page_title: UEFA Euro 1988
section_title: Group stage
hierarchical_section_title: UEFA Euro 1988 / Group stage
caption_attribution_description: UEFA European Football Championship 1988 final team ranking, showing: Winner (dark blue) Runner-up (light blue) Semifinalists (light green) Quarterfinalists (yellow) Yellow square is host nation (West Germany).
context_page_description: The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in West Germany from 10 to 25 June 1988. It was the eighth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA.
  The tournament crowned the Netherlands as European champions for the first time. Euro 88 was a rare instance of a major football tournament ending without a single sending-off or goalless draw, nor any knockout matches going to extra time or penalties. Euro 1988 was the final European Championship to see the West Germany, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia national teams, as the West and East Germans reunified to become Germany in 1990, the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 separate countries in 1991, and Yugoslavia broke up into six separate nations and one disputed territory in the early 1990s. The tournament was also the first major championship to feature the Republic of Ireland.
context_section_description: The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the two groups progress to the semi-finals, while the bottom two teams in each group were eliminated from the tournament.
  All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
caption: Results for UEFA Euro 1988 finalists.
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