1984–85 UEFA Cup

1984–85 UEFA Cup
Dates	18 September 1984 – 22 May 1985
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (1st title)
Runners-up	Videoton
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	356 (2.83 per match)
Top scorer(s)	József Szabó (Videoton); 8 goals
	← 1983–84 1985–86 →

The 1984–85 UEFA Cup was the 14th 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 Sóstói Stadion, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, and at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain. The competition was won by Real Madrid of Spain, who defeated Videoton of Hungary by an aggregate result of 3–1 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.

Real Madrid became the first Spanish side to win the UEFA Cup since its foundation in 1971. Three Spanish teams had won the predecessor tournament, the Inter-Cities Fairs' Cup, but UEFA does not recognise it as an official competition within its records. The last Spanish title at this level was achieved 18 years before, by long-time rivals Barcelona in 1966.

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1984–85 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 22–33 each have one team qualify.

Association ranking

For the 1984–85 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1983 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1978–79 to 1982–83.

Association ranking for 1984–85 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	West Germany	54.118	4
2	Spain	34.999	4
3	England	34.426	5	^{[Note ALB]}
4	Yugoslavia	29.550	3
5	Belgium	29.216
6	Scotland	29.000
7	Czechoslovakia	27.050
8	France	26.450
9	Portugal	26.250	2
10	Netherlands	24.966
11	Italy	24.546
12	Soviet Union	23.666
13	East Germany	23.500
14	Switzerland	21.750
15	Sweden	20.500
16	Romania	20.000
-	Wales	18.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
17	Bulgaria	16.700	2
18	Hungary	15.500
19	Poland	15.250
20	Denmark	13.749
21	Austria	12.000
22	Greece	10.500	1
23	Republic of Ireland	9.665	1
24	Albania	7.000	0	^{[Note ALB]}
25	Norway	6.249	1
26	Turkey	5.333
27	Cyprus	5.332
28	Northern Ireland	4.665
29	Finland	3.832
30	Luxembourg	3.666
31	Iceland	2.998
32	Malta	2.665

^

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.

^

Albania: Until 1985, Albania frequently withdrew their allocated place in the UEFA Cup due to political reasons. 17 Nëntori would have qualified by league position. This additional place went to title holders Tottenham Hotspur, who hadn't qualified for European competition in England.

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 1984–85 UEFA Cup
Hamburg (2nd)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (3rd)	Werder Bremen (5th)	Köln (6th)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Atlético Madrid (4th)	Real Betis (5th)	Real Valladolid (LC)
Southampton (2nd)	Nottingham Forest (3rd)	Manchester United (4th)	Queens Park Rangers (5th)
Tottenham Hotspur (TH)	Partizan (2nd)	Željezničar (3th)	Rijeka (4th)
Anderlecht (2nd)	Club Brugge (3rd)	Standard Liège (4th)	Dundee United (3rd)
Rangers (4th)	Heart of Midlothian (5th)	Dukla Prague (2nd)	Bohemians Prague (3rd)
Dukla Banská Bystrica (4th)	Monaco (2nd)	Auxerre (3rd)	Paris Saint-Germain (4th)
Sporting CP (3rd)	Braga (4th)	PSV Eindhoven (2nd)	Ajax (3rd)
Fiorentina (3rd)	Internazionale (4th)	Spartak Moscow (2nd)	Dinamo Minsk (3rd)
Lokomotive Leipzig (3rd)	Vorwärts Frankfurt (4th)	Sion (3rd)	Neuchâtel Xamax (4th)
Östers (2nd)	AIK (3rd)	Universitatea Craiova (3rd)	Sportul Studențesc (4th)
Levski Sofia (2nd)	Sliven (7th)^{[Note BUL]}	Rába Győri ETO (2nd)	Videoton (3rd)
Widzew Łódź (2nd)	Pogoń Szczecin (3rd)	Odense BK (2nd)	AGF (3rd)
LASK (3rd)	SSW Innsbruck (4th)	Olympiacos (2nd)	Bohemians (2nd)
Lillestrøm (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (2nd)	Apollon Limassol (2nd)	Glentoran (2nd)
HJK (2nd)	Red Boys Differdange (2nd)	KR (2nd)	Rabat Ajax (2nd)

Notes

^
Bulgaria: At the end of the 1983-84 A Group season, Sliven qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing 3rd in the standings, after the Bulgarian Football Union nullified the result of a previous loss due to Botev Vratsa fielding an ineligible player, awarding Sliven a 3-0 win by forfeit. In 2000, Spartak Varna appealed the result on the grounds that the team could have fought for the bronze medals if the decision had been made before the final matchday. The decision was overturned, and Sliven was credited with a 7th place finish in the 1984 standings.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Schedule for 1984–85 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	12–20 September 1984	2–3 October 1984
Second round	24 October 1984	7–8 November 1984
Third round	28 November 1984	12 December 1984
Quarter-finals	6 March 1985	20 March 1985
Semi-finals	10 April 1985	24 April 1985
Final	8 May 1985	22 May 1985

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Köln	3–1	Pogoń Szczecin	2–1	1–0
AIK	1–3	Dundee United	1–0	0–3
Monaco	3–4	CSKA Septemvriysko Zname	2–2	1–2
Bohemians	3–4	Rangers	3–2	0–2
Dinamo Minsk	10–0	HJK	4–0	6–0
Red Boys Differdange	0–14	Ajax	0–0	0–14
Bohemians ČKD Praha	8–3	Apollon Limassol	6–1	2–2
Sion	4–2	Atlético Madrid	1–0	3–2
Sliven	2–5	Željezničar	1–0	1–5
Vorwärts Frankfurt	2–3	PSV Eindhoven	2–0	0–3
Fenerbahçe	0–3	Fiorentina	0–1	0–2
Dukla Banská Bystrica	3–7	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–3	1–4
Glentoran	1–3	Standard Liège	1–1	0–2
KR	0–7	Queens Park Rangers	0–3	0–4
Lokomotive Leipzig	7–3	Lillestrøm	7–0	0–3
Manchester United	5–2	Rába ETO Győr	3–0	2–2
Nottingham Forest	0–1	Club Brugge	0–0	0–1
OB	2–7	Spartak Moskva	1–5	1–2
Olympiacos	3–2	Neuchâtel Xamax	1–0	2–2
Öster	0–2	LASK	0–1	0–1
Paris Saint-Germain	6–2	Heart of Midlothian	4–0	2–2
Anderlecht	2–2 (a)	Werder Bremen	1–0	1–2
Rabat Ajax	0–4	Partizan	0–2	0–2
Real Betis	1–1 (3–5 p)	Universitatea Craiova	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Real Madrid	5–2	SSW Innsbruck	5–0	0–2
Real Valladolid	2–4	Rijeka	1–0	1–4
Braga	0–9	Tottenham Hotspur	0–3	0–6
Southampton	0–2	Hamburg	0–0	0–2
Sporting CP	4–2	Auxerre	2–0	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Sportul Studenţesc	1–2	Internazionale	1–0	0–2
Videoton	1–0	Dukla Praha	1–0	0–0
Widzew Łódź	2–1	AGF	2–0	0–1

First leg

12 September 1984

16:30

Rabat Ajax	0–2	Partizan
		Vučićević 63' Đelmaš 70'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Jakob Baumann (Switzerland)

18 September 1984