1983–84_UEFA_Cup

1983–84 UEFA Cup

1983–84 UEFA Cup

13th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA


The 1983–84 UEFA Cup was the 13th 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 Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels, Belgium, and at White Hart Lane, London, England. Tottenham Hotspur of England defeated title holders Anderlecht of Belgium, on penalties, after the final finished 2–2 on aggregate, to win the competition for the second time.

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Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1982–83 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 1983–84 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1982 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1977–78 to 1981–82.

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.
  • ^
    Albania: Until 1985, Albania frequently withdrew their allocated place in the UEFA Cup due to political reasons. Partizani would have qualified by league position. This additional place went to the 10th placed association, Czechoslovakia, instead of the 9th placed association, the Soviet Union.
  • 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 1983–84 UEFA Cup
    West Germany Werder Bremen (2nd) West Germany Stuttgart (3rd) West Germany Bayern Munich (4th) West Germany Kaiserslautern (6th)
    England Watford (2nd) England Tottenham Hotspur (4th) England Nottingham Forest (5th) England Aston Villa (6th)
    Netherlands Feyenoord (2nd) Netherlands PSV Eindhoven (3rd) Netherlands Sparta Rotterdam (4th) Netherlands Groningen (5th)
    Spain Real Madrid (2nd) Spain Atlético Madrid (3rd) Spain Sevilla (5th) Belgium Anderlecht (2nd)TH
    Belgium Royal Antwerp (3rd) Belgium Gent (4th) France Bordeaux (2nd) France Lens (4th)
    France Laval (5th) East Germany Vorwärts Frankfurt (2nd) East Germany Carl Zeiss Jena (3rd) East Germany Lokomotive Leipzig (4th)
    Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hajduk Split (2nd) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radnički Niš (4th) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade (5th) Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)
    Soviet Union Spartak Moscow (3rd) Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava (2nd) Czechoslovakia Sparta Prague (3rd) Czechoslovakia Inter Bratislava (4th)
    Switzerland St. Gallen (3rd) Switzerland FC Zürich (4th) Italy Internazionale (3rd) Italy Verona (4th)
    Portugal Sporting CP (3rd) Portugal Vitória S.C. (4th) Scotland Celtic (2nd) Scotland St Mirren (5th)
    Sweden Elfsborg (3rd) Sweden Malmö (4th) Romania Universitatea Craiova (2nd) Romania Sportul Studențesc (3rd)
    Bulgaria Levski Sofia (2nd) Bulgaria Lokomotiv Plovdiv (LC) Hungary Ferencváros (2nd) Hungary Budapest Honvéd (3rd)
    Denmark AGF (2nd) Denmark B 1903 (3rd) Austria Austria Memphis (2nd) Austria Sturm Graz (4th)
    Greece AEL (2nd) Greece PAOK (4th) Poland Widzew Łódź (2nd) Republic of Ireland Drogheda United (2nd)
    Norway Bryne (2nd) Northern Ireland Coleraine (3rd) Turkey Trabzonspor (2nd) Cyprus Anorthosis (2nd)
    Luxembourg Aris Bonnevoie (3rd) Iceland ÍBV (2nd) Malta Rabat Ajax (3rd) Finland HJK (2nd)

    Schedule

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

    More information Round, First leg ...

    First round

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

    First leg

    More information Rabat Ajax, 0–10 ...
    Attendance: 4,220
    Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)

    More information Baník Ostrava, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 5,500
    Referee: Renzo Peduzzi (Switzerland)

    More information ÍBV, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 550
    Referee: John Kinsella (Republic of Ireland)

    More information Sportul Studențesc, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Sadik Deda (Turkey)

    More information Widzew Łódź, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 32,000
    Referee: Jakob Baumann (Switzerland)

    More information AEL, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 10,448
    Referee: Yordan Zhezhov (Bulgaria)

    More information Drogheda United, 0–6 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)

    More information Sparta Prague, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 40,000
    Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

    More information Spartak Moscow, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,700
    Referee: Evangelos Giannakoudakis (Greece)

    More information Trabzonspor, 1–0 ...

    More information Dynamo Kyiv, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 49,800
    Referee: Erkan Göksel (Turkey)

    More information Universitatea Craiova, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 40,000

    More information Vitória S.C., 1–0 ...

    More information Bryne, 0–3 ...
    Attendance: 2,417
    Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)

    More information Lokomotiv Plovdiv, 1–2 ...

    More information Anorthosis, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: Béla Divinyi (Hungary)

    More information PSV Eindhoven, 4–2 ...

    More information Kaiserslautern, 3–1 ...

    More information Aris Bonnevoie, 0–5 ...
    Stade Camille Polfer, Luxembourg City
    Attendance: 1,125
    Referee: Ignace van Swieten (Netherlands)

    More information FC Zürich, 1–4 ...
    Attendance: 6,350
    Referee: Miklós Nagy (Hungary)

    More information Gent, 1–1 ...

    More information Radnički Niš, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 21,000
    Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

    More information Sparta Rotterdam, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 5,500
    Referee: Kazimierz Mikołajewski (Poland)

    More information Stuttgart, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 17,500
    Referee: Ron Bridges (Wales)

    More information Werder Bremen, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 19,750
    Referee: Kenny Hope (Scotland)

    More information Celtic, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 23,569

    More information Bordeaux, 2–3 ...

    More information Verona, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 26,623
    Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

    More information Nottingham Forest, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 14,994
    Referee: Alder dos Santos (Portugal)

    More information St Mirren, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,301
    Referee: Svein-Inge Thime (Norway)

    More information Atlético Madrid, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 40,000
    Referee: Gino Menicucci (Italy)

    More information Sevilla, 1–1 ...

    Second leg

    More information Inter Bratislava, 6–0 ...
    Attendance: 1,829
    Referee: Velichko Tsonchev (Bulgaria)

    Inter Bratislava won 16–0 on aggregate.


    More information St. Gallen, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 10,200

    Radnički Niš won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Royal Antwerp, 4–2 ...
    Attendance: 12,500
    Referee: Howard King (Wales)

    Royal Antwerp won 8–3 on aggregate.


    More information Budapest Honvéd, 3–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: Franz Latzin (Austria)

    Budapest Honvéd won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Lokomotive Leipzig, 4–0 ...

    Lokomotive Leipzig won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Coleraine, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 1,500
    Referee: Rolf Haugen (Norway)

    Sparta Rotterdam won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information HJK, 0–5 ...
    Attendance: 1,796
    Referee: Włodzimierz Bródka (Poland)

    Spartak Moscow won 7–0 on aggregate.


    More information Red Star Belgrade, 2–3 ...
    Attendance: 75,000

    Verona won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Hajduk Split, 1–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 50,000

    1–1 on aggregate; Hajduk Split won 3–1 on penalties.


    More information Vorwärts Frankfurt, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: Gerard Geurds (Netherlands)

    Nottingham Forest won 3–0 on aggregate.


    More information B 1903, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 612
    Referee: Anders Mattsson (Finland)

    Baník Ostrava won 6–1 on aggregate.


    More information Ferencváros, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 18,000

    PSV Eindhoven won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information Austria Memphis, 10–0 ...
    Attendance: 3,000
    Referee: Widukind Herrmann (East Germany)

    Austria Memphis won 15–0 on aggregate.


    More information PAOK, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 23,000

    PAOK won 5–2 on aggregate.


    More information Malmö, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 16,950
    Referee: Joe Worrall (England)

    Werder Bremen won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Elfsborg, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,000

    2–2 on aggregate; Widzew Łódź won on away goals.


    More information AGF, 1–4 ...
    Attendance: 14,500
    Referee: Josef Poucek (Czechoslovakia)

    Celtic won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Sturm Graz, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: Adonis Vassaras (Greece)

    Sturm Graz won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Levski Sofia, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 65,000
    Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

    Levski Sofia won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Bayern Munich, 10–0 ...
    Attendance: 8,000
    Referee: Edwin Borg (Malta)

    Bayern Munich won 11–0 on aggregate.


    More information Groningen, 3–0 ...

    Groningen won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Anderlecht, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 6,500
    Referee: Malcolm Moffatt (Northern Ireland)

    Anderlecht won 4–1 on aggregate.


    More information Laval, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,000
    Referee: Ulrich Nyffenegger (Switzerland)

    Laval won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information Carl Zeiss Jena, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 12,500
    Referee: Erik Steen Jensen (Denmark)

    Carl Zeiss Jena won 3–0 on aggregate.


    More information Lens, 2–1 (a.e.t.) ...

    Lens won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Feyenoord, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 18,286
    Referee: Augusto Marques Pires (Portugal)

    Feyenoord won 3–0 on aggregate.


    More information Watford, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 21,457

    Watford won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Tottenham Hotspur, 8–0 ...
    Attendance: 19,831
    Referee: Anthony Briguglio (Malta)

    Tottenham Hotspur won 14–0 on aggregate.


    More information Internazionale, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 22,500
    Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

    Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Aston Villa, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 23,732
    Referee: Werner Föckler (West Germany)

    Aston Villa won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Real Madrid, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 58,800

    Sparta Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Sporting CP, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 65,000
    Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

    Sporting CP won 4–3 on aggregate.

    Second round

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

    First leg

    More information Widzew Łódź, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,250
    Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

    More information Lokomotive Leipzig, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,500
    Referee: Alphonse Constantin (Belgium)

    More information Budapest Honvéd, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 5,000
    Referee: Widukind Herrmann (East Germany)

    More information PAOK, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 33,500
    Referee: Gino Menicucci (Italy)

    More information Spartak Moscow, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 50,400
    Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

    More information Radnički Niš, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: László Pádár (Hungary)

    More information Austria Memphis, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Yordan Zhezhov (Bulgaria)

    More information PSV Eindhoven, 1–2 ...

    More information Groningen, 2–0 ...

    More information Anderlecht, 2–0 ...

    More information Sparta Rotterdam, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,000
    Referee: Howard King (Wales)

    More information Verona, 2–2 ...

    More information Lens, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 35,500
    Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)

    More information Tottenham Hotspur, 4–2 ...
    Attendance: 35,404
    Referee: Emilio Carlos Guruceta (Spain)

    More information Watford, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 16,139
    Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

    More information Sporting CP, 2–0 ...

    Second leg

    More information Sparta Prague, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 26,000

    Sparta Prague won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Hajduk Split, 3–0 ...

    Hajduk Split won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Baník Ostrava, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 13,533
    Referee: Ron Bridges (Wales)

    Anderlecht won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Inter Bratislava, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 3,000
    Referee: Kenny Hope (Scotland)

    Radnički Niš won 6–3 on aggregate.


    More information Carl Zeiss Jena, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 12,000

    Sparta Rotterdam won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Levski Sofia, 1–3 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 60,000

    Watford won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Sturm Graz, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 21,500
    Referee: László Győri (Hungary)

    2–2 on aggregate; Sturm Graz won on away goals.


    More information Laval, 3–3 ...

    Austria Memphis won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Werder Bremen, 1–1 ...

    Lokomotive Leipzig won 2–1 on aggregate.


    Attendance: 30,000
    Referee: Alan Robinson (England)

    0–0 on aggregate; Bayern Munich won 9–8 on penalties.


    More information Royal Antwerp, 2–3 ...
    Attendance: 22,600
    Referee: Jakob Baumann (Switzerland)

    Lens won 5–4 on aggregate.


    More information Feyenoord, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 54,600
    Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

    Tottenham Hotspur won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information Internazionale, 5–1 ...
    Attendance: 40,000
    Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

    Internazionale won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Aston Villa, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 29,511
    Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

    Spartak Moscow won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Nottingham Forest, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 16,943

    Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Celtic, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 39,183

    Celtic won 5–2 on aggregate.

    Third round

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

    First leg

    More information Radnički Niš, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 20,002
    Referee: Dušan Krchnák (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Austria Memphis, 2–1 ...

    More information Sturm Graz, 2–0 ...

    More information Bayern Munich, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,000

    More information Sparta Rotterdam, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 14,500
    Referee: Raúl Fernandes Nazaré (Portugal)

    More information Lens, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 34,374
    Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

    More information Watford, 2–3 ...
    Attendance: 15,590

    More information Nottingham Forest, 0–0 ...

    Second leg

    More information Lokomotive Leipzig, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 21,000
    Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

    Sturm Graz won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Hajduk Split, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,000

    Hajduk Split won 4–0 on aggregate.


    More information Sparta Prague, 4–0 ...
    Attendance: 37,000
    Referee: Talat Tokat (Turkey)

    Sparta Prague won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Anderlecht, 1–0 ...

    Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Internazionale, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 69,659

    Austria Memphis won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Celtic, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 66,938

    Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Tottenham Hotspur, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 41,977
    Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

    Tottenham Hotspur won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Spartak Moscow, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 37,900
    Referee: Einar Halle (Norway)

    Spartak Moscow won 3–1 on aggregate.

    Quarter-finals

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

    First leg

    More information Sparta Prague, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 38,000
    Referee: Howard King (Wales)

    More information Anderlecht, 4–2 ...

    More information Nottingham Forest, 1–0 ...

    More information Tottenham Hotspur, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 34,069

    Second leg

    More information Hajduk Split, 2–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 52,500

    Hajduk Split won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Sturm Graz, 1–1 (a.e.t.) ...

    Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Austria Memphis, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 31,000

    Tottenham Hotspur won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Spartak Moscow, 1–0 ...

    Anderlecht won 4–3 on aggregate.

    Semi-finals

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

    In 1997, it was revealed that the Anderlecht chairman Constant Vanden Stock had paid a £27,000 bribe to the referee Emilio Guruceta Muro in exchange for help fixing their semi-final second leg match versus Nottingham Forest.[1] During the match, Anderlecht were awarded a dubious penalty, and a last minute Nottingham Forest goal – that would have won them the tie on the away goals rule – was disallowed.[2] In 2016, it emerged that UEFA had known about the bribe since 1993 but had taken no action until the information was made public in 1997,[3] when UEFA suspended Anderlecht from the next European tournament for which they qualified.[1] On qualifying for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup, Anderlecht appealed the suspension in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which overturned the ban on the grounds that it was made by UEFA's executive committee, which did not have the authority to issue the ban.[4]

    First leg

    More information Hajduk Split, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

    The match featured an infamous incident that saw a Hajduk fan (later identified as Ante Baraba, a resident of Paljuv settlement within the Novigrad village) run onto the pitch before the start of the second half with a live rooster – in reference to Tottenham's club symbol, the cockerel – and, while standing at the centre circle, kill the animal by snapping its neck.[5][6] The contest took place as scheduled, however, as a result of the incident, Hajduk were fined CHF3,000 and ordered to play their next European tie at least 300 km away from their home stadium. That tie turned out to be their 1984–85 European Cup Winners' Cup first round match against Dynamo Moscow.


    More information Nottingham Forest, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 22,681

    Second leg

    More information Anderlecht, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 36,500
    Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)

    Anderlecht won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Tottenham Hotspur, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 43,969
    Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

    2–2 on aggregate; Tottenham Hotspur won on away goals.

    Final

    First leg

    More information Anderlecht, 1–1 ...

    Second leg

    More information Tottenham Hotspur, 1–1 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 46,205

    2–2 on aggregate; Tottenham Hotspur won 4–3 on penalties.

    Top scorers


    References

    1. Riley, Catherine. "Football: After 13 years Anderlecht are punished by Uefa". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
    2. "Forest sues Anderlecht over '84 bribery scandal". BBC Sport. 24 December 1997. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
    3. "Court overturns UEFA ban on Anderlecht club". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
    4. Stipković, Branko (2 August 2012). "Baraba priznao nakon 28 godina: 'Ja sam bezdušno ubio pivca na Poljudu!'". Sportske novosti. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
    5. Wright, Chris (7 August 2012). "Tottenham's 1984 UEFA Cup 'Chicken-Choker Mystery' Solved: Hajduk Split Fan Confesses To Murder Most Fowl". Who Ate All the Pies?. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
    6. "Statistics - Goals scored". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

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