1998 in association football
Association football-related events during 1998
Overview of the events of 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 :
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
Europe
North America
South America
International tournaments
National team results
Europe
South America
The men's national senior squad didn't play any matches in 1998
Births
January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah , Dutch footballer
January 3 – Patrick Cutrone , Italian footballer[1]
January 5 – Carles Aleñá , Spanish footballer
January 8 – Manuel Locatelli , Italian footballer
January 10 – Mohamed Abukar , Somali footballer[2]
January 11 – Salih Özcan , German midfielder
January 16 – Odsonne Édouard , French footballer
January 17 – Conner Blöte , Dutch footballer[3]
January 21 – Borna Sosa , Croatian youth international
January 27 – Cezar Trandafirescu , Romanian professional footballer[4]
January 31 – Lukas Prayitno , Indonesian professional footballer[5]
February 3 – Blás Riveros , Paraguayan footballer
February 10 – Aitor Buñuel , Spanish footballer
February 17 – Todd Cantwell , English footballer
February 23 – Jan-Kristian Thurner , Austrian footballer[6]
March 10
March 13 – Oh Jang-won , South Korean footballer[8]
March 16 – Nico Rodewald , German footballer[9]
March 17 – Justin Neumann , German footballer[10]
March 28 – Sandi Lovric , Austrian footballer
March 29 – Cemal Amet , Austrian footballer[11]
March 31
April 10
April 21 – Victor Paraíba , Brazilian footballer[13]
April 28 – Daniel Sadushi , Albanian footballer[14]
May 7 – Dani Olmo , Spanish footballer
May 8 – Johannes Eggestein , German footballer
May 11 – Fran Villalba , Spanish footballer
May 23
June 1 – Branimir Kalaica , Croatian footballer
June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun , Dutch footballer
June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz , Spanish footballer
June 30
July 6 – Hanna Lundell , Swedish footballer[15]
July 8 – Yann Karamoh , French footballer
July 25 – Ryan Laplace , French footballer[16]
September 1 – Emily Condon , Australian footballer
September 7 – Roger Ramos , Portuguese footballer[17]
September 18 – Christian Pulisic , American soccer player
September 19 – Jacob Bruun Larsen , Danish footballer
October 21 – Benjamin Cull , English former professional footballer (died 2023)[18]
October 27 – Dayot Upamecano , French footballer
November 1 – Pascal Pannier , German footballer[19]
November 12 – Jules Koundé , French footballer
November 24 – Muhammad Rafli , Indonesian footballer
December 17 – Martin Ødegaard , Norwegian footballer
December 18 – Calvin Stengs , Dutch footballer
December 20 – Kylian Mbappé , French footballer
December 24 – Alexis Mac Allister , Argentine footballer
December 25 – Hanna Simonsson , Swedish footballer[20]
December 29 – Victor Osimhen , Nigerian footballer
Deaths
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August
September
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