1981–82 UEFA Cup


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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.

1981–82 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates15 September 1981 – 19 May 1982
Teams64 (from 32 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsSweden IFK Göteborg (1st title)
Runners-upWest Germany Hamburger SV
Tournament statistics
Matches played126
Goals scored389 (3.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)Torbjörn Nilsson (IFK Göteborg)
9 goals

This was the first of two UEFA Cup conquests for Göteborg, which were the only major European titles achieved 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

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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.

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.

Association ranking for 1981-82 UEFA Cup
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1   West Germany 53.998 4
2   England 38.426
3   Belgium 37.300
4   Spain 36.066 3
5   Netherlands 35.250
6   East Germany 29.400
7   Soviet Union 28.050
8   France 27.750
9   Yugoslavia 26.000 2
10   Italy 24.165
11   Czechoslovakia 22.300
12   Hungary 20.150
13   Scotland 19.250
14   Portugal 18.500
15   Switzerland 18.400
-   Wales 17.000 0 [Note WAL]
16   Poland 16.850 2
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
17   Austria 16.000 2
18   Greece 15.750
19   Bulgaria 15.450
20   Sweden 14.150
21   Romania 13.050
22   Denmark 10.000 1
23   Republic of Ireland 9.665
24   Turkey 7.750
25   Norway 6.500
26   Cyprus 5.332
27   Finland 3.832
=28   Luxembourg 3.666
=28   Northern Ireland 3.666
=30   Malta 3.664
=30   Iceland 3.664
32   Albania 3.000
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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.

    • 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
      Hamburger SV (2nd)   Stuttgart (3rd)   Kaiserslautern (4th)   Borussia Mönchengladbach (6th)
      Ipswich Town (2nd)TH   Arsenal (3rd)   West Bromwich Albion (4th)   Southampton (6th)
      Lokeren (2nd)   Beveren (4th)   Winterslag (5th)   Club Brugge (6th)
      Real Madrid (2nd)   Atlético Madrid (3rd)   Valencia (4th)   Utrecht (3rd)
      Feyenoord (4th)   PSV Eindhoven (5th)   Carl Zeiss Jena (2nd)   Magdeburg (3rd)
      Dynamo Dresden (4th)   Spartak Moscow (2nd)   Zenit Leningrad (3rd)   CSKA Moscow (5th)
      Nantes (2nd)   Bordeaux (3rd)   Monaco (4th)   Hajduk Split (2nd)
      Radnički Niš (3rd)   Napoli (3rd)   Internazionale (4th)   Bohemians Praha (3rd)
      Sparta Prague (4th)   Tatabánya (2nd)   Videoton (4th)   Aberdeen (2nd)
      Dundee United (LC)   Sporting CP (3rd)   Boavista (4th)   Grasshoppers (2nd)
      Neuchâtel Xamax (3rd)   Wisła Kraków (2nd)   Szombierki Bytom (3rd)   Sturm Graz (2nd)
      Rapid Wien (3rd)   Aris (3rd)   Panathinaikos (5th)[Note GRE]   Levski-Spartak Sofia (2nd)
      Akademik Sofia (4th)   Malmö (2nd)   IFK Göteborg (3rd)   Dinamo București (2nd)
      Argeș Pitești (3rd)   Næstved (2nd)   Limerick United (3rd)   Adanaspor (2nd)
      Bryne (2nd)   APOEL (2nd)   Haka (2nd)   Linfield (2nd)
      Red Boys Differdange (2nd)   Víkingur (P-W)   Sliema Wanderers (2nd)   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.

    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.

    Schedule for 1981–82 UEFA Cup
    Round First leg Second leg
    First round 15–17 September 1981 29 September – 1 October 1981
    Second round 20–21 October 1981 3–4 November 1981
    Third round 25 November – 1 December 1981 9 December 1981
    Quarter-finals 3 March 1982 17 March 1982
    Semi-finals 7 April 1982 21 April 1982
    Final 5 May 1982 19 May 1982
    Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
    1. FC Kaiserslautern   3–1   Akademik Sofia 1–0 2–1
    1. FC Magdeburg   3–3 (a)   Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–1 0–2
    Adanaspor   2–7   Internazionale 1–3 1–4
    APOEL   1–5   Argeș Pitești 1–1 0–4
    Aris   8–2   Sliema Wanderers 4–0 4–2
    Monaco   4–6   Dundee United 2–5 2–1
    Boavista   5–4   Atlético Madrid 4–1 1–3
    Bryne   2–3   FC Winterslag 0–2 2–1
    Dinamo București   4–2   Levski Sofia 3–0 1–2
    Bohemians   0–2   Valencia 0–1 0–1
    Haka   2–7   IFK Göteborg 2–3 0–4
    Nantes   3–5   Lokeren 1–1 2–4
    Spartak Moscow   6–2   Club Brugge 3–1 3–1
    Zenit Leningrad   2–6   Dynamo Dresden 1–2 1–4
    Feyenoord   3–1   Szombierki Bytom 2–0 1–1
    Grasshoppers   4–1   West Bromwich Albion 1–0 3–1
    Hajduk Split   5–3   VfB Stuttgart 3–1 2–2
    Hamburger SV   6–4   FC Utrecht 0–1 6–3
    Ipswich Town   2–4   Aberdeen 1–1 1–3
    Beveren   8–0   Linfield 3–0 5–0
    Víkingur   0–8   Bordeaux 0–4 0–4
    Dinamo Tirana   1–4   Carl Zeiss Jena 1–0 0–4
    Limerick United   1–4   Southampton 0–3 1–1
    Malmö FF   5–1   Wisła Kraków 2–0 3–1
    Napoli   2–2 (a)   Radnički Niš 2–2 0–0
    Neuchâtel Xamax   6–3   Sparta Prague 4–0 2–3
    Panathinaikos   0–3   Arsenal 0–2 0–1
    PSV Eindhoven   8–2   Næstved 7–0 1–2
    Rapid Wien   4–2   Videoton 2–2 2–0
    Sturm Graz   2–2 (a)   CSKA Moscow 1–0 1–2
    Sporting CP   11–0   FA Red Boys Differdange 4–0 7–0
    Tatabánya   2–2 (a)   Real Madrid 2–1 0–1

    Valencia won 2–0 on aggregate.

    Neuchâtel Xamax won 6–3 on aggregate.

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

    Aris won 8–2 on aggregate.

    Dinamo București won 4–2 on aggregate.

    Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–1 on aggregate.

    Spartak Moscow won 6–2 on aggregate.

    Dynamo Dresden won 6–2 on aggregate.

    FC Winterslag won 3–2 on aggregate.

    Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.

    IFK Göteborg won 7–2 on aggregate.

    Boavista won 5–4 on aggregate.

    Southampton won 4–1 on aggregate.

    Hajduk Split won 5–3 on aggregate.

    Malmö FF won 5–1 on aggregate.

    Internazionale won 7–2 on aggregate.

    Arsenal won 3–0 on aggregate.

    PSV Eindhoven won 8–2 on aggregate.

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

    Beveren won 8–0 on aggregate.

    Argeș Pitești won 5–1 on aggregate.

    Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.

    Grasshoppers won 4–1 on aggregate.

    Hamburger SV won 6–4 on aggregate.

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 3–1 on aggregate.

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

    Lokeren won 5–3 on aggregate.

    Aberdeen won 4–2 on aggregate.

    Dundee United won 6–4 on aggregate.

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

    Sporting CP won 11–0 on aggregate.

    Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
    Aberdeen   5–2   Argeș Pitești 3–0 2–2
    Aris   1–5   Lokeren 1–1 0–4
    Borussia Mönchengladbach   2–5   Dundee United 2–0 0–5
    Bordeaux   2–3   Hamburger SV 2–1 0–2
    Spartak Moscow   2–5   1. FC Kaiserslautern 2–1 0–4
    Feyenoord   3–2   Dynamo Dresden 2–1 1–1
    Grasshoppers   2–2 (0–3 p)   Radnički Niš 2–0 0–2 (a.e.t.)
    Internazionale   3–4   Dinamo București 1–1 2–3 (a.e.t.)
    FC Winterslag   2–2 (a)   Arsenal 1–0 1–2
    K.S.K. Beveren   4–4 (a)   Hajduk Split 2–3 2–1
    Malmö FF   0–2   Neuchâtel Xamax 0–1 0–1
    Real Madrid   3–2   Carl Zeiss Jena 3–2 0–0
    Rapid Wien   2–2 (a)   PSV Eindhoven 1–0 1–2
    Sturm Graz   4–5   IFK Göteborg 2–2 2–3
    Southampton   2–4   Sporting CP 2–4 0–0
    Valencia   2–1   Boavista 2–0 0–1

    Aberdeen won 5–2 on aggregate.

    Lokeren won 5–1 on aggregate.

    Dundee United won 5–2 on aggregate.

    Hamburger SV won 3–2 on aggregate.

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 5–2 on aggregate.

    Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

    Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.

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

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

    Neuchâtel Xamax won 2–0 on aggregate.

    Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

    IFK Göteborg won 5–4 on aggregate.

    Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.

    Valencia won 2–1 on aggregate.

    Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
    Aberdeen   4–5   Hamburger SV 3–2 1–3
    IFK Göteborg   4–1   Dinamo București 3–1 1–0
    FC Winterslag   0–5   Dundee United 0–0 0–5
    Lokeren   2–4   1. FC Kaiserslautern 1–0 1–4
    Radnički Niš   2–1   Feyenoord 2–0 0–1
    Rapid Wien   0–1   Real Madrid 0–1 0–0
    Sporting CP   0–1   Neuchâtel Xamax 0–0 0–1
    Valencia   6–5   Hajduk Split 5–1 1–4

    Hamburger SV won 5–4 on aggregate.

    IFK Göteborg won 4–1 on aggregate.

    Dundee United won 5–0 on aggregate.

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 4–2 on aggregate.

    Radnički Niš won 2–1 on aggregate.

    Real Madrid won 1–0 on aggregate.

    Neuchâtel Xamax won 1–0 on aggregate.

    Valencia won 6–5 on aggregate.

    Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
    Dundee United   2–3   Radnički Niš 2–0 0–3
    Hamburger SV   3–2   Neuchâtel Xamax 3–2 0–0
    Real Madrid   3–6   1. FC Kaiserslautern 3–1 0–5
    Valencia   2–4   IFK Göteborg 2–2 0–2

    Radnički Niš won 3–2 on aggregate.

    Hamburger SV won 3–2 on aggregate.

    1. FC Kaiserslautern won 6–3 on aggregate.

    IFK Göteborg won 4–2 on aggregate.

    Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
    1. FC Kaiserslautern   2–3   IFK Göteborg 1–1 1–2 (a.e.t.)
    Radnički Niš   3–6   Hamburger SV 2–1 1–5

    IFK Göteborg won 3–2 on aggregate.

    Hamburger SV won 6–3 on aggregate.

    IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

    Rank Name Team Goals
    1   Torbjörn Nilsson   IFK Göteborg 9
    =2   Dinos Kouis   Aris 5
      Stig Fredriksson   IFK Göteborg
      John Hewitt   Aberdeen
      António Oliveira   Sporting CP
      Ronny Martens   Beveren
      Thomas von Heesen   Hamburger SV
      Friedhelm Funkel   1. FC Kaiserslautern
      Horst Hrubesch   Hamburger SV
    =10   Robert Lüthi   Neuchâtel Xamax 4
      Eamonn Bannon   Dundee United
      Hans-Peter Briegel   1. FC Kaiserslautern
      Ralph Milne   Dundee United
      Ivan Gudelj   Hajduk Split
      Norbert Eilenfeldt   1. FC Kaiserslautern
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