
Labbadia 82'
Report
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

Hamburg won 8–0 on aggregate.


Dundalk Republic of Ireland0–2Netherlands Ajax
Report Newe 71' (o.g.)
Meijer 87'
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

Ajax won 6–0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mechelen Belgium 2–0 Scotland St Mirren 0–0 2–0
Real Sociedad Spain 1–1 (a) Soviet Union Dinamo Minsk 1–1 0–0
OFI Greece 1–2 Italy Atalanta 1–0 0–2
Kalmar FF Sweden 1–5 Portugal Sporting CP 1–0 0–5
Vllaznia Albania 0–2 Finland RoPS 0–1 0–1
Marseille France 7–0 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hajduk Split 4–0 3–01
Den Haag Netherlands 2–2 (a) Switzerland Young Boys 2–1 0–1
Hamburg West Germany 0–3 Netherlands 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

Mechelen Belgium0–0Scotland St Mirren
Report
Attendance: 6,146
Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)

Real Sociedad Spain1–1Soviet Union Dinamo Minsk
Gajate 87' Report Kondratiev 5'
Attendance: 22,121
Referee: Vítor Fernandes Correia (Portugal)

OFI Greece1–0Italy Atalanta
Persias 17' Report
Attendance: 11,758

Kalmar FF Sweden1–0Portugal Sporting CP
T. Arvidsson 88' Report
Attendance: 2,070
Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Vllaznia Albania0–1Finland RoPS
Report Polack 27'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Dimitar Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

Den Haag Netherlands2–1Switzerland Young Boys
de Roode 3'
Boere 71'
Report Zuffi 62'
Attendance: 9,337
Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

Hamburg West Germany0–1Netherlands Ajax
Report Meijer 52'
Attendance: 24,600

Marseille France4–0Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hajduk Split
Papin 30'
Diallo 48'
Allofs 69'
Giresse 89'
Report
Attendance: 28,313
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Second leg

St Mirren Scotland0–2Belgium Mechelen
Report Ohana 34', 50'
Love Street, Paisley
Attendance: 14,368
Referee: Einar Halle (Norway)

Mechelen won 2–0 on aggregate.


Sporting CP Portugal5–0Sweden Kalmar FF
Cascavel 34' (pen.), 53', 57'
Sealy 62'
Duílio 73'
Report
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: George Smith (Scotland)

Sporting CP won 5–1 on aggregate.


RoPS Finland1–0Albania Vllaznia
Polack 47' Report
Attendance: 7,312
Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

RoPS won 2–0 on aggregate.


Young Boys Switzerland1–0Netherlands Den Haag
Fimian 66' Report
Attendance: 6,400
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

2–2 on aggregate. Young Boys won on away goals.


Ajax Netherlands2–0West Germany Hamburg
Mühren 13'
Meijer 83'
Report
Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam
Attendance: 42,943

Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.


Dinamo Minsk Soviet Union0–0Spain Real Sociedad
Report
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Yusuf Namoğlu (Turkey)

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


Atalanta Italy2–0Greece OFI
Nicolini 22'
Garlini 73'
Report

Atalanta won 2–1 on aggregate.


Hajduk Split Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia0–3
Awarded
France Marseille
Asanović 19' (pen.)
Bursać 83'
Report
Attendance: 22,000

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

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mechelen Belgium 2–1 Soviet Union Dinamo Minsk 1–0 1–1
Atalanta Italy 3–1 Portugal Sporting CP 2–0 1–1
RoPS Finland 0–4 France Marseille 0–1 0–3
Young Boys Switzerland 0–2 Netherlands Ajax 0–1 0–1

First leg

Mechelen Belgium1–0Soviet Union Dinamo Minsk
De Wilde 86' Report
Attendance: 5,466
Referee: Gerasimos Germanakos (Greece)

Atalanta Italy2–0Portugal Sporting CP
Nicolini 44' (pen.)
Cantarutti 79'
Report

RoPS Finland0–1France Marseille
Report Papin 26'
Attendance: 1,631
Referee: Velichko Tsonchev (Bulgaria)

Young Boys Switzerland0–1Netherlands Ajax
Report Bosman 44'

Second leg

Dinamo Minsk Soviet Union1–1Belgium Mechelen
Kisten 59' Report Ohana 29'
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Attendance: 44,430

Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.


Sporting CP Portugal1–1Italy Atalanta
Houtman 66' Report Cantarutti 82'
Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Attendance: 40,000

Atalanta won 3–1 on aggregate.


Marseille France3–0Finland RoPS
Genghini 18'
Allofs 22'
Papin 76' (pen.)
Report
Attendance: 16,016
Referee: Vítor Fernandes (Portugal)

Marseille won 4–0 on aggregate.


Ajax Netherlands1–0Switzerland Young Boys
Larsson 39' Report

Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mechelen Belgium 4–2 Italy Atalanta 2–1 2–1
Marseille France 2–4 Netherlands Ajax 0–3 2–1

First leg

Mechelen Belgium2–1Italy Atalanta
Ohana 7'
den Boer 83'
Report Strömberg 8'

Marseille France0–3Netherlands Ajax
Report Rob Witschge 12', 42'
Bergkamp 89'
Attendance: 42,584
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

Second leg

Atalanta Italy1–2Belgium Mechelen
Garlini 39' (pen.) Report Rutjes 57'
Emmers 80'

Mechelen won 4–2 on aggregate.


Ajax Netherlands1–2France Marseille
Larsson 23' Report Papin 67'
Allofs 90'
Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam
Attendance: 30,463

Ajax won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

Mechelen Belgium1–0Netherlands Ajax
den Boer 53' Report

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1987–88 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Brazil Paulinho Cascavel Portugal Sporting CP 6
2 West Germany Klaus Allofs France Olympique Marseille 4
Netherlands Piet den Boer Belgium KV Mechelen 4
Israel Eli Ohana Belgium KV Mechelen 4
France Jean-Pierre Papin France Olympique Marseille 4
England Tony Sealy Portugal Sporting CP 4
7 Netherlands Remco Boere Netherlands Den Haag 3
Italy Aldo Cantarutti Italy Atalanta 3
Italy Oliviero Garlini Italy Atalanta 3
West Germany Bruno Labbadia West Germany Hamburg 3
Czechoslovakia Juraj Majoroš Czechoslovakia Dunajská Streda 3
Netherlands Henny Meijer Netherlands Ajax 3
Switzerland Dario Zuffi Switzerland Young Boys 3

External links

  • 1987-88 competition at UEFA website
  • Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
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