• Source: 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

=
Iran – Esteghlal FC
Japan – Kashima Antlers
Qatar – Al-Ittihad
South Korea - Suwon Bluewings
Thailand - Sinthana F.C.




= Europe

=
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

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




= South America

=
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


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




National team results






= Europe

=



Estonia





= South America

=



Bolivia

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



Chile




Ecuador





Births



January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
January 4 – Joel Kalonji, Belgian footballer
January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
January 6 – Ben Pollock, American soccer player
January 7 – Siebe Schets, Dutch 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 20 – Tiziano Andrei, Italian footballer
January 21 – Borna Sosa, Croatian youth international
January 27 – Cezar Trandafirescu, Romanian professional footballer
January 29 – Theo Maia, Brazilian professional footballer
January 31 – Lukas Prayitno, Indonesian professional footballer
February 3 – Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
February 5 – Jorge Luis Ortiz, Mexican professional footballer
February 10 – Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
February 16 – Alessio Tissone, Italian footballer
February 17 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer
February 23 – Jan-Kristian Thurner, Austrian footballer
February 28 – Maksim Sklyarov, Russian former footballer
March 3 – Nathan Vitré, French professional footballer
March 10
Alessio Garofalo, Italian footballer
Matías Zaracho, Argentinian footballer
March 13 – Oh Jang-won, South Korean footballer
March 14 – Joaquim Soumahin, Italian footballer
March 16 – Nico Rodewald, German footballer
March 17 – Justin Neumann, German footballer
March 23 – Ines Obradović, Montenegrin footballer
March 28
John Håkansson, Swedish footballer
Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
March 29 – Cemal Amet, Austrian footballer
March 30 – Christopher Godet, Bahamian footballer
March 31
Lucian Oprea, Romanian soccer player
Hristiyan Iliev, Bulgarian soccer player
April 2 – Matías Parada, Chilean footballer
April 10
Jacob Brown, Scottish footballer
Dominik Sollfrank, German footballer
April 13 – Emmanuel Adariku, Nigerian professional footballer
April 21 – Victor Paraíba, Brazilian footballer
April 24 – Elisabet Vang, Faroese footballer
April 28 – Daniel Sadushi, Albanian footballer
May 4 – Diego Acunzo, Italian footballer
May 7
Alessandro Fratangelo, Italian footballer
Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
May 21 – Felipe Egídio, Brazilian footballer
May 22 – Gastón Gorrostorrazo, Uruguayan footballer
May 23
Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
Luca De La Torre, American footballer
Berat Özdemir, Turkish footballer
May 27 – Jeffrey Egbe, Austrian footballer
June 1 – Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz, Spanish footballer
June 30
Serbay Can, Turkish professional footballer
Tom Davies, English footballer
Houssem Aouar, French footballer
July 6 – Hanna Lundell, Swedish footballer
July 8 – Yann Karamoh, French footballer
July 22 – Nick Lim, Dutch footballer
July 25 – Ryan Laplace, French footballer
July 29 – Maximilian Schuster, German footballer
August 16 – Max Grundmann, German footballer
September 1
Emily Condon, Australian footballer
Marvin Thiele, German footballer
September 2 – Lee Winroth, Swedish footballer
September 7 – Roger Ramos, Portuguese footballer
September 16 – Noah Feil, German footballer
September 17 – Gabriel Justino, Brazilian footballer
September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
September 19 – Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
September 26 – Tarik Džindo, Bosnian professional footballer
October 21 – Benjamin Cull, English former professional footballer (died 2023)
October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
November 1 – Pascal Pannier, German footballer
November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
November 13 – Jovana Bajčetić, Montenegrin footballer
November 24 – Muhammad Rafli, Indonesian footballer
November 27 – Katarína Košlabová, Slovak footballer
November 30 – Kenedy Có, Guinea-Bissauan professional footballer
December 9 – Tamar Dolidze, Georgian footballer
December 16 – Sara Husein, Macedonian 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 25 – Hanna Simonsson, Swedish 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

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• FIFA
• Piala Dunia FIFA
• Federasi Sepak Bola Perbara
• Daftar final Piala Dunia FIFA
• Konfederasi Sepak Bola Asia
• Jordi Amat
• Ragnar Oratmangoen
• Kualifikasi Piala Dunia FIFA 2022 (AFC)
• Ole Gunnar Solskjær
• Liga Utama Inggris
• 1998 in association football
• 1998 FIFA World Cup
• History of association football
• FIFA
• 1998 FIFA World Cup squads
• The Football Association
• Defender (association football)
• Chinese Football Association
• 1998 Intercontinental Cup
• Palestinian Football Association