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
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Netherlands Greece Hungary Poland Cyprus
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. The Cypriot goalkeeper Andreas Charitou was injured by a homemade bomb which exploded close to him. Therefore the result was annulled and the match was ordered to be replayed behind closed doors.

Matches

Poland 2–1 Greece
Dziekanowski 4', 39' (Details) Anastopoulos 12'
Stadion Miejski, Poznań
Attendance: 23,000[1]
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
Hungary 0–1 Netherlands
(Details) Van Basten 67'
Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 13,897
Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
Greece 2–1 Hungary
Mitropoulos 38'
Anastopoulos 65'		 (Details) Boda 73'
Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 27,760
Referee: Velodi Miminoshvili (Soviet Union)
Netherlands 0–0 Poland
(Details)
Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam
Attendance: 52,750
Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
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)
Cyprus 0–2 Netherlands
(Details) Gullit 19'
Bosman 72'
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
Attendance: 7,483
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)
Greece 3–1 Cyprus
Anastopoulos 54', 66'
Bonovas 63'		 (Details) Savva 60'
Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 41,076
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)
Cyprus 0–1 Hungary
(Details) Boda 49'
Makario Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 4,195[2]
Referee: Dragiša Komadinić (Yugoslavia)
Netherlands 1–1 Greece
Van Basten 56' (Details) Saravakos 5'
De Kuip, Rotterdam
Attendance: 44,176[3]
Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)
Poland 0–0 Cyprus
(Details)
Stadion Lechii, Gdańsk
Attendance: 23,500[4]
Referee: Simo Ruokonen (Finland)
Greece 1–0 Poland
Saravakos 57' (Details)
Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 68,554[5]
Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)
Netherlands 2–0 Hungary
Gullit 37'
Mühren 40'		 (Details)
De Kuip, Rotterdam
Attendance: 53,035
Referee: George Courtney (England)
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)
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)
Poland 0–2 Netherlands
(Details) Gullit 30', 38'
Górnik Stadium, Zabrze
Attendance: 17,500[7]
Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)
Hungary 3–0 Greece
Détári 4'
Bognár 12'
Mészáros 15'		 (Details)
Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
Netherlands Annulled[note 1]
(8–0)		 Cyprus
 Report
De Kuip, Rotterdam
Attendance: 49,670
Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)
Cyprus 0–1 Poland
(Details) Leśniak 74'
Tsirion Stadium, Limassol
Attendance: 2,497
Referee: Dimitar Charlatchki (Bulgaria)
Hungary 1–0 Cyprus
Kiprich 88' (Details)
Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 2,300[9]
Referee: Ștefan Dan Petrescu (Romania)
Netherlands 4–0 Cyprus
Bosman 34', 43', 66'
Koeman 63'		 (Details)
De Meer Stadium, Amsterdam
Attendance: 300
Referee: Ivan Gregr (Czechoslovakia)
Greece 0–3 Netherlands
(Details) Koeman 18'
Gillhaus 76', 81'
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes
Attendance: 4,442[10]
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

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Notes

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d e The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.

References

  1. ^ "Poland v Greece, 15 October 1986" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Cyprus v Hungary, 8 February 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Netherlands v Greece, 25 March 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Poland v Cyprus, 12 April 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Greece v Poland, 29 April 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Hungary v Poland, 17 May 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Poland v Netherlands, 14 October 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  8. ^ Datema, Dave; Lagas, Marijke (28 October 2017). "30 jaar na het bomincident: plots was het EK '88 zo ver weg" [30 years after the bomb incident: suddenly the European Championship '88 was so far away]. rijnmond.nl (in Dutch). RTV Rijnmond. Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Hungary v Cyprus, 2 December 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Greece v Netherlands, 16 December 1987" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 May 2022.

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