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).

  Win    Draw    Loss

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)
1983-04-27 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: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium
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: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium
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: Vasil Levski National Stadium
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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