UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 5

The UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 5 was one of the seven qualifying groups to determine which teams would compete at the UEFA Euro 1988 finals tournament. Group 5 consisted of five teams: Netherlands, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Cyprus, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format, with the top team qualifying for the final tournament. The Netherlands won the group and qualified for the finals, finishing five points clear of Greece.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	8	6	2	0	15	1	+14	14	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	2–0	0–0	4–0[a]
2	Greece	8	4	1	3	12	13	−1	9			0–3	—	2–1	1–0	3–1
3	Hungary	8	4	0	4	13	11	+2	8			0–1	3–0	—	5–3	1–0
4	Poland	8	3	2	3	9	11	−2	8			0–2	2–1	3–2	—	0–0
5	Cyprus	8	0	1	7	3	16	−13	1			0–2	2–4	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:

1. The Netherlands v Cyprus match originally finished as an 8–0 win for the Netherlands, but the match was marred by crowd violence. Therefore the result was annulled and the match was ordered to be replayed behind closed doors.

Matches

15 October 1986

Poland	2–1	Greece
Dziekanowski 4' (pen.), 39' (pen.)	(Details)	Anastopoulos 12'

Stadion Miejski, Poznań

Attendance: 23,000^[1]

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)

15 October 1986

Hungary	0–1	Netherlands
	(Details)	Van Basten 67'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 13,897

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

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12 November 1986

Greece	2–1	Hungary
Mitropoulos 38' Anastopoulos 65'	(Details)	Boda 73'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 27,760

Referee: Velodi Miminoshvili (Soviet Union)

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19 November 1986

Netherlands	0–0	Poland
	(Details)

Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Attendance: 52,750

Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)

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3 December 1986

Cyprus	2–4	Greece
Christofi 28' Savvidis 41'	(Details)	Antoniou 14' L. Papaioannou 48' Batsinilas 73' Anastopoulos 85'

Makario Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 9,583

Referee: Velitchko Tzontchev (Bulgaria)

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21 December 1986

Cyprus	0–2	Netherlands
	(Details)	Gullit 19' Bosman 72'

Tsirion Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 7,483

Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

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14 January 1987

Greece	3–1	Cyprus
Anastopoulos 54', 66' Bonovas 63'	(Details)	Savva 60'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 41,076

Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

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8 February 1987

Cyprus	0–1	Hungary
	(Details)	Boda 49'

Makario Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 4,195^[2]

Referee: Dragiša Komadinić (Yugoslavia)

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25 March 1987

Netherlands	1–1	Greece
Van Basten 56'	(Details)	Saravakos 5'

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 44,176^[3]

Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

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12 April 1987

Poland	0–0	Cyprus
	(Details)

Stadion Lechii, Gdańsk

Attendance: 23,500^[4]

Referee: Simo Ruokonen (Finland)

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29 April 1987

Greece	1–0	Poland
Saravakos 57'	(Details)

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 68,554^[5]

Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)

29 April 1987

Netherlands	2–0	Hungary
Gullit 37' Mühren 40'	(Details)

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 53,035

Referee: George Courtney (England)

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17 May 1987

Hungary	5–3	Poland
Vincze 38' Détári 62' (pen.), 75' Péter 65' Preszeller 88'	(Details)	Marciniak 26' Smolarek 58' Wójcicki 80'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 5,900^[6]

Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)

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23 September 1987

Poland	3–2	Hungary
Dziekanowski 6' Tarasiewicz 58' Leśniak 62'	(Details)	Bognár 10' Mészáros 64'

Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Ihsan Türe (Turkey)

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14 October 1987

Poland	0–2	Netherlands
	(Details)	Gullit 30', 38'

Górnik Stadium, Zabrze

Attendance: 17,500^[7]

Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)

14 October 1987

Hungary	3–0	Greece
Détári 4' Bognár 12' Mészáros 15'	(Details)

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)

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28 October 1987 (1987-10-28)

20:00

Netherlands	Annulled[note 1] (8–0)	Cyprus
Bosman 1', 39', 53', 61', 67' Gullit 20' Spelbos 40' Van 't Schip 47'	Report

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 49,670

Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)

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11 November 1987

Cyprus	0–1	Poland
	(Details)	Leśniak 74'

Tsirion Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 2,497

Referee: Dimitar Charlatchki (Bulgaria)

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2 December 1987

Hungary	1–0	Cyprus
Kiprich 88'	(Details)

Üllöi Uti stadion, Budapest^[9]

Attendance: 2,300^[10]

Referee: Ștefan Dan Petrescu (Romania)

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9 December 1987^{[note 1]}

Netherlands	4–0	Cyprus
Bosman 34', 43', 66' Koeman 63' (pen.)	(Details)

De Meer Stadium, Amsterdam

Attendance: 300

Referee: Ivan Gregr (Czechoslovakia)

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16 December 1987

Greece	0–3	Netherlands
	(Details)	Koeman 18' Gillhaus 76', 81'

Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes

Attendance: 4,442^[11]

Referee: Keith Hackett (England)

Goalscorers

There were 60 goals scored in 21 matches, for an average of 2.86 goals per match.^{[note 2]}

9 goals

• John Bosman^{[note 2]}

5 goals

• Nikos Anastopoulos
• Ruud Gullit^{[note 2]}

3 goals

• Lajos Détári
• Dariusz Dziekanowski

2 goals

• Dimitris Saravakos
• Imre Boda
• György Bognár
• Ferenc Mészáros
• Hans Gillhaus
• Ronald Koeman
• Marco van Basten
• Marek Leśniak

1 goal

• Evagoras Christofi
• Pavlos Savva
• Giorgos Savvidis
• Kostas Antoniou
• Kostas Batsinilas
• Andreas Bonovas
• Tasos Mitropoulos
• Lakis Papaioannou
• József Kiprich
• Zoltán Péter
• Tamás Preszeller
• István Vincze
• Arnold Mühren
• Ronald Spelbos^{[note 2]}
• John van 't Schip^{[note 2]}
• Dariusz Marciniak
• Włodzimierz Smolarek
• Ryszard Tarasiewicz
• Roman Wójcicki

Notes

1. The Netherlands v Cyprus match originally finished as an 8–0 win for the Netherlands, but the match was marred by crowd violence after Cyprus goalkeeper Andreas Charitou was hit by a firework. Charitou was injured and had to be replaced, and the Cyprus players left the field in protest and refused to play. Eventually after discussion between referee Roger Philippi, UEFA observer Alfred Delcourt and team officials, the Cyprus players agreed in a written statement to finish the match, though under protest. The result was later annulled by UEFA, and the match forfeited to Cyprus with 2–0. After the appeal from the Netherlands the match was ordered to be replayed behind closed doors, which took place on 9 December 1987.^[8]
2. The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.