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.

Asia

 * 🇮🇷 – Esteghlal FC
 * – Kashima Antlers
 * 🇶🇦 – Al-Ittihad
 * 🇰🇷 - Suwon Bluewings
 * 🇹🇭 - Sinthana F.C.

Europe

 * Croatia – Croatia Zagreb
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – Arsenal
 * 🇫🇷 – Lens
 * 🇩🇪 – 1. FC Kaiserslautern
 * 🇭🇺 – Újpest
 * 🇮🇹 – Juventus
 * Eredivisie – Ajax
 * Eerste Divisie – AZ
 * 🇵🇱 – ŁKS Łódź
 * – Porto
 * – Celtic
 * 🇪🇸 – Barcelona
 * 🇸🇪 – AIK
 * 🇹🇷 – Galatasaray
 * FR Yugoslavia – Obilić
 * FR Yugoslavia – Obilić

North America

 * 🇨🇦 – St. Catharines Wolves (CPSL)
 * Verano – Toluca
 * Invierno – Necaxa
 * 🇺🇸 – Chicago Fire (MLS)
 * 🇺🇸 – Chicago Fire (MLS)

South America

 * Clausura – Vélez Sársfield
 * Apertura – Boca Juniors
 * 🇧🇴 – Blooming
 * 🇧🇷 – Corinthians
 * – Colo-Colo
 * 🇪🇨 – LDU Quito
 * – Olimpia Asunción
 * 🇵🇪 – Universitario de Deportes
 * 🇵🇪 – Universitario de Deportes

International tournaments

 * African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso (February 7 – 28 1998)
 * 🇪🇬 egypt
 * 🇨🇩 congo
 * Baltic Cup (April 21 – June 25, 1998)
 * 🇱🇹 lithuania
 * 🇪🇪 estonia
 * FIFA World Cup in France (June 10 – July 12, 1998)
 * 🇫🇷 france
 * 🇧🇷 brazil
 * 🇫🇷 france
 * 🇧🇷 brazil

🇧🇴 [[bolivia national football team|bolivia]]

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

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 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 17 – Todd Cantwell, English footballer
 * February 23 – Jan-Kristian Thurner, Austrian footballer
 * February 28 – Maksim Sklyarov, Russian former 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 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 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 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
 * 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 25 – Ryan Laplace, French footballer
 * July 29 – Maximilian Schuster, German footballer
 * August 16 – Max Grundmann, German footballer
 * September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
 * September 2 – Lee Winroth, Swedish footballer
 * September 7 – Roger Ramos, Portuguese footballer
 * September 16 – Noah Feil, German 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 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 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

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)