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The following are theassociation football events of the year1998 throughout the world.

• 1998 FIFA World Cup –France wins 3–0 overBrazil inSaint-Denis, France, winning their first cup. More than one million delirious fans jammed theChamps-Élysées, dancing through the night.
• UEFA Champions League:Real Madrid won 1–0 in thefinal againstJuventus. This was Real Madrid's seventh European Cup title.
• Copa Libertadores1998: Won byVasco da Gama after defeatingBarcelona SC on an aggregate score of 4–1.
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:Chelsea beatVfB Stuttgart 1–0 in thefinal, winning the Cup for the second time.
• UEFA Cup:Inter Milan won 3–0 in thefinal againstLazio. 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 managerFrank Clark and appointsJoe Royle as his successor.
• May 16 –Arsenal beatsNewcastle United 2–0 to win theFA Cup, achievingThe Double.
• August 16 –PSV wins theJohan Cruyff Shield, the annual opening of the new season in theEredivisie, by a 2–0 win overAjax in theAmsterdam Arena.
• September 17 –Heerenveen makes a winning European debut after defeating Poland'sAmica Wronki (3–1) in the first round of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
• October 8 – ManagerArtur Jorge resigns at Dutch clubVitesse and is succeeded byHerbert Neumann.
• October 10 –Frank Rijkaard makes his debut as the manager of theNetherlands national team, as the successor ofGuus Hiddink, with a 2–0 friendly win overPeru inEindhoven. One player makes his debut as well: strikerJeffrey Talan from Heerenveen.
• December 1 – Real Madrid wins theIntercontinental Cup inTokyo by defeating Brazil's Vasco da Gama: 2–1. The winning goal for the Spaniards is scored byRaúl in the 83rd minute.
• December 7 – Dutch clubSparta Rotterdam fires managerHans van der Zee. He is replaced byJan Everse on December 24.

•  Iran –Esteghlal FC
•  Japan –Kashima Antlers
•  Qatar –Al-Ittihad
•  South Korea -Suwon Bluewings
•  Thailand -Sinthana F.C.

•  Croatia –Croatia Zagreb
•  England –Arsenal
•  France –Lens
•  Germany –1. FC Kaiserslautern
•  Hungary –Újpest
•  Italy –Juventus
•  Netherlands –Ajax
•  Poland –ŁKS Łódź
•  Portugal –Porto
•  Scotland –Celtic
•  Spain –Barcelona
•  Sweden –AIK
•  Turkey –Galatasaray
•  FR Yugoslavia –Obilić

•  Canada –St. Catharines Wolves (CPSL)
•  Mexico
  • Verano –Toluca
  • Invierno –Necaxa
•  United States –Chicago Fire (MLS)

•  Argentina
  • Clausura –Vélez Sársfield
  • Apertura –Boca Juniors
•  Bolivia –Blooming
•  Brazil –Corinthians
•  Chile –Colo-Colo
•  Ecuador –LDU Quito
•  Paraguay –Olimpia Asunción
•  Peru –Universitario de Deportes

• African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso (February 7 – 28 1998)
  1.  Egypt
  2.  South Africa
  3.  DR Congo
• Baltic Cup (April 21 – June 25, 1998)
  1.  Lithuania
  2.  Latvia
  3.  Estonia
• FIFA World Cup in France (June 10 – July 12, 1998)
  1.  France
  2.  Brazil
  3.  Croatia

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• January 2 –Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
• January 3 –Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer^[1]
• January 4 –Joel Kalonji, Belgian footballer^[2]
• January 5 –Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
• January 6 –Ben Pollock, American soccer player^[3]
• January 7 –Siebe Schets, Dutch footballer^[4]
• January 8 –Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
• January 10 –Mohamed Abukar, Somali footballer^[5]
• January 11 –Salih Özcan, German midfielder
• January 16 –Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
• January 17 –Conner Blöte, Dutch footballer^[6]
• January 20 –Tiziano Andrei, Italian footballer^[7]
• January 21 –Borna Sosa, Croatian youth international
• January 27 –Cezar Trandafirescu, Romanian professional footballer^[8]
• January 29 –Theo Maia, Brazilian professional footballer^[9]
• January 31 –Lukas Prayitno, Indonesian professional footballer^[10]
• February 3 –Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
• February 5 – Jorge Luis Ortiz, Mexican professional footballer^[11]
• February 10 –Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
• February 16 –Alessio Tissone, Italian footballer^[12]
• February 17 –Todd Cantwell, English footballer
• February 23 –Jan-Kristian Thurner, Austrian footballer^[13]
• February 28 –Maksim Sklyarov, Russian former footballer^[14]
• March 3 –Nathan Vitré, French professional footballer^[15]
• March 10
  • Alessio Garofalo, Italian footballer^[16]
  • Matías Zaracho, Argentinian footballer
• March 13 – Oh Jang-won, South Korean footballer^[17]
• March 14 –Joaquim Soumahin, Italian footballer^[18]
• March 16 –Nico Rodewald, German footballer^[19]
• March 17 –Justin Neumann, German footballer^[20]
• March 23 –Ines Obradović, Montenegrin footballer^[21]
• March 28
  • John Håkansson, Swedish footballer^[22]
  • Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
• March 29 –Cemal Amet, Austrian footballer^[23]
• March 30 –Christopher Godet, Bahamian footballer^[24]
• March 31
  • Lucian Oprea, Romanian soccer player
  • Hristiyan Iliev, Bulgarian soccer player
• April 2 –Matías Parada, Chilean footballer^[25]
• April 10
  • Jacob Brown, Scottish footballer
  • Dominik Sollfrank, German footballer^[26]
• April 13 –Emmanuel Adariku, Nigerian professional footballer^[27]
• April 21 –Victor Paraíba, Brazilian footballer^[28]
• April 24 –Elisabet Vang, Faroese footballer^[29]
• April 28 –Daniel Sadushi, Albanian footballer^[30]
• May 4 –Diego Acunzo, Italian footballer^[31]
• May 7
  • Alessandro Fratangelo, Italian footballer^[32]
  • Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
• May 8 –Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
• May 11 –Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
• May 21 – Felipe Egídio, Brazilian footballer^[33]
• May 22 –Gastón Gorrostorrazo, Uruguayan footballer^[34]
• May 23
  • Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
  • Luca De La Torre, American footballer
  • Berat Özdemir, Turkish footballer
• May 27 –Jeffrey Egbe, Austrian footballer^[35]
• 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^[36]
  • Tom Davies, English footballer
  • Houssem Aouar, French footballer
• July 6 –Hanna Lundell, Swedish footballer^[37]
• July 8 –Yann Karamoh, French footballer
• July 22 –Nick Lim, Dutch footballer^[38]
• July 25 –Ryan Laplace, French footballer^[39]
• July 29 –Maximilian Schuster, German footballer^[40]
• August 16 –Max Grundmann, German footballer^[41]
• September 1
  • Emily Condon, Australian footballer
  • Marvin Thiele, German footballer^[42]
• September 2 –Lee Winroth, Swedish footballer^[43]
• September 7 –Roger Ramos, Portuguese footballer^[44]
• September 16 –Noah Feil, German footballer^[45]
• September 17 –Gabriel Justino, Brazilian footballer^[46]
• September 18 –Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
• September 19 –Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
• September 26 –Tarik Džindo, Bosnian professional footballer^[47]
• October 21 –Benjamin Cull, English former professional footballer (died 2023)^[48]
• October 27 –Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
• November 12 –Jules Koundé, French footballer
• November 13 –Jovana Bajčetić, Montenegrin footballer^[49]
• November 24 –Muhammad Rafli, Indonesian footballer
• November 30 –Kenedy Có, Guinea-Bissauan professional footballer^[50]
• December 9 –Tamar Dolidze, Georgian footballer^[51]
• December 16 –Sara Husein, Macedonian footballer^[52]
• December 17 –Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
• December 18
  • Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
  • Manuel Trías, Venezuelan footballer^[53]
• December 20 –Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
• December 24 –Alexis Mac Allister, Argentine footballer
• December 25 –Hanna Simonsson, Swedish footballer^[54]
• December 29 –Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer

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• May 2 –Justin Fashanu (38), English footballer and the first professional footballer tocome out as gay

• June 4 –Miguel Montuori (65), Argentinian-Chilean footballer
• June 13 –Fernand Sastre (74), French footballer

• July 13 –Pierre Garonnaire (82), French footballer

• August 6 –Henk Bosveld (57), Dutch footballer

• September 2 –Jackie Blanchflower (65), Northern Irish footballer
• September 23 –Héctor Vilches, Uruguayan defender, winner of the1950 World Cup. (88)

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