1981–82_UEFA_Cup

1981–82 UEFA Cup

1981–82 UEFA Cup

11th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA


The 1981–82 UEFA Cup was the 11th edition of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany. The final was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Hamburger SV of Germany by an aggregate result of 4–0 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.

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This was the first of two UEFA Cup conquests for Göteborg, which were the only major European titles achiveved by Swedish teams. It was also the first Swedish team to play and win in a UEFA Cup final, while Hamburg went on to win the European Cup a year later. For the second and last time in UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League history, both finalists won their national championship in the same season.

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 32 UEFA member associations participate in the 1981–82 UEFA Cup. 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 1981–82 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1980 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1975–76 to 1979–80.

More information Rank, Association ...
  • ^
    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 the 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 1981–82 UEFA Cup
    West Germany Hamburger SV (2nd) West Germany Stuttgart (3rd) West Germany Kaiserslautern (4th) West Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach (6th)
    England Ipswich Town (2nd)TH England Arsenal (3rd) England West Bromwich Albion (4th) England Southampton (6th)
    Belgium Lokeren (2nd) Belgium Beveren (4th) Belgium Winterslag (5th) Belgium Club Brugge (6th)
    Spain Real Madrid (2nd) Spain Atlético Madrid (3rd) Spain Valencia (4th) Netherlands Utrecht (3rd)
    Netherlands Feyenoord (4th) Netherlands PSV Eindhoven (5th) East Germany Carl Zeiss Jena (2nd) East Germany Magdeburg (3rd)
    East Germany Dynamo Dresden (4th) Soviet Union Spartak Moscow (2nd) Soviet Union Zenit Leningrad (3rd) Soviet Union CSKA Moscow (5th)
    France Nantes (2nd) France Bordeaux (3rd) France Monaco (4th) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hajduk Split (2nd)
    Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radnički Niš (3rd) Italy Napoli (3rd) Italy Internazionale (4th) Czechoslovakia Bohemians Praha (3rd)
    Czechoslovakia Sparta Prague (4th) Hungary Tatabánya (2nd) Hungary Videoton (4th) Scotland Aberdeen (2nd)
    Scotland Dundee United (LC) Portugal Sporting CP (3rd) Portugal Boavista (4th) Switzerland Grasshoppers (2nd)
    Switzerland Neuchâtel Xamax (3rd) Poland Wisła Kraków (2nd) Poland Szombierki Bytom (3rd) Austria Sturm Graz (2nd)
    Austria Rapid Wien (3rd) Greece Aris (3rd) Greece Panathinaikos (5th)[Note GRE] Bulgaria Levski-Spartak Sofia (2nd)
    Bulgaria Akademik Sofia (4th) Sweden Malmö (2nd) Sweden IFK Göteborg (3rd) Romania Dinamo București (2nd)
    Romania Argeș Pitești (3rd) Denmark Næstved (2nd) Republic of Ireland Limerick United (3rd) Turkey Adanaspor (2nd)
    Norway Bryne (2nd) Cyprus APOEL (2nd) Finland Haka (2nd) Northern Ireland Linfield (2nd)
    Luxembourg Red Boys Differdange (2nd) Iceland Víkingur (P-W) Malta Sliema Wanderers (2nd) Albania Dinamo Tirana (2nd)

    Notes

    1. ^
      Greece: AEK Athens finished second in the 1980–81 Alpha Ethniki, but couldn't qualify for the UEFA Cup due to a one year ban imposed in 1979, due to incidents in the locker room and the referees' room after a return game against Argeș Pitești in the first round of the 1979–80 European Cup. The ban was only due to be enacted on the first season where AEK would've qualified for European competition, having failed to do so the previous year after losing a play-off game that would've enable AEK to serve its penalty a year earlier. Therefore, the UEFA Cup place went to the 5th placed team, Panathinaikos.

    Schedule

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

    More information Round, First leg ...

    First round

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

    First leg

    More information Bohemians, 0–1 ...
    V Dolicku
    Referee: Rolf Ericsson (Sweden)

    More information Neuchâtel Xamax, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 13,000
    Referee: Luigi Angolin (Italy)

    More information Tatabánya, 2–1 ...
    Grosics Gyula Stadion, Tatabánya
    Referee: Adolf Mathias (Austria)

    More information Aris, 4–0 ...
    Referee: Cristian Teodorescu (Romania)

    More information Dinamo București, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 13,000
    Referee: Talal Tokat (Turkey)

    More information Dinamo Tirana, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Laszlo Györi (Hungary)

    More information Spartak Moscow, 3–1 ...

    More information Zenit Leningrad, 1–2 ...

    More information Bryne, 0–2 ...
    Referee: Ib. F. Nielsen (Denmark)

    More information Rapid Wien, 2–2 ...
    Referee: Trajce Madzovski (Yugoslavia)

    More information Haka, 2–3 ...
    Referee: Rolf Haugen (Norway)

    More information Boavista, 4–1 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: John Hunting (England)

    More information Limerick United, 0–3 ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: Henk van Ettekoven (Netherlands)

    More information Hajduk Split, 3–1 ...
    Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

    More information Malmö FF, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Gerd Hennig (West Germany)

    More information Adanaspor, 1–3 ...
    Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Panathinaikos, 0–2 ...
    Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

    More information PSV Eindhoven, 7–0 ...
    Referee: Frederick Mcknight (Northern Ireland)

    More information Sturm Graz, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)

    More information Beveren, 3–0 ...
    Referee: Jean-Marie Macheret (Switzerland)

    More information Víkingur, 0-4 ...
    Attendance: 1,500
    Referee: Hugh Alexander (Scotland)

    More information APOEL, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: Hiqmet Kuka (Albania)

    More information Feyenoord, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Josef Poucek (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Grasshoppers, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

    More information Hamburger SV, 0–1 ...
    Referee: Dušan Krchnak (Czechoslovakia)

    More information 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1–0 ...

    More information 1. FC Magdeburg, 3–1 ...
    Referee: Brian Mcginlay (Scotland)

    More information Nantes, 1–1 ...
    Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

    More information Ipswich Town, 1–1 ...
    Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

    More information Monaco, 2–5 ...
    Referee: Jose L. Garcia Carrion (Spain)

    More information Napoli, 2–2 ...
    Referee: Rino Marchesi, (Italy)

    More information Sporting CP, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 30,000
    Referee: Victoriano Sanchez Arminio (Spain)

    Second leg

    More information Valencia, 1–0 ...
    Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

    Valencia won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Sparta Prague, 3–2 ...
    Referee: Heinz Fahnler (Austria)

    Neuchâtel Xamax won 6–3 on aggregate.


    More information Real Madrid, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Patrick Mulhall (Republic of Ireland)

    2–2 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.


    More information Sliema Wanderers, 2–4 ...
    Referee: Pietro D'elia (Italy)

    Aris won 8–2 on aggregate.


    More information Levski Spartak Sofia, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 35,000

    Dinamo București won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Carl Zeiss Jena, 4–0 ...
    Referee: Gheorghe Dragomir (Romania)

    Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–1 on aggregate.


    More information Club Brugge, 1–3 ...
    Referee: Miklos Nagy (Hungary)

    Spartak Moscow won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 4–1 ...
    Referee: Velitchko Nikolov Tzontchev (Bulgaria)

    Dynamo Dresden won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information FC Winterslag, 1–2 ...
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    FC Winterslag won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Videoton, 0–2 ...
    Referee: Evangelos Giannacoudakis (Greece)

    Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information IFK Göteborg, 4–0 ...
    Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

    IFK Göteborg won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Atlético Madrid, 3–1 ...
    Referee: Walter Horstmann (West Germany)

    Boavista won 5–4 on aggregate.


    More information Southampton, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 12,841
    Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)

    Southampton won 4–1 on aggregate.


    More information VfB Stuttgart, 2–2 ...
    Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

    Hajduk Split won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Wisła Kraków, 1–3 ...
    Referee: Hendrik Weerink (Netherlands)

    Malmö FF won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Internazionale, 4–1 ...
    Referee: Ivan Yossifov (Bulgaria)

    Internazionale won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Arsenal, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

    Arsenal won 3–0 on aggregate.


    More information Naestved BK, 2–1 ...
    Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)

    PSV Eindhoven won 8–2 on aggregate.


    More information CSKA Moscow, 2–1 ...
    Peschanoe Stadium, Moscow
    Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy)

    2–2 on aggregate, Sturm Graz won on away goals


    More information Linfield, 0–5 ...
    Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

    Beveren won 8–0 on aggregate.


    More information Bordeaux, 4-0 ...
    Attendance: 6,500
    Referee: Francis Bastian (Luxembourg)

    More information Argeș Pitești, 4–0 ...

    Argeș Pitești won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Szombierki Bytom, 1–1 ...
    Stadion Szombierek, Bytom
    Referee: Jack Baumann (Switzerland)

    Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information West Bromwich Albion, 1–3 ...
    Referee: Günter Linn (West Germany)

    Grasshoppers won 4–1 on aggregate.


    More information FC Utrecht, 3–6 ...
    Referee: David Richardson (England)

    Hamburger SV won 6–4 on aggregate.


    More information Akademik Sofia, 1–2 ...
    Sportkomplex Akademik, Sofia
    Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Borussia Mönchengladbach, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Ronald Bridges (Wales)

    3–3 on aggregate; Borussia Mönchengladbach won on away goals.


    More information Lokeren, 4–2 ...
    Referee: Alfred Grey (England)

    Lokeren won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Aberdeen, 3–1 ...
    Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

    Aberdeen won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dundee United, 1–2 ...
    Referee: Roger Verhaeghe (Belgium)

    Dundee United won 6–4 on aggregate.


    More information Radnički Niš, 0–0 ...

    2–2 on aggregate; Radnički Niš won on away goals.


    More information Red Boys Differdange, 0–7 ...
    Attendance: 3,250
    Referee: Louis Delsemme (Belgium)

    Sporting CP won 11–0 on aggregate.


    Second round

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

    First leg

    More information Aberdeen, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: Svein Inge Thime (Norway)

    More information Aris, 1–1 ...

    More information Borussia Mönchengladbach, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

    More information Bordeaux, 2–1 ...
    Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

    More information Spartak Moscow, 2–1 ...
    Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

    More information Feyenoord, 2–1 ...
    Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

    More information Grasshoppers, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (Greece)

    More information Internazionale, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 40,000
    Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

    More information FC Winterslag, 1–0 ...
    Winterslag Stadium, Genk
    Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)

    More information Beveren, 2–3 ...
    Referee: Romualdas Yushka (Soviet Union)

    More information Malmö FF, 0–1 ...
    Referee: Juhani Smolander (Finland)

    More information Real Madrid, 3–2 ...
    Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

    More information Rapid Wien, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

    More information Sturm Graz, 2–2 ...
    Referee: Edvard Sostaric (Yugoslavia)

    More information Southampton, 2–4 ...
    Attendance: 18,573
    Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

    More information Valencia, 2–0 ...

    Second leg

    More information Argeș Pitești, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 13,000
    Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

    Aberdeen won 5–2 on aggregate.


    More information Lokeren, 4–0 ...
    Referee: Ronald Bridges (Wales)

    Lokeren won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Dundee United, 5–0 ...

    Dundee United won 5–2 on aggregate.


    More information Hamburger SV, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Miklos Nagy (Hungary)

    Hamburger SV won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 4–0 ...
    Referee: Victoriano Sanchez Arminio (Spain)

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 5–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 1–1 ...
    Referee: George Courtney (England)

    Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Radnički Niš, 2–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Referee: Dušan Krchnak (Czechoslovakia)

    2–2 on aggregate; Radnički Niš won 3–0 on penalties.


    More information Dinamo București, 3–2 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

    Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Arsenal, 2–1 ...
    Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)

    2–2 on aggregate; Winterslag won on away goals.


    More information Hajduk Split, 1–2 ...
    Referee: Talat Tokat (Turkey)

    4–4 on aggregate; Hajduk Split won on away goals.


    More information Neuchâtel Xamax, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Augusto Marques Pires (Portugal)

    Neuchâtel Xamax won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Carl Zeiss Jena, 0–0 ...
    Referee: Brian Mcginlay (Scotland)

    Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information PSV Eindhoven, 2–1 ...
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    2–2 on aggregate; Rapid Wien won on away goals.


    More information IFK Göteborg, 3–2 ...
    Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)

    IFK Göteborg won 5–4 on aggregate.


    More information Sporting CP, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 50,000
    Referee: Rudolf Renggli (Switzerland)

    Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Boavista, 1–0 ...

    Valencia won 2–1 on aggregate.

    Third round

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

    First leg

    More information Aberdeen, 3–2 ...
    Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

    More information IFK Göteborg, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,000

    More information FC Winterslag, 0–0 ...

    More information Lokeren, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

    More information Radnički Niš, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Emilio Guruceta Mur (Spain)

    More information Rapid Wien, 0–1 ...
    Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

    More information Sporting CP, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 42,500
    Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

    More information Valencia, 5–1 ...
    Referee: Robert Valentine (Scotland)

    Second leg

    More information Hamburger SV, 3–1 ...
    Referee: Romualdas Yushka (Soviet Union)

    Hamburger SV won 5–4 on aggregate.


    More information Dinamo București, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

    IFK Göteborg won 4–1 on aggregate.


    More information Dundee United, 5–0 ...
    Referee: Vojtech Christov (Slovakia)

    Dundee United won 5–0 on aggregate.


    More information 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 4–1 ...

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Feyenoord, 1–0 ...
    Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

    Radnički Niš won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Real Madrid, 0–0 ...
    Referee: Jack Baumann (Switzerland)

    Real Madrid won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information Neuchâtel Xamax, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 17,187
    Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

    Neuchâtel Xamax won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information Hajduk Split, 4–1 ...
    Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

    Valencia won 6–5 on aggregate.

    Quarter-finals

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

    First leg

    More information Dundee United, 2–0 ...
    Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

    More information Hamburger SV, 3–2 ...
    Referee: Anders Mattsson (Finland)

    More information Real Madrid, 3–1 ...
    Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Valencia, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 28,000
    Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

    Second leg

    More information Radnički Niš, 3–0 ...
    Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

    Radnički Niš won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Neuchâtel Xamax, 0–0 ...
    Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)

    Hamburger SV won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 5–0 ...
    Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 6–3 on aggregate.


    More information IFK Göteborg, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 50,108
    Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

    IFK Göteborg won 4–2 on aggregate.

    Semi-finals

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

    First leg

    More information 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 34,500
    Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

    More information Radnički Niš, 2–1 ...
    Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

    Second leg

    More information IFK Göteborg, 2–1 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 50,053
    Referee: Romualdas Yushka (Soviet Union)

    IFK Göteborg won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Hamburger SV, 5–1 ...
    Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

    Hamburger SV won 6–3 on aggregate.

    Final

    First leg

    More information IFK Göteborg, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 42,548
    Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

    Second leg

    More information Hamburger SV, 0–3 ...
    Attendance: 57,312
    Referee: George Courtney (England)

    IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

    Top goalscorers


    References

    1. "Hamburg vs. Utrecht". UEFA. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
    2. "Utrecht vs. Hamburg". UEFA. Retrieved 9 December 2023.

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