1991–92 UEFA Cup

1991–92 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates	18 September 1991 – 13 May 1992
Teams	64
Final positions
Champions	Ajax (1st title)
Runners-up	Torino
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	304 (2.41 per match)
Attendance	1,968,035 (15,619 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dean Saunders (Liverpool); 9 goals
	← 1990–91 1992–93 →

The 1991–92 UEFA Cup was the 21st season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin, Italy, and at Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The competition was won by Dutch club Ajax, who defeated Torino of Italy on away goals after an aggregate result of 2–2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.

The victory made Ajax only the second team—after Torino's city rivals Juventus—to have won all three major European trophies at the time (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup). As the only English team in the tournament due to lost coeffecient following the five-year ban for the Heysel disaster during the 1985 European Cup final, and being given an additional year of exclusion, Liverpool made their comeback in continental competition for the first time since then.

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 32 UEFA member associations participated in the 1991–92 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.

Association ranking

For the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1990 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1985–86 to 1989–90. Despite returning to European competitions the previous season, England's five-year ban was served during the period reflected in the ranking and had no score, so only one English club competed in the UEFA Cup.

Association ranking for 1991-92 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	Germany	45.427	4
2	Italy	43.212
3	Spain	42.666
4	Belgium	36.233	3
5	Portugal	28.633
6	France	28.100
7	Soviet Union	26.966
8	Netherlands	26.500
9	Romania	26.300	2
10	Scotland	24.800
11	Sweden	22.600
12	Austria	20.500
13	Yugoslavia	19.950
14	East Germany	19.250		^{[Note GDR]}
15	Switzerland	16.750
16	Czech Republic	15.750
17	Finland	14.581

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
-	Wales	14.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}
18	Denmark	13.998	2
19	Bulgaria	12.749
20	Greece	12.250
21	Hungary	12.250
21	Poland	11.000	1
23	Turkey	10.998
24	Albania	10.666
25	Norway	5.999
26	Cyprus	5.666
27	Northern Ireland	4.333
28	Iceland	4.000
29	Malta	1.999
30	Luxembourg	1.332
31	Republic of Ireland	0.999
32	England	0.000

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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.

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Germany: Due to the reunification of Germany in October 1990, all flags show Germany instead of the former West/East Germany. However, the original slot allocation still applied, and matches and records for NOFV-Oberliga representatives were still counted for East Germany.

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 1991–92 UEFA Cup
Bayern Munich (2nd)	Eintracht Frankfurt (4th)	Hamburg (5th)	Stuttgart (6th)
Internazionale (3rd)^TH	Genoa (4th)	Torino (5th)	Parma (6th)^{[Note ITA]}
Real Madrid (3rd)	Osasuna (4th)	Sporting Gijón (5th)	Oviedo (6th)
Mechelen (2nd)	Gent (3rd)	Germinal Ekeren (5th)	Sporting CP (3rd)
Boavista (4th)	Salgueiros (5th)	Auxerre (3rd)	Cannes (4th)
Lyon (5th)	Dynamo Moscow (3rd)	Torpedo Moscow (4th)	Spartak Moscow (5th)
Ajax (2nd)	Groningen (3rd)	Utrecht (4th)	Steaua București (2nd)
Dinamo București (3rd)	Aberdeen (2nd)	Celtic (3rd)	Örebro (3rd)
Östers (4th)	HAŠK Građanski (2nd)	Partizan (3rd)	Swarovski Tirol (2nd)
Sturm Graz (3rd)	Rot-Weiß Erfurt (3rd)^{[Note GER]}	Hallescher FC (4th)^{[Note GER]}	Neuchâtel Xamax (3rd)
Lausanne (4th)	Slovan Bratislava (2nd)	Sigma Olomouc (3rd)	Kuusysi Lahti (2nd)
MP (3rd)	B 1903 (2nd)	Ikast (3rd)	CSKA Sofia (2nd)
Slavia Sofia (3rd)	AEK Athens (3rd)	PAOK (4th)^{[Note GRE]}	Pécsi Munkás (3rd)
Váci Izzó (4th)	Górnik Zabrze (2nd)	Trabzonspor (3rd)	Vllaznia Shkodër (3rd)
Tromsø (2nd)	Anorthosis Famagusta (2nd)	Bangor (2nd)	KR (2nd)
Floriana (3rd)	Spora Luxembourg (3rd)	Cork City (2nd)	Liverpool (2nd)

Notes

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Italy: Milan finished second in the 1990–91 Serie A, but in March 1991, UEFA imposed them a one-year ban from European competition, due to refusing to resume their 1990–91 European Cup quarterfinal match away versus Olympique Marseille after a floodlight failure. Parma, the next best team not already qualified for European competition, took its place in the UEFA Cup.
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Germany: Dynamo Dresden finished second in the 1990–91 NOFV-Oberliga, but the team was imposed a two-year ban from European competition by UEFA, due to fan rioting during their 1990–91 European Cup quarterfinal match home versus Red Star Belgrade. Hallescher FC, the next best team not already qualified for European competition, took its place in the UEFA Cup. Due to the reunification of Germany in October 1990, all flags show Germany instead of West/East Germany. However, all matches and records from both Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Hallescher were still counted for East Germany, and not for Germany, under UEFA regulations.
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Greece: Olympiacos finished second in the 1990–91 Alpha Ethniki, but UEFA imposed them a one-year ban from European competition, due to crowd incidents during their 1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup second round home match versus Sampdoria after the match concluded. PAOK, the next best team not already qualified for European competition, took its place in the UEFA Cup.

Schedule

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

Schedule for 1991–92 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	17–19 September 1991	1–3 October 1991
Second round	22–24 October 1991	5–7 November 1991
Third round	27 November 1991	10–12 December 1991
Quarter-finals	4 March 1992	18–19 March 1992
Semi-finals	1 April 1992	15 April 1992
Final	29 April 1992	13 May 1992

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aberdeen	0–3	B 1903	0–1	0–2
Ajax	4–0	Örebro SK	3–0¹	1–0
Anorthosis Famagusta	3–4	Steaua București	1–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Bangor	0–6	Sigma Olomouc	0–3	0–3
Boavista	2–1	Internazionale	2–1	0–0
Celtic	3–1	Germinal Ekeren	2–0	1–1
Cork City	1–3	Bayern Munich	1–1	0–2
HAŠK Građanski	3–4	Trabzonspor	2–3²	1–1
Eintracht Frankfurt	11–1	Spora Luxembourg	6–1	5–0
Groningen	0–2	Rot-Weiß Erfurt	0–1	0–1
Ikast	1–6	Auxerre	0–1	1–5
Swarovski Tirol	3–2	Tromsø	2–1	1–1
Hallescher FC	2–4	Torpedo Moscow	2–1	0–3
Hamburg	4–1	Górnik Zabrze	1–1	3–0
Gent	1–1 (4–3 p)	Lausanne	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
KR	1–8	Torino	0–2	1–6
Vllaznia Shkodër	0–3	AEK Athens	0–1	0–2
Liverpool	6–2	Kuusysi Lahti	6–1	0–1
MP	1–5	Spartak Moscow	0–2	1–3
Neuchâtel Xamax	2–0	Floriana	2–0	0–0
Lyon	2–1	Östers IF	1–0	1–1
PAOK	2–1	Mechelen	1–1	1–0
CSKA Sofia	1–1 (a)	Parma	0–0	1–1
Slavia Sofia	1–4	Osasuna	1–0	0–4
Oviedo	2–3	Genoa	1–0	1–3
Salgueiros	1–1 (2–4 p)	Cannes	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Slovan Bratislava	2–3	Real Madrid	1–2	1–1
Sturm Graz	1–4	Utrecht	0–1	1–3
Sporting CP	1–2	Dinamo București	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Sporting Gijón	2–2 (3–2 p)	Partizan	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)³
Váci Izzó MTE	2–4	Dynamo Moscow	1–0	1–4
Stuttgart	6–3	Pécsi Munkás	4–1	2–2

¹ This match was played in Düsseldorf, Germany due to hooliganism in a previous match. ² This match was played in Klagenfurt, Austria due to the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence. ³ This match was played in Istanbul, Turkey due to the deteriorating security situation in Yugoslavia that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.

First leg

17 September 1991

19:30

Anorthosis Famagusta	1–2	Steaua București
Obiku 70' (pen.)	Report	Stan 44' Dumitrescu 47'

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca

Attendance: 6,797

Referee: Roman Steindl (Austria)

17 September 1991

17:00

HAŠK Građanski	2–3	Trabzonspor
Petrović 62' (pen.), 84' (pen.)	Report	Cyzio 20' Mandıralı 35' Karaman 57'

Wörtherseestadion, Klagenfurt

Attendance: 1,807

Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)

Match was played in Austria due to the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence.

17 September 1991