1986–87 UEFA Cup

1986–87 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates	16 September 1986 – 20 May 1987
Teams	64
Final positions
Champions	IFK Göteborg (2nd title)
Runners-up	Dundee United
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	291 (2.31 per match)
Attendance	2,502,655 (19,862 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Peter Houtman (Groningen); Paulinho Cascavel (Vitória Guimarães); Jari Rantanen (IFK Göteborg); Wim Kieft (Torino); 5 goals each
	← 1985–86 1987–88 →

The 1986–87 UEFA Cup was the 16th 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 Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Tannadice Park, Dundee, Scotland. The competition was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Dundee United of Scotland by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their second title.

This is the second and last European tournament won by a Swedish team, five years after Göteborg's first UEFA Cup conquest in 1982, as well as the last European final played by a Swedish team, while Dundee United became the last team from Scotland to reach a European final until 2003. This was the second season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions.^[1]^[2]

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1986–87 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.

Due to the ongoing English ban, their four births were allocated to associations 9–12, each gaining a third birth.

Association ranking

For the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1985 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1980–81 to 1984–85.

Association ranking for 1986–87 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	England	41.093	0	^{[Note ENG]}
2	Italy	38.800	4
3	West Germany	37.070	4
4	Soviet Union	33.916	3
5	Belgium	33.266
6	Scotland	30.400
7	Portugal	30.250
8	Spain	29.366
9	Yugoslavia	27.550
10	Czechoslovakia	23.550
11	France	22.750
12	East Germany	22.600
13	Austria	22.500	2
14	Netherlands	20.049
15	Romania	19.916
16	Switzerland	18.500
17	Bulgaria	17.250

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
18	Sweden	17.250	2
-	Wales	17.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}
19	Greece	16.916	2
20	Hungary	16.750
21	Poland	14.750
22	Denmark	9.249	1
23	Republic of Ireland	6.332
24	Albania	6.000
25	Norway	5.999
26	Turkey	5.333
27	Finland	5.331
28	Northern Ireland	4.998
29	Cyprus	4.665
30	Malta	1.999
31	Iceland	1.998
32	Luxembourg	1.332

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England: Since the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, 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 England was first in the UEFA rankings, each of their four allocated UEFA Cup births for 1986–87 were transferred as a third birth for associations 9–12, namely Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, France and East Germany. West Ham United, Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday would have qualified by league position, while Oxford United would have qualified by winning the 1985-86 League Cup.

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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.

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 1986–87 UEFA Cup
Napoli (3rd)	Torino (4th)	Fiorentina (5th)	Internazionale (6th)
Werder Bremen (2nd)	Bayer Uerdingen (3rd)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (4th)	Bayer Leverkusen (6th)
Spartak Moscow (2nd)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (3rd)	Dinamo Minsk (4th)	Standard Liège (3rd)
Gent (4th)	Beveren (5th)	Heart of Midlothian (2nd)	Dundee United (3rd)
Rangers (5th)	Sporting CP (3rd)	Vitória de Guimarães (4th)	Boavista (5th)
Barcelona (2nd)	Athletic Bilbao (3rd)	Atlético Madrid (5th)	Partizan (1st)^{[Note YUG]}
Rijeka (4th)	Hajduk Split (5th)	Sparta Prague (2nd)	Dukla Prague (3rd)
Sigma Olomouc (4th)	Nantes (2nd)	Toulouse (4th)	Lens (5th)
Carl Zeiss Jena (3rd)	Magdeburg (4th)	Stahl Brandenburg (5th)	Swarovski Tirol (3rd)^{[Note AUT]}
LASK (4th)	Feyenoord (3rd)	Groningen (4th)	Sportul Studențesc (2nd)
Universitatea Craiova (3rd)	Neuchâtel Xamax (2nd)	Luzern (3rd)	Trakia Plovdiv (2nd)
Sredets Sofia (LC)	IFK Göteborg (2nd)	Kalmar (4th)	OFI (2nd)
AEK Athens (3rd)	Pécs (2nd)	Győri ETO (3rd)	Legia Warsaw (2nd)
Widzew Łódź (3rd)	Lyngby (2nd)	Galway United (2nd)	Flamurtari (2nd)
Vålerenga (3rd)	Galatasaray (2nd)	Ilves (2nd)	Coleraine (2nd)
Omonia (2nd)	Hibernians (2nd)	ÍA (2nd)	Jeunesse Esch (2nd)

Notes

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Yugoslavia: Partizan was crowned champion of the 1985-86 Yugoslav First League on a tie-breaker with Red Star Belgrade, but the Football Association of Yugoslavia voided all results of the last matchday of the season and ordered a full replay, due to allegations of match fixing over multiple games. Partizan elected to not replay their final game, and Red Star Belgrade was crowned champion instead, with Partizan qualifying for the UEFA Cup in 2nd place. After an appeal by Partizan, the Yugoslav Constitutional Court reversed the decision on 29 July 1987, reinstating Partizan as champions.
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Austria: Wacker Innsbruck qualified for the UEFA Cup, but its license in the Austrian Football Bundesliga was taken by FC Swarovski Tirol, as Wacker Innsbruck fell to the eighth division of Austrian football. While considered a new team, Swarovski Tirol retained the UEFA Cup placing.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The semi-finals reverted to being played in the same days, and the two-legged final again had a two week interval.

Schedule for 1986–87 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	16–18 September 1986	30 September – 2 October 1986
Second round	22–23 October 1986	4–5 November 1986
Third round	26 November 1986	10–17 December 1986
Quarter-finals	4 March 1987	18 March 1987
Semi-finals	8 April 1987	22 April 1987
Final	6 May 1987	20 May 1987

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sparta Prague	2–3	Vitória de Guimarães	1–1	1–2
Fiorentina	1–1 (1–3 p)	Boavista	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Athletic Bilbao	2–1	1. FC Magdeburg	2–0	0–1
Atlético Madrid	3–2	Werder Bremen	2–0	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Borussia Mönchengladbach	4–1	Partizan	1–0	3–1
Coleraine	1–2	Stahl Brandenburg	1–1	0–1
Dinamo Minsk	3–4	Győri ETO	2–4	1–0
Groningen	8–2	Galway United	5–1	3–1
Nantes	1–5	Torino	0–4	1–1
Spartak Moscow	1–0	Luzern	0–0	1–0
Universitatea Craiova	3–2	Galatasaray	2–0	1–2
Swarovski Tirol	3–2	Sredets Sofia	3–0	0–2
Heart of Midlothian	3–3 (a)	Dukla Prague	3–2	0–1
Hibernians	0–10	Trakia Plovdiv	0–2	0–8
Internazionale	3–0	AEK Athens	2–0	1–0
ÍA	0–15	Sporting CP	0–9	0–6
Jeunesse Esch	2–3	Gent	1–2	1–1
Beveren	1–0	Vålerenga	1–0	0–0
Kalmar	1–7	Bayer Leverkusen	1–4	0–3
Bayer 05 Uerdingen	7–0	Carl Zeiss Jena	3–0	4–0
Flamurtari	1–1 (a)	Barcelona	1–1	0–0
LASK	1–2	Widzew Łódź	1–1	0–1
Legia Warsaw	1–0	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	0–0	1–0
Napoli	1–1 (3–4 p)	Toulouse	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Neuchâtel Xamax	5–1	Lyngby	2–0	3–1
Rijeka	1–2	Standard Liège	0–1	1–1
OFI	1–4	Hajduk Split	1–0	0–4
Pécs	1–2	Feyenoord	1–0	0–2
Rangers	4–2	Ilves	4–0	0–2
Lens	1–2	Dundee United	1–0	0–2
Sigma Olomouc	1–5	IFK Göteborg	1–1	0–4
Sportul Studențesc	2–1	Omonia	1–0	1–1

First leg

16 September 1986

19:30

Jeunesse Esch	1–2	Gent
Scholten 48'	Report	Nollet 36' Van Looy 78'

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 2,700

Referee: Georges Sandoz (Switzerland)

16 September 1986