UEFA_Cup_1988–89

1988–89 UEFA Cup

1988–89 UEFA Cup

18th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA


The 1988–89 UEFA Cup was the 18th season of the UEFA Cup, the secondary club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Stadio San Paolo, Naples, Italy, and at the Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, Germany. The competition was won by Napoli of Italy, who defeated Stuttgart of Germany by an aggregate result of 5–4 to claim their only major European title.

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This was the first final and win in the UEFA Cup by an Italian team since Juventus in 1977, starting a successful era for Italian teams who went on to win six UEFA Cup titles in a seven-year period. This was the fourth season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 30 UEFA member associations participated in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

  • Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
  • Associations 4–8 each have three teams qualify.
  • Associations 9–21 each have two teams qualify.
  • Associations 22–32 each have one team qualify.

Due to the ongoing English ban, their two births were allocated to associations 10–11, each gaining a third birth.

Association ranking

For the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1987 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1982–83 to 1986–87.

More information Rank, Association ...
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    Albania: For unknown reasons, Albania elected to withdraw their UEFA Cup slot. Labinoti, the third placed team in the 1987–88 Albanian National Championship, would have qualified for the UEFA Cup. As per the regulations, title holders not already qualified for European competition had the priority for a vacant place, and it was awarded to Bayer Leverkusen, who had finished eighth in the 1987–88 Bundesliga, giving West Germany a fifth entry.
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    England: Since the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, all English football clubs were placed under an indefinite ban by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) from all European competitions, which would be lifted in 1990–91. As the first two years of the ban had been tabulated, England fell down to ninth in the UEFA rankings, which reduced the number of re-allocated UEFA Cup births for 1988–89 to two. These were transferred as a third birth for associations 10 and 11, namely Yugoslavia and Sweden. Tottenham Hotspur would have qualified by league position, while Luton Town would have qualified as League Cup winners. Had England retained four European places, Nottingham Forest and Everton would have also qualified.
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    Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the Football Association of Wales was the Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Its virtual ranking is only an original research, because the UEFA country ranking was only used to allocate the UEFA Cup spots at time, so Wales was not included.
  • Teams

    The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:

    • TH: Title holders
    • CW: Cup winners
    • CR: Cup runners-up
    • LC: League Cup winners
    • 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
    • P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
    Qualified teams for 1988–89 UEFA Cup
    Italy Napoli (2nd) Italy Roma (3rd) Italy Internazionale (5th) Italy Juventus (P-W)
    Soviet Union Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd) Soviet Union Žalgiris Vilnius (3rd) Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow (4th) Soviet Union Dinamo Minsk (5th)
    West Germany Bayer Leverkusen (TH) West Germany Bayern Munich (2nd) West Germany Köln (3rd) West Germany Stuttgart (4th)
    West Germany Nürnberg (5th) Spain Real Sociedad (2nd) Spain Atlético Madrid (3rd) Spain Athletic Bilbao (4th)
    Scotland Heart of Midlothian (2nd) Scotland Rangers (3rd) Scotland Aberdeen (4th) Portugal Benfica (2nd)
    Portugal Belenenses (3rd) Portugal Sporting CP (4th) Belgium Antwerp (3rd) Belgium RFC Liège (5th)
    Belgium Waregem (6th) Austria Austria Wien (2nd) Austria Sturm Graz (3rd) Austria First Vienna (4th)
    Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Partizan (2nd) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Velež Mostar (3rd) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dinamo Zagreb (4th) Sweden Malmö (2nd)
    Sweden Östers (4th) Sweden IK Brage (5th) Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague (2nd) Czechoslovakia Dunajská Streda (3rd)
    Romania Victoria București (3rd) Romania Oţelul Galaţi (4th) France Bordeaux (2nd) France Montpellier (3rd)
    Netherlands Ajax (2nd) Netherlands Groningen (P-W) East Germany Lokomotive Leipzig (2nd) East Germany Dynamo Dresden (3rd)
    Greece AEK Athens (2nd) Greece PAOK (3rd) Hungary Tatabányai Bányász (2nd) Hungary Újpesti Dózsa (3rd)
    Switzerland Servette (2nd) Switzerland Aarau (3rd) Poland Katowice (2nd) Poland Legia Warsaw (3rd)
    Bulgaria Trakia Plovdiv (3rd) Bulgaria Slavia Sofia (4th) Finland TPS (3rd) Turkey Beşiktaş (2nd)
    Denmark Ikast (2nd) Cyprus APOEL (2nd) Norway Molde (2nd) Northern Ireland Linfield (2nd)
    Republic of Ireland St Patrick's Athletic (2nd) Iceland ÍA (3rd) Malta Sliema Wanderers (2nd) Luxembourg Union Luxembourg (3rd)

    Schedule

    The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, except for the first leg of the quarter-finals, which was held on a Tuesday.

    More information Round, First leg ...

    First round

    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information Stuttgart, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,600
    Referee: José Pérez Sánchez (Spain)

    More information Antwerp, 2–4 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: Einar Halle (Norway)

    More information Bayern Munich, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)

    More information Bayer Leverkusen, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,600
    Referee: Piotr Werner (Poland)

    More information Roma, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 16,263

    More information Groningen, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 19,000
    Referee: Lajos Németh (Hungary)

    More information Aarau, 0–3 ...
    Attendance: 6,500
    Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

    More information St Patrick's Athletic, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,000
    Referee: Howard King (Wales)

    More information Žalgiris Vilnius, 2–0 ...

    More information Sporting CP, 4–2 ...
    Attendance: 75,000
    Referee: Ron Bridges (Wales)

    More information Real Sociedad, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 21,000
    Referee: Georges Sandoz (Switzerland)

    More information Union Luxembourg, 1–7 ...
    Attendance: 2,700
    Referee: Franz Gächter (Austria)

    More information Internazionale, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 30,901

    More information ÍA, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 1,000
    Referee: Patrick Daly (Republic of Ireland)

    More information Rangers, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 41,120
    Referee: Claude Bouillet (France)

    More information Aberdeen, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 14,500

    More information Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 28,500

    More information Östers IF, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 1,141
    Referee: Kurt Horsted (Denmark)

    More information TPS, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 2,977
    Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

    More information Molde, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 3,020
    Referee: Robert Stewart (Northern Ireland)

    More information Malmö FF, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 9,505
    Referee: Keith Cooper (Wales)

    More information First Vienna, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 3,500
    Referee: Gábor Plasek (Hungary)

    More information Oţelul Galaţi, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Yusuf Namoğlu (Turkey)

    More information RŠD Velež, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 8,000
    Referee: Edgar Azzopardi (Malta)

    More information AEK Athens, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 26,997

    More information Montpellier, 0–3 ...
    Attendance: 12,500
    Referee: Manfred Neuner (West Germany)

    More information Sliema Wanderers, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 3,000
    Referee: Meletis Voutsaras (Greece)

    More information Napoli, 1–0 ...

    More information Partizan, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,000
    Referee: José Pes Pérez (Spain)

    More information Servette, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 9,800
    Referee: Manfred Roßner (East Germany)

    More information Trakia Plovdiv, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,000
    Referee: Rudolf Liska (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Beşiktaş, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,286
    Referee: Yuri Savchenko (Soviet Union)

    Second leg

    More information Tatabányai Bányász, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 8,000

    Stuttgart won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Legia Warsaw, 3–7 ...
    Attendance: 12,000
    Referee: John Martin (England)

    Bayern Munich won 10–4 on aggregate.


    More information Atlético Madrid, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Klaus Peschel (East Germany)

    2–2 on aggregate. Groningen won on away goals.


    More information Lokomotive Leipzig, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 5,200
    Referee: Kaj Natri (Finland)

    Lokomotive Leipzig won 7–0 on aggregate.


    More information Heart of Midlothian, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 8,000

    Heart of Midlothian won 4–0 on aggregate.


    More information Austria Wien, 5–2 ...
    Attendance: 5,000
    Referee: Michel Girard (France)

    Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.


    More information Ajax, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 22,000

    Sporting CP won 6–3 on aggregate.


    More information Dukla Prague, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 6,119

    4–4 on aggregate. Real Sociedad won on away goals.


    More information RFC Liège, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 3,000
    Referee: Werner Föckler (West Germany)

    RFC Liège won 11–1 on aggregate.


    More information IK Brage, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,652
    Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

    Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Újpesti Dózsa, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 1,000
    Referee: Velichko Tsonchev (Bulgaria)

    Újpesti Dózsa won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information GKS Katowice, 2–4 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy)

    Rangers won 5–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 36,000

    Dynamo Dresden won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Bordeaux, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

    Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dunajská Streda, 6–0 ...
    Attendance: 4,140
    Referee: Roman Steindl (Austria)

    Dunajská Streda won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information Linfield, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 904

    1–1 on aggregate. TPS won on away goals.


    More information Waregem, 5–1 ...
    Attendance: 5,000
    Referee: Friedrich Kaupe (Austria)

    Waregem won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Torpedo Moscow, 2–1 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 8,200
    Referee: Ildefonso Urizar (Spain)

    Malmö FF won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Ikast, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 3,371
    Referee: Bo Helén (Sweden)

    2–2 on aggregate. First Vienna won on away goals.


    More information Juventus, 5–0 ...

    Juventus won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information APOEL, 2–5 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Mircea Salomir (Romania)

    RŠD Velež won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information Athletic Bilbao, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

    Athletic Bilbao won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Benfica, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 50,000
    Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

    Benfica won 6–1 on aggregate.


    More information Victoria București, 6–1 ...
    Attendance: 5,000
    Referee: Kazimierz Orłowski (Poland)

    Victoria București won 8–1 on aggregate.


    More information PAOK, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 45,000

    Napoli won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Slavia Sofia, 0–5 ...
    Attendance: 6,500
    Referee: José Silva (Portugal)

    Partizan won 10–0 on aggregate.


    More information Sturm Graz, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Jean-François Crucke (Belgium)

    Servette won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information Dinamo Minsk, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 35,300
    Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

    Dinamo Minsk won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Dinamo Zagreb, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 30,000
    Referee: Todor Kolev (Bulgaria)

    Dinamo Zagreb won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Köln, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 1,500
    Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

    Köln won 6–3 on aggregate.


    More information Belenenses, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: Brian Hill (England)

    Belenenses won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Nürnberg, 1–3 (a.e.t.) ...

    Roma won 4–3 on aggregate.

    Second round

    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information Bayern Munich, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 11,000

    More information Köln, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 42,000
    Referee: Lajos Németh (Hungary)

    More information Dinamo Zagreb, 1–3 ...

    More information Partizan, 4–2 ...
    Attendance: 44,790
    Referee: Lajos Hartmann (Hungary)

    The match was briefly interrupted for an intervention by the fire brigade due to Partizan fans starting a large fire at the stadium's east stand by burning the high jump sponge mat. Furthermore, Roma captain Giuseppe Giannini got hit in the head with a coin thrown from the stands as Partizan fans pelted the pitch with missiles following one of the Roma goals. In addition to the SFr200,000 monetary fine, UEFA punished Partizan with a one-match stadium ban, enforced for their 1989–90 Cup Winners' Cup first round tie versus Celtic.[3]


    More information RŠD Velež, 0–0 ...

    More information Sporting CP, 1–2 ...

    More information Heart of Midlothian, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 14,021
    Referee: Ignace van Swieten (Netherlands)

    More information Lokomotive Leipzig, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 80,100

    More information Újpesti Dózsa, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 3,000
    Referee: İhsan Türe (Turkey)

    More information Juventus, 5–1 ...

    More information Dynamo Dresden, 4–1 ...

    More information First Vienna, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 5,000
    Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

    More information Malmö FF, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 14,203
    Referee: Claude Bouillet (France)

    More information RFC Liège, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 30,000
    Referee: Thorbjørn Aas (Norway)

    More information Groningen, 2–0 ...

    More information Dinamo Minsk, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 23,000
    Referee: Velichko Tsonchev (Bulgaria)

    Second leg

    More information Dunajská Streda, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 15,572
    Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)

    Bayern Munich won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Rangers, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 42,204
    Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

    Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Stuttgart, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 17,600
    Referee: Vítor Fernandes Correia (Portugal)

    Stuttgart won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Roma, 2–0 ...

    4–4 on aggregate. Roma won on away goals.


    More information Belenenses, 0–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    0–0 on aggregate. RŠD Velež won 4–3 on penalties.


    More information Real Sociedad, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy)

    Real Sociedad won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Austria Wien, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: José María Enríquez Negreira (Spain)

    Heart of Midlothian won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information Napoli, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 53,442
    Referee: Georges Sandoz (Switzerland)

    Napoli won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Bordeaux, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,059

    Bordeaux won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Athletic Bilbao, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 25,000

    Juventus won 7–4 on aggregate.


    More information Waregem, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 5,000
    Referee: Keith Cooper (Wales)

    Dynamo Dresden won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information TPS, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 2,894
    Referee: Yuri Savchenko (Soviet Union)

    2–2 on aggregate. TPS won on away goals.


    More information Internazionale, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 45,936
    Referee: Jiří Stiegler (Czechoslovakia)

    Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Benfica, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 60,000
    Referee: Günther Habermann (East Germany)

    RFC Liège won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Servette, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 12,000
    Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

    Groningen won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Victoria București, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: Vaso Vujović (Yugoslavia)

    2–2 on aggregate. Victoria București won on away goals.

    Third round

    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information Bayern Munich, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 73,000

    More information Real Sociedad, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    More information Groningen, 1–3 ...
    Attendance: 20,400
    Referee: Jiří Stiegler (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Heart of Midlothian, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 17,417

    More information Bordeaux, 0–1 ...

    More information Dynamo Dresden, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 36,000

    More information RFC Liège, 0–1 ...

    More information Victoria București, 1–0 ...

    Second leg

    More information Internazionale, 1–3 ...
    Attendance: 68,158

    3–3 on aggregate. Bayern Munich won on away goals.


    More information Köln, 2–2 ...

    Real Sociedad won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Stuttgart, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 8,500
    Referee: Gerasimos Germanakos (Greece)

    Stuttgart won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information RŠD Velež, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

    Heart of Midlothian won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Napoli, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 58,794

    Napoli won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information Roma, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 30,336
    Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

    Dynamo Dresden won 4–0 on aggregate.


    More information Juventus, 1–0 ...

    Juventus won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information TPS, 3–2 ...

    3–3 on aggregate. Victoria București won on away goals.

    Quarter-finals

    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information Stuttgart, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,160
    Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)

    More information Heart of Midlothian, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 26,294
    Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

    More information Juventus, 2–0 ...

    More information Victoria București, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 12,000
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    Second leg

    More information Real Sociedad, 1–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 27,400
    Referee: Joe Worrall (England)

    1–1 on aggregate. Stuttgart won 4–2 on penalties.


    More information Bayern Munich, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,000

    Bayern Munich won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Napoli, 3–0 (a.e.t.) ...

    Napoli won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 36,000

    Dynamo Dresden won 5–1 on aggregate.

    Semi-finals

    Dynamo Dresden v. Stuttgart in the semi-final.
    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information Napoli, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 77,593

    More information Stuttgart, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 55,000
    Referee: Lajos Németh (Hungary)

    Second leg

    More information Bayern Munich, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 73,132
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    Napoli won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 38,000

    Stuttgart won 2–1 on aggregate.

    Final

    First leg

    More information Napoli, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 81,093
    Referee: Gerasimos Germanakos (Greece)

    Second leg

    More information Stuttgart, 3–3 ...

    Napoli won 5–4 on aggregate.


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