1997–98_UEFA_Cup

1997–98 UEFA Cup
	The final was played at Parc des Princes in Paris
Dates	22 July 1997 – 6 May 1998
Final positions
Champions	Internazionale (3rd title)
Runners-up	Lazio
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	332 (2.66 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Stéphane Guivarc'h (Auxerre); 7 goals
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

1997–98 UEFA Cup

27th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA

The 1997–98 UEFA Cup was won by Internazionale in an all-Italian final against Lazio. It was their third title in eight years in the competition.

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It was the first instance of the UEFA Cup final being a one-game contest at a neutral stadium, having previously being decided over two legs with each team having one home game.

For first time, one nation (France) was represented by seven teams: Strasbourg, Auxerre, Bastia, Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux and Metz.

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Albania (ALB): Clubs from Albania were not admitted to UEFA competitions as 1996–97 Albanian Superliga was suspended for several months due to the 1997 Albanian civil unrest and eventually ended in mid-August 1997, past the UEFA deadline.^[1]

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Albania 1996/97 at RSSSF

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"Villa avoid big boys of Europe in third round UEFA Cup draw". BBC News. BBC. 7 November 1997. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

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Maume, Chris (8 November 1997). "Football: Romanians a mystery for Aston Villa". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

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First round
Schalke 04 (TH)	Strasbourg (LC)	Leicester City (LC)	Beitar Jerusalem (CL Q2)
Internazionale (3rd)	Bochum (5th)	Fenerbahçe (3rd)	MTK Hungária (CL Q2)
Lazio (4th)	Karlsruhe (6th)	Wüstenrot Salzburg (CL Q2)	Dinamo Tbilisi (CL Q2)
Udinese (5th)	1860 Munich (7th)	Spartak Moscow (CL Q2)	Skonto (CL Q2)
Sampdoria (6th)	Twente (3rd)	Brøndby (CL Q2)	Maribor (CL Q2)
Deportivo La Coruña (3rd)	Ajax (4th)	Sion (CL Q2)	Jazz (CL Q2)
Atlético Madrid (5th)	Vitesse (5th)	Widzew Łódź (CL Q2)	MPKC Mozyr (CL Q2)
Athletic Bilbao (6th)	Benfica (3rd)	Rangers (CL Q2)	Auxerre (IC)
Valladolid (7th)	Braga (4th)	Steaua București (CL Q2)	Bastia (IC)
Nantes (3rd)	Vitória Guimarães (5th)	Croatia Zagreb (CL Q2)	Lyon (IC)
Bordeaux (4th)	Arsenal (3rd)	Anorthosis Famagusta (CL Q2)	Aston Villa (FP)
Metz (5th)	Liverpool (4th)
Second qualifying round
Trabzonspor (4th)	OFI (3rd)	Alania Vladikavkaz (2nd)	Malmö (2nd)
Club Brugge (2nd)	PAOK (4th)	Rotor Volgograd (3rd)	Helsingborg (3rd)
Mouscron (3rd)	Rapid Wien (2nd)	Vejle (2nd)	Lillestrøm (2nd)
Anderlecht (4th)	Tirol Innsbruck (4th)	AGF Aarhus (3rd)	Örebro (FP)
First qualifying round
Viking (3rd)	Dnipro Dnepropetrovsk (4th)	Gorica (3rd)	Vojvodina (3rd)
Jablonec nad Nisou (3rd)	Újpest (2nd)	MyPa (2nd)	Flora Tallinn (2nd)
Boby Brno (4th)	Ferencváros (3rd)	Dinamo Minsk (2nd)	Birkirkara (2nd)
Neuchâtel Xamax (2nd)	Odra Wodzisław (3rd)	KR Reykjavík (2nd)	Bohemians (2nd)
Grasshopper (3rd)	Hajduk Split (2nd)	Neftochimic Burgas (2nd)	Yerevan (3rd)
Celtic (2nd)	Apollon Limassol (2nd)	Pobeda (2nd)	Grevenmacher (2nd)
Dundee United (3rd)	Hapoel Petah Tikva (2nd)	Inkaras Kaunas (3rd)	KÍ Klaksvík (2nd)
Dinamo București (3rd)	Kolkheti-1913 Poti (3rd)	Tiligul Tiraspol (3rd)	Qarabağ (2nd)
Oțelul Galați (4th)	Spartak Trnava (2nd)	Coleraine (2nd)	Principat (1st)
Vorskla Poltava (3rd)	Daugava Riga (2nd)	Inter Cardiff (2nd)	Brann (FP)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Minsk	2–2 (a)	Kolkheti Poti	1–0	1–2
Hapoel Petah Tikva	3–1	Flora Tallinn	1–0	2–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	8–1	FC Yerevan	6–1	2–0
Inkaras Kaunas	4–7	Boby Brno	3–1	1–6
MyPa	1–4	Apollon Limassol	1–1	0–3
Inter CableTel AFC	0–8	Celtic	0–3	0–5
Neuchâtel Xamax	10–1	Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol	7–0	3–1
CS Grevenmacher	1–6	Hajduk Split	1–4	0–2
Grasshoppers	10–1	Coleraine	3–0	7–1
Vojvodina	2–2 (4–5 p)	Viking	0–2	2–0 (aet)
KR Reykjavík	4–1	Dinamo Bucharest	2–0	2–1
Bohemians	0–6	Ferencváros	0–1	0–5
FK Jablonec 97	8–0	Qarabağ	5–0	3–0
Birkirkara	1–4	Spartak Trnava	0–1	1–3
Odra Wodzisław	4–2	Pobeda	3–0	1–2
Torpedo Rīga	2–5	Vorskla Poltava	1–3	1–2
Brann	4–4 (a)	Naftex Burgas	2–1	2–3
Principat	0–17	Dundee United	0–8	0–9
Gorica	4–4 (a)	Oţelul Galaţi	2–0	2–4
Újpest	9–2	KÍ Klaksvík	6–0	3–2

Viking	0–2	Vojvodina
	Report	Vulević 4', 88'
Penalties
Nyhaug Aarsheim Bjerg Fuglestad Espevoll	5–4	Miloševski Aleksić Vulević Jovanović Vanić

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hajduk Split	5–2	Malmö	3–2	2–0
Anderlecht	4–0	Vorskla Poltava	2–0	2–0
Neuchâtel Xamax	4–2	Viking	3–0	1–2
Rotor Volgograd	6–3	Odra Wodzisław	2–0	4–3
Trabzonspor	2–1	Dundee United	1–0	1–1
Rapid Wien	6–3	Boby Brno	6–1	0–2
Tirol Innsbruck	5–7	Celtic	2–1	3–6
Helsingborg	1–1 (3–4p)	Ferencváros	0–1	1–0 (aet)
Vejle	0–1	Hapoel Petah Tikva	0–0	0–1
Grasshoppers	3–2	Brann	3–0	0–2
Gorica	3–8	Club Brugge	3–5	0–3
PAOK	6–3	Spartak Trnava	5–3	1–0
KR Reykjavík	1–3	OFI	0–0	1–3
FK Jablonec 97	1–1 (a)	Örebro	1–1	0–0
Apollon Limassol	0–3	Excelsior Mouscron	0–0	0–3
Dinamo Minsk	0–3	Lillestrøm	0–2	0–1
Újpest	2–3	AGF Aarhus	0–0	2–3
Alania Vladikavkaz	6–2	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–1	4–1

Ferencváros	0–1	Helsingborg
	Report	Jacobsson 43'
Penalties
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1997–98_UEFA_Cup

1997–98 UEFA Cup

Format

Teams

First qualifying round

First leg

Second leg

Second qualifying round

First leg

Second leg

First round

First leg

Second leg

Second round

First leg

Second leg

Third round

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo La Coruña	1–2	Auxerre	1–2	0–0
Austria Salzburg	6–7	Anderlecht	4–3	2–4
PAOK	2–1	Arsenal	1–0	1–1
Widzew Łódź	1–3	Udinese	1–0	0–3
Maribor	2–10	Ajax	1–1	1–9
Lyon	7–3	Brøndby	4–1	3–2
MPKC Mozyr	1–2	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–1	0–1
Real Valladolid	2–1	Skonto	2–0	0–1
Vitória de Guimarães	1–6	Lazio	0–4	1–2
Strasbourg	4–2	Rangers	2–1	2–1
MTK Hungária	4–1	Alania Vladikavkaz	3–0	1–1
Schalke 04	5–2	Hajduk Split	2–0	3–2
Bastia	1–0	Benfica	1–0	0–0
Sion	1–6	Spartak Moscow	0–1	1–5
OFI	4–2	Ferencváros	3–0	1–2
Sampdoria	1–4	Athletic Bilbao	1–2	0–2
Bordeaux	0–1	Aston Villa	0–0	0–1 (aet)
Steaua București	2–1	Fenerbahçe	0–0	2–1
Rotor Volgograd	6–1	Örebro	2–0	4–1
FC Jazz	1–7	1860 Munich	0–1	1–6
Trabzonspor	5–6	Bochum	2–1	3–5
Croatia Zagreb	9–4	Grasshoppers	4–4	5–0
Vitesse Arnhem	2–3	Braga	2–1	0–2
Rapid Wien	2–1	Hapoel Petah Tikva	1–0	1–1
Internazionale	4–0	Neuchâtel Xamax	2–0	2–0
Celtic	2–2 (a)	Liverpool	2–2	0–0
Excelsior Mouscron	1–6	Metz	0–2	1–4
Twente	2–2 (a)	Lillestrøm	0–1	2–1
Beitar Jerusalem	2–4	Club Brugge	2–1	0–3
Atlético Madrid	4–1	Leicester City	2–1	2–0
AGF Aarhus	3–2	Nantes Atlantique	2–2	1–0
Karlsruhe	3–2	Anorthosis Famagusta	2–1	1–1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Strasbourg	3–2	Liverpool	3–0	0–2
Internazionale	4–3	Lyon	1–2	3–1
Braga	5–0	Dinamo Tbilisi	4–0	1–0
Schalke 04	3–1	Anderlecht	1–0	2–1
Ajax	2–2 (a)	Udinese	1–0	1–2
Club Brugge	2–4	Bochum	1–0	1–4
Metz	1–3	Karlsruhe	0–2	1–1
Spartak Moscow	4–1	Real Valladolid	2–0	2–1
MTK Hungária	1–2	Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–2
Atlético Madrid	9–6	PAOK	5–2	4–4
Steaua București	3–3 (a)	Bastia	1–0	2–3
Athletic Bilbao	1–2	Aston Villa	0–0	1–2
Rapid Wien	4–2	1860 Munich	3–0	1–2
Rotor Volgograd	0–3	Lazio	0–0	0–3
AGF Aarhus	1–1 (a)	Twente	1–1	0–0
Auxerre	5–4	OFI	3–1	2–3

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Strasbourg	2–3	Internazionale	2–0	0–3
Braga	0–2	Schalke 04	0–0	0–2
Ajax	6–4	Bochum	4–2	2–2
Karlsruhe	0–1	Spartak Moscow	0–0	0–1 (aet)
Croatia Zagreb	1–2	Atlético Madrid	1–1	0–1
Steaua București	2–3	Aston Villa	2–1	0–2
Rapid Wien	0–3	Lazio	0–2	0–1
Twente	0–3	Auxerre	0–1	0–2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Internazionale	2–1	Schalke 04	1–0	1–1 (aet)
Ajax	1–4	Spartak Moscow	1–3	0–1
Atlético Madrid	2–2 (a)	Aston Villa	1–0	1–2
Lazio	3–2	Auxerre	1–0	2–2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Internazionale	4–2	Spartak Moscow	2–1	2–1
Atlético Madrid	0–1	Lazio	0–1	0–0

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Stéphane Guivarc'h	Auxerre	7
2	Shota Arveladze	Ajax	6
	Gary McSwegan	Dundee United	6
	Ronaldo	Internazionale	6
	Aleksandr Shirko	Spartak Moscow	6
	Robbie Winters	Dundee United	6
7	Mamadou Diallo	Lillestrøm	5
	Nordin Jbari	Club Brugge	5
	Robert Prosinečki	Croatia Zagreb	5
	Oleg Veretennikov	Rotor Volgograd	5
	Christian Vieri	Atlético Madrid	5