UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 2

Standings and results for Group 2 of the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying tournament.

Group 2 consisted of Italy, Malta, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. Group winners were Italy, who finished three points clear of second-placed Sweden.

Final table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	8	6	1	1	16	4	+12	13	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–0	3–2	5–0
2	Sweden	8	4	2	2	12	5	+7	10			1–0	—	0–1	2–0	1–0
3	Portugal	8	2	4	2	6	8	−2	8			0–1	1–1	—	0–0	2–2
4	Switzerland	8	1	5	2	9	9	0	7			0–0	1–1	1–1	—	4–1
5	Malta	8	0	2	6	4	21	−17	2			0–2	0–5	0–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Results

24 September 1986

Sweden	2–0	Switzerland
Ekström 20', 80'	(Report)

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 27,751

Referee: Vojtĕch Christov (Czechoslovakia)

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12 October 1986

Portugal	1–1	Sweden
Coelho 66'	(Report)	Strömberg 52'

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon

Attendance: 19,775

Referee: Keith Hackett (England)

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29 October 1986

Switzerland	1–1	Portugal
Bregy 6'	(Report)	Man. Fernandes 85'

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 8,500

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

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15 November 1986

Italy	3–2	Switzerland
Donadoni 1' Altobelli 52', 85' (pen.)	(Details)	Brigger 31' Weber 88'

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan

Attendance: 67,422

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

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16 November 1986

Malta	0–5	Sweden
	(Details)	Hysén 38' Magnusson 67' Fredriksson 69' Ekström 82', 84'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 8,311

Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)

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6 December 1986

Malta	0–2	Italy
	(Details)	Ferri 12' Altobelli 19'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 13,191

Referee: Ihsan Türe (Turkey)

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24 January 1987

Italy	5–0	Malta
Bagni 4' Bergomi 9' Altobelli 24', 35' Vialli 45'	(Details)

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 32,370

Referee: Stephanos Hadjistefanou (Cyprus)

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14 February 1987

Portugal	0–1	Italy
	(Details)	Altobelli 40'

Estádio Nacional, Lisbon

Attendance: 14,195

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

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29 March 1987

Portugal	2–2	Malta
Plácido 11', 77'	(Details)	Mizzi 23' (pen.) Busuttil 68'

Estádio dos Barreiros, Funchal

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: John Kinsella (Republic of Ireland)

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15 April 1987

Switzerland	4–1	Malta
Egli 5' Bregy 16', 38' (pen.), 87' (pen.)	(Details)	Busuttil 71'

Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel

Attendance: 5,400

Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)

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24 May 1987

Sweden	1–0	Malta
Ekström 13'

Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 16,165

Referee: Kaj Natri (Finland)

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3 June 1987

Sweden	1–0	Italy
Larsson 25'	(Details)

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 40,070

Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)

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17 June 1987

Switzerland	1–1	Sweden
Halter 57'		Ekström 60'

Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Gerard Geurds (Netherlands)

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23 September 1987

Sweden	0–1	Portugal
	(Details)	Gomes 34'

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 28,916

Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union)

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17 October 1987

Switzerland	0–0	Italy

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 29,397

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

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11 November 1987

Portugal	0–0	Switzerland

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 3,632

Referee: Lajos Nemeth (Hungary)

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14 November 1987

Italy	2–1	Sweden
Vialli 27', 47+'	(Details)	Larsson 38'

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 59,046

Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)

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15 November 1987

Malta	1–1	Switzerland
Busuttil 89'		Zwicker 2'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 7,112

Referee: Georgios Koukoulakis (Greece)

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5 December 1987

Italy	3–0	Portugal
Vialli 8' Giannini 87' De Agostini 89'	(Details)

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan

Attendance: 13,524

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

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20 December 1987

Malta	0–1	Portugal
		Rosa 74'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 5,651

Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

Goalscorers

There were 47 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 2.35 goals per match.

6 goals

• Alessandro Altobelli
• Johnny Ekström

4 goals

• Gianluca Vialli
• Georges Bregy

3 goals

• Carmel Busuttil

2 goals

• Jorge Plácido
• Peter Larsson

1 goal

• Salvatore Bagni
• Giuseppe Bergomi
• Luigi De Agostini
• Roberto Donadoni
• Riccardo Ferri
• Giuseppe Giannini
• Dennis Mizzi
• José Coelho
• Manuel Fernandes
• Fernando Gomes
• Frederico Rosa
• Stig Fredriksson
• Glenn Hysén
• Mats Magnusson
• Glenn Strömberg
• Jean-Paul Brigger
• André Egli
• Andy Halter
• Martin Weber
• Hans-Peter Zwicker

References

• UEFA Page
• RSSSF Page