Belgium national football team results (1980–1989)

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

84 matches played:[1][2]

1980-02-27 Friendly Belgium  5–0  Luxembourg Brussels
Vandenbergh  12', 21'
Vandereycken  16'
F. Van der Elst  66', 89'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 1,226
Referee: Henk van Ettekoven (Netherlands)
1980-03-18 Friendly Belgium  2–0  Uruguay Brussels
Verheyen  65' (pen.)
F. Van der Elst  86'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 3,974
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
1980-04-02 Friendly Belgium  2–1  Poland Brussels
Coeck  38'
Vandenbergh  58'
Lato  65' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)
1980-06-06 Friendly Belgium  2–1  Romania Brussels
Ceulemans  48'
F. Van der Elst  87'
Cămătaru  24' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 3,875
Referee: Jacob Baumann (Switzerland)
1980-06-12 EURO 1980 GS Belgium  1–1  England Turin
Ceulemans  30' Report Wilkins  26' Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 15,186
Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)
1980-06-15 EURO 1980 GS Belgium  2–1  Spain Milan
Gerets  16'
Cools  65'
Report Quini  36' Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 11,430
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
1980-06-18 EURO 1980 GS Italy  0–0  Belgium Rome
Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 42,318
Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)
1980-06-22 EURO 1980 F Belgium  1–2  West Germany Rome
Vandereycken  71' (pen.) Report Hrubesch  10', 89' Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 47,864
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
1980-10-15 W.C. 1982 Q Republic of Ireland  1–1  Belgium Dublin
Grealish  42' Report Cluytens  13' Stadium: Lansdowne Road
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)
1980-11-19 W.C. 1982 Q Belgium  1–0  Netherlands Brussels
Vandenbergh  48' (pen.) Report Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 57,665
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)
1980-12-21 W.C. 1982 Q Cyprus  0–2  Belgium Nicosia
Report Vandenbergh  30'
Ceulemans  69'
Stadium: Makario Stadium
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)
1981-02-18 W.C. 1982 Q Belgium  3–2  Cyprus Brussels
Plessers  12'
Vandenbergh  17'
Ceulemans  67'
Report Lysandrou  41'
Vrahimis  52'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 17,445
Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)
1981-03-25 W.C. 1982 Q Belgium  1–0  Republic of Ireland Brussels
Ceulemans  88' Report Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 37,978
Referee: Raul Nazaré (Portugal)
1981-04-29 W.C. 1982 Q France  3–2  Belgium Paris
Soler  14', 31'
Six  26'
Report Vandenbergh  5'
Ceulemans  52'
Stadium: Parc des Princes
Attendance: 44,954
Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain)
1981-09-09 W.C. 1982 Q Belgium  2–0  France Brussels
Czerniatynski  24'
Vandenbergh  83'
Report Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 52,525
Referee: Palotai Károly (Hungary)
1981-10-14 W.C. 1982 Q Netherlands  3–0  Belgium Rotterdam
Metgod  6'
van Kooten  26'
Geels  54'
Report Stadium: De Kuip
Attendance: 56,000
Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)
1981-12-16 Friendly Spain  2–0  Belgium Valencia
Satrústegui  7', 87' Stadium: Estadio Luís Casanova
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany)
1982-03-24 Friendly Belgium  4–1  Romania Brussels
Verheyen  11', 45'
Czerniatynski  67', 75'
Ţicleanu  51' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 7,330
Referee: Daniel Lambert (France)
1982-04-28 Friendly Belgium  2–1  Bulgaria Brussels
Vandenbergh  3'
Van Moer  53'
Mladenov  26' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 14,500
Referee: Gert Henning (West Germany)
1982-05-27 Friendly Denmark  1–0  Belgium Copenhagen
Elkjær  62' Stadium: Idrætsparken
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Hans Harryason (Sweden)
1982-06-13 W.C. 1982 R1 Argentina  0–1  Belgium Barcelona
Report Vandenbergh  63' Stadium: Camp Nou
Attendance: 95,000
Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)
1982-06-19 W.C. 1982 R1 Belgium  1–0  El Salvador Elche
Coeck  19' Report Stadium: Nuevo Altabix
Attendance: 38,749
Referee: Malcolm Moffat (Northern Ireland)
1982-06-22 W.C. 1982 R1 Belgium  1–1  Hungary Elche
Czerniatynski  75' Report Varga  28' Stadium: Nuevo Altabix
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Clive White (England)
1982-06-28 W.C. 1982 R2 Poland  3–0  Belgium Barcelona
Boniek  3', 25', 54' Report Stadium: Camp Nou
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Luís Siles (Costa Rica)
1982-07-01 W.C. 1982 R2 Belgium  0–1  Soviet Union Barcelona
Report Oganesyan  48' Stadium: Camp Nou
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
1982-09-22 Friendly West Germany  0–0  Belgium Munich
Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)
1982-10-06 EURO 1984 Q Belgium  3–0   Switzerland Brussels
Lüdi  2' (o.g.)
Coeck  47'
Vandenbergh  82'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 16,808
Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy)
1982-12-15 EURO 1984 Q Belgium  3–2  Scotland Brussels
Vandenbergh  26'
F. Van der Elst  38', 63'
Dalglish  13', 35' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 48,877
Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)
1983-03-30 EURO 1984 Q East Germany  1–2  Belgium Leipzig
Streich  83' F. Van der Elst  36'
Vandenbergh  69'
Stadium: Zentralstadion
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)
1983-04-27 EURO 1984 Q Belgium  2–1  East Germany Brussels
Ceulemans  19'
Coeck  37'
Streich  9' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 43,894
Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)
1983-05-31 Friendly[upper-alpha 1] Belgium  1–1  France Luxembourg City
Voordeckers  12' Six  11' Stadium: Stade Municipal
Attendance: 5,880
Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)
1983-09-21 Friendly Belgium  1–1  Netherlands Brussels
Voordeckers  74' van Basten  64' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 11,746
Referee: Ulrich Nyffenegger (Switzerland)
1983-10-12 EURO 1984 Q Scotland  1–1  Belgium Glasgow
Nicholas  55' Vercauteren  30' Stadium: Hampden Park
Attendance: 23,475
Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy)
1983-11-09 EURO 1984 Q Switzerland   3–1  Belgium Bern
Schällibaum  24'
Brigger  76'
Geiger  82'
Vandenbergh  64' Stadium: Wankdorfstadion
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany)
1984-02-29 Friendly Belgium  0–1  West Germany Brussels
Völler  76' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Albert Thomas (Netherlands)
1984-04-17 Friendly Poland  0–1  Belgium Warsaw
Czerniatynski  89' Stadium: Polish Army Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)
1984-06-06 Friendly Belgium  2–2  Hungary Brussels
Ceulemans  17', 88' Hajszán  43'
Nyilasi  59'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 12,800
Referee: Georges Konrath (France)
1984-06-13 EURO 1984 GS Belgium  2–0  Yugoslavia Lens
Vandenbergh  28'
Grün  44'
Report Stadium: Stade Félix Bollaert
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
1984-06-16 EURO 1984 GS France  5–0  Belgium Nantes
Platini  3', 74' (pen.)
Giresse  32'
Fernandez  43'
Report Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire
Attendance: 51,359
Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)
1984-06-19 EURO 1984 GS Denmark  3–2  Belgium Strasbourg
Arnesen  41' (pen.)
Brylle  61'
Elkjær  85'
Report Ceulemans  26'
Vercauteren  38'
Stadium: Stade de la Meinau
Attendance: 36,911
Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
1984-09-05 Friendly Belgium  0–2  Argentina Brussels
Trobbiani  9'
Ruggeri  36'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 7,853
Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)
1984-10-17 W.C. 1986 Q Belgium  3–1  Albania Brussels
Claesen  59'
Scifo  83'
Voordeckers  87'
Omuri  69' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 8,978
Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)
1984-12-19 W.C. 1986 Q Greece  0–0  Belgium Athens
Stadium: Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Heinz Fahnler (Austria)
1984-12-22 W.C. 1986 Q Albania  2–0  Belgium Tirana
Josa  69'
Minga  86'
Stadium: Qemal Stafa Stadium
Attendance: 19,802
Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain)
1985-03-27 W.C. 1986 Q Belgium  2–0  Greece Brussels
Vercauteren  69'
Scifo  89'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
1985-05-01 W.C. 1986 Q Belgium  2–0  Poland Brussels
Vandenbergh  30'
Vercauteren  52'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 48,310
Referee: Malcolm Moffat (Northern Ireland)
1985-09-11 W.C. 1986 Q Poland  0–0  Belgium Chorzów
Stadium: Stadion Śląski
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)
1985-10-16 W.C. 1986 Q RP Belgium  1–0  Netherlands Brussels
Vercauteren  19' Stadium: Stade Constant Vanden Stock
Attendance: 30,764
Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy)
1985-11-20 W.C. 1986 Q RP Netherlands  2–1  Belgium Rotterdam
Houtman  60'
De Wit  71'
Grün  84' Stadium: De Kuip
Attendance: 54,000
Referee: George Courtney (England)
1986-02-19 Friendly Spain  3–0  Belgium Elche
Butragueño  3'
Salinas  41'
Maceda  72'
Stadium: Nuevo Altabix
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
1986-04-23 Friendly Belgium  2–0  Bulgaria Brussels
Desmet  43'
Vandenbergh  55'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 4,872
Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
1986-05-19 Friendly Belgium  1–3  Yugoslavia Brussels
Claesen  60' Škoro  7'
Gračan  23'
Vujović  27' (pen.)
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Alain Delmer (France)
1986-06-03 W.C. 1986 GS Mexico  2–1  Belgium Mexico City
Quirarte  23'
Sánchez  29'
Report Vandenbergh  45' Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 110,000
Referee: Carlos Espósito (Argentina)
1986-06-08 W.C. 1986 GS Iraq  1–2  Belgium Toluca
Radhi  59' Report Scifo  16'
Claesen  21' (pen.)
Stadium: Estadio Nemesio Díez
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Jesús Díaz (Colombia)
1986-06-11 W.C. 1986 GS Paraguay  2–2  Belgium Toluca
Cabañas  50', 76' Report Vercauteren  30'
Veyt  59'
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.)  Belgium León
Belanov  27', 70', 111' (pen.) Report Scifo  56'
Ceulemans  77'
Demol  102'
Claesen  110'
Stadium: Estadio Nou Camp
Attendance: 32,277
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
1986-06-25 W.C. 1986 SF Argentina  2–0  Belgium Mexico City
Maradona  51', 63' 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.)  Belgium Puebla
Ferreri  27'
Papin  43'
Genghini  104'
Amoros  111' (pen.)
Report Ceulemans  11'
Claesen  73'
Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: George Courtney (England)
1986-09-10 EURO 1988 Q Belgium  2–2  Republic of Ireland Brussels
Claesen  14'
Scifo  71'
Stapleton  18'
Brady  89'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 22,212
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)
1986-10-14 EURO 1988 Q Luxembourg  0–6  Belgium Luxembourg City
Gerets  6'
Claesen  8', 53', 89' (pen.)
Vercauteren  40'
Ceulemans  87'
Stadium: Stade Municipal
Attendance: 9,550
Referee: Krzysztof Czemarmazowicz (Poland)
1986-11-19 EURO 1988 Q Belgium  1–1  Bulgaria Brussels
Janssen  48' Tanev  63' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 22,780
Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain)
1987-02-04 Friendly Portugal  1–0  Belgium Braga
Frasco  45' Stadium: Estádio Primeiro de Maio
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
1987-04-01 EURO 1988 Q Belgium  4–1  Scotland Brussels
Claesen  9', 55', 85'
Vercauteren  75'
McStay  14' Stadium: Stade Constant Vanden Stock
Attendance: 26,650
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
1987-04-29 EURO 1988 Q Republic of Ireland  0–0  Belgium Dublin
Stadium: Lansdowne Road
Attendance: 49,000
Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria)
1987-09-09 Friendly Netherlands  0–0  Belgium Rotterdam
Stadium: De Kuip
Attendance: 30,311
Referee: Rolf Blattmann (Switzerland)
1987-09-23 EURO 1988 Q Bulgaria  2–0  Belgium Sofia
Sirakov  19'
Tanev  70'
Stadium: National Stadium Vasil Levski
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)
1987-10-14 EURO 1988 Q Scotland  2–0  Belgium Glasgow
McCoist  14'
McStay  79'
Stadium: Hampden Park
Attendance: 16,052
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)
1987-11-11 EURO 1988 Q Belgium  3–0  Luxembourg Brussels
Ceulemans  17'
Degryse  55'
Creve  81'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway)
1988-01-19 Friendly Israel  2–3  Belgium Ramat Gan
Malmilian  57'
Tikva  69'
Degryse  15'
Van der Linden  19'
Grün  47'
Stadium: National Stadium
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Huták Antal (Hungary)
1988-03-26 Friendly Belgium  3–0  Hungary Brussels
Ceulemans  53' (pen.)
Fitos  61' (o.g.)
Severeyns  81'
Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria)
1988-06-05 Friendly Denmark  3–1  Belgium Odense
Olsen  35'
John Eriksen  37' (pen.)
Ceulemans  6' Stadium: Odense Stadion
Attendance: 20,622
Referee: Kaj Natri (Finland)
1988-10-12 Friendly Belgium  1–2  Brazil Antwerp
Clijsters  64' Geovani  ?', ?' Stadium: Bosuilstadion
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)
1988-10-19 W.C. 1990 Q Belgium  1–0   Switzerland Brussels
Vervoort  29' Report Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 14,450
Referee: David Syme (Scotland)
1988-11-16 W.C. 1990 Q Czechoslovakia  0–0  Belgium Bratislava
Report Stadium: Tehelné pole
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Neil Midgley (England)
1989-02-15 W.C. 1990 Q Portugal  1–1  Belgium Lisbon
Paneira  52' Report Van der Linden  82' Stadium: Estádio da Luz
Attendance: 43,501
Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)
1989-04-29 W.C. 1990 Q Belgium  2–1  Czechoslovakia Brussels
Degryse  30', 77' Report Luhový  41' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 34,612
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
1989-05-27 Friendly Belgium  1–0  Yugoslavia Brussels
Van der Linden  77' (pen.) Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 2,335
Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)
1989-06-01 W.C. 1990 Q Luxembourg  0–5  Belgium Lille
Report Van der Linden  13', 53', 64', 89'
Vervoort  66'
Stadium: Stade Grimonprez Jooris
Attendance: 9,100
Referee: Borislav Aleksandrov (Bulgaria)
1989-06-08 Friendly Canada  0–2  Belgium Ottawa
Ceulemans  58'
Degryse  87'
Stadium: Terry Fox Stadium
Attendance: 3,300
Referee: Adriano Brunetti (Canada)
1989-08-23 Friendly Belgium  3–0  Denmark Bruges
Degryse  22'
Ceulemans  32', 81' (pen.)
Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 6,933
Referee: Cees Bakker (Netherlands)
1989-09-06 W.C. 1990 Q Belgium  3–0  Portugal Brussels
Ceulemans  34'
Van der Linden  59', 69'
Report Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 28,250
Referee: Aleksey Spirin (Soviet Union)
1989-10-11 W.C. 1990 Q Switzerland   2–2  Belgium Basel
Knup  51'
Türkyilmaz  60'
Report Degryse  57'
Geiger  72' (o.g.)
Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)
1989-10-25 W.C. 1990 Q Belgium  1–1  Luxembourg Brussels
Versavel  84' Report Hellers  88' Stadium: Heysel Stadium
Attendance: 11,600
Referee: Guðmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

Notes

  1. 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

References

  1. "Belgium national team football match results". eu-football.info. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. "Belgium - List of International Matches". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  3. "Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football 75th Anniversary match reports". eu-football.info. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
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