Champions Milan (3rd title) Champion A.C. Milan Goals scored 170 Teams 31 | Runners-up Steaua București Dates 6 Sep 1988 – 24 May 1989 Top scorer Marco van Basten Matches played 59 | |
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Similar 1968–69 European Cup, 1965–66 European Cup, 1963–64 European Cup, 1961–62 European Cup, 1972–73 European Cup | ||
The 1988–89 European Cup was the 34th season of the European Cup football club tournament. The competition was won for the first time since 1969, and third time overall, by Milan comfortably in the final against former winners Steaua București.
Contents
PSV Eindhoven, the defending champions, were eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
Second leg
Porto won 3–2 on aggregate.
Górnik Zabrze won 7–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 4–0 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–1 on aggregate.
Werder Bremen won 5–3 on aggregate.
Milan won 7–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 8–0 on aggregate.
17 Nëntori Tirana won 3–2 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 7–2 on aggregate.
Steaua Bucureşti won 7–3 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 3–1 on aggregate.
Club Brugge 2–2 Brøndby on aggregate. Club Brugge won on away goals.
AS Monaco won 2–1 on aggregate.
Larissa 3–3 Neuchâtel Xamax on aggregate. Neuchâtel Xamax won 3–0 on penalties.
Galatasaray won 3–2 on aggregate.
Second round
1 The second leg in Belgrade was replayed. The original second leg match in Belgrade was stopped by West German referee Dieter Pauly due to thick fog with Red Star leading 1–0. The match was then voided and a replay took place the very next day. The replay ended in the above 1–1 scoreline.
Second leg
PSV Eindhoven won 5–2 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.
Werder Bremen won 1–0 on aggregate.
The game was abandoned in the 65th minute because of dense fog and low visibility with the score at 1–0. The game was replayed from the beginning the next day at 3 p.m. with the same starting line-ups, with the exception of Milan players Pietro Paolo Virdis and Carlo Ancelotti; Virdis had been sent off in the abandoned match, while Ancelotti picked up his second yellow card of the competition, meaning that he had to sit out a match.
Red Star Belgrade 2–2 Milan on aggregate. Milan won 4–2 on penalties.
IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.
Steaua Bucureşti won 5–1 on aggregate.
AS Monaco won 6–2 on aggregate.
Galatasaray won 5–3 on aggregate.
Second leg
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.
Steaua Bucureşti won 5–2 on aggregate.
Galatasaray won 2–1 on aggregate.
Second leg
Milan won 6–1 on aggregate.
Steaua Bucureşti won 5–1 on aggregate.
Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1988–89 European Cup are as follows: