1998 in association football

1998 FIFA World Cup – France wins 3–0 over Brazil in Saint-Denis, France, winning their first cup. More than one million delirious fans jammed the Champs-Élysées, dancing through the night.
UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid won 1–0 in the final against Juventus. This was Real Madrid's seventh European Cup title.
Copa Libertadores 1998: Won by Vasco da Gama after defeating Barcelona SC on an aggregate score of 4–1.
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Chelsea beat VfB Stuttgart 1–0 in the final, winning the Cup for the second time.
UEFA Cup: Inter Milan won 3–0 in the final against Lazio. This was Inter's third UEFA Cup title.
UEFA Super Cup: Chelsea beat Real Madrid 1–0, winning the cup for the first time.
England:
- FA Premier League Champions: Arsenal.
February 17 – Manchester City fires manager Frank Clark and appoints Joe Royle as his successor.
May 16 – Arsenal beats Newcastle United 2–0 to win the FA Cup, achieving The Double.
August 16 – PSV wins the Johan Cruyff Shield, the annual opening of the new season in the Eredivisie, by a 2–0 win over Ajax in the Amsterdam Arena.
September 17 – Heerenveen makes a winning European debut after defeating Poland's Amica Wronki (3–1) in the first round of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
October 8 – Manager Artur Jorge resigns at Dutch club Vitesse and is succeeded by Herbert Neumann.
October 10 – Frank Rijkaard makes his debut as the manager of the Netherlands national team, as the successor of Guus Hiddink, with a 2–0 friendly win over Peru in Eindhoven. One player makes his debut as well: striker Jeffrey Talan from Heerenveen.
December 1 – Real Madrid wins the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo by defeating Brazil's Vasco da Gama: 2–1. The winning goal for the Spaniards is scored by Raúl in the 83rd minute.
December 7 – Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam fires manager Hans van der Zee. He is replaced by Jan Everse on December 24.

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January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer^[1]
January 4 – Joel Kalonji, Belgian footballer^[2]
January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
January 6 – Ben Pollock, American soccer player^[3]
January 7 – Siebe Schets, Dutch footballer^[4]
January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
January 10 – Mohamed Abukar, Somali footballer^[5]
January 11 – Salih Özcan, German midfielder
January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
January 17 – Conner Blöte, Dutch footballer^[6]
January 20 – Tiziano Andrei, Italian footballer^[7]
January 21 – Borna Sosa, Croatian youth international
January 27 – Cezar Trandafirescu, Romanian professional footballer^[8]
January 29 – Theo Maia, Brazilian professional footballer^[9]
January 31 – Lukas Prayitno, Indonesian professional footballer^[10]
February 3 – Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
February 5 – Jorge Luis Ortiz, Mexican professional footballer^[11]
February 10 – Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
February 16 – Alessio Tissone, Italian footballer^[12]
February 17 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer
February 23 – Jan-Kristian Thurner, Austrian footballer^[13]
February 28 – Maksim Sklyarov, Russian former footballer^[14]
March 3 – Nathan Vitré, French professional footballer^[15]
March 10
- Alessio Garofalo, Italian footballer^[16]
- Matías Zaracho, Argentinian footballer
March 13 – Oh Jang-won, South Korean footballer^[17]
March 14 – Joaquim Soumahin, Italian footballer^[18]
March 16 – Nico Rodewald, German footballer^[19]
March 17 – Justin Neumann, German footballer^[20]
March 23 – Ines Obradović, Montenegrin footballer^[21]
March 28
- John Håkansson, Swedish footballer^[22]
- Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
March 29 – Cemal Amet, Austrian footballer^[23]
March 30 – Christopher Godet, Bahamian footballer^[24]
March 31
- Lucian Oprea, Romanian soccer player
- Hristiyan Iliev, Bulgarian soccer player
April 2 – Matías Parada, Chilean footballer^[25]
April 10
- Jacob Brown, Scottish footballer
- Dominik Sollfrank, German footballer^[26]
April 13 – Emmanuel Adariku, Nigerian professional footballer^[27]
April 21 – Victor Paraíba, Brazilian footballer^[28]
April 24 – Elisabet Vang, Faroese footballer^[29]
April 28 – Daniel Sadushi, Albanian footballer^[30]
May 4 – Diego Acunzo, Italian footballer^[31]
May 7
- Alessandro Fratangelo, Italian footballer^[32]
- Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
May 21 – Felipe Egídio, Brazilian footballer^[33]
May 22 – Gastón Gorrostorrazo, Uruguayan footballer^[34]
May 23
- Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
- Luca De La Torre, American footballer
- Berat Özdemir, Turkish footballer
May 27 – Jeffrey Egbe, Austrian footballer^[35]
June 1 – Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz, Spanish footballer
June 30
- Serbay Can, Turkish professional footballer^[36]
- Tom Davies, English footballer
- Houssem Aouar, French footballer
July 6 – Hanna Lundell, Swedish footballer^[37]
July 8 – Yann Karamoh, French footballer
July 22 – Nick Lim, Dutch footballer^[38]
July 25 – Ryan Laplace, French footballer^[39]
July 29 – Maximilian Schuster, German footballer^[40]
August 16 – Max Grundmann, German footballer^[41]
September 1
- Emily Condon, Australian footballer
- Marvin Thiele, German footballer^[42]
September 2 – Lee Winroth, Swedish footballer^[43]
September 7 – Roger Ramos, Portuguese footballer^[44]
September 16 – Noah Feil, German footballer^[45]
September 17 – Gabriel Justino, Brazilian footballer^[46]
September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
September 19 – Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
September 26 – Tarik Džindo, Bosnian professional footballer^[47]
October 21 – Benjamin Cull, English former professional footballer (died 2023)^[48]
October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
November 13 – Jovana Bajčetić, Montenegrin footballer^[49]
November 24 – Muhammad Rafli, Indonesian footballer
November 27 – Katarína Košlabová, Slovak footballer^[50]
November 30 – Kenedy Có, Guinea-Bissauan professional footballer^[51]
December 9 – Tamar Dolidze, Georgian footballer^[52]
December 16 – Sara Husein, Macedonian footballer^[53]
December 17 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
December 18
- Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
- Manuel Trías, Venezuelan footballer^[54]
December 20 – Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
December 24 – Alexis Mac Allister, Argentine footballer
December 25 – Hanna Simonsson, Swedish footballer^[55]
December 29 – Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer

1998 in association football

Events

Winner national club championships

Asia

Europe

North America

South America

International tournaments

National team results

Europe

Estonia

South America

Bolivia

Chile

Ecuador

Births

Deaths

May

June

July

August

September

References

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