Belgium national football team results – 1980s
The 1980s were the most successful decade in the existence of Belgium's national football team, as they appeared in four of the five major tournaments (European and World Championships) and also reached their best positions so far: second place at Euro 1980 and fourth place at the 1986 World Cup. Apart from their appearances at end stages, they ensured qualification for the 1990 World Cup during the last years of the decade. Overall, the balance was positive with 39 wins versus 24 losses (and 21 draws).
Results
| Legend for encounters | |
|---|---|
| S.O. | Summer Olympics |
| W.C. | FIFA World Cup |
| EURO | UEFA European Football Championship |
| CC | Confederations Cup |
| TB | Tie-break match |
| Q | Qualification rounds |
| R + number | Round number |
| FR | Final Round |
| GS | Group Stage |
| 1/16 | Round of 32 |
| 1/8 | Round of 16 |
| QF | Quarter-final |
| SF | Semi-final |
| F | Final |
| RP | Repechage |
| Rep. | Replay match |
| 3rd-4th | Third place match |
| 1980-02-27 Friendly | Belgium .svg.png){kind=small} | 5–0 |  | Brussels |
Vandenbergh  Vandereycken F. Van der Elst |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 1,226 Referee: Henk van Ettekoven (Netherlands) |
| 1980-03-18 Friendly | Belgium | 2–0 |  | Brussels |
| Verheyen F. Van der Elst |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 3,974 Referee: Robert Wurtz (France) |
| 1980-04-02 Friendly | Belgium | 2–1 |  | Brussels |
| Coeck Vandenbergh |
Lato |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 6,800 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany) |
| 1980-06-06 Friendly | Belgium | 2–1 | .svg.png){kind=small} | Brussels |
| Ceulemans F. Van der Elst |
Cămătaru |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 3,875 Referee: Jacob Baumann (Switzerland) |
| 1980-06-12 EURO 1980 GS | Belgium | 1–1 |  | Turin |
| Ceulemans |
Report | Wilkins |
Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 15,186 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany) |
| 1980-06-15 EURO 1980 GS | Belgium | 2–1 | .svg.png){kind=small} | Milan |
| Gerets Cools |
Report | Quini |
Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 11,430 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands) |
| 1980-06-18 EURO 1980 GS | Italy  | 0–0 | | Rome |
| Report | Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 42,318 Referee: António Garrido (Portugal) |
| 1980-06-22 EURO 1980 F | Belgium | 1–2 |  | Rome |
| Vandereycken |
Report | Hrubesch |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 47,864 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania) |
| 1980-10-15 W.C. 1982 Q | Republic of Ireland  | 1–1 | | Dublin |
| Grealish |
Report | Cluytens |
Stadium: Lansdowne Road Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg) |
| 1980-11-19 W.C. 1982 Q | Belgium | 1–0 |  | Brussels |
| Vandenbergh |
Report | Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 57,665 Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union) |
| 1980-12-21 W.C. 1982 Q | Cyprus .svg.png){kind=small} | 0–2 | | Nicosia |
| Report | Vandenbergh Ceulemans |
Stadium: Makario Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland) |
| 1981-02-18 W.C. 1982 Q | Belgium | 3–2 | | Brussels |
| Plessers Vandenbergh Ceulemans |
Report | Lysandrou Vrahimis |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 17,445 Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland) |
| 1981-03-25 W.C. 1982 Q | Belgium | 1–0 | | Brussels |
| Ceulemans |
Report | Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 37,978 Referee: Raul Nazaré (Portugal) |
| 1981-04-29 W.C. 1982 Q | France  | 3–2 | | Paris |
| Soler Six |
Report | Vandenbergh Ceulemans |
Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 44,954 Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain) |
| 1981-09-09 W.C. 1982 Q | Belgium | 2–0 | | Brussels |
| Czerniatynski Vandenbergh |
Report | Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 52,525 Referee: Palotai Károly (Hungary) |
| 1981-10-14 W.C. 1982 Q | Netherlands | 3–0 | | Rotterdam |
| Metgod van Kooten Geels |
Report | Stadium: De Kuip Attendance: 56,000 Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland) |
| 1981-12-16 Friendly | Spain  | 2–0 | | Valencia |
| Satrústegui |
Stadium: Estadio Luís Casanova Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany) |
| 1982-03-24 Friendly | Belgium | 4–1 | | Brussels |
| Verheyen Czerniatynski |
Ţicleanu |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 7,330 Referee: Daniel Lambert (France) |
| 1982-04-28 Friendly | Belgium | 2–1 | .svg.png){kind=small} | Brussels |
| Vandenbergh Van Moer |
Mladenov |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 14,500 Referee: Gert Henning (West Germany) |
| 1982-05-27 Friendly | Denmark  | 1–0 | | Copenhagen |
| Elkjær |
Stadium: Idrætsparken Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Hans Harryason (Sweden) |
| 1982-06-13 W.C. 1982 R1 | Argentina  | 0–1 | | Barcelona |
| Report | Vandenbergh |
Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 95,000 Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1982-06-19 W.C. 1982 R1 | Belgium | 1–0 |  | Elche |
| Coeck |
Report | Stadium: Nuevo Altabix Attendance: 38,749 Referee: Malcolm Moffat (Northern Ireland) |
| 1982-06-22 W.C. 1982 R1 | Belgium | 1–1 |  | Elche |
| Czerniatynski |
Report | Varga |
Stadium: Nuevo Altabix Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Clive White (England) |
| 1982-06-28 W.C. 1982 R2 | Poland | 3–0 | | Barcelona |
| Boniek |
Report | Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Luís Siles (Costa Rica) |
| 1982-07-01 W.C. 1982 R2 | Belgium | 0–1 |  | Barcelona |
| Report | Oganesyan |
Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France) |
| 1982-09-22 Friendly | West Germany | 0–0 | | Munich |
| Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1982-10-06 EURO 1984 Q | Belgium | 3–0 |  | Brussels |
| Lüdi Coeck Vandenbergh |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 16,808 Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy) |
| 1982-12-15 EURO 1984 Q | Belgium | 3–2 |  | Brussels |
| Vandenbergh F. Van der Elst |
Dalglish |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 48,877 Referee: António Garrido (Portugal) |
| 1983-03-30 EURO 1984 Q | East Germany  | 1–2 | | Leipzig |
| Streich |
F. Van der Elst Vandenbergh |
Stadium: Zentralstadion Attendance: 75,000 Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland) |
| 1983-04-27 EURO 1984 Q | Belgium | 2–1 | | Brussels |
| Ceulemans Coeck |
Streich |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 43,894 Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain) |
| 1983-05-31 Friendly[upper-alpha 1] | Belgium | 1–1 | | Luxembourg City |
| Voordeckers |
Six |
Stadium: Stade Municipal Attendance: 5,880 Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg) |
| 1983-09-21 Friendly | Belgium | 1–1 | | Brussels |
| Voordeckers |
van Basten |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 11,746 Referee: Ulrich Nyffenegger (Switzerland) |
| 1983-10-12 EURO 1984 Q | Scotland | 1–1 | | Glasgow |
| Nicholas |
Vercauteren |
Stadium: Hampden Park Attendance: 23,475 Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy) |
| 1983-11-09 EURO 1984 Q | Switzerland | 3–1 | | Bern |
| Schällibaum Brigger Geiger |
Vandenbergh |
Stadium: Wankdorfstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany) |
| 1984-02-29 Friendly | Belgium | 0–1 | | Brussels |
| Völler |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Albert Thomas (Netherlands) |
| 1984-04-17 Friendly | Poland | 0–1 | | Warsaw |
| Czerniatynski |
Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania) |
| 1984-06-06 Friendly | Belgium | 2–2 | | Brussels |
| Ceulemans |
Hajszán Nyilasi |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 12,800 Referee: Georges Konrath (France) |
| 1984-06-13 EURO 1984 GS | Belgium | 2–0 | .svg.png){kind=small} | Lens |
| Vandenbergh Grün |
Report | Stadium: Stade Félix Bollaert Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden) |
| 1984-06-16 EURO 1984 GS | France | 5–0 | | Nantes |
| Platini Giresse Fernandez |
Report | Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 51,359 Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland) |
| 1984-06-19 EURO 1984 GS | Denmark | 3–2 | | Strasbourg |
| Arnesen Brylle Elkjær |
Report | Ceulemans Vercauteren |
Stadium: Stade de la Meinau Attendance: 36,911 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany) |
| 1984-09-05 Friendly | Belgium | 0–2 | | Brussels |
| Trobbiani Ruggeri |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 7,853 Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria) |
| 1984-10-17 W.C. 1986 Q | Belgium | 3–1 | .svg.png){kind=small} | Brussels |
| Claesen Scifo Voordeckers |
Omuri |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 8,978 Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland) |
| 1984-12-19 W.C. 1986 Q | Greece  | 0–0 | | Athens |
| Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Heinz Fahnler (Austria) |
| 1984-12-22 W.C. 1986 Q | Albania | 2–0 | | Tirana |
| Josa Minga |
Stadium: Qemal Stafa Stadium Attendance: 19,802 Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain) |
| 1985-03-27 W.C. 1986 Q | Belgium | 2–0 | | Brussels |
| Vercauteren Scifo |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Keith Hackett (England) |
| 1985-05-01 W.C. 1986 Q | Belgium | 2–0 | | Brussels |
| Vandenbergh Vercauteren |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 48,310 Referee: Malcolm Moffat (Northern Ireland) |
| 1985-09-11 W.C. 1986 Q | Poland | 0–0 | | Chorzów |
| Stadium: Stadion Śląski Attendance: 70,000 Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland) |
| 1985-10-16 W.C. 1986 Q RP | Belgium | 1–0 | | Brussels |
| Vercauteren |
Stadium: Stade Constant Vanden Stock Attendance: 30,764 Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy) |
| 1985-11-20 W.C. 1986 Q RP | Netherlands | 2–1 | | Rotterdam |
| Houtman De Wit |
Grün |
Stadium: De Kuip Attendance: 54,000 Referee: George Courtney (England) |
| 1986-02-19 Friendly | Spain | 3–0 | | Elche |
| Butragueño Salinas Maceda |
Stadium: Nuevo Altabix Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy) |
| 1986-04-23 Friendly | Belgium | 2–0 | | Brussels |
| Desmet Vandenbergh |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 4,872 Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany) |
| 1986-05-19 Friendly | Belgium | 1–3 | | Brussels |
| Claesen |
Škoro Gračan Vujović |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Alain Delmer (France) |
| 1986-06-03 W.C. 1986 GS | Mexico  | 2–1 | | Mexico City |
| Quirarte Sánchez |
Report | Vandenbergh |
Stadium: Estadio Azteca Attendance: 110,000 Referee: Carlos Espósito (Argentina) |
| 1986-06-08 W.C. 1986 GS | Iraq %3B_Flag_of_Syria_(1963%E2%80%931972).svg.png){kind=small} | 1–2 | | Toluca |
| Radhi |
Report | Scifo Claesen |
Stadium: Estadio Nemesio Díez Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Jesús Díaz (Colombia) |
| 1986-06-11 W.C. 1986 GS | Paraguay .svg.png){kind=small} | 2–2 | | Toluca |
| Cabañas |
Report | Vercauteren Veyt |
Stadium: Estadio Nemesio Díez Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Bogdan Dotchev (Bulgaria) |
| 1986-06-15 W.C. 1986 1/8 | Soviet Union | 3–4 (a.e.t.) | | León |
| Belanov |
Report | Scifo Ceulemans Demol Claesen |
Stadium: Estadio Nou Camp Attendance: 32,277 Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden) |
| 1986-06-22 W.C. 1986 QF | Spain | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p) | | Puebla |
| Señor |
Report | Ceulemans |
Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany) | |
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| 1986-06-25 W.C. 1986 SF | Argentina | 2–0 | | Mexico City |
| Maradona |
Report | Stadium: Estadio Azteca Attendance: 114,500 Referee: Antonio Márquez Ramírez (Mexico) |
| 1986-06-28 W.C. 1986 3rd-4th | France | 4–2 (a.e.t.) | | Puebla |
| Ferreri Papin Genghini Amoros |
Report | Ceulemans Claesen |
Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc Attendance: 21,000 Referee: George Courtney (England) |
| 1986-09-10 EURO 1988 Q | Belgium | 2–2 | | Brussels |
| Claesen Scifo |
Stapleton Brady |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 22,212 Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania) |
| 1986-10-14 EURO 1988 Q | Luxembourg | 0–6 | | Luxembourg City |
| Gerets Claesen Vercauteren Ceulemans |
Stadium: Stade Municipal Attendance: 9,550 Referee: Krzysztof Czemarmazowicz (Poland) |
| 1986-11-19 EURO 1988 Q | Belgium | 1–1 | | Brussels |
| Janssen |
Tanev |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 22,780 Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain) |
| 1987-02-04 Friendly | Portugal  | 1–0 | | Braga |
| Frasco |
Stadium: Estádio Primeiro de Maio Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Joël Quiniou (France) |
| 1987-04-01 EURO 1988 Q | Belgium | 4–1 | | Brussels |
| Claesen Vercauteren |
McStay |
Stadium: Stade Constant Vanden Stock Attendance: 26,650 Referee: Michel Vautrot (France) |
| 1987-04-29 EURO 1988 Q | Republic of Ireland | 0–0 | | Dublin |
| Stadium: Lansdowne Road Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria) |
| 1987-09-09 Friendly | Netherlands | 0–0 | | Rotterdam |
| Stadium: De Kuip Attendance: 30,311 Referee: Rolf Blattmann (Switzerland) |
| 1987-09-23 EURO 1988 Q | Bulgaria | 2–0 | | Sofia |
| Sirakov Tanev |
Stadium: National Stadium Vasil Levski Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany) |
| 1987-10-14 EURO 1988 Q | Scotland | 2–0 | | Glasgow |
| McCoist McStay |
Stadium: Hampden Park Attendance: 16,052 Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy) |
| 1987-11-11 EURO 1988 Q | Belgium | 3–0 | | Brussels |
| Ceulemans Degryse Creve |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway) |
| 1988-01-19 Friendly | Israel  | 2–3 | | Ramat Gan |
| Malmilian Tikva |
Degryse Van der Linden Grün |
Stadium: National Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Huták Antal (Hungary) |
| 1988-03-26 Friendly | Belgium | 3–0 | | Brussels |
| Ceulemans Fitos Severeyns |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria) |
| 1988-06-05 Friendly | Denmark | 3–1 | | Odense |
| Olsen John Eriksen |
Ceulemans |
Stadium: Odense Stadion Attendance: 20,622 Referee: Kaj Natri (Finland) |
| 1988-10-12 Friendly | Belgium | 1–2 | .svg.png){kind=small} | Antwerp |
| Clijsters |
Geovani |
Stadium: Bosuilstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany) |
| 1988-10-19 W.C. 1990 Q | Belgium | 1–0 | | Brussels |
| Vervoort |
Report | Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 14,450 Referee: David Syme (Scotland) |
| 1988-11-16 W.C. 1990 Q | Czechoslovakia  | 0–0 | | Bratislava |
| Report | Stadium: Tehelné pole Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Neil Midgley (England) |
| 1989-02-15 W.C. 1990 Q | Portugal | 1–1 | | Lisbon |
| Paneira |
Report | Van der Linden |
Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 43,501 Referee: Gérard Biguet (France) |
| 1989-04-29 W.C. 1990 Q | Belgium | 2–1 | | Brussels |
| Degryse |
Report | Luhový |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 34,612 Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain) |
| 1989-05-27 Friendly | Belgium | 1–0 | | Brussels |
| Van der Linden |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 2,335 Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland) |
| 1989-06-01 W.C. 1990 Q | Luxembourg | 0–5 | | Lille |
| Report | Van der Linden Vervoort |
Stadium: Stade Grimonprez Jooris Attendance: 9,100 Referee: Borislav Aleksandrov (Bulgaria) |
| 1989-06-08 Friendly | Canada .svg.png){kind=small} | 0–2 | | Ottawa |
| Ceulemans Degryse |
Stadium: Terry Fox Stadium Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Adriano Brunetti (Canada) |
| 1989-08-23 Friendly | Belgium | 3–0 | | Bruges |
| Degryse Ceulemans |
Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 6,933 Referee: Cees Bakker (Netherlands) |
| 1989-09-06 W.C. 1990 Q | Belgium | 3–0 | | Brussels |
| Ceulemans Van der Linden |
Report | Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 28,250 Referee: Aleksey Spirin (Soviet Union) |
| 1989-10-11 W.C. 1990 Q | Switzerland | 2–2 | | Basel |
| Knup Türkyilmaz |
Report | Degryse Geiger |
Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary) |
| 1989-10-25 W.C. 1990 Q | Belgium | 1–1 | | Brussels |
| Versavel |
Report | Hellers |
Stadium: Heysel Stadium Attendance: 11,600 Referee: Guðmundur Haraldsson (Iceland) |
Notes
- Friendly match at the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Luxembourg Football Federation; the other exhibition match in Luxembourg City, West Germany versus Yugoslavia, ended in 4–2[3]
See also
- Competitive record of the Belgian national football team (with tournament history and all-time team record)
References
- "Belgium national team football match results". eu-football.info. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- "Belgium - List of International Matches". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- "Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football 75th Anniversary match reports". eu-football.info. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
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