# 1998 in association football

The following are the association football events of the year 1998 throughout the world.

## Events

* 1998 FIFA World Cup – France wins 3–0 over Brazil in Saint-Denis, France, winning their first cup. More than one million delirious fans jammed the Champs-Élysées, dancing through the night.
* UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid won 1–0 in the final against Juventus. This was Real Madrid's seventh European Cup title.
* Copa Libertadores 1998: Won by Vasco da Gama after defeating Barcelona SC on an aggregate score of 4–1.
* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Chelsea beat VfB Stuttgart 1–0 in the final, winning the Cup for the second time.
* UEFA Cup: Inter Milan won 3–0 in the final against Lazio. This was Inter's third UEFA Cup title.
* UEFA Super Cup: Chelsea beat Real Madrid 1–0, winning the cup for the first time.
* England:
** FA Premier League Champions: Arsenal.
* February 17 – Manchester City fires manager Frank Clark and appoints Joe Royle as his successor.
* May 16 – Arsenal beats Newcastle United 2–0 to win the FA Cup, achieving The Double.
* August 16 – PSV wins the Johan Cruyff Shield, the annual opening of the new season in the Eredivisie, by a 2–0 win over Ajax in the Amsterdam Arena.
* September 17 – Heerenveen makes a winning European debut after defeating Poland's Amica Wronki (3–1) in the first round of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
* October 8 – Manager Artur Jorge resigns at Dutch club Vitesse and is succeeded by Herbert Neumann.
* October 10 – Frank Rijkaard makes his debut as the manager of the Netherlands national team, as the successor of Guus Hiddink, with a 2–0 friendly win over Peru in Eindhoven. One player makes his debut as well: striker Jeffrey Talan from Heerenveen.
* December 1 – Real Madrid wins the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo by defeating Brazil's Vasco da Gama: 2–1. The winning goal for the Spaniards is scored by Raúl in the 83rd minute.
* December 7 – Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam fires manager Hans van der Zee. He is replaced by Jan Everse on December 24.

## Winner national club championships
### Asia

* Iran – Esteghlal FC
* Japan – Kashima Antlers
* Qatar – Al-Ittihad
* South Korea - Suwon Bluewings
* Thailand - Sinthana F.C.

### Europe

* Croatia – Croatia Zagreb
* England – Arsenal
* France – Lens
* Germany – 1. FC Kaiserslautern
* Hungary – Újpest
* Italy – Juventus
* Netherlands
** Eredivisie – Ajax
** Eerste Divisie – AZ
* Poland – ŁKS Łódź
* Portugal – Porto
* Scotland – Celtic
* Spain – Barcelona
* Sweden – AIK
* Turkey – Galatasaray
* FR Yugoslavia – Obilić

### North America

* Canada – St. Catharines Wolves (CPSL)
* Mexico
** Verano – Toluca
** Invierno – Necaxa
* United States – Chicago Fire (MLS)

### South America

* Argentina
** Clausura – Vélez Sársfield
** Apertura – Boca Juniors
* Bolivia – Blooming
* Brazil – Corinthians
* Chile – Colo-Colo
* Ecuador – LDU Quito
* Paraguay – Olimpia Asunción
* Peru – Universitario de Deportes

## International tournaments

* African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso (February 7 – 28 1998)
** Egypt
** South Africa
** DR Congo
* Baltic Cup (April 21 – June 25, 1998)
** Lithuania
** Latvia
** Estonia
* FIFA World Cup in France (June 10 – July 12, 1998)
** France
** Brazil
** Croatia

## National team results
### South America
#### Bolivia

    The men's national senior squad didn't play any matches in 1998

#### Ecuador
## Births

* January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
* January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
* January 4 – Joel Kalonji, Belgian footballer
* January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
* January 6 – Ben Pollock, American soccer player
* January 7 – Siebe Schets, Dutch footballer
* January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
* January 10 – Mohamed Abukar, Somali footballer
* January 11 – Salih Özcan, German midfielder
* January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
* January 17 – Conner Blöte, Dutch footballer
* January 20 – Tiziano Andrei, Italian footballer
* January 21 – Borna Sosa, Croatian youth international
* January 27 – Cezar Trandafirescu, Romanian professional footballer
* January 29 – Theo Maia, Brazilian professional footballer
* January 31 – Lukas Prayitno, Indonesian professional footballer
* February 3 – Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
* February 5 – Jorge Luis Ortiz, Mexican professional footballer
* February 10 – Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
* February 16 – Alessio Tissone, Italian footballer
* February 17 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer
* February 23 – Jan-Kristian Thurner, Austrian footballer
* February 28 – Maksim Sklyarov, Russian former footballer
* March 3 – Nathan Vitré, French professional footballer
* March 10
** Alessio Garofalo, Italian footballer
** Matías Zaracho, Argentinian footballer
* March 13 – Oh Jang-won, South Korean footballer
* March 14 – Joaquim Soumahin, Italian footballer
* March 16 – Nico Rodewald, German footballer
* March 17 – Justin Neumann, German footballer
* March 23 – Ines Obradović, Montenegrin footballer
* March 28
** John Håkansson, Swedish footballer
** Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
* March 29 – Cemal Amet, Austrian footballer
* March 30 – Christopher Godet, Bahamian footballer
* March 31
** Lucian Oprea, Romanian soccer player
** Hristiyan Iliev, Bulgarian soccer player
* April 2 – Matías Parada, Chilean footballer
* April 10
** Jacob Brown, Scottish footballer
** Dominik Sollfrank, German footballer
* April 13 – Emmanuel Adariku, Nigerian professional footballer
* April 21 – Victor Paraíba, Brazilian footballer
* April 24 – Elisabet Vang, Faroese footballer
* April 28 – Daniel Sadushi, Albanian footballer
* May 4 – Diego Acunzo, Italian footballer
* May 7
** Alessandro Fratangelo, Italian footballer
** Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
* May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
* May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
* May 21 – Felipe Egídio, Brazilian footballer
* May 22 – Gastón Gorrostorrazo, Uruguayan footballer
* May 23
** Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
** Luca De La Torre, American footballer
** Berat Özdemir, Turkish footballer
* May 27 – Jeffrey Egbe, Austrian footballer
* June 1 – Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
* June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
* June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz, Spanish footballer
* June 30
** Serbay Can, Turkish professional footballer
** Tom Davies, English footballer
** Houssem Aouar, French footballer
* July 6 – Hanna Lundell, Swedish footballer
* July 8 – Yann Karamoh, French footballer
* July 22 – Nick Lim, Dutch footballer
* July 25 – Ryan Laplace, French footballer
* July 29 – Maximilian Schuster, German footballer
* August 16 – Max Grundmann, German footballer
* September 1
** Emily Condon, Australian footballer
** Marvin Thiele, German footballer
* September 2 – Lee Winroth, Swedish footballer
* September 7 – Roger Ramos, Portuguese footballer
* September 16 – Noah Feil, German footballer
* September 17 – Gabriel Justino, Brazilian footballer
* September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
* September 19 – Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
* September 26 – Tarik Džindo, Bosnian professional footballer
* October 21 – Benjamin Cull, English former professional footballer (died 2023)
* October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
* November 1 – Pascal Pannier, German footballer
* November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
* November 13 – Jovana Bajčetić, Montenegrin footballer
* November 24 – Muhammad Rafli, Indonesian footballer
* November 27 – Katarína Košlabová, Slovak footballer
* November 30 – Kenedy Có, Guinea-Bissauan professional footballer
* December 9 – Tamar Dolidze, Georgian footballer
* December 16 – Sara Husein, Macedonian footballer
* December 17 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
* December 18
** Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
** Manuel Trías, Venezuelan footballer
* December 20 – Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
* December 24 – Alexis Mac Allister, Argentine footballer
* December 25 – Hanna Simonsson, Swedish footballer
* December 29 – Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer

## Deaths
### May

* May 2 – Justin Fashanu (38), English footballer and the first professional footballer to come out as gay

### June

* June 4 – Miguel Montuori (65), Argentinian-Chilean footballer
* June 13 – Fernand Sastre (74), French footballer

### July

* July 13 – Pierre Garonnaire (82), French footballer

### August

* August 6 – Henk Bosveld (57), Dutch footballer

### September

* September 2 – Jackie Blanchflower (65), Northern Irish footballer
* September 23 – Héctor Vilches, Uruguayan defender, winner of the 1950 World Cup. (88)