1971–72 UEFA Cup

1971–72 UEFA Cup

Tournament details
Dates	14 September 1971 (1971-09-14) – 17 May 1972 (1972-05-17)
Teams	63 (from 31 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Tottenham Hotspur (1st title)
Runners-up	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Tournament statistics
Matches played	122
Goals scored	368 (3.02 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ludwig Bründl (10 goals)

The 1971–72 UEFA Cup was the first edition of the UEFA Cup, which replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

It was won by English team Tottenham Hotspur. They beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3–2 on aggregate after a two-legged final.

The tournament was open to the highest-placed European teams that had not qualified for the European Cup or UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. It started on 14 September 1971 and ended on 17 May 1972.

The top scorer was Ludwig Bründl of Eintracht Braunschweig with ten goals.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Rapid Wien	(w/o)1	Vllaznia	—	—
Fenerbahçe	2–4	Ferencváros	1–1	1–3
ADO Den Haag	7–2	Aris Bonnevoie	5–0	2–2
Keflavík	1–15	Tottenham Hotspur	1–62	0–9
Glentoran	1–7	Eintracht Braunschweig	0–1	1–6
Vitória de Setúbal	(a)2–2	Nîmes	1–0	1–2
Carl Zeiss Jena	4–3	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	3–0	1–3
UTA Arad	5–4	SV Austria Salzburg	4–1	1–3
OFK Beograd	6–3	Djurgården	4–1	2–2
Marsa	0–11	Juventus	0–6	0–5
Vasas	2–1	Shelbourne	1-0	1–1
Zagłębie Wałbrzych	4–2	Teplice	1–0	3–2
Spartak Moscow	3–2	Košice	2–0	1–2
Željezničar	4–3	Club Brugge	3–0	1–3
Dinamo Zagreb	8–2	Botev Vratsa	6–1	2–1
Hamburg	2–4	St Johnstone	2–1	0–3
Hertha	7–2	Elfsborg	3-1	4-1
Rosenborg	4–0	HIFK Helsinki	3-0	1-0
Basel	2–4	Real Madrid	1-2	1-2
Chemie Halle	0–0	PSV	0-0	-3
Lierse	4–2	Leeds United	0-2	4-0
Celta Vigo	0–3	Aberdeen	0-2	0-1
Saint-Étienne	2–3	Köln	1-1	1-2
Dundee	5–2	AB	4-2	1-0
Lugano	1–3	Legia Warsaw	3-1	0-0
Southampton	2–3	Athletic Bilbao	2-1	0-2
Wolverhampton Wanderers	7–1	Académica	3-0	4-1
Napoli	1–2	Rapid București	1-0	0-2
Bologna	3–1	Anderlecht	1–1	2–0
Porto	1–3	Nantes	0–2	1–1
Atlético Madrid	2–2(a)	Panionios	2–1	0–1
Milan	7–0	Akritas	4–0	3–0

¹ Vllaznia withdrew after Austrian immigration officials declined to issue visas for their team to enter the country.
² This match was played in Reykjavík.
³ Chemie Halle withdrew after the first leg following the Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Rapid București	4–2	Legia Warsaw	4-0	0-2
Köln	4–5	Dundee	2-1	2-4
Zagłębie Wałbrzych	2–3	UTA Arad	1-1	1-2(aet)
OFK Beograd	1–5	Carl Zeiss Jena	1-1	0-4
Dinamo Zagreb	2–2(a)	Rapid Wien	2-2	0-0
Željezničar	(a)3–3	Bologna	1–1	2-2
Ferencváros	6–0	Panionios	6-0	-1
Eintracht Braunschweig	4–3	Athletic Bilbao	2-1	2-2
Rosenborg	4–4(a)	Lierse	4-1	0-3
ADO Den Haag	1–7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1-3	0–4
Nantes	0–1	Tottenham Hotspur	0-0	0-1
St Johnstone	2–1	Vasas	2-0	0-1
Milan	5–4	Hertha	4-2	1-2
Real Madrid	3–3(a)	PSV	3-1	0-22
Spartak Moscow	0–4	Vitória de Setúbal	0-0	0-4
Juventus	3–1	Aberdeen	2-0	1-1

¹ After the final whistle in the first leg, Panionios fans invaded the pitch and attacked Ferencváros players, match officials and Hungarian police. Panionios were ejected from the competition.
² This match was played in 's-Hertogenbosch.

Third round (round of 16)

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0-1	0-3
UTA Arad	3–1	Vitória de Setúbal	3–0	0–1
Rapid Wien	1–5	Juventus	0–1	1–4
Eintracht Braunschweig	3–6	Ferencváros	1-1	2-5
PSV	1–4	Lierse	1–0	0–4
St Johnstone	2–5	Željezničar	1–0	1–5
Milan	3–2	Dundee	3–0	0–2
Tottenham Hotspur	5–0	Rapid București	3–0	2-0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Milan	3–1	Lierse	2–0	1–1
UTA Arad	1–3	Tottenham Hotspur	0–2	1–1
Juventus	2–3	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–1	1–2
Ferencváros	3–3 (5–4 p)	Željezničar	1–2	2–1 (aet)

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Ferencváros	3–4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–2	1–2
Tottenham Hotspur	3–2	Milan	2–1	1–1

Matches

5 April 1972 (1972-04-05)

First leg

Ferencváros	2 - 2	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Szőke  30' Albert  33'		Richards  18' Munro  80'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

19 April 1972 (1972-04-19)

Second leg

Wolverhampton Wanderers	2 - 1	Ferencváros
Daley  1' Munro  45'		Kű  47'

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 38,262

Referee: Mihas Hristos (Greece)

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4-3 on aggregate.

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5 April 1972 (1972-04-05)

First leg

Tottenham Hotspur	2 - 1	Milan
Perryman  33', 64'		Benetti  25'

White Hart Lane, London

19 April 1972 (1972-04-19)

Second leg

Milan	1 - 1	Tottenham Hotspur
Rivera  69' (pen.)		Mullery  7'

San Siro, Milan

Tottenham Hotspur won 3-2 on aggregate.

Final

See the main article: 1972 UEFA Cup Final

Summary

First leg was played on 3 May 1972. Second leg was played on 17 May 1972.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–3	Tottenham Hotspur	1–2	1–1

Matches

3 May 1972 (1972-05-03)

19:30 BST

First leg

Wolverhampton Wanderers	1 - 2	Tottenham Hotspur
McCalliog  72'		Chivers  56', 87'

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 38,362

Referee: Tofiq Bahramov (Soviet Union)

17 May 1972 (1972-05-17)

19:45 BST

Second leg

Tottenham Hotspur	1 - 1	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Mullery  29'		Wagstaffe  40'

White Hart Lane, London

Attendance: 54,303

Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)

Tottenham Hotspur won 3–2 on aggregate.

Related pages

• 1971–72 European Cup
• 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup

Other websites

• Season Overview – UEFA.com
• 1971–72 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
• Results at RSSSF.com
• 1971/72 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)