European Cup Winners' Cup 1987/88

European Cup Winners' Cup 1987/88
Cup winners	KV Mechelen (1st title)
Beginning	23rd August 1987
final	May 11, 1988
Final stadium	Stade de la Meinau , Strasbourg
Teams	33
Games	63
Gates	131  (ø 2.08 per game)
Top scorer	Paulinho Cascavel (6)
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The 1987/88 European Cup Winners 'Cup was the 28th draw of the European Cup Winners' Cup. 33 club teams from 32 countries took part, including 22 national cup winners (including defending champions Ajax Amsterdam ) and 11 defeated cup finalists (FK Witoscha Sofia, Olympique Marseille, Dundalk FC, Atalanta Bergamo, Sliema Wanderers, FC Swarovski Tirol, Sporting Lisbon, ADO Den Haag, Aalborg BK, Dynamo Minsk and Dinamo Bucharest). Clubs from England were still excluded from participation after the Heysel disaster . The Welsh Cup winner Merthyr Tydfil FC from the English Southern League Premier Division, the seventh level of the English league system, entered this competition as the lowest-ranking club to have ever taken part in a European Cup.

From Germany were DFB Cup winners Hamburger SV , from the GDR FDGB Cup winners 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , from Austria ÖFB Cup finalist FC Swarovski Tirol and from Switzerland cup winners BSC Young Boys .

The final at the Stade de la Meinau in Strasbourg was surprisingly won 1-0 by Belgian outsider KV Mechelen against the high favorites and defending champion Ajax Amsterdam.

The top scorer was the Brazilian Paulinho Cascavel from Sporting Lisbon with 6 goals.

mode

As usual, the participants played the winner in pure cup mode with home and return matches. If there was a tie after both games, the number of goals scored away decided ( away goal rule ). If their number was also the same, extra time took place in the second leg, in which the away goals rule also applied. If there was still a tie at the end of extra time, a penalty shoot- out was carried out. The final was decided in a game on a neutral court. In the event of a tie after extra time, the winner would also have been determined in a penalty shoot-out.

Preliminary round

The first leg took place on August 23, the second leg on August 28, 1987.

	total		First leg	Return leg
AEL Limassol	1: 6	TJ DAC Poľnohospodár Dunajská Streda	0: 1	1: 5

1 round

The first legs took place on 13/15/16. September, the second leg on 29./30. September 1987.

	total		First leg	Return leg
KS Vllaznia Shkodra	6-0	Sliema Wanderers	2-0	4-0
ÍA Akranes	0: 1	Kalmar FF	0-0	0: 1 a.d.
FC Avenir Beggen	0: 8	Hamburger SV	0: 5	0: 3
Sporting Lisbon	6: 4	FC Swarovski Tirol	4-0	2: 4
Rovaniemi PS	( a ) 1: 1(a)	Glentoran FC	0-0	1: 1
KV Mechelen	3-0	Dinamo Bucharest	1-0	2-0
FK Dinamo Minsk	4: 1	Gençlerbirliği Ankara	2-0	2: 1
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	0: 1	Olympique Marseille	0-0	0: 1
Aalborg BK	1: 1 (2: 4 i.E.)	Hajduk Split	1-0	0: 1 a.d.
Ajax Amsterdam	6-0	Dundalk FC	4-0	2-0
Real Sociedad	2-0	Śląsk Wrocław	0-0	2-0
FK Vitosha Sofia	2: 3	OFI Crete	1-0	1: 3
Újpesti Dózsa SC	2: 3	ADO The Hague	1-0	1: 3
FC St. Mirren	1-0	Tromso IL	1-0	0-0
Merthyr Tydfil FC	2: 3	Atalanta Bergamo	2: 1	0: 2
TJ DAC Poľnohospodár Dunajská Streda	3: 4	BSC Young Boys	2: 1	1: 3

2nd round

The first legs took place on 21./22. October, the second legs on 3./5. November 1987.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Kalmar FF	1: 5	Sporting Lisbon	1-0	0: 5
Hamburger SV	0: 3	Ajax Amsterdam	0: 1	0: 2
KV Mechelen	2-0	FC St. Mirren	0-0	2-0
KS Vllaznia Shkodra	0: 2	Rovaniemi PS	0: 1	0: 1
OFI Crete	1: 2	Atalanta Bergamo	1-0	0: 2
ADO The Hague	(a)2: 2 ( a )	BSC Young Boys	2: 1	0: 1
Real Sociedad	(a)1: 1 ( a )	FK Dinamo Minsk	1: 1	0-0
Olympique Marseille	7-0	Hajduk Split	4-0	03: 0 1

¹ The game Hajduk Split against Olympique Marseille (2-0) was rated 3-0 for Marseille after crowd riots.

Quarter finals

The first legs took place on 1./9. March, the second leg on 15./16. March 1988.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Rovaniemi PS	0: 4	Olympique Marseille	0: 1	0: 3
KV Mechelen	2: 1	Dinamo Minsk	1-0	1: 1
Atalanta Bergamo	3: 1	Sporting Lisbon	2-0	1: 1
BSC Young Boys	0: 2	Ajax Amsterdam	0: 1	0: 1

Semifinals

The first leg took place on April 6, the second leg on April 20, 1988.

	total		First leg	Return leg
KV Mechelen	4: 2	Atalanta Bergamo	2: 1	2: 1
Olympique Marseille	2: 4	Ajax Amsterdam	0: 3	2: 1

final

KV Mechelen		Ajax Amsterdam		Lineup
	May 11, 1988 in Strasbourg ( Stade de la Meinau ) Result: 1: 0 (0: 0) Spectators: 39,446 Referee: Dieter Pauly ( BR Germany )
	Michel Preud'homme - Wim Hofkens (60th Paul Demesmaeker ), Lei Clijsters , Graeme Rutjes , Geert Deferm - Koenraad Sanders , Marc Emmers , Erwin Koeman , Pascal De Wilde (73rd Paul Theunis ) - Piet Den Boer , Eli Ohana Trainer: Aad de Mos ( Netherlands )	Stanley Menzo - Danny Blind , Peter Larsson , Jan Wouters , Frank Verlaat (73rd Henny Meijer ) - Aron Winter , Arnold Mühren , Arnold Scholten , John van 't Schip (57th Dennis Bergkamp ) - John Bosman , Rob Witschge Trainer: Barry Hulshoff ( Netherlands )
	1: 0 Piet Den Boer (53.)
	Koenraad Sanders, Piet Den Boer	Jan Wouters
		Danny Blind (16.)

1. ↑ The coaching office has been exercised since January 1988 by a triumvirate consisting of Hulshoff, Antoine Kohn and Bobby Haarms . In the final, Hulshoff took on the role of head coach.

See also

• European Champion Clubs' Cup 1987/88
• 1987/88 UEFA Cup

Web links

• Official UEFA website for the 1987/88 season
• Game details on fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.11freunde.de/artikel/zweitligisten-im-europapokal/page/1 11Freunde: Second division in the European Cup