European Football Championship 1988 / Germany

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This article covers the German national team at the 1988 European Football Championship .

European Championship qualification

Germany did not have to qualify as hosts.

European Championship finals

Squad

No. Surname Club before the start of the European Championship birthday Games Gates Yellow card Red card
goalkeeper
12 Bodo Illgner 1. FC Cologne 04/07/1967 0 0 0 0
01 Eike Immel VfB Stuttgart 11/27/1960 4th 0 0 0
Defense
14th Thomas Berthold Hellas Verona 11/12/1964 1 0 0 0
06th Uli Borowka Werder Bremen 05/19/1962 4th 0 0 0
03 Andreas Brehme FC Bayern Munich 11/9/1960 4th 1 0 0
05 Matthias Herget Bayer 05 Uerdingen 11/14/1955 4th 0 1 0
04th Jürgen Kohler 1. FC Cologne 10/06/1965 4th 0 0 0
15th Hans Pflügler FC Bayern Munich 03/27/1960 1 0 0 0
17th Gunnar Sauer Werder Bremen 06/11/1964 0 0 0 0
midfield
02 Guido Buchwald VfB Stuttgart 01/24/1961 2 0 0 0
19th Hans Dorfner FC Bayern Munich 07/03/1965 0 0 0 0
08th Lothar Matthäus Captain of the German national team from 1988Captain of the German national team from 1988 FC Bayern Munich 03/21/1961 4th 1 0 0
20th Wolfgang Rolff Bayer 04 Leverkusen December 26, 1959 3 0 1 0
10 Olaf Thon FC Schalke 04 05/01/1966 4th 1 1 0
13 Wolfram Wuttke 1. FC Kaiserslautern 11/17/1961 1 0 0 0
attack
16 Dieter Eckstein 1. FC Nuremberg 03/12/1964 1 0 0 0
18th Jürgen Klinsmann VfB Stuttgart 07/30/1964 4th 1 0 0
07th Pierre Littbarski 1. FC Cologne 04/16/1960 4th 0 0 0
11 Frank Mill Borussia Dortmund 07/23/1958 3 0 0 0
09 Rudi Völler AS Roma 04/13/1960 4th 2 0 0
Team boss
Franz Beckenbauer 09/11/1945

In addition, Rüdiger Vollborn ( Bayer 04 Leverkusen ) was on call as the third goalkeeper. He should have moved up in the squad if one of the two goalkeepers had injured himself during the tournament.

German games

Host Germany met Italy , Denmark and Spain in the preliminary round . After an initially weak performance against the Italians, the team was able to improve their performance and won the other two group games against Denmark and Spain. Due to the better goal difference, the hosts were group first before Italy.

Preliminary round ( group 1 )

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany  3  2  1  0 005: 100  +4 05: 10
 2. ItalyItaly Italy  3  2  1  0 004: 100  +3 05: 10
 3. SpainSpain Spain  3  1  0  2 003: 500  −2 02: 40
 4th DenmarkDenmark Denmark  3  0  0  3 002: 700  −5 00: 60
For placement 1 and 2, the better goal difference from all group matches is decisive.
June 10, 1988 in Düsseldorf (Rheinstadion)
BR Germany - Italy 1: 1 (0: 0)
June 14, 1988 in Gelsenkirchen (Parkstadion)
BR Germany - Denmark 2: 0 (1: 0)
June 17, 1988 in Munich (Olympiastadion)
BR Germany - Spain 2: 0 (1: 0)

Semifinals

June 21, 1988 in Hamburg ( Volksparkstadion )
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany - NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1: 2 (0: 0)

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