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1985–86 UEFA Cup
15th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1985–86 UEFA Cup was the 15th 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 Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain, and at the Olympiastadion, West Berlin, West Germany. For the second year in a row, the competition was won by Real Madrid of Spain, who defeated Köln of West Germany by an aggregate result of 5–3.
Real Madrid became the first club to successfully defend the UEFA Cup, a feat that would only be repeated by Sevilla in two different occasions during the 21st century, both in the UEFA Cup (2006 and 2007) and its successor UEFA Europa League (2014 and 2015). In the former Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the unofficial predecessor of the UEFA Cup, it was only achieved by a representative team of the city of Barcelona (1958 and 1960) and by Valencia (1963 and 1964), both also fellow Spanish squads.
It was the first season in which English clubs were serving an indefinite ban from European football competitions due to the Heysel Stadium disaster, which would last for five seasons before being lifted for the 1990–91 season.
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Association team allocation
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A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1985–86 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.
Following the English ban, their four berths were redistributed among associations 9–12, each gaining a third berth.
Association ranking
For the 1985–86 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1984 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1979–80 to 1983–84.
England: Due to the Heysel Stadium disaster, 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 a result, each of their four allocated UEFA Cup berths for 1985–86 were transferred as a third berth for associations 9–12, namely the Soviet Union, France, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands. Two-time UEFA Cup winners Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as Southampton and Norwich City had qualified for the tournament prior to the ban.
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
Notes
- ^ Bulgaria: The top two teams of the 1984-85 A Group season, Levski Sofia and CSKA Sofia, were disbanded by the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and refounded, after a number of violent incidents on the pitch during the 1985 Bulgarian Cup final. Trakia Plovdiv, which would have qualified for the UEFA Cup along CSKA Sofia, was awarded with the title and competed at the European Cup. Therefore, the UEFA Cup places went to Lokomotiv Sofia and Pirin Blagoevgrad, which had initially finished the season in 4th and 5th place. The decision regarding league placements was eventually reversed in 1990.
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Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. In a departure from previous editions, both semi-finals were played in different days, and the two-legged final was held on consecutive weeks, with the second leg being played on a Tuesday.
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First round
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First leg
Attendance: 46,521
Second leg
LASK won 3–0 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 6–4 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tirana won 1–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Vardar won on away goals.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 6–1 on aggregate.
Bohemians Praha won 5–4 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 5–2 on aggregate.
Partizan won 4-1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 7-1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Videoton won on away goals.
PSV Eindhoven won 6–0 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 4-1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 6–2 on aggregate.
Nantes won 4–2 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate; Chornomorets Odesa won on away goals.
Hajduk Split won 7–3 on aggregate.
Attendance: 16,200
Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4-3 on aggregate.
Attendance: 73,023
Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Sparta Rotterdam won 4–3 on penalties.
Club Brugge won 6–5 on aggregate.
St Mirren won 3-1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 7–4 on aggregate.
Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.
Osasuna won 2-1 on aggregate.
Milan won 4–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 7-4 on aggregate.
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Second round
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First leg
Attendance: 18,500
Second leg
Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 2–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 8–2 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 3–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Neuchâtel Xamax won on away goals.
3–3 on aggregate; Milan won on away goals.
Nantes won 5–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–2 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 5–4 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 4–1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Third round
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Second leg
Hajduk Split won 3–0 on aggregate.
Attendance: 19,500
Internazionale won 1–0 on aggregate.
Köln won 4–3 on aggregate.
Nantes won 2–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 4–3 on aggregate.
Following the referee's controversial decision to award Waregem a penalty in the 44th minute as the foul looked to be outside of the penalty area, Milan fans pelted the pitch with missiles some of which hit several Waregem players. Following the match, as a result of the incident, AC Milan received a two-match European competition stadium ban, enforced at the start of their 1987–88 UEFA Cup campaign.
Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
5–5 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Quarter-finals
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First leg
Second leg
Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Waregem won 5–4 on penalties.
Attendance: 37,782
Internazionale won 6–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Semi-finals
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First leg
Second leg
Köln won 7–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 6–4 on aggregate.
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Final
First leg
Second leg
Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Notes
- Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk played their home matches at Stadion Metalurh, Kryvyi Rih, instead of their regular stadium Meteor Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk, as Dnipropetrovsk was a closed city for foreigners.
External links
- 1985–86 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
- Official Site
- Results at RSSSF.com
- All scorers 1985–86 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA
- 1985/86 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)
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