African Champions' Cup: https://football-journey.com/african-champions-cup-10/

 African Cup Winners' Cup: https://football-journey.com/african-cup-winners-cup-9/

 Canada: https://football-journey.com/canada-2/

 Honduras: https://football-journey.com/honduras-2/

 Mexico I Division: https://football-journey.com/mexico-i-division-9/

 

Mexico II Division: https://football-journey.com/mexico-ii-division-9/

 CONCACAF Champions Cup: https://football-journey.com/concacaf-champions-cup-5/

Copa Interamericana

 

Copa Interamericana. It was played in March 1989 between the winners of 1988 South American and CONCACAF club champions. Olimpia (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) vs Nacional (Montevideo, Uruguay). Little doubt about the winner.

Olimpia (in white) did whatever they could do at home – 1-1.

In Montevideo Nacional finished everything in the first half, scoring 4 goals in 40 minutes. Here Daniel Fonseca scores the 2^nd goal for Nacional in the 17^th minute. Olimpia's goalkeeper Belarmino Rivera can only close his eyes.

Hugo de Leon received the Cup.

Nacional posed for the picture and

made the obligatory round to the delight of their fans.

Olimpia (Tegucigalpa) left little evidence of itself. They were no match of Nacional. Their Uruguayan coach Estanislao Malinowski could not outwit his compatriots.

Nacional won its 2^nd Copa Interamericana – the first time was in 1972. Back then they prevailed over stronger foe, the Mexican Cruz Azul. Early in the 1980s Nacional had a second try, but lost to another Mexican team. Olimpia was weaker opponent in any case and practically it took only 40 minutes for Nacional to win the trophy 17 years after their first victory.

 

South American Player Of The Year: https://football-journey.com/south-american-player-of-the-year-11/

 Venezuela: https://football-journey.com/venezuela-11/

 Bolivia: https://football-journey.com/bolivia-11/

 Ecuador: https://football-journey.com/ecuador-10/

 

Peru First Level: https://football-journey.com/peru-first-level/

 Peru Second Level: https://football-journey.com/peru-second-level/

 Paraguay: https://football-journey.com/paraguay-11/

 Chile I Division: https://football-journey.com/chile-i-division-10/

 

Chile II Division South Zone: https://football-journey.com/chile-ii-division-south-zone-2/

 Chile II Division North Zone: https://football-journey.com/chile-ii-division-north-zone-2/

 Uruguay I Division: https://football-journey.com/uruguay-i-division-4/

 Uruguay II Division: https://football-journey.com/uruguay-ii-division-4/

 

Argentina I Division: https://football-journey.com/argentina-i-division-3/

 Argentina II Division: https://football-journey.com/argentina-ii-division-9/

Copa do Brasil

 

Copa do Brasil. So, Brazil had a national cup tournament – on top of everything else. Gremio and Sport reached the final. The first leg in Recife ended scoreless 0-0. In Porto Alegre the hosts managed to extract victory: 2-1.

Sport (Recife) tried hard to win a trophy, but it was not their year... relegation to second level and no remedy with a cup.

Gremio (Porto Alegre) kept strong position in Brazilian football – they were unable to reach the championship final, but still won the Cup.

Well done, but it was somewhat of a last hurrah of a fading team – there best years were already in the past, the current squad was not that great. Still capable of winning, though.

 Brazil I Division: https://football-journey.com/brazil-i-division/

 Brazil II Division: https://football-journey.com/brazil-ii-division-2/

Colombia: https://football-journey.com/colombia-9/
 

 Copa Libertadores: https://football-journey.com/copa-libertadores-10/

 Intercontinental Cup: https://football-journey.com/intercontinental-cup-11/

 European Player Of The Year: https://football-journey.com/european-player-of-the-year-13/

 

The Golden Shoe: https://football-journey.com/the-golden-shoe-10/

 Supercup: https://football-journey.com/supercup-5/

 

European Champions Cup: https://football-journey.com/european-champions-cup-9/

 Cup Winners Cup: https://football-journey.com/cup-winners-cup-11/

 UEFA Cup: https://football-journey.com/uefa-cup-10/

 Italy the Cup: https://football-journey.com/italy-the-cup-11/

 

Italy I Division: https://football-journey.com/italy-i-division-13/

 Italy II Division: https://football-journey.com/italy-ii-division-13/

Italy III Division Group B

 

Third Division – Girone B. Similarly to Girone A, a few teams had a chance to win, but eventually two teams pulled a bit ahead of the others.

Rimini – hopeless outsider. Last with 15 points and relegated.

Vis Pesaro - 17^th with 26 points and relegated.

Frosinone - 16^th with 30 points. Relegated.

The next 4 teams finished with the same points and again the rules worked their strange magic: the best two were decided on head-to-head records, but the other two went to relegation play-off. Monopoli won over Campobasso 4-1.

Campobasso after losing the play-off against Monopoli took 15^th place with 31 points and was relegated.

After beating Campobasso in the play-off, Monopoli survived - 14^th with 31 points.

Francavilla - 13^th with 31 points. Having better head-to-head record, they escaped relegation without having to fret over play-off.

Ischia Isolaverde - 12^th with 31 points. Having the best head-to-head record, they finished above the other teams with 31 points.

Salernitana - 11^th with 32 points.

Catania - 10^th with 34 points. In midtable, where was nothing to gain or lose, standard rule decided who is above or bellow: goal-difference. Catania had worse goal-difference than Giarre.

Giarre - 9^th with 34 points. Ahead of Catania on better goal-difference.

Perugia - 8^th with 36 points.

Casarano - 7^th with 37 points.

Casertana - 6^th with 39 points.

Brindisi - 5^th with 39 points.

Torres - 4^th with 39 points. Ahead of Brindisi and Casertana on better head-to-head record.

Palermo - 3^rd with 40 points.

Foggia - 2^nd with 42 points and promoted to Second Division.

Cagliari - 1^st with 45 points after 16 wins, 13 ties, 5 losses. 37-21 goal-difference. Like Foggia, eager to climb back to Second Division and achieving it by winning this championship.