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

• – Esteghlal FC
• – Kashima Antlers
• – Al-Ittihad
• - Suwon Bluewings
• - Sinthana F.C.

Europe

• – Croatia Zagreb
• – Arsenal
• – Lens
• – 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• – Újpest
• – Juventus
• – Ajax
• – ŁKS Łódź
• – Porto
• – Celtic
• – Barcelona
• – AIK
• – Galatasaray
• – Obilić

North America

• – St. Catharines Wolves (CPSL)
• Verano – Toluca
• Invierno – Necaxa
• – Chicago Fire (MLS)

South America

• Clausura – Vélez Sársfield
• Apertura – Boca Juniors
• – Blooming
• – Corinthians
• – Colo-Colo
• – LDU Quito
• – Olimpia Asunción
• – Universitario de Deportes

International tournaments

• African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso (February 7 – 28 1998)
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• Baltic Cup (April 21 – June 25, 1998)
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• FIFA World Cup in France (June 10 – July 12, 1998)
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Births

• January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
• January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
• January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish 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 21 – Borna Sosa, Croatian youth international
• January 29 – Theo Maia, Brazilian footballer
• February 3 – Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
• February 10 – Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
• February 17 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer
• March 3 – Nathan Vitré, French footballer
• March 10 – Matías Zaracho, Argentinian footballer
• March 23 – Ines Obradović, Montenegrin footballer
• March 28
• John HÃ¥kansson, Swedish footballer
• Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
• March 30 – Christopher Godet, Bahamian footballer
• April 10 – Jacob Brown, Scottish footballer
• April 21 – Victor Paraíba, Brazilian footballer
• April 24 – Elisabet Vang, Faroese footballer
• May 7
• Alessandro Fratangelo, Italian footballer
• Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
• May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
• May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
• May 23
• Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
• Luca De La Torre, American footballer
• Berat Özdemir, Turkish footballer
• June 1 – Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
• June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
• June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz, Spanish footballer
• June 30
• Tom Davies, English footballer
• Houssem Aouar, French footballer
• July 6 – Hanna Lundell, Swedish footballer
• July 8 – Yann Karamoh, French footballer
• July 29 – Maximilian Schuster, German footballer
• September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
• September 2 – Lee Winroth, Swedish footballer
• September 17 – Gabriel Justino, Brazilian footballer
• September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
• September 19 – Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
• October 21 – Benjamin Cull, English footballer (died 2023)
• October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
• November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
• November 24 – Muhammad Rafli, Indonesian footballer
• November 30 – Kenedy Có, Guinea-Bissauan 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 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)

References