The 1988–89 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won for the third time by Barcelona in the final against Italian entrants Sampdoria. The two sides would meet again in the 1992 European Cup Final, which Barcelona also won. Wimbledon did not participate due to UEFA's five-year ban on English clubs from European competition. The defending champions Mechelen were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual runners-up Sampdoria.
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
Békéscsaba won 4–2 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
Mechelen won 8–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 1–0 on aggregate.
Cardiff City won 4–0 on aggregate.
AGF won 7–2 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 7–0 on aggregate.
Lech Poznań won 4–2 on aggregate.
CSKA won 8–2 on aggregate.
Panathinaikos won 3–0 on aggregate.
Roda JC won 2–1 on aggregate.
Metalist Kharkiv won 4–2 on aggregate.
Sakaryaspor won 2–1 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 5–1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 1–0 on aggregate.
Dinamo București won 6–0 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 5–1 on aggregate.
Sampdoria won 3–2 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
AGF won 6–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Barcelona won 5–4 on penalties.
CSKA won 3–0 on aggregate.
Roda JC won 1–0 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–1 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 3–0 on aggregate.
Dinamo București won 2–1 on aggregate.
Sampdoria won 4–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Barcelona won 1–0 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; CSKA won 4–3 on penalties.
Mechelen won 1–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Sampdoria won on away goals.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Barcelona won 6–3 on aggregate.
Sampdoria won 4–2 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers RankNameTeamGoals1 Hristo Stoichkov CSKA Sofia72 Lyuboslav Penev CSKA Sofia63 Roberto Barcelona5 Gianluca Vialli Sampdoria55 Jimmy Gilligan Cardiff City4 Gary Lineker Barcelona4 Frank Pingel AGF4 Claudiu Vaișcovici Dinamo București49 John Bosman Mechelen3 Emil Kostadinov CSKA Sofia3 Bjørn Kristensen AGF3 Eddie Krnčević Anderlecht3 Eli Ohana Mechelen3
See also 1988–89 European Cup 1988–89 UEFA Cup
External links 1988-89 competition at UEFA website Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1988-89 – results, protocols