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

Events edit

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 edit

Asia edit

Europe edit

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 edit

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

South America edit

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 edit

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

National team results edit

Europe edit

Estonia edit

South America edit

Bolivia edit

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

Chile edit

Ecuador edit

Births edit

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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 21 – Borna Sosa, Croatian youth international
January 27 – Cezar Trandafirescu, Romanian professional footballer^[3]
January 31 – Lukas Prayitno, Indonesian professional footballer^[4]
February 3 – Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
February 10 – Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
February 17 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer
March 10 – Matías Zaracho, Argentinian footballer
March 16 – Nico Rodewald, German footballer^[5]
March 28 – Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
March 29 – Cemal Amet, Austrian footballer^[6]
March 31
- Lucian Oprea, Romanian soccer player
- Hristiyan Iliev, Bulgarian soccer player
April 10
- Jacob Brown, Scottish footballer
- Dominik Sollfrank, German footballer^[7]
April 21 – Victor Paraíba, Brazilian footballer^[8]
April 28 – Daniel Sadushi, Albanian footballer^[9]
May 7 – 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^[10]
July 8 – Yann Karamoh, French footballer
September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
September 7 – Roger Ramos, Portuguese footballer^[11]
September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
September 19 – Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
October 21 – Benjamin Cull, English former professional footballer (died 2023)^[12]
October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
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^[13]
December 29 – Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer

Deaths edit

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May edit

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

June edit

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

July edit

July 13 – Pierre Garonnaire (82), French footballer

August edit

August 6 – Henk Bosveld (57), Dutch footballer

September edit

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

References edit

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^ "Cezar Trandafirescu". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^ "Lukas Prayitno". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
^ 1998 in association football at WorldFootball.net
^ "Cemal Amet". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^ "Dominik Sollfrank". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
^ "Victor Paraíba". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^ "Daniel Sadushi". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^ "Hanna Lundell". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ "Roger". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
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^ "Hanna Simonsson". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 19 February 2024.

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