1986–87 UEFA Cup explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Cup
Year:1986–87
Dates:16 September 1986 – 20 May 1987
Num Teams:64
Champion Other: IFK Göteborg
Count:2
Second Other: Dundee United
Matches:126
Goals:291
Attendance:2502655
Top Scorer:Peter Houtman (Groningen)
Paulinho Cascavel (Vitória Guimarães)
Jari Rantanen (IFK Göteborg)
Wim Kieft (Torino)
5 goals each
Prevseason:1985–86
Nextseason:1987–88

The 1986–87 UEFA Cup was the 16th season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Tannadice Park, Dundee, Scotland. The competition was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Dundee United of Scotland by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their second title.

This is the second and last European tournament won by a Swedish team, five years after Göteborg's first UEFA Cup conquest in 1982, as well as the last European final played by a Swedish team, while Dundee United became the last team from Scotland to reach a European final until 2003. This was the second season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions.[1] [2]

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1986–87 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:

Due to the ongoing English ban, their four births were allocated to associations 9–12, each gaining a third birth.

Association ranking

For the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1985 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1980–81 to 1984–85.

Association ranking for 1986–87 UEFA Cup
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes
1 England41.0930
2 Italy38.8004
3 West Germany37.070
4 Soviet Union33.9163
5 Belgium33.266
6 Scotland30.400
7 Portugal30.250
8 Spain29.366
9 Yugoslavia27.550
10 Czechoslovakia23.550
11 France22.750
12 East Germany22.600
13 Austria22.5002
14 Netherlands20.049
15 Romania19.916
16 Switzerland18.500
17 Bulgaria17.250
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes
18 Sweden17.2502
- Wales17.0000
19 Greece16.9162
20 Hungary16.750
21 Poland14.750
22 Denmark9.2491
23 Republic of Ireland6.332
24 Albania6.000
25 Norway5.999
26 Turkey5.333
27 Finland5.331
28 Northern Ireland4.998
29 Cyprus4.665
30 Malta1.999
31 Iceland1.998
32 Luxembourg1.332

Teams

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

Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The semi-finals reverted to being played in the same days, and the two-legged final again had a two week interval.

Schedule for 1986–87 UEFA Cup!Round!First leg!Second leg
First round16–18 September 198630 September – 2 October 1986
Second round22–23 October 19864–5 November 1986
Third round26 November 198610–17 December 1986
Quarter-finals4 March 198718 March 1987
Semi-finals8 April 198722 April 1987
Final6 May 198720 May 1987

First round

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First leg

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Second leg

Beveren won 1–0 on aggregate.----Swarovski Tirol won 3–2 on aggregate.----Universitatea Craiova won 3–2 on aggregate.----Trakia Plovdiv won 10–0 on aggregate.----Stahl Brandenburg won 2–1 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 4–1 on aggregate.----Vitória de Guimarães won 3–2 on aggregate.----Győri ETO won 4–3 on aggregate.----Groningen won 8–2 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Dukla Prague won on away goals.----Widzew Łódź won 2–1 on aggregate.----Legia Warsaw won 1–0 on aggregate.----Hajduk Split won 4–1 on aggregate.----Rangers won 4–2 on aggregate.----Neuchâtel Xamax won 5–1 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 5–1 on aggregate.----Bayer Leverkusen won 7–1 on aggregate.----Athletic Bilbao won 2–1 on aggregate.----Atlético Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.----Gent won 3–2 on aggregate.----Bayer 05 Uerdingen won 7–0 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Toulouse won 4–3 on penalties.----Standard Liège won 2–1 on aggregate.----Feyenoord won 2–1 on aggregate.----Spartak Moscow won 1–0 on aggregate.----Torino won 5–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 2–1 on aggregate.----Sportul Studențesc won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Barcelona won on away goals.----Sporting CP won 15–0 on aggregate.----Internazionale won 3–0 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Boavista won 3–1 on penalties.

Second round

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First leg

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Second leg

1–1 on aggregate; Dukla Prague won on away goals.----Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 3–1 on aggregate.----Hajduk Split won 5–3 on aggregate.----Torino won 5–1 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Internazionale won on away goals.----Spartak Moscow won 6–4 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 7–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Groningen won on away goals.----4–4 on aggregate; Swarovski Tirol won on away goals.----Gent won 4–1 on aggregate.----Bayer 05 Uerdingen won 2–0 on aggregate.----Beveren won 4–3 on aggregate.----Vitória de Guimarães won 2–1 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Barcelona won on away goals.

Third round

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First leg

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Second leg

Vitória de Guimarães won 3–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 2–0 on aggregate.----Torino won 3–1 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 5–0 on aggregate.----Swarovski Tirol won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Borussia Mönchengladbach won on away goals.----Barcelona won 4–0 on aggregate.----The game was abandoned in the 70th minute because of the dense fog and replayed a week later.

Internazionale won 1–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–2 on aggregate.----Swarovski Tirol won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; IFK Göteborg won on away goals.----Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

IFK Göteborg won 5–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 2–0 on aggregate.

Final

See main article: 1987 UEFA Cup Final.

Second leg

IFK Göteborg won 2–1 on aggregate.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1986/87: IFK back on top . 15 January 2017 . 12 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130212182657/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=1986/overview/ . dead .
  2. Web site: The night Dundee United lost but won the hearts of the world. 20 May 2017.